Wahhab Sells His New Restaurants

 

The trio - Raan, America and Britain - which are adjacent to the 20,000-capacity concert venue in Greenwich have been snapped up by London-based American tycoon Frank Dowling.

The three restaurants were created by The Glorious Group - a partnership between London restaurateur Iqbal Wahhab and Indian tycoon Akbar Asif. The two businessmen were planning to open them fully to the public in the coming weeks, following a series of high profile launches.

Although the restaurants had not been fully opened, they had already played host to special guests including Kate Moss, Kevin Pieterson, Jon Bon Jovi and Emma Thompson, as management tweaked and refined the menus.

Mr Wahhab, who launched the Cinnamon Club in Westminster in 2001said :"We had no plans to sell the restaurants but were made an offer that was too good to refuse.

"I'm now looking on expanding the potential on Roast. We serve over 2000 people a week on 110 covers and probably turn away more people than we manage to accommodate so am looking at new locations".