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Wahhab
Sells His New Restaurants
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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".
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