High quality fine dining is promised
Nottingham Forest are hoping to open a city centre restaurant with a "high quality" dining experience, new licensing documents have shown. The club are the process of buying the former Hart's restaurant which closed in 2019 after 22 years.
A statement within the document reads: "The primary purpose of the restaurant will be to offer a high-quality dining experience along the lines of what was on offer when the restaurant traded previously. The restaurant will operate on the ground floor and will include a private dining room. The former first floor function areas will be converted into office space."
When Hart's first opened in 1997 it was the first in a new wave of fine dining restaurants in the city. Lauded by food critics, it was popular for business lunches and a destination for special occasions. "It is terribly sad. How many restaurants last 20 years? We are not bust - but I am not going to hang on against a background of declining covers. We served 40,000 diners in 2008 but it was down to 30,000 in 2018. It's not empty but it's not full either."