Restaurants For Sale in Kendal

ITALIAN LICENSED RESTAURANT in Kendal for Sale.

Located on the main strip of this world famous Lakeland tourist town, the restaurant has established a loyal following and excellent reputation for its authentic Italian cuisine and friendly service. Enjoying a commanding position on this market towns major thoroughfare, the restaurant benefits from all year around trade from both locals and tourist visitors. The restaurant has recently undergone major refurbishment both on the restaurant floor and in the kitchen. Some equipment has been replaced for new. The restaurant has a warm, welcoming, shabby-chic atmosphere with a buzzing and busy continental cafe feel downstairs and a more intimate dining atmosphere upstairs.
The Premises Comprises: Triple wide frontage and occupying ground and first floor, with further outbuildings to the rear being utilised for storage. There are two entrances to the restaurant which is hugely beneficial as one entry can be dedicated to a cafe operation and the other leading to more formal dining. The cafe side has tall stool window seating in front of a dessert counter and pizza servery. Reception and bar on entry through the middle door and through to main dining floor spaciously accommodating 22 guests (more when not under Covid-19 restrictions). Swing doors lead to catering kitchen, well-equipped with commercial quality equipment under a multi-speed high volume extraction hood. Separate pot-wash area. Stairs leading to first floor dining area currently set to accommodate 30 guests. Customer WC’s. There is a private door leading to former studio living accommodation - this can be easily converted to form a bar lounge, or utilised as a managers flat. Fire exit on the ground floor leads across a yard and to a large outbuilding, currently separated into two storage rooms, one having a built-in walk-in refrigeration unit, staff WC and dry store, the other being utilised to store additional furniture and equipment. The restaurant premises has air-conditioning and CCTV. Pavement seating and table service outside the restaurant is permitted to within 1.5 metres of the front of the building and a brand new branded awning has been commissioned to be built and will be installed. EPC Band D.