THE entrepreneur behind a small restaurant chain in the North West has told TheBusinessDesk.com he is looking to open a new outlet in Birmingham.
Andy Aldrich said he was hungry for more success after the “fantastic” early success of his first Viva Brazil restaurant in Liverpool with a second to come in Glasgow next month.
The former chef, whose interests also include Beluga Restaurant in Manchester and champagne bars in House of Fraser department stores in London, Glasgow and Manchester, is now looking for more sites for Viva Brazil in Birmingham and Leeds.
He told TheBusinessDesk.com: “I have been delighted by the response to Viva Brazil, which has done unbelievably well since it opened. We’ll do around £2.3m turnover this year.
“Glasgow opens next month after a £1.5m refurbishment of a former Post Office building on Bothwell Street in the heart of the city’s restaurant quarter.
“I have high hopes that it will do well – it is nearly twice the size of Liverpool with 237 covers compared to 120.
“We’re alive to opportunities and I’ve been in Birmingham and Leeds in the last few weeks to look at sites, and Newcastle is also on the hit-list. Ideally I’d like to get to four or five sites in the next few years.”
