SUPERB LICENSED FRENCH RESTAURANT WITH PRIVATE APARTMENT SOUTH BEDFORDSHIRE

Outstanding opportunity to acquire very well established & TripAdvisor TOP 5 rated eatery with excellent year-round regular & passing trade offering classic & contemporary lunchtime & evening menus from charming & extremely well fitted 65-cover character parade premises with wealth of features in high footfall town centre position. Comes with versatile 3-bed private/staff accommodation & scope for extended hours & outside catering etc in prime location. Sensibly priced for genuine relocation sale after many successful years trading in same hands with valuable inventory of equipment included & early viewing absolutely essential REF 1782

The subject premises occupy an outstanding and highly visible trading position among numerous other independent operators in the busy heart of a vibrant and prosperous market town, which lies with excellent access to major road and motorway links (A5, A505 and M1 junction 11 etc.) and approximately 30 miles north of London, near Luton on the fringes of the Chiltern Hills in Bedfordshire.

We are delighted to present fantastic opportunity to acquire a thriving commercial and residential proposition of exceptional quality and real further potential, which we are confident you will agree represents genuine value.

This very well established and TripAdvisor TOP 5 rated discerning food lover’s paradise currently primarily offers full, varied and creative, lunchtime and evening prix fixe and a la carte menus of classic and contemporary French cuisine, regularly changing “blackboard specials” and indulgent homemade desserts, with hearty traditional roast Sunday lunches also available.

All food is prepared freshly to order in its extensively equipped five-star hygiene rated commercial catering kitchen employing the finest and freshest, locally sourced and authentic imported produce and served in the very pleasant and intimate surroundings of charming, welcoming and tastefully furnished interconnecting dining areas which combine to accommodate up to sixty-five covers in style and comfort.

The restaurant also boasts all the extremely well fitted traditional free of tie licensed wine bar facilities associated with an establishment of this kind and would naturally furnish any enthusiastic purchaser with considerable scope for continued growth, not least with regard to the possible introduction of local outside catering services and to operating significantly extended hours in order to fully exploit year-round local and passing trade demand.

The business would also benefit by adopting a more vigorous marketing policy of its excellent existing facilities and services, both through its own informative dedicated website and to further development of its social media presence, in order to improve upon the already impressive levels of turnover it has achieved since being established in its present form some ten highly successful years ago by the current husband and wife proprietors, with the aid of an experienced and motivated team of six full-time staff who would be an asset to any purchaser, and we would unreservedly recommend a viewing.

Fitted to superb industry specifications throughout, thanks to an ongoing programme of improvements and refurbishment undertaken at great expense by the current proprietors over recent years, these extremely well maintained TWO-STOREY leasehold character parade premises provide outstanding and TripAdvisor TOP 5 rated internal business accommodation to the GROUND FLOOR, which briefly comprises a short flight of stone steps up to an inviting public vestibule entrance with a glazed, wall-mounted menu display cabinet directly off Church Street into the main fine dining area.

Boasting polished timber flooring throughout for easy cleaning and a wealth of exposed original timber work, the main public area consists of a number of charming and welcoming, interconnecting dining areas with stylish furnishings for a total of approximately 65 internal dining covers, waiter service station with electronic till point and a prominent, fully fitted free-of-tie licensed servery with full complement of wine racking, bottle and glass display and storage shelving and chilled drinks display facilities.

The main public area, in turn, affords easy access through to the main, fully fitted and extensively equipped 5-star hygiene rated commercial kitchen with extraction system housing ample stainless- steel work surfaces, storage units, a fully equipped preparation/washing-up kitchen area and a full range of well maintained, industry-standard catering appliances, all of which we understand are to be included in the sale price and further details of which will be made available upon request to any genuine interested parties.

The ground-floor premises naturally also incorporate all the usual separate male and female washrooms/WC facilities for customers, with further ancillary accommodation consisting of a good- sized general dry goods and bottle store with racking and separate delivery door access to the rear.

We are further informed that the business premises comply with all the required fire safety regulations.

To the FIRST FLOOR the premises provide comfortable, convenient and versatile living accommodation ideal for private or staff purposes, which consists of a good-sized lounge and 2 x double bedrooms, in addition to 1 x further single bedroom and a fully fitted bathroom/WC.

The property also enjoys the benefit of gas central heating and double glazing throughout.

Externally:

To the front the business premises are prominently signed and attractively presented and afford extensive and inviting, double-fronted display window space onto a high footfall market town centre commercial thoroughfare, with customer parking available in a large adjacent ‘Pay & Display’ public car park.

The premises also incorporate a large service yard area to the rear providing private unrestricted off-road parking facilities for approximately four vehicles with separate access for deliveries.

The business is well fitted throughout and a valuable inventory of equipment is to be included in the sale price