TV chef Gino D’Acampo has hinted at plans to open a new Leeds restaurant as he opened his brand new luxury Italian restaurant, Luciano, in Cheshire on Monday.
The celebrity chef also said that his Leeds Park Row restaurant Gino’s, which is currently being rebranded by operator Independent Restaurants as Rive Blu alongside four other Gino’s sites in the UK, has been changed ‘against his wishes’.
He told the Manchester Evening News: “My dad used to say to me for every action there is a reaction. Those five restaurants, they were rebranded without my consent and this is my reaction, I open new ones.
“When one goes, I say let’s do something bigger and better.”
He told the paper he had already started work on a new site in Manchester and that he has eyes on further Luciano sites in Leeds, Sheffield and Birmingham.
Having already opened a Luciano in London’s West End last year at 5 star hotel ME, his second restaurant in Cheshire seems to be a hit – with more openings now expected to follow this summer.
Hopefully, we won’t have to wait too long to see the new Luciano openings arrive in Yorkshire.
The chef’s new restaurant project promises to bring premium Italian ingredients to diners as part of its fine dining menu.
Gino told the MEN: “How many great Italian-owned restaurants do you know? Run by people like me who go back to Italy all the time? I’m there every month getting the best ingredients, researching the best recipes, I bring them all back straight away to my restaurants.
“Luciano is the name of my first born child so it has to be a five star Italian restaurant experience and that is what it is.”
At his new Cheshire restaurant, which launched this week, diners can enjoy Napoli pizza and an attractive selection of pasta, risotto and gnocchi.
The menu also boasts large meat and seafood selections, featuring the likes of grilled langoustines, Sicilian tuna, numerous steak cuts, truffled chicken and rack of lamb, alongside a list of contorni sides as is traditional in Italy.
The former Gino’s restaurant on Park Row, meanwhile, will become a new Italian restaurant with no connection to the chef.
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