The Real Eating Company, the restaurant and café group, is to open an eight site – in Portsmouth, MCA understands.
The Helena Hudson-led group has taken on a unit in the city’s Gunwharf Quays centre.
Last month the group took over the café of the Montezuma store in Kingston.
The group already works in partnership with the Steamer Trading Cookshop at two sites – Horsham and Bournemouth. It operates a second standalone site in Bournemouth as well as outlets in Chichester, Lewes and Salisbury.
