Brunning & Price (B&P), The Restaurant Group-owned food-led pub operator, plans to open a new site this summer in Chester city centre.
The group has applied for planning and listed building consent to convert the St Martin’s Lodge property in the city into a pub restaurant. The freehold of the site has been on the market with an asking price of £1.5m.
If consent is granted it plans to open the new pub this summer around the same time as a further site in the Jackson’s wharf building in Manchester.
In August, the company acquired the Little Manor pub, which borders the villages of Thelwall and Lymm. It is expected to re-open this spring after a complete renovation.
B&P currently operates an estate of 24 sites, including 14 in the North West, nine in the South East and one, the Greyhound in Oxford.
It opened it latest site, the Old Hall in Sandbach, in October.
In June, the Restaurant Group (TRG), which acquired the then 14-strong B&P business in 2007 for £32m, jointly appointed AG&G and Christie + Co to initially find acquisition opportunities inside the M25 and within B&P’s current heartlands of the North West and the South East.
