Burger & Lobster, the Goodman Restaurant Group-owned brand, has pulled out of opening what would have been its first site in Scotland, at the Marischal Square development in Aberdeen.
Last September, Aberdeen City Council said that the company and All Bar One would be occupying units within the £107 million city centre redevelopment.
Burger & Lobster is increasingly set to concentrate its expansion in London and overseas over the next few years and has already pulled out of plans to open in Birmingham, Liverpool and Leeds. It’s site in Cardiff is also thought to be on the market.
It has three openings lined up in London and recently secured a flagship site in London’s Leicester Square.
The group, which also has openings lined up in Holborn and West India Quay, secured the Spice Market site that is part of the five-star W London hotel in Wardour Street for an opening in May.
The company, which last month opened in Dubai, is set to re-open the site in May, plans to open on the Via Fossa site in the Port East Building, West India Quay, later this summer. Before that it will open on the ex-Shanghai Blues site in High Holborn.
At the same time, managing director Simon King told MCA that the group had signed a deal to open in Malaysia and had begun talks to launch in Bangkok, whilst a further opening in New York is planned before the year end.
