First look inside Valencia tapas restaurant as opening of new venue in Crosspool, Sheffield, nears
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00:00Sheffield's newest tapas restaurant is opening in what was formerly a curry house.
00:05Valencia is opening on the corner of Benty Lane and Sandigate Road in Crosspool,
00:10in what was once the Varanasi Inn restaurant.
00:13The owners hope to be open by March 19th, depending on whether work on the kitchen is completed by then.
00:19Em, could you tell me please about the restaurant that you're opening here in Crosspool?
00:23Yes, we are so excited about it.
00:26We're going to be opening a Mediterranean tapas restaurant and Mediterranean-style cafeteria as well in the morning.
00:32Hopefully later on we will be opening a cocktail bar upstairs.
00:35What sort of food are people going to be able to get here?
00:38People will be getting Mediterranean and tapas.
00:42And the breakfast cafeteria is a breakfast.
00:45We will have got a lot of fresh breakfast styles, Mediterranean and the traditional as well.
00:50Breakfast will be available.
00:52And the restaurant, there is a lot of fresh food.
00:56We have got mezes, tapas, main courses.
01:02There's like a banquets available, tapas banquets available as well.
01:08Spanish and Mediterranean is mainly.
01:11How long have you been working to get this ready?
01:14Oh, seven months.
01:16It was extremely hard work to turn in this place as you see it like that.
01:21It was really out of date and we had to put a lot of hard work on it.
01:25Are you pleased about how it's looking now?
01:27I love it. I love it. I would not change anything.
01:30What has to be done now before you can open?
01:33We need to test the kitchen, make sure the kitchen is ready.
01:37And then make sure we have got trained our member of staff.
01:41We have got new members and make sure everybody is trained and ready.
01:45And hopefully we will be going live soon.
01:49And I understand you are also hoping to have a cocktail bar as part of the scheme.
01:54What's the time scale for that likely to be?
01:56I can't tell you exactly how many months but I would say a few months.