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Royal Nawaab confirms Stockport pyramid will open as curry banquet hall next year
This is going to be epic!
The iconic Stockport pyramid is opening as the famous curry house, the Royal Nawaab, in the summer of 2024.
The welcome news was confirmed in a post on Royal Nawaab Manchester’s Instagram page.
After standing derelict for five years, the huge structure – which confirms you’ve reached Stockport once you spot it from the nearby M60 motorway – is now being given a new lease of life.
In a social media post, the Royal Nawaab wrote: “Unveiling the Grandeur: New Royal Nawaab Manchester Opening Summer 2024.
“Until we open, visit our two branches in Perivale and Ilford.”
Alongside the text is drone footage around the huge building, making you realise just how huge it really is.
Ecstatic foodies and Royal Nawaab fans flocked to the comment section to share their excitement on the news. Food and wine writer Kelly Bishop wrote: “I think this is the Manchester opening I am most invested in.”
Another put: “Wow wow wow what a great News. Waiting for Royal Nawab again in Manchester.”
With a third saying: “Hopefully it’ll be as beautiful as your Manchester venue currently, we had our beautiful wedding with you.” And a fourth person excitedly added: “Omg can’t wait!”
The welcome news would create a huge boost for Stockport, which has already seen a huge regeneration and recently won Greater Manchester’s town of culture 2023.
Royal Nawaab currently has two restaurants in London, one being in the Hoover Building in Ealing and another in Ilford, East London.
The Nawaab restaurant and banqueting hall, which was based on Stockport Road in Levenshulme and opened on the site of a former cinema in 2003, was a popular choice for Asian cuisine, but closed earlier this year and reopened as Merzee.
Based on Yew Street, the pyramid began construction in the late eighties, opening its doors in 1992. It was the first of what was meant to be five pyramids along the River Mersey to create Manchester’s own Valley of the Kings, in a nod to ancient Egypt.
However, the developers fell into bankruptcy leaving Stockport with just the one pyramid. The Co-op moved in and used the building as one of its call centres from 1995 until 2018.
Then, in May 2019, Saudi Arabian investor Eamar Developments (UK) was confirmed as the pyramid’s new owners. Royal Nawaab will be the first opening of the pyramid under its new owners in summer next year.