A Wirral restaurant will not be able to sell alcohol until 1.30am and will be forced to close before midnight.
Jonty Trott had hoped to finish serving food around 10pm at Tahona, which will be based at The Curve on Telegraph Road in Heswall, before serving alcohol until 1.30am. But a three-councillor panel turned down this demand and said the restaurant must stop serving booze at 11pm and close by 11.30pm.
Speaking at a meeting of Wirral Council’s Licensing Panel on April 6, Heswall councillor Andrew Hodson said residents were not against a restaurant, or perhaps a bar, opening, but they were worried about the prospect of a late bar or “staff drinking club”.
