A new Greek restaurant and bar has applied for planning permission to open on the site of a former pub in Redcliffe near Temple Meads station. Sousta hopes to open in the 1960s building on Clarence Road, a site that was previously the Mayor’s Arms pub.
In recent years, the property at 69 Clarence Road was the Raj Mahal Indian restaurant. It closed a couple of years ago and there were plans in 2017 to knock it down and turn it into student accommodation.
The original planning application for 20 student flats was not well received by local residents and an amended scheme from developers Developments Bristol was resubmitted in 2018. The amended proposal was to demolish the existing building and to build a mixed-use scheme of ten student apartments and office space on the ground floor - this application is still at the planning stage, according to Paul O'Brien of Developments Bristol.
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The new applicant for a premises licence at the former pub is Sousta Limited. The previous premises licence was surrounded in June 2020 when Raj Mahal closed.
Sousta Greek Restaurant & Bar has applied for an alcohol licence and will open for food seven days a week. The opening hours applied for are Sunday 11am-11pm, Mon-Thurs 10am-11pm and Fri/Sat 10am-12midnight.
Sousta will be run by the same family behind the popular Greek restaurant of the same name in Congresbury, near Bristol. The family-run taverna was open for more than ten years but closed during the pandemic.
