Date set for opening of Plymouth Dome as Gary Rhodes restaurant
TV CHEF Gary Rhodes’ £1.5million restaurant on the Hoe will open later this month after suffering a setback when it was targeted by thieves.
The Rhodes @ The Dome restaurant will open to the public on January 25.
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Two nights earlier the chef will welcome VIPs from the “culinary, arts, TV and business worlds” to a special opening night.
Mr Rhodes, a Michelin star-winner who has fronted MasterChef and Rhodes Around Britain on TV, will not be based at the eaterie.
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It will be the latest venue in the city to offer fine dining.
Plymouth’s own celebrity chefs, brothers James and Chris Tanner operate the high class restaurant, Tanners, in the city centre as well as the Barbican Kitchen.
The Dome had been scheduled to open last November, but plans had to be scrapped when metal thieves attacked the building causing tens of thousands of pounds of damage by ripping lead flashing from the roof and stealing valuable copper piping.
The crime delayed a huge building project – but now work is complete, with large picture windows created from the solid block walls.
The venue, which will be Mr Rhodes’ only restaurant outside London, will now launch with a special invite-only event, at which Mr Rhodes will address guests.
Present will be Plymouth City Council leader Tudor Evans, and leading lights from the business world including Tim Jones, chairman of the Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership, and Charles Howeson, chairman of the Plymouth Area Business Council.
Kitchen staff are due to start their training next week and Mr Rhodes is due to arrive soon to carry out some of that training.
During the autumn, the restaurant recruited its key management staff, with chef Liam Rutherford joining from Mr Rhodes’ flagship W1 restaurant in London, and general manager David Pover arriving from the renowned St Ives Harbour Hotel in Cornwall.
Mr Pover said: “The building work is nearing completion, the majority of the staff have been recruited and we are really looking forward to working closely with Gary Rhodes and his team.
“This is a hugely exciting day for us, we have announced the opening date and opened the reservations diary.”
The 16,000sq ft Plymouth Dome visitor centre was opened by the Queen in 1989.
At its peak it pulled in more than 2.3 million visitors before being shut by Plymouth City Council in 2006.
In 2010 the council put the building on the market in a bid to encourage potential occupiers to come forward.
Comments
by TheMercenary
Friday, January 11 2013, 11:30PM
“@Pogle63a. Sadly, I'm inclined to agree with you. It's not going to be somewhere the majority of us can afford to eat anyway and parking, even if free, is limited in the immediate vicinity of the restaurant. On a wet and windy evening the ladies won't want to be walking far with their fancy clothes and hairdo's. Initially, I'm sure it will be busy but like so many things in our fair city, the novelty will soon wear off and it will die a death. I've not seen the access but presumably it's wheelchair friendly, once you've got from your car and up the steps to the pavement that is.”
by arthur_p
Friday, January 11 2013, 8:34PM
“Where is his other hand? No wonder she's grinning.”
by Rick_OShay
Friday, January 11 2013, 8:08PM
“It's caption competition time #3
Viv and Gary recreate the famous scene in the 10 Downing Street garden when David Cameron first proposed to Nick Clegg.
Rick O'Shay
Zog”
by Rick_OShay
Friday, January 11 2013, 8:07PM
“It's caption competition time #2
Times are hard in the restaurant business so Gary Rhodes branches out by auditioning for Walking with Dinosaurs
Rick O'Shay
Zog”
by Rick_OShay
Friday, January 11 2013, 8:06PM
“It's caption competition time!
Gary Rhodes: "What's going on? When I designed the menu I specified fresh trout not old trout"
Rick O'Shay
Zog”
by ILookaround
Friday, January 11 2013, 7:36PM
“I walked past it today - large piles of rubble - no floors in places - congratulations to your builders if they get it finished in time for the opening Gary. Bound to be an improvement on the eyesore it has been for the past few years. All it will need then is for the customers to flood in - I presume the parking charges are going to be suspended - or is it going to again be the case that when you go for an evening meal in the city - you have to pay an extra few quid to park!
- I hope it will be a success - but doubt if I will be able to afford to go too often, if at all.”
by pogle63a
Friday, January 11 2013, 7:10PM
“I`ll give it 18 months and it`ll be boarded up again. Are we no longer in a recession then?”
by DJANGO6421
Friday, January 11 2013, 7:00PM
“An over priced white elephant, no doubt the city councilors will be having their jollies there!!!”
by tango221
Friday, January 11 2013, 6:56PM
“Also brilliant news for Plymouth for once. Good luck to Mr Rhodes and all those that will make this work.”
by tango221
Friday, January 11 2013, 6:49PM
“Uncle Joe Evans with his snout in the trough then”