Loch Fyne Restaurants has acquired a site in the historic West Sussex market town of Midhurst, with opening planned for June, reports the Winchester office of leading restaurant agents, Christie + Co.

The seafood restaurant will occupy an attractive 17th Century building in North Street, the high street of the town.

The former owners carried out a sympathetic and high quality conversion to create a 70-cover restaurant with rear patio, preserving many character features, including an original fireplace.

Vicky Moody of Christie + Co’s Winchester office, who negotiated the sale, comments: “Our clients, Richard Bocock and Richard Guess, instructed us to find a buyer for the premises in January, enabling them to focus on their established and reputable restaurant in London.

The sale of the premises attracted a tremendous amount of interest with contracts successfully completing in April to Loch Fyne Restaurants Ltd. From its beginnings on the shores of Loch Fyne in Scotland, the group now has over 30 restaurants around the UK all serving superb, fresh seafood. This attractive venue in Midhurst is the ideal location for the latest Loch Fyne.”

The restaurant has been sold for an undisclosed figure from an asking price of £130,000 for the leasehold interest; a new 20-year lease commenced in January 2007.

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