Historical version 20 of Alchemy, 28-30 St George's Walk (view current version)

  • Address: 28-30 St George's Walk, CR0 1YJ

Business premises on St George's Walk.

As of August 2014 it's vacant, but signs have appeared on the frontage for a bar and restaurant called Alchemy (tagline: The Art of Fusion photo) — though there are no clues as to when this is due to open.

It was previously occupied by Victoria Island photo, a licensed cafe/restaurant which closed some time between October 2013 and June 2014.

The premises were once occupied by a bar called CR0 photo, and then by another bar called Taberner's Bar photo. It was a British/African cafe by July 2012, though at that point it was called Queens Cafe photo of board outside; a month later it had changed its name to Victoria Island photo, though fairly clearly under the same management.

As of October 2012, there were signs in the window advertising both British food such as fish & chips and full English breakfast, and African food such as eba, pounded yam, and amala. Photos: 1, 2, 3. They also did a buffet at lunchtimes, with half a dozen dishes varying daily. As of November 2012 this wasn't an all-you-can-eat buffet; prices depended on the size of plate you wanted.

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The last time we definitely saw Victoria Island open was in October 2013. As of March 2014 we hadn't seen it open for a while, despite walking past fairly often, and by June 2014 the frontage signs had been removed photo and the windows newspapered over photo. However, the outside was also freshly painted.

By July 2014 the newspaper had been replaced by decorative decals photo.

St George's Walk ... Big Wharf, 34 St George's Walk St George's Walk Dry Cleaners, 32 St George's Walk Victoria Island Lounge (CLOSED), 28-30 St George's Walk Roti Masters, 26a St George's Walk Acuherbs/Acupuncture And Herbs, 26 St George's Walk ...

OS X co-ord: 532461     OS Y co-ord: 165485     (Latitude: 51.372453 Longitude: -0.096738)
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