Speciality Restaurants Ltd is planning to open an Italian cuisine restaurant chain under the name Mizuna.

A pilot project in this regard has already begun at Pune. The restaurant is expected to be operational by December 2012. Mizuna will be a bar-cum-eatery following a “breakfast to dinner” format.

“Based on the response in Pune, we will look to take up projects across the country including Kolkata,” Mr Anjan Chatterjee, Managing Director, Speciality Restaurants, told newspersons here on Wednesday at its IPO road show.

Kolkata-based Speciality Restaurants has 82 restaurants across 21 States in the country and one restaurant in Dhaka. It owns six restaurant chains and a confectionery chain.

According to Mr Chatterjee, the company will also set up a food plaza in Rajarhat in West Bengal at an expected cost of Rs 17 crore where it will have all the restaurant brands under one roof.

Speciality, he said, already has one acre of land for the project and has applied for obtaining necessary clearances.

“We expect to start work on the project in another eight months,” Mr Chatterjee said.

abhishek.l@thehindu.co.in

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