Ipswich Bazaar 'very excited' to open new restaurant

Co-owner of Ipswich Bazaar Ariful Islam said the new restaurant, named the Al Safa after his daughter, will open inside the store in Carr Street on Saturday, May 31.

Mr Islam has hired head chef Jayesh Vaze, who has worked in the respected Oberoi Hotel restaurant in Mumbai and has been a working as a chef for more than 15 years.

Chef Jayesh Vaze has been hired for the new restaurant (Image: Newsquest) He said: “We are very excited about this. Our intention is to bring people here to make them happy, we want to serve the highest quality food at a reasonable price.

“We want to create a community atmosphere where people come and enjoy themselves with good food. At the moment a lot of businesses only care about profit but we care about the customer too and our prices show that.”

The restaurant will be open from 9am to 9pm from Monday to Saturday and will be open from 10.30am to 4.30pm on Sundays and will be able to seat 80 people.

The new restaurant at the Ipswich Bazaar will have room for 80 people (Image: Newsquest)Mr Islam added: “The people of Ipswich like food from everywhere and we are offering food from across the world.

“People come to our store from as far away as Colchester and we have around 500 or 600 people coming into the shop every day, so we never want to stop making them happy.

"Not only that, we have around 4,000 to 5,000 people registered as loyal customers.”

The Ipswich Bazaar is located at the site of the former Poundland store in Carr Street, which for many years housed the town's Woolworths.