Za Za Bazaar World Banquet & Bar is a buffet restaurant in Bristol, England.
The restaurant, in Bristol's Harbourside area, opened just before Christmas in 2011. Its construction lasted thirteen weeks, and cost £3 million.[1][2] It was billed as the largest restaurant in the United Kingdom, and seats 1,000 people, eclipsing Croydon's Cosmo restaurant in size, which seats 800.[3][4]
It was established with the plan to open another seven "super restaurants" across the United Kingdom, in an investment of £10m, that was rumoured to create 1,000 jobs in eighteen months. However, the expansion did not materialise, and a planned restaurant in Norwich has yet to be built. The food is split into the main categories of Far East, Tex Mex, European and Indian.[5]
A second restaurant, situated in Newcastle City Centre, permanently closed in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.[6]
External links
- Za Za Bazaar on Twitter
References
- Za Za Bazaar: Review Bristol Bites, 4 December 2011, retrieved 31 July 2019^
- Steven Morris. One thousand diners: Britain's biggest restaurant opens The Guardian, 30 November 2011, retrieved 31 July 2019^
- Za Za Bazaar - Bristol Visit Bristol, retrieved 31 July 2019^
- Matthew Norman. Za Za Bazaar, Bristol, restaurant review The Telegraph, 2 December 2011, retrieved 31 July 2019^
- John Lanchester. Restaurant review: Za Za Bazaar, Bristol The Guardian, 27 January 2012, retrieved 31 July 2019^
- Jim Scott. Newcastle's Za Za Bazaar to permanently close due to coronavirus The Northern Echo, 22 July 2020, retrieved 29 April 2021^