THE La Vina Spanish restaurant on Ecclesall Road, Sheffield, was rebranded today as a La Tasca but bosses denied this was a move downmarket.
It opened in 2006 as a posh version of the cheap and cheerful La Tasca at Meadowhall.
Now the Bay Restaurant Group has decided on a change.
"We have only ever had a handful of La Vinas. There were 12 and nine will remain," explains a spokeswoma
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The old menu will continue until later in the month.
La Tasca is next to Felicini and just along from upmarket Nonna's on the busy restaurant-orientated street. Meadowhall's La Tasca is unaffected.
Bay, the fourth-largest casual dining operator in Britain with 217 outlets, also owns the Slug and Lettuce and Ha! Ha! Bar & Grill brands.
TREVOR Wraith's Kelham Island Tavern has been voted the city's best boozer - again - by members of Sheffield Campaign for Real Ale.
It's the FIFTH year running he's won the title.
The pub, on Russell Street, goes forward to the Yorkshire regional round of the national pub of the year, along with the Grouse at Longshaw, into the Derbyshire equivalent.
Camra's 900 members have a Top 20 of real ale pubs. The rest are, in order, Fat Cat, Alma Street; Bath Hotel, Victoria Street; Commercial Inn, Chapeltown; Hillsborough Hotel, Upperthorpe; Devonshire Cat, Wellington Street ; Rising Sun, Nether Green; Sheaf View, Heeley; New Barrack Tavern, Penistone Road; and Ranmoor Inn, Fulwood.
The next 10 are: Wellington, Shalesmoor; Grouse, Longshaw; Harlequin, Nursery Street; Wig & Pen, Campo Lane; Coach & Horses, Dronfield; Dove & Rainbow, Hartshead; Cobden View, Cobden View Road; Red Lion, Charles Street; Millstone, Hathersage; Fagan's, Broad Street.
North Derbyshire's Thornbridge Brewery has brewed the official beer for the Sensoria festival of music and film in Sheffield from this Sunday until April 18.
THE Maynard boutique hotel at Grindleford has just been awarded its second AA rosette under head chef Ben Hickinson. Ben moved up from sous chef last year with the departure of Marcus Jefford.
SHEFFIELD'S '24 City' policy has taken another knock with the refusal to allow Bar 23 in the West One Plaza, Fitzwilliam Street, to extend its opening hours by 30 minutes to midnight. Quite what the people who bought flats in the complex above the ground floor restaurants expected is anyone's guess.
THE Walnut Club Champagne Bar on Ecclesall Road, Sheffield, is offering organic Sunday roasts at £9.95. Book on 0114 267 6566.
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