High profile Sheffield restaurant announces Ecclesall Road switch

Jaflong has been running as an Indian restaurant in Crookes for 25 years, but has been forced to leave its current premises after it was unable to renew its lease on the property.

The building is currently boarded up after the landlord re-possessed the premises, which had been home to the business for the last 10 years since it re-located from a smaller building, also in Crookes.

But now bosses have confirmed their plans to move to a new building.

A notice has now been placed on the front door of the premises, and also on their website, which states: “Dear Customers and friends. We will be opening in new premises on Ecclesall Road, (S11) very soon.”

Bosses had previously stated that they would be ‘moving to a new premises in the near future with a bigger and better Jaflong experience.’

The Star has contacted the restaurant for more information.

Jaflong’s lease in Crookes ends

The lease on building in Crookes had ended, and restaurant boss Shahab Uddin, who said he had been a good tenant who always paid his rent on time, had hoped to arrange a deal to stay at the same building. The restaurant has been operating there on a sub-lease arrangement through previous tenant Coral, but Coral’s lease ended, and the building was due to be returned to its owner, Motspa Holdings.

Mr Uddin told The Star last month that if Jaflong was forced to leave the building, it would look to relocate to a new site within two kilometres of their previous base in Crookes.

A spokesman for Motspa said last week that Coral’s lease had ended, and therefore so had Jaflong’s lease. He said the lease was due to drop back to Motspa, who plan to completely refurbish the building, although they had not yet been able to get in to do a complete survey.

It is not known what the company’s plans are for the building. It has previously been a bookies and a video rental shop.