Popular restaurant chain set to finally open in Sheffield city centre site as workmen move in
Workmen start fitting out new restaurant in city centre
It has been nearly a year since the plans emerged.
But now a well known restaurant chain has announced plans to open a new branch in Sheffield at a site near one of the city’s popular party streets.
Fat Hippo announced that it was planning to open up in what had previously been the Creams dessert salon on Division Street back in August 2025.
But now workmen have moved into the building and started to carry out the work needed to get the buildings ready for opening.
The sound of power tools could be heard from outside the building during Monday (September 29).
And now the company has confirmed when it is hoping to open.
A spokesman for Fat Hippo Group told The Star: “We will be opening in October - with bookings live later this week.”
A sign appeared in the window of the building where the restaurant will be based, announcing it planned to move in, shortly after the closure of Creams last year, but no signs of progress had been visible.
The business says it sells ‘good old fashioned, roll up your sleeves and get it all over your face’ food.
In 2023 it launched the ‘UK’s largest battered cheese ball’ containing 5,000 calories and weighing 2kg.
It is the latest food business to target Sheffield city centre following the decline of shopping.
Creams had opened on Division Street - the old Sakis men’s clothes store - in 2023 but closed after a few months.
Fat Hippo previously had outlets in the Kommune food hall in Castlegate and Lane 7 bowling alley near The Moor.
Launched in 2010 in Newcastle Upon Tyne, today it has 13 restaurants in the UK, in cities including Leeds and York, in Yorkshire.
It also sells merchandise including a bacon scented candle.