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£280k cocktail bar and bowling offering for Leeds’ Pinnacle building creating 27 jobs

A new cocktail bar and restaurant combined with a boutique bowling alley launches at Pinnacle Leeds this month.

Roxy Lanes, the latest leisure venture from Leeds-based Jones Bar Group Ltd, opens on May 15 in a 5,300 sq ft unit in the Podium at Pinnacle Leeds in the heart of the city centre.

The letting to Roxy Lanes, which will feature four full-size bowling lanes imported from a specialist manufacture in the US, is the latest coup for Pinnacle Leeds, one of the city’s best-known office and retail properties, acquired by Moorfield Group (Moorfield) on behalf of Moorfield Real Estate Fund II in 2011.

Roxy Lanes, which will open after a £280,000 investment by Jones Bar Group, will create seven new full-time, and 20 part-time, jobs. The venture is the secondnew leisure concept launched by Jones Bar Group in Leeds which opened Roxy Ballroom, a bar and restaurant combined with table tennis and pool tables,last December.

Roxy Lanes willfeature a 50-coverrestaurant providing American diner-style food, including pizzas and fresh burgers, cocktails and craft beers, a total of 90-seats and a 180-capacity. It is the eight bar venue opened by Jones Bar Group in the last ten years.

Jones Bar Group Ltd was founded by brothers, Matthew and Ben Jones, managing and finance director respectively, in 2004. The company, which has a £5.5 million turnover and 35 full-time staff, also owns Bar 166 & Bistro, Horsforth andThe Shed Bar, Brooklyn Bar, Hirst’s Yard, 51% Bourbon and NY Burger Kitchen all in Leeds City Centre.

Matthew Jones says: “We spotted a gap in the market with Roxy Lanes by giving a quality lift to the old-style concept of bowling alleys and linking it to good food and a cocktail bar in a comfortable, up-market setting designed so people can stay as long as they wish and have fun.

“The Pinnacle team moved quickly to accommodate us and have been great to deal with. We aim to develop the Roxy Lanes concept and are seeking similar-sized units in comparable locations throughout the North with a view to pushing our turnover up to £7.5m in the next 12-18 months.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Clare Burnett .