Italian restaurant selects Sheffield’s Fox Valley for first venture outside London

London-based Ponti’s Italian Kitchen is set to open its first restaurant outside the capital at north Sheffield’s Fox Valley development later this year.

With restaurants on Duke Street, Oxford Street in London’s West End, the family run business will be open a brand new Italian dining experience in Sheffield when the new £42m town centre development opens in June.

Headed by Stefano Ispani, Ponti’s Italian Kitchen opened its first restaurant in London in 1963.

The Ponti’s Italian Kitchen in Fox Valley will continue to provide an all day offering and have around 150 covers spread over 4,750 sq. ft. on two floors. The restaurant interior is designed by northern interior designer Simon McIlwraith of Collective Design.

In addition, the restaurant will also feature an outdoor seating area with specially designed outdoor fire pits set around the garden and fountain area to enable dining almost all year round.

Stefano said: “We have been looking to find the right landlord to partner with in a location for our first Ponti’s Italian Kitchen outside London.

“With Mark Dransfield and the Fox Valley development we believe we have a perfect partnership; it really is the ideal spot for a new development in a beautiful location in north Sheffield.

“We are creating the authentic feel of a real Italian kitchen with the warmth and passion for fantastic “home cooking” which goes with that. Our guests appreciate that we have a keen eye for detail and that will be evident throughout the design, layout and of course the food and customer service.

“This is a wonderful opportunity for us to design and develop our restaurant from the ground up and have an influence on the way the building functions. This is our first restaurant outside London and we are very proud to be working with the Fox Valley team who share our vision and commitment for quality in everything they do and how they work.”

Mark Dransfield, managing director of Dransfield Properties, developers of the Fox Valley scheme, added: “We have sought from the outset to create something really unique and different here at Fox Valley and Ponti’s Italian Kitchen is definitely a big part of that.

“Stefano took us to see the region of Italy where his family and local producers are from and we all came away absolutely overwhelmed by the local cuisine and quality of produce.

“To meet their suppliers and see the vision and attention to detail which goes into every dish is fantastic and we are delighted that Stefano and his team have chosen Fox Valley for their first restaurant outside London.”

Fox Valley is creating a new town centre in north Sheffield with 32 new retail and restaurant units as well as high spec office space and a housing development with 118 homes.

Ponti’s Italian Kitchen was advised by the London-based firm of Chartered Surveyors and Property Consultants Stephen Kane and Company.

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