Café Rouge signs up for Parkway

The French-style brasserie is returning to Newbury in the new mixed-use retail and residential development

FRENCH-style brasserie, Café Rouge, is the latest name to sign up to Newbury's Parkway development.

After a gap of about 10 years since the closure of its Market Place unit, the restaurant chain will return to the town with a 3,267 sq ft unit over two floors at the scheme's Park Way entrance, opposite the John Lewis at home store, which is due to open in spring 2012.

The brasserie will join the string of fashion boutiques and high street names at the recently opened shopping complex, which includes Debenhams, H&M, Superdry and Lakeland, among others.

Head of UK retail at developers Standard Life Investments, Ed Jenkins, said: “We had a fantastic opening, almost 80 per cent let [by retail floor space], excellent footfall and tenants trading well above their targets.

“Café Rouge will be a great addition to the line-up at Parkway and supports the occupier mix that we want to achieve for Newbury.

“Parkway has already added to the attraction of the town as was demonstrated by increased sales being reported by some stores in Northbrook Street since our opening and the addition of more operators over the coming months will help to secure its future as a true retail destination.”

The 475,000 sq ft mixed-use retail and residential development, which opened on October 27, is the last shopping centre due to open until 2013, with the residential elements of the scheme set for completion in the summer of 2012.