New sushi restaurant to open in Market Place

Owner says emphasis is on quality

THIS is what the new sushi restaurant and takeaway – coming to Newbury’s Market Place this summer – will look like.

Sushi Restaurant & Takeaway, which will be situated next door to Strada, will have the capacity to serve 18 people and most of the fish on the menu will be shipped daily from Japan.

A formal planning application has been submitted to convert the building, formerly occupied by bakery and coffee shop Silva Robinson, into the new restaurant.

The application says the restaurant would provide ‘the best quality of sushi and sashimi selections’.

The man behind the plan, Newbury resident Arif Goksel, said: “I have lived in central Newbury for the past three-and-a-half years and I wanted to do something different.

“We have all sorts of restaurants in the Market Place, but we don’t have anywhere which serves proper Japanese food. I love sushi and I’m really excited to bring it to the place I live.

“I am hoping that the chef I have in mind will be able to fly over from Japan too.”

Mr Goksel, whose other business interests include a restaurant in Cyprus, hopes to open in August. The unit has been empty since December 2014.