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Granita (restaurant)

Granita (restaurant)

Former restaurant in Islington, England

Granita was a restaurant at number 127 Upper Street in Islington.[1][2] It was founded in the early 1990s by Vicky Leffman. Its decor was bright and light with a Scandinavian style of pale wood.[3] Its cuisine was modern British, fusing classic dishes such as mussels with exotic ingredients such as lemongrass.[4]

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It was the setting for the Blair–Brown deal between the then-Shadow Home Secretary, Tony Blair, and the then-Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, in 1994.[5][6]

The restaurant was sold to Hüseyin Özer's Sofra group in 2002 but then closed in 2003, being replaced by a Tex-Mex restaurant called Desperados.[1][2][7][8] When Desperados moved to number 67 in 2013, the premises was then converted to become an estate agent.[9]

References

  1. [1]
    Watt, Nicholas (26 September 2003). "Granita's gone. Can the deal live on?". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 February 2010.
  2. [2]
    Peachey, Paul (26 September 2003). "Legendary Granita restaurant closes down". The Independent. Retrieved 7 February 2010.
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    "Restaurant spy: Granita", Evening Standard, 13 December 2002
  4. [4]
    Jay Rayner (1 October 2000), "Sound Bites", The Observer
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    McGreevy, Ronan (6 June 2003). "The pact that put Blair in charge". The Times. Retrieved 7 February 2010.
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    Akbar, Arifa (6 June 2003). "Granita, a byword for the pact that has hung over New Labour for a decade". The Independent. Retrieved 7 February 2010.
  7. [7]
    David Harris (31 January 2002), Granita restaurant sold
  8. [8]
    Muir, Hugh (11 May 2007). "Tex-mex table for one awaits Gordon Brown". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 February 2010.
  9. [9]
    Imogen Blake (20 March 2013), "Piece of Labour history lost as Blair and Brown's Granita pact restaurant is plastered over", Islington Now
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