‘Spectacular’ new Egyptian Room food hall launches tonight

Staff are pictured preparing themselves for the new Egyptian Room food hall launch night tonight (Friday)

A long-awaited food hall in Oldham is opening its doors to the public tonight (Friday).

The Egyptian Room in Oldham will become the latest addition to the region’s food market scene, promising a contemporary dining experience in the luxurious restored halls of the borough’s Grade-II listed town hall.

From tea time tonight, and on the same day Oldham celebrates its 175th birthday, up to 150 diners will be able to enjoy a choice of six eateries surrounded by beautiful vintage architecture ‘set to rival Mackie Mayor’ in Manchester city centre.

The opening date was delayed from the summer due to ‘complex restoration works’, but has now been confirmed by the venue’s managers, the Northern Lights Group (NLG), who run a number of popular restaurants and entertainment venues across the North West.

The restaurants include Manchester favourite Ply Love Pizza, who’ve moved to the new venue following their shock closure on Stevenson Square earlier this year.

A brand new addition to the Greater Manchester food scene will be Seacoles, a vendor promising ‘authentic Caribbean vibes and mouth-watering dishes’.

And burger and Greek gyros experts, The Last Stop, will also be taking new quarters at the venue, along with Manchester-born Wings of Power will also be whipping up fried chicken and fillet burgers.

TukTuk, an off-shoot of Cambodian restaurant and Stockport staple Kambuja, will also be giving punters the chance to try ‘one of the least well-known cuisines in Britain’, with traditional dishes like Lok Lak (stir fried marinated beef) and Cha Kuthiew (Cambodia’s version of Pad Thai).

And for the sweet-toothed among us, another Stockport favourite, Sticky Fingers, will be on-site to offer an irresistible selection of cakes and pastries.

The Egyptian Room will also feature a bar and generous dining space under the boughs of ‘Egyptian-inspired’ Victorian architecture.

With a decorative glazed wall and column tiling, parquet and terrazzo flooring, plastered ceilings and original arched windows and doors, the space is tipped to become ‘one of the most spectacular new food halls anywhere’.

The food hall is part of a wider plan to breathe new life into Oldham’s town centre, which saw a serious decline in footfall after the pandemic.

The local authority was awarded an external funding grant of £1.1m from the Future High Street Funds towards the costs of renovating the hall.

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