Another York shop set to be turned into a restaurant

A new Japanese-style restaurant is planned for York city centre. 

Management of York Sushi Ltd want to open in 3 Lendal, which was home to York Hire Wear for many years, but which has more recently been the Wild & Westbrooke clothing store.  

In a licensing application to City of York Council, the company say they would cater for 25 to 30 customers on the ground floor, and 16 to 20 customers on the first floor. 

They say the business would be a Japanese sushi bar with an open kitchen, serving dishes including rice bowls, noodle soups, fried and deep fried foods.  

If the conversion goes ahead, it will continue a long-term trend in central York of shops being turned into cafes, restaurants and bars and will continue a steady change in the main focus of Lendal, where hospitality businesses have become more widespread over the past decade. 

Other conversions in Lendal in recent years include the Robson & Cooper shop being turned into The House of Trembling Madness.

There are also still plans to turn the old Post Office into a restaurant, and Judges Lodgings is set to expand into the vacant Jack Wolfskin shop.  

Other current projects elsewhere in the city centre include the old TK Maxx store in Coney Street being turned into a Hard Rock Café, and there is permission for the old Argos shop in Piccadilly to be turned into a Bundobust. 

York Sushi has asked for an alcohol licence until 10pm on Monday to Thursday, until 10.30pm on Friday and Saturday, and until 9.30pm on Sunday.

The application says the licensee would ensure that all appropriate training would be provided, including in relation to preventing crime and disorder, and in the appropriate sale of alcohol. 

Representations on the licensing application can be made to City of York Council until 2 March. No related planning application has yet been submitted.  

Wild & Westbrooke now trades from a larger shop on Stonegate.