A new chocolate cafe and bar, opening soon in Sheffield city centre, has given a sneak preview of its exciting cocoa-themed menu. Chocolate-infused cocktails, chocolate ice cream made in Sheffield, chocolate brownies and pastries, and the owner’s famous hot chocolate, of course, all feature. Not every item on the provisional menu, shared at this stage without any prices, is chocolate-based. There will also be doorstop sandwiches, toasties and a range of bar snacks including cured meats and...
Age UK Sheffield is opening up a new flagship charity shop in Banner Cross, Sheffield, this week. From Thursday, May 2, this new site, at 882 Ecclesall Road, adds to the charity’s existing three sites on Abbeydale Road, in Bradway and in Broomhill. Age UK Sheffield is an independent, local charity that works hard to address poverty, social isolation and loneliness experienced by older people in the city. Any retail proceeds help it to deliver its services. It provides benefit entitlement...
In both cases, the leaders chosen to lead PCC and PUSD had been interim leaders for months, as their respective boards pursued someone to fill the top jobs.
The opening of a new ‘flagship’ Sheffield city centre hotel with a rooftop bar and restaurant has been delayed. The new Radisson Blu hotel on Pinstone Street, opposite the Peace Gardens, was scheduled to welcome its first guests on June 10. Booking was due to open during the week commencing March 25, yet nearly a month later it is still not yet possible to book a room at the upmarket 154-bedroom hotel. Now Sheffield City Council has confirmed that the opening has been pushed back slightly. ...
It is a popular Sheffield city centre bar and cafe - and now it has a new look. Bosses at The Forum, on Devonshire Street, have just finished a refurbishment of the venue, which has been running in Sheffield for 32 years. Get the latest headlines delivered straight to your inbox, with The Star’s free emails We took a guided tour of the venue, and our video shows what has changed at the site. Take a look and see the changes for yourself. The Forum, next to Devonshire Green, has been a fixture in...
Work has begun on a huge new Zara store at Meadowhall, as the fashion giant prepares to move within the shopping centre. Zara is set to move from its current home on Upper High Street at the Sheffield mega mall to a new 35,000 sqft store on The Avenue, which was formerly Park Lane. Meadowhall bosses this week said the new Zara store, at what was House of Fraser, will sell an ‘expanded range’ across its womenswear, menswear and childrenswear sections. They said it would also include the ‘latest...
A new cocktail bar and restaurant launching soon just outside Sheffield city centre wants to open until 1.30am. Selena Cocktail Bar and Kitchen is due to open at New Era Square, off Bramall Lane, this summer. It describes itself as a ‘premium’ bar with ‘innovative cocktails and a Mediterranean menu’. It has now applied to Sheffield City Council for a licence which would allow it to serve alcohol from 9am until 1am Monday-Sunday, before closing to the public 30 minutes later. Get the latest...
Nico Rosberg has no intentions of selling Charles Leclerc’s new ice cream brand in his wife’s shop. The Formula 1 legend is involved in the ice cream industry with his wife Vivian, owni
MIAMI, Okla. — Visitors to the Miami City Pool will be paying more to use it this summer. Officials said the cost of admission hasn't gone up since 2016 but, thanks to action taken by the city council, that will change this summer. Adults and kids at least 6-years old will have to pay $5. []
Each day when a parent sends their child off to school, the safety of their student is top of mind.
Mayor Steven Reed joined county commissioner Ronda Walker and others at The Lab on Dexter on April 22nd to announce two new initiatives aimed at helping small businesses.
A new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society looks back on years of radical change in the city for better and worseIn recent decades New York City has changed dramatically, transforming from the lows of the crime and drug epidemics that ravaged the city in the 1970s and 80s to the resurgence and optimism that typified the 90s and the surge in gentrification that has been a source of debate more recently. Amid all of this transformation, one might make the assumption that these are new...