A London Road restaurant is preparing to close after trading for more than 35 years in the village.
The Alderley Rose Chinese restaurant, which also offered a takeaway service, will close its doors on Saturday 7th September.
The lease is due to expire on the property, located on the corner of London Road and Brown Street, and Anne and Tom Zerenka have decided not to renew it.
Tom's father Brian Zerenka, who helps out in the restaurant from time to time, said "The restaurant has been here for more than 35 years and the lease is up at the end of September.
"We don't want to extend the lease as the restaurant is quite quiet. It is not easy running a business, this is a posh area and our restaurant is quite old style."
Brian, who is nearly 70, added "The family haven't got any firm plans of the future, we just want to settle everything up here first and we will think about the future afterwards."
With businesses like PizzaExpress keen to open in the village, but unable to succeed with their plans because permission for a change of use from retail to restaurant for the unit at the corner of London Road and Stevens Street was refused, we wonder whether this unit will prove popular - given it has an A3 licence to sell food and drink?
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Yet another icon lost ........... what with losing The Mandarin a couple of years ago. Pity !!!
Pizza Express would be the alternative option.
Last thing we want is another empty eyesore for the next 4 years, like the place opposite
What we do need is a decent 'Tampopo' or 'Wagamama' type/style restaurant, that serves the best of Japanese, Chinese, Thai etc...
Personally I'd love NOBU to open up here...but that won't ever happen, however 'POSH' people think the village is:-)... We can live in hope!
As long as it's not another charity shop!!!
Another cool concept is 'Pop up restaurant' where the premises would have the kitchen fully kitted out and each month a new chef and team would rent the venue and dazzle us with their culinary skills!
Starving now and got a meal at Tampopo on my mind.
What we don't want is another cafe bar to encroach onto the pavement or any more charity shops, but then again we don't want to become another empty "eyesore".
Good luck to the family leaving the Alderley Rose, I've had many a good meal there over the years.
I always thought 'The Rose' would be a constant; as the village changed beyond recognition it was always there as a reminder of an older, gentler, less brash Alderley. I shall be very sad to see it go.
The Chilli Banana serves fabulous food and so survives despite not great surroundings.
It would be nice to have another Chinese restaurant - maybe the owners of the Flame and Wok or one of their chefs could be persuaded to move in, they serve the best Chinese food for miles around!
But anything including Pizza Express is infinitely better than another empty shop unit like the one on the corner of Stephens Street which sits there like the spectre at the feast year after year...
Second thoughts, changed my fickle mind after a visit to Etruria in Knutsford. What truly fantastic food. Wonder if we can persuade them to open a tapas bar in Alderley ?
On the subject of the article, it is, indeed, very sad to see the Alderley Rose close down, but I must agree with most comments in that it has been on the decline for several years. I shall certainly be going for a farewell meal in the next couple of weeks! Another Chinese, or at least a proper restaurant, would be good. The last thing we want is another Pizza Express, or similar, or, as several have mentioned, more empty premises or charity shops.
The food was mediocre, the decoration a bit 1970s (nice to see the lit up non-flowing waterfall scene is still there - I remember when it used to flow!), the muzak 1960s. We were the only customers in the restaurant all evening, apart from some take-out business.
Despite the above I'll miss it. It is unpretentious and that alone is so rare today in eating establishments. I doubt its replacement will be.