Lebanese Village in Caversham has won permission to sell alcohol until 12.30am Monday to Saturday, and midnight on Sundays. The Bridge Street restaurant opened in November 2019, taking over from the Picasso Spanish cuisine business.
Owner ODYE Investments applied to Reading Borough Council and a statutory consultation produced no objections, so the licence was issued after the consultation closed on Tuesday 7 April. The change lets the restaurant sell beer and wine past its previous closing time.
The licence has conditions: operate a Challenge 25 age policy, keep CCTV properly maintained, and train staff to refuse sales. All training must be documented in English and refreshed every six months. The venue must operate at all times as a restaurant, with no vertical drinking or self-service of alcohol.
Lebanese Village is a group of three restaurants, with other sites in Thames Street, Windsor, and Chesham. The company also runs The Oven cafe in Peascod Street, Windsor, according to an online menu published last year.
James Aldridge, Local Democracy Reporter
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