Cafe Rouge on the menu at WestQuay

11:26am Tuesday 4th September 2012 in Business Photograph of the Author By Melanie Adams, Health Reporter

How the new look Food Terrace at WestQuay will look How the new look Food Terrace at WestQuay will look

THE taste of France will soon be coming to WestQuay as another big name is served up as part of the shopping centre’s £7m revamp, the Daily Echo can reveal.

The latest culinary star opening its doors in the Southampton shopping centre in November will be French eatery Cafe Rouge, offering shoppers traditional cuisine from across the Channel.

It is one of three new restaurant brands opening at the extended food hall, bringing about 100 new jobs to the city.

The French style restaurant will be joined by Pizza Express and Japanese style noodle chain Wagamama as the food quarter is renamed “Dining at WestQuay” to move away from its current status as “casual dining”.

Cafe Rouge will open opposite Wagamama, which will be above McDonald’s in the existing food court and the two will be linked by a new bridged walkway.

The existing roof terrace will be extended and covered with a glass atrium, offering all-year-round seating with views of Southampton Water.

WestQuay’s owners wanted to “expand” and “refresh”

the eating and drinking opportunities at the 11- year-old centre. It is hoped the changes will bring a five to ten per cent increase in footfall from shoppers.

The revamp has been designed by the team behind the giant Westfield shopping centre in London.

Andy Collyer, general manager at WestQuay, said: “We are all delighted that Café Rouge will be opening as part of Dining at WestQuay.

“The fact that the brand has chosen WestQuay as its first location in Southampton is fantastic news for the development and will offer even greater choice to our shoppers.”

Comments(25)

G0Rf says...
11:48am Tue 4 Sep 12

Shame west quay resturants close so early....would be good if they were open in the evening!

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peachy7 says...
11:54am Tue 4 Sep 12

I just logged in to post a similar comment, are they going to re-think this? Are there ways of just opening the food court like many shopping centres do?

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bigfella777 says...
12:23pm Tue 4 Sep 12

G0Rf wrote:
Shame west quay resturants close so early....would be good if they were open in the evening!
West Quay is open until 9 every night

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andysaints007 says...
12:32pm Tue 4 Sep 12

bigfella777 wrote:
G0Rf wrote:
Shame west quay resturants close so early....would be good if they were open in the evening!
West Quay is open until 9 every night
..and what is your point?

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hulla baloo says...
12:49pm Tue 4 Sep 12

bigfella777 wrote:
G0Rf wrote:
Shame west quay resturants close so early....would be good if they were open in the evening!
West Quay is open until 9 every night
Would you really want an evening meal, or romantic date there?

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Higginz says...
1:28pm Tue 4 Sep 12

That upstairs bit of West Quay is hell on Earth during lunchtime.

Another boring moany comment is that I'd prefer to see some independant restaurants in West Quay, as opposed to more and more regurgitated I-could-be-in-anywhe
re cack.

AND, something about Millbrook.

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userds5050 says...
1:45pm Tue 4 Sep 12

Cafe Rouge is hardly a brand. They had a branch in below bar a while back which shut so it's not really a first either.

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elvisimo says...
1:46pm Tue 4 Sep 12

Higginz wrote:
That upstairs bit of West Quay is hell on Earth during lunchtime. Another boring moany comment is that I'd prefer to see some independant restaurants in West Quay, as opposed to more and more regurgitated I-could-be-in-anywhe re cack. AND, something about Millbrook.
Dont think Wagamammas can be described as cack - although the same can probably not be said for Cafe Rouge.

You will not get independant operators in prime shopping centres - ball park £650k fit out cost, £25 psf rent and at a guess about £7 psf service charge plus rates bill.

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BenjiWinsor says...
2:51pm Tue 4 Sep 12

Really need to open later in the evenings for evening meals out. I wouldn't want to start a meal knowing I would feel rushed so 9pm closing is rubbish.

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miltonarcher says...
2:54pm Tue 4 Sep 12

Go to Oxford street, Southampton for some decent places to eat in the evening.

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Higginz says...
3:06pm Tue 4 Sep 12

elvisimo wrote:
Higginz wrote: That upstairs bit of West Quay is hell on Earth during lunchtime. Another boring moany comment is that I'd prefer to see some independant restaurants in West Quay, as opposed to more and more regurgitated I-could-be-in-anywhe re cack. AND, something about Millbrook.
Dont think Wagamammas can be described as cack - although the same can probably not be said for Cafe Rouge. You will not get independant operators in prime shopping centres - ball park £650k fit out cost, £25 psf rent and at a guess about £7 psf service charge plus rates bill.
That's a fair point. Only chains with some wedge behind them can even think about getting in to such prime locations. Hence why every it seems all the shopping centres look like replicas of each other.

I like Prezzo, the Golden Wok Chinese takeaway in Chandler's Ford and the Blue Haze restaurant near Romsey. To name but a small selection.

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Ted Rogers says...
4:23pm Tue 4 Sep 12

A French name doesn't mean it's "the taste of France" that's like saying bella italia is 'the taste of Italy'
Another awful chain restaurant that will be staffed by authentic French/eastern European personnel.
If you want a really authentic quality French meal go to La Place in Winchester or La Parisienne in Romsey.
West Quay iis a hole so this restaurant will fit nicely.

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Huffter says...
5:51pm Tue 4 Sep 12

Shouldn't it be Café, not Cafe?

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andysaints007 says...
7:51pm Tue 4 Sep 12

Huffter wrote:
Shouldn't it be Café, not Cafe?
Shouldn't you get a life?

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wilson castaway says...
8:29pm Tue 4 Sep 12

Are they going to sort out the crazy lifts which make you visit the carpark, lower shopping, upper shopping, carpark again,then finally the food terrace.By the time I get out I feel sick and dont feel like eating anything!

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sass says...
9:19pm Tue 4 Sep 12

andysaints007 wrote:
Huffter wrote: Shouldn't it be Café, not Cafe?
Shouldn't you get a life?
Why, because you are an illiterate oik?

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G0Rf says...
9:43pm Tue 4 Sep 12

While we are on the subject of the lifts there isn't enough lifts for wheelchair / pushchair users as the lifts seem to be full of able bodied lazy gits

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G0Rf says...
9:43pm Tue 4 Sep 12

While we are on the subject of the lifts there isn't enough lifts for wheelchair / pushchair users as the lifts seem to be full of able bodied lazy gits

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Scrutinizer says...
11:14pm Tue 4 Sep 12

Personally, I'd like to see more authentic, decent French restaurants and Cafés open over here. It just happens to be more my scene. Whether 'Cafe (Café?!) Rouge' is of that kind of quality and whether W.Q. is the place to locate it, well, that's another matter! As someone else commented previously, just because it has a 'French' name etc...

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andysaints007 says...
11:27pm Tue 4 Sep 12

sass wrote:
andysaints007 wrote:
Huffter wrote: Shouldn't it be Café, not Cafe?
Shouldn't you get a life?
Why, because you are an illiterate oik?
I wasn't talking to you d*ckhead

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wilson castaway says...
10:46am Wed 5 Sep 12

G0Rf wrote:
While we are on the subject of the lifts there isn't enough lifts for wheelchair / pushchair users as the lifts seem to be full of able bodied lazy gits
Very true, and people who totally ignore the fact you have waited patiently to use a lift and just barge right in.Total ignorance.

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Scrutinizer says...
5:29pm Wed 5 Sep 12

wilson castaway wrote:
G0Rf wrote: While we are on the subject of the lifts there isn't enough lifts for wheelchair / pushchair users as the lifts seem to be full of able bodied lazy gits
Very true, and people who totally ignore the fact you have waited patiently to use a lift and just barge right in.Total ignorance.
Yes, and so much for the famous, traditional British reputation for queuing, eh?! You know, I've always considered London, without question t-h-e rudest place in the country. Now, it's increasingly becoming obvious that the so-called 'provinces' - my hometown of Southampton included - are fast catching up!

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andysaints007 says...
6:04pm Wed 5 Sep 12

Scrutinizer wrote:
wilson castaway wrote:
G0Rf wrote: While we are on the subject of the lifts there isn't enough lifts for wheelchair / pushchair users as the lifts seem to be full of able bodied lazy gits
Very true, and people who totally ignore the fact you have waited patiently to use a lift and just barge right in.Total ignorance.
Yes, and so much for the famous, traditional British reputation for queuing, eh?! You know, I've always considered London, without question t-h-e rudest place in the country. Now, it's increasingly becoming obvious that the so-called 'provinces' - my hometown of Southampton included - are fast catching up!
That might have something to do with the fact that most people here don't actually come from here !

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kingnotail says...
3:19pm Wed 12 Sep 12

What's the point in putting it in westquay when this means it will shut at some ridiculously early hour like 8pm?

Southampton - surely the only city in the UK where the only Nando's shuts at 7.30pm!

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kingnotail says...
3:22pm Wed 12 Sep 12

Whoop-de-doo, Wagamama's and Cafe Rouge. Two out of the literally dozens of chain restaurants missing from Southampton.

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