TWO more restaurants have signed up to become part of Southampton’s new £80 million leisure complex.

Cosmo and CAU are the latest names to sign up at WestQuay Watermark, bringing the number of confirmed restaurants at the site to ten.

Click here to find out which other restaurants will be part of the development.

As well as the restaurants the new development will boast a new public plaza which will run alongside the medieval city walls, a Showcase Cinema de Lux and is expected to create 1,300 jobs.

Cosmo serves up to 150 dishes from across the globe at its restaurants and diners at its WestQuay Watermark outlet will be able to watch their food being prepared at “live cooking stations”.

The chain, which now has 17 restaurants up and down the country, will take on an 11,700 sq ft unit on the level above the upper promenade.

And CAU, which stands for Carne Argentina Unica, will bring some of the flavours of the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires to diners in Southampton city centre.

The 3,152 sq ft restaurant on the lower promenade will offer an Argentinian menu specialising in steaks, burgers and smaller plates.

Hammerson’s head of restaurants and leisure Sarah Fox said: “We are delighted that Cosmo and CAU have chosen to debut at WestQuay Watermark in Southampton.

“Both restaurants offer customers a new and exciting dining experience and are great additions to the diverse line-up of restaurants that will be on offer at the city’s new dining and leisure hub.”

A spokesman for Cosmo said: “We are very excited about this project and look forward to welcoming local residents into our restaurant and introducing them to the very best that Cosmo has to offer.”

A spokesman for CAU added: “Having already established a successful site in The Oracle, Reading with Hammerson we’re delighted to be working with them on this project.”

Hammerson recently hosted an event for local children to create artwork for hoardings at the new development.

More than 30 children from the South took part in the session, which was hosted by local group Crafty Carrots and used paint and paper to come up with fantastical designs for the hoardings that included spaceships, dinosaurs and superheroes.

Jon Brookes, community manager at Hammerson, said: “It was a fantastic event and good to see so many children getting involved.

"There were so many great pieces of artwork, we will have a hard job choosing which will feature on one of WestQuay Watermark’s hoardings panels."

He added: “Events such as this provide the perfect opportunity for the local community to come together in one place and learn more about the progress of the development. And with the scheme set to become the city’s new leisure hub, we want to ensure we’re getting the local Southampton community excited about its arrival.”