First look inside Pyramid as £15m eatery set to open

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- BY ADAM MAIDMENT

DESPITE having not officially opened its doors to the public yet, close to 10,000 people have already visited the Stockport Pyramid in just the past two weeks alone.

The institution has been taken over by the Royal Nawaab with a ground floor restaurant and two events suites all catering to a combined total of 1,500 diners.

Open as part of a soft launch phase for customers, the restaurant has clearly already gone down a hit with loyal Nawaab fans and those wanting to experience the iconic big blue pyramid for themselves.

Many, including ourselves, have managed to give it a try during its ongoing soft launch but there's still plenty that hasn't been seen by everyone just yet. In fact, demand has been so high for the opening few days of the restaurant that the team are now jokingly referring to it as a hard launch instead.

"The plan was to have a soft launch," customer relations manager Mohsin explained at a media event on Tuesday (April 29) unveiling the sheer scope of the pyramid. "But then everybody found out. As Mike Tyson once said, everyone has a plan until they get hit in the face."

Up to 900 skips were used to remove every scrap and fitting - including hundreds of computers from its previous Co-operative Bank space, which took up vacancy on the site from 1995 to 2018 when the HQ moved into the NOMA neighbourhood in Manchester.

Now featuring luxurious stylings and ornate fittings, the restaurant has cost a reported £15m to realise and every effort can be seen from the moment diners walk in - with extravagant chandeliers and impressive water fountains.