Noodle bar Chopstix to open in Bluewater

25th January 2010, 2:59pm

Noodle bar concept Chopstix is to open an outlet in Bluewater shopping centre as part of a strategy to double their portfolio over the next two years.

The operator has secured a 1,100 sq ft site in the centre's food court next to KFC and McDonald's through leisure property agent Davis Coffer Lyons.

The group currently operates 17 sites under its different brands Chopstix, Wok in a Box, Oodle Noodle, New Organic Noodle Concept and Noodle Stop in London, Leicester, Glasgow, and Norwich. It is also understood to have secured sites in Portsmouth, Edinburgh, Belfast, Glasgow and Slough.

Brandon Elmon, agency director at Davis Coffer Lyons, said: "Chopstix has some highly prominent high street sites in their group ranging from London's Oxford Street, Leicester Square and the London Eye, right into the provinces and up to Glasgow with Edinburgh and Belfast under contract. Bluewater will provide a great stepping stone for further expansion into shopping centre environments and we have three other sites in solicitors' hands."