A NEW restaurant is set to replace an all-you-can-eat buffet in the city which has been mysteriously closed.

Grill and Flames, in Foregate Street, Worcester has closed its doors to its customers.

The shop sign on the restaurant front has been taken down, while a new logo has been placed in the window announcing the opening of a new eatery, Red Leaf World Buffet.

The sign reads “Red Leaf World Buffet coming soon to Worcester”, although it is unknown when exactly the restaurant is set to open.

Red Leaf is already an established buffet restaurant in West Bromwich, Birmingham, which serves dishes from across the world at a fixed price.

Their website states the restaurant serves English, European, Caribbean, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Mexican and Thai dishes.

The Facebook page to Grill and Flames, formerly known as Flames World Buffet and Saffron Quarter, has been removed.

The restaurant offered a self-service where customers would go up to the counter and help themselves to an unlimited amount of food at a set price.

A variety of cuisines from around the world were on offer, such as Chinese, Indian, Italian, Mexican, Thai and British food.

The buffet restaurant also provided live cooking stations made to order by chefs.

The eatery, which received a Good 4-star food hygiene rating at its latest inspection on October 24 last year, hit the news after the chef manager, Pramod Tirunagri, claimed he was a victim of a blackmail attempt.

Jim Janes was hired by Grill and Flames to remove all the scrap metal from the cellar as the restaurant was facing refurbishment.

During the removal process, Mr Janes posted a video on Facebook of the inside of Grill and Flames which suggested that the restaurant was unhygienic.

Mr Tirunagri told the Worcester News that Mr Janes wanted £1,000 to take the video down, despite it already being all over social media.

A spokesman for the Worcestershire Regulatory Services said: “The environmental health food safety manager has visited the premises and is satisfied there is no food safety risk.

“The video posted on Facebook shows several parts of the building where no food is prepared or stored.”

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