{"id":27083,"date":"2018-08-06T10:24:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T09:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=27083"},"modified":"2018-08-06T10:24:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T09:24:20","slug":"tea-room-and-patisserie-to-be-opened-in-grand-central-by-a-great-british-bake-off-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/06\/tea-room-and-patisserie-to-be-opened-in-grand-central-by-a-great-british-bake-off-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea room and patisserie to be opened in Grand Central by a Great British Bake Off star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A\u00a0Great British Bake Off\u00a0contestant is introducing a new tearoom and patisserie in Grand Central shopping <\/strong>centre<strong>, Birmingham City Centre, the shop will open at noon on Monday, August 6.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cocoa by Ali has been founded by\u00a0Ali Imdad, who starred in the 2013 series of the hit show and then the Christmas special. The business is owned by Safraaz Mukadam \u2018working in collaboration with Ali Imdad\u2019 and will be based in\u00a0Grand Central\u2019s\u00a0long-closed former Francesca unit, next door to\u00a0Yakinor\u00a0i.<\/p>\n<p>Following getting through to Great British Bake Off series, Ali, who is from\u00a0Saltley, set up the Artisan dessert parlour on the Ladypool Road in\u00a0Sparkhill.<\/p>\n<p>Around two years ago he opened a pop-up chocolate patisserie in the Bullring that ran for six weeks nearby to Debenhams and Caff\u00e8 Nero.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy new cafe will have tables and chairs for people to grab a cake or tart with a coffee and relax in peace,\u201d says Ali.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe overall look has a feminine charm, inspired by 1920s\u2019 Art Deco as well as the British Summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe menu will be high-end pastry, tarts, cakes, mousses, macarons and eclairs, all baked in-house.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom double chocolate hazelnut brownie bars, to yuzu meringue pie, as well as Ruby chocolate tarts!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will also have our afternoon tea that was a sell-out success in the pop-up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt \u00a319.95 per person, you will get a selection of sandwiches (halal, vegetarian options available), homemade scones, selections of jams and clotted cream, and our speciality petit fours that look divine and taste even better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cocoa by Ali will also serve a selection of savoury dishes including filled bagels, hot deep-filled pies and Japanese-style sandwiches as well as taking orders for wedding cake and celebration cake orders too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0Great British Bake Off\u00a0contestant is introducing a new tearoom and patisserie in Grand Central shopping centre, Birmingham City Centre, the shop will open at noon on Monday, August 6. Cocoa by Ali has been founded by\u00a0Ali Imdad, who starred in the 2013 series of the hit show and then the Christmas special. The business is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1225,"featured_media":27084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,48,53,37],"tags":[1370,1369,466,1368,1371],"class_list":["post-27083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-food","category-latest","category-local-news","tag-ali-imdad","tag-cocoa","tag-grand-central","tag-great-british-bake-off","tag-tea-room-and-patisserie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}