Matt & alex crowther to open new greek restaurant in royal leamington spa

The owners of a Warwickshire pub chain are set to open a Greek restaurant in Leamington town centre.

Taverna Meraki will be the latest venture of Matt and Alex Crowther, owner of Pug Pubs Limited which operates The Royal Pug, The Fat Pug, and coffee shop Procaffeinate in Leamington, The Black Pug in Warwick, and The Lazy Pug in Shipston.

The restaurant started life as a takeaway business during lockdown and will now have a permanent home on Regent Street at the 1,553 sq ft site of the former Café Rouge.

Matt Crowther said: "I'd always had ambitions of opening some sort of Greek restaurant as I'd worked there for four years and loved the food.

"When we founded our first pub, The Fat Pug in 2012, we asked our friend from Greece, Yannis, to come over and work with us at the business, with the possible idea of starting a Greek restaurant at some point. Pug Pubs did very well, but when lockdown hit, we realised our pub offering did not translate well to delivery and we needed to come up with something new.