International opens second restaurant in Sticker Lane, Bradford

International is set to open a second restaurant on Sticker Lane on Thursday, December 15 as it takes over the site from the Three Singhs.

The firm has opened up at Sticker Lane after a deal worth a total of £350,000, which includes £200,000 for the renovation work.

The waiting area at the Sticker Lane restaurant (Image: Newsquest)

The new site includes space for 280 diners over two floors, a 150-space car park and features a large bar and waiting area at the front.

It features a slick black and gold colouring throughout and diners will be asked to bring their own alcohol to the site. The new site has also created 30 jobs.

The entrance into the 280-seat restaurant (Image: Newsquest)

But International confirmed that it would continue to run its existing 110-seat restaurant on Mannville Terrace, Morley Street.

Safeer Khan, International manager, says he has been amazed by the response to the new restaurant from the public.

He said: “Everybody can’t wait. We have been around for a long time.

Inside International's new restaurant on Sticker Lane (Image: Newsquest)

“Over the last four years we have just excelled and been really busy since our refurbishment. We started deliveries during Covid and over the last 18 months with no lockdowns, it’s been really busy.

“We are not big enough at Morley Street. We just decided we needed a bigger place.

“It was too good an opportunity to turn down to come to Sticker Lane.

The new restaurant features fish tanks on the ground floor (Image: Newsquest)

“People know this restaurant at Sticker Lane. Three Singhs is quite an established brand.

“To take us to the next level, it’s something that we needed.

“We want to keep both open, but we need to see in the long term how it works out for us over the next six months.

“As long as it is financially sustainable we will be keeping them both open. We will still have an International in Bradford.”

Some of the decor inside the £200,000 renovation of International on Sticker Lane (Image: Newsquest)

It will run dine-in and meal collections from Sticker Lane and deliveries and dining-in from its Morley Street restaurant.

International was first established as a family-run eatery in 1976, when Indian cuisine was a new feature to the British Isles. It reopened on Morley Street after a refurbishment in 2019.

International's original site on Morley Street in Bradford which will stay open after Sticker Lane opens (Image: Google)

It won the best dish and shared the lifetime achievement prize at the Bradford Curry Awards in July this year.

The International on Sticker Lane will be open every Sunday to Thursday between 4.40pm and 11pm and Fridays and Saturdays from 4.30pm to midnight.

For more information, call 01274 688799 or 07855 435162 or go to internationalrestaurant.co.uk

Have you got a story for us? Email newsdesk@telegraphandargus.co.uk or contact us here.

Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to keep up with all the latest news.

Sign up to our newsletter to get updates sent straight to your inbox.

You can also call us on 01274 705292.