Restaurant planned for Aberdeen’s Amadeus
Former nightclub set for makeover
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A FORMER Aberdeen nightspot today looked set to be transformed into one of the biggest restaurants in the region.
The £7 million Amadeus nightclub, at Aberdeen’s Queens Links beach leisure complex, has lain empty for more than six years.
But the vast 25,000sq ft former Amadeus building could now become a huge Chinese buffet restaurant.
Amadeus closed its doors in Aberdeen in 2003 and has been branded an eyesore.
Over the years Amadeus has been pinpointed as a potential spot for various business ventures in Aberdeen including a casino.
X Leisure bought the entire Aberdeen Queens Links site in 2005 and announced plans to turn it into a new gambling haven.
But chief executive of X Leisure, Frenchman PY Gerbeau, the man who transformed the fortunes of Disneyland Paris, said there had not been enough interest in the Aberdeen site from companies.
Today an X Leisure spokeswoman said the new business plan could be finalised within months.
She said: “We have leased out the Amadeus building to a company called Balman TT Ltd, which is based in Aberdeen.
“The company is to open a Chinese buffet restaurant.
“The plans will hopefully be finalised by the end of the year and I think the company ought to be on site by February.”
Aberdeen’s beach site already includes several popular restaurant chains, such as Pizza Hut, TGI Friday’s and Frankie And Benny’s.
Another Chinese buffet chain, Jimmy Chung’s, also has a restaurant at Aberdeen beach.
And Dons director Willie Miller recently opened new fish restaurant Skippers on the Queens Links site.
