Big Mamma Group are known across London for their OTT Italian restaurants; Gloria, Carlotta, Circolo Popolare, Ave Mario and Jacuzzi – pictured above.
They’re now set to launch the UK's very first non-London restaurant, with the trattoria-inspired La Bellezza set for Birmingham.
There's no official opening date yet, but it'll be joining the group’s 26 other spots across Europe, and no doubt look absolutely ravishing while doing so. It’ll be just as roomy as the London restaurants, with room for 100 guests inside and 25 out on the terrace, and will be found in the city centre’s Paradise development, joining Dishoom, Albert’s Schloss, and Rosa’s Thai Café.
Speaking about their move to the Midlands, Big Mamma co-founders Victor Lugger and Tigrane Seydoux commented: ‘We are hugely excited to be coming to Birmingham, not only to be part of its incredibly vibrant restaurant community but to also bring our superb Italian products, which we spent three years personally sourcing from small family-run artisans, to another major European city.’
Big Mamma opened its first restaurant in 2013 in Paris, before moving to London in 2019 and launching Gloria in Shoreditch.
Expect La Bellezza to follow in the footsteps of Gloria and its ilk, with viral dishes such as pasta swirled around in a giant wheel of cheese as well as outre interiors and the vague feeling that Sophia Loren might sashay through the doors at any moment.