A popular Westhoughton café has been temporarily closed as owners work their magic to transform the space and open a restaurant in the evenings – offering people ‘something unique’.

Provenance Food Hall, Café and Tea Rooms has closed its café for four weeks as it undergoes  a refurbishment including opening a new restaurant and launching a new menu – Home at Provenance.

Owner, Paul Rogers, has taken inspiration from his business Home at Buckshaw Village for to open a new restaurant in the evenings.

Paul said he is excited to bring something new to the area.

He said: “We are not having a heavy refurbishment but there will be a changed look and feel and a whole new menu.

“What it is going to be is a variation of our Home restaurant in Buckshaw Village, where we will start to offer some very modern brunch dishes and we will also be opening up in the evening for what we call our small plate style dishes which is a sharing concept.

“As an alternative we will also be offering what we call a butcher's block, and that is the special part because this is where our guests can go to the butcher's counter and choose what meat they want, and they get sides to go with it.

“So instead of a conventional steak menu, you can go to the butcher's counter and say exactly what meat you want.

Food currently on the menu at Home at Buckshaw Village to also be sold at Home at ProvenanceFood currently on the menu at Home at Buckshaw Village to also be sold at Home at Provenance (Image: Paul Rogers)“We will then ask customers how they want it to be cooked and then that goes into the kitchen where we have got an Inka Oven, this is where meats are cooked with charcoal at about 450 degrees.

“We are also going to be bringing afternoon tea into the venue as well and we will be using produce from inside Provenance such as the meats, the desserts from Harwoods Patisserie, breads from Hive Bakehouse and the vegetables we sell in the food hall too.

“Sundays will be all about Sunday roasts, so we will open in the morning and do brunches and then we will go through into the family sharing Sunday roasts, and it really is quite something.

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“As well as the added menus, we also have a private dining room now, we have got a room that provides private dining for 16 guests, and it has a beautiful table that we have had custom built.

“We also have a wine cave being created.

" We have gone into partnership with a start-up business called Norvines Wine Merchant, and they are creating a wine cave experience for our customers.

“The actual style of the restaurant is going to be very earthy with live-in-wall pictures that will go around the room, these are pictures made of plants and all the plants are alive and it creates a 3D effect.

“I am trying to create an outside feel on the inside of the restaurant because it is so beautifully lit up with all the windows, so it will be very earthy.

Afternoon teaAfternoon tea (Image: Paul Rogers) “We have a fantastic butcher shop downstairs, and I am just trying to reflect that outside farm feel, greenery and very relaxed, into the upstairs of Provenance.

“We will have palm trees and lots of living plants growing upstairs as well.

“This is all based around our existing business, Home at Buckshaw Village, so I am taking that as a brand which is really loved in Chorley, and I feel like I can bring Home to Westhoughton, and we can have it in Provenance.

“We haven’t had the restaurant open up in the evenings for a considerable number of years now pre-Covid and it has only ever been a café operation with teas, coffees and light meals – so we decided to bring Home to Westhoughton and open Home at Provenance.”

Paul said Westhoughton is a great place to open a business and invest.

He said: “There are lots of various eateries in Westhoughton and I just think that Home will bring something that is totally different.

“The growth that we are seeing in Westhoughton as a Manchester overspill now, we are seeing the area really becoming a quality place to live, you look at the quality high street, not just its look and feel, but you can see the artisan and the investments people are putting in there.

“I think we are adding a level of quality too that will bring people in.

“I am super excited about it because Westhoughton has been transformational over the past few years, there are great roots there and a great mix of business.

“We aim to get Provenance the number one place in the whole area.”

There will be tables upstairs and downstairs in Provenance with a capacity of 55 people upstairs and 10 downstairs.

Paul said he is hoping to open the new restaurant Tuesday to Sunday, opening each day at 10am.

Tuesday to Thursday it will be open 10am to 5pm, Friday and Saturday 10am to 10pm and Sunday timings to be confirmed.

The restaurant will open as part of a soft opening launch in four weeks’ time – the food hall will remain open throughout the transformation.

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