A new restaurant in Bolton is set to open in the coming weeks, in place of one which closed at the beginning of the year. 

Bradshaw Bar and Grill will be open for business by mid-September, serving up Mediterranean food and a cocktail bar where customers can "sit and relax". 

It  will open on the site of the former Mediterranean eatery Rokka, which closed at the end of last year.  

The restaurant was initially set to become the 'Mezze Bar and Grill', but The Bolton News reported in June that it was changed to the Bradshaw Bar and Grill. 

New signage on the exteriorNew signage on the exterior (Image: Newsquest)

Now, renovation works are coming along at the site.

The exterior signage has been changed to reflect its new name and there have been extensive changes to the interior, with works still underway. 

Owner, Lokman Gurbuz, said: "It is going really well, we are hopefully looking to open at the end of the month or in the first week of September. 

"Everything has changed inside, the bar, the walls, but it is still a work in progress. 

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Lokman Gurbuz has exciting plans for the restaurantLokman Gurbuz has exciting plans for the restaurant (Image: NQ)

"The back is going to be a cocktail bar where people can come, sit and relax. 

"It is a big bar, which will run alongside the grill. It will serve cocktails as well as the usual stuff, beer, wine, spirits." 

Mr Gurbuz was a waiter at the restaurant between 2008 and 2012, when it was called the Latino Lounge. 

He added: "It is going to be Mediterranean food, as well as Italian and English cuisine. 

The new signageThe new signage (Image: Newsquest)

"We will serve kebabs, pasta, pizza, scampi, fish and chips, and burgers for the younger generation. 

"We will also have pies, such as steak pies and chicken pies."

Before the recent activity over the summer, the restaurant had sat empty and with some of its windows boarded up for much of the year. 

It had been expected to reopen in February.