Granita | |
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Restaurant information | |
Established | 1990s |
Closed | 2003 |
Previous owner(s) | Hüseyin Özer |
Food type | |
Street address | 127 Upper Street |
City | Islington, London |
Country | England, United Kingdom |
Coordinates | 51°32′20″N 0°06′09″W / 51.5388°N 0.1025°W |
Granita was a restaurant at number 127 Upper Street in Islington. [1] [2] It was founded in the early 1990s by Vicky Leffman. Its decor was bright and light with a Scandinavian style of pale wood. [3] Its cuisine was modern British, fusing classic dishes such as mussels with exotic ingredients such as lemongrass. [4]
It was the setting for the Blair–Brown deal between the then- Shadow Home Secretary, Tony Blair, and the then- Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, in 1994. [5] [6]
The restaurant was sold to Hüseyin Özer's Sofra group in 2002 but then closed in 2003, being replaced by a Tex-Mex restaurant called Desperados. [1] [2] [7] [8] When Desperados moved to number 67 in 2013, the premises was then converted to become an estate agent. [9]