{{Short description|Restaurant in the UK}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox restaurant | name = Za Za Bazaar | logo = Zazabazaar.com logo.jpg | logo_width = 150px | image = Za Za Bazaar Bristol.jpg | established = November 2011 | head_chef = Nitin Bhatnagar | city = Bristol | website = {{URL|zazabazaar.com}} | country = United Kingdom }}
'''Za Za Bazaar World Banquet & Bar''' is a buffet restaurant in Bristol, England.
The restaurant, in Bristol's Harbourside area, opened just before Christmas in 2011. Its construction lasted thirteen weeks, and cost £3 million.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bristolbites.co.uk/2011/12/04/za-za-bazaar-review/|title=Za Za Bazaar: Review|date=4 December 2011|website=Bristol Bites|access-date=31 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/nov/30/britains-biggest-restaurant-opens|title=One thousand diners: Britain's biggest restaurant opens|last=Morris|first=Steven|date=30 November 2011|work=The Guardian|access-date=31 July 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> It was billed as the largest restaurant in the United Kingdom, and seats 1,000 people, eclipsing Croydon's Cosmo restaurant in size, which seats 800.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://visitbristol.co.uk/food-and-drink/za-za-bazaar-p1292553|title=Za Za Bazaar - Bristol|website=Visit Bristol|language=en-GB|access-date=31 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/restaurants/8973383/Za-Za-Bazaar-Bristol-restaurant-review.html|title=Za Za Bazaar, Bristol, restaurant review|work=The Telegraph|last=Norman|first=Matthew|date=2 December 2011|access-date=31 July 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}</ref>
It was established with the plan to open another seven "super restaurants" across the United Kingdom, in an investment of £10m, that was rumoured to create 1,000 jobs in eighteen months. However, the expansion did not materialise, and a planned restaurant in Norwich has yet to be built. The food is split into the main categories of Far East, Tex Mex, European and Indian.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/jan/27/za-za-bazaar-bristol-restaurant|title=Restaurant review: Za Za Bazaar, Bristol {{!}} John Lanchester|last=Lanchester|first=John|date=27 January 2012|work=The Guardian|access-date=31 July 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
A second restaurant, situated in Newcastle City Centre, permanently closed in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/18598908.newcastles-za-za-bazaar-permanently-close-due-coronavirus/|title=Newcastle's Za Za Bazaar to permanently close due to coronavirus|work=The Northern Echo|last=Scott|first=Jim|date=22 July 2020|access-date=29 April 2021}}</ref>
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== External links == * [https://twitter.com/ZaZaBazaar Za Za Bazaar] on Twitter
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Category:Restaurants established in 2011 Category:Buffet restaurants Category:Restaurants in England Category:2011 establishments in England