A NEW restaurant and bar is opening in Malvern today.

The Water Cure, in the former Natwest building at the bottom of Church Street, is opening today (December 11).

The venue will run initially as a coffee shop with snacks served Tuesday to Sunday from 10am until 5pm, becoming a vegetarian restaurant and cocktail bar in the future.

Over the last three years, business owner Lottie Clarke, 31, has led the family project in renovating the 1931 building into a stylish pub-alternative.

The restaurant menu will offer a range of vegan and vegetarian dishes with possibly a strong middle eastern influence. “We need to find our feet a bit and see what everyone wants," Miss Clarke said.

Once the bar is up and running, visitors can expect to find a curated menu of cocktails named after famous people who historically visited Malvern for its alleged water cure, such as Florence Nightingale and Jenny Lind.

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The venue is licensed until 11pm and there are future plans for live music evenings. There is also a function room upstairs that will be available for private hire and parties.

Dog friendly and open late for Christmas Shopping every Wednesday evening, local traders and British manufacturers have been used in an effort to make ethical choices.

Quality features from the original building have been restored including an original marble stone floor that had been concreted over.

Complete with a faux-plant fringed coving, giant water-drop centre-piece light feature and a biodiversity garden, the venue has a fresh and glamorous feel.

The high-ceilinged restaurant is strewn with plush olive-green velvet chairs to match the hand-made Moroccan-tiled bar and seats sixty covers that will be measured to comply with social distancing rules.