A Korean barbecue restaurant in Reading town centre has launched a bid to sell alcohol and host music events.<\/p>\n
The AKA Korean BBQ Station opened in St Mary\u2019s Butts in December 2023.<\/p>\n
Since then, it has been trading from 12pm to 11pm each day, and is known for serving up barbecued meats, a variety of noodle dishes, sushi, Korean rolls, and traditional curries to diners.<\/p>\n
Customers can even cook their meat themselves using hot plates provided on their tables.<\/p>\n
The owners have recently applied to host live music, play recorded music, sell alcohol and keep on selling food until 2.30am on weekends.<\/p>\n
They have done this in a licensing application to Reading Borough Council.<\/p>\n
The application states the owners have applied for these activities from 11am to 2.30am on Friday and Saturday, until 1am on Thursdays, and until midnight Sunday to Wednesday.<\/p>\n
A statutory consultation into the application has been launched.<\/p>\n
You can respond to the consultation by emailing licensing@reading.gov.uk. The deadline for responses is Sunday, November 2.<\/p>\n
The AKA BBQ Station took over from the short-lived Smokin\u2019 Buns and Saucy Chicks restaurant, which lasted just months before closing in January 2022.<\/p>\n
Prior to that, the building was occupied by Pizza Express, which was there for more than 10 years.<\/p>\n
Pizza Express permanently closed the restaurant in St Mary\u2019s Butts in September 2020, but retains its location at The Oracle Riverside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Korean barbecue restaurant in Reading town centre has launched a bid to sell alcohol and host music…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-17081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}