{"id":193,"date":"2007-12-18T08:34:47","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T08:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/las-iguanas-to-open-at-lakeside\/"},"modified":"2007-12-18T08:34:47","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T08:34:47","slug":"las-iguanas-to-open-at-lakeside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/las-iguanas-to-open-at-lakeside\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Iguanas To Open At Lakeside"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blame it on Rio\u2026<\/p>\n

Las Iguanas gets into the carnival spirit at Lakeside<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Latin American restaurant group Las Iguanas will be creating its own carnival spectacle when it opens on February 1 at the Boardwalk at Lakeside \u2013 the same weekend as the Rio Carnival.<\/p>\n

Guests will be invited to the VIP opening party to experience Las Iguanas\u2019 famous hospitality and enjoy carnival-style entertainment from live bands and dancers.<\/p>\n

The Boardwalk is the social quarter of the massive Lakeside shopping complex. It\u2019s home to a state of the art Vue cinema and an array of renowned restaurants, each with large alfresco terraces enticing Lakeside customers into the great outdoors.<\/p>\n

Las Iguanas\u2019 director Ajith Jaya Wickrema says:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“This current development phase at Lakeside is definitely the place to be. It offers visitors a great choice of quality food in a striking, people-orientated environment – and promises to deliver an impressive footfall from the huge catchment area of south east London, Essex and Kent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur restaurant offers two floors of dining and lounge seating and has a beautiful piazza overlooking the lake. We look forward to livening up the Boardwalk with a delicious and dynamic drinking and dining experience and a great carnival atmosphere all year round,\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The restaurant and bar serve up freshly-prepared, authentic Latin American food and drink with a contemporary twist. The Latin food that we know today dates right back to the 16th Century, a fusion of native Latin American Indian, Spanish, Portuguese and African influences. Las Iguanas\u2019 signature dish, Xinxim Brasilian lime chicken, is the best example of this fusion, bringing together Latin, African and Portuguese flavours to create something really special.<\/p>\n

At the bar \u2013 called the \u2018Cacha\u00e7aria\u2019 \u2013 enjoy some of the finest Latin spirits, including Las Iguanas Magnifica Cacha\u00e7a distilled at the group\u2019s own sugar cane plantation outside Rio de Janeiro. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The 760 square metre site has 306 covers. Interior designers Fusion DNA will be embellishing the interior with Copacabana beach-style mosaic flooring, a feature staircase with a Rio backdrop and a timber raft that emerges from the downstairs bar, wraps up above the staircase and finishes behind the first floor bar, thereby enhancing the connection between the two levels and the natural flow of the building.<\/p>\n

Add intoxicating Latin rhythms, the rich colour palette of the southern hemisphere and authentic, exotic fixtures and fittings and you\u2019ve got a measure of Las Iguanas\u2019 style.<\/p>\n

The restaurant opens to the public on February 2.
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Blame it on Rio\u2026 Las Iguanas gets into the carnival spirit at Lakeside Latin American restaurant group Las Iguanas will be creating its own carnival spectacle when it opens on February 1 at the Boardwalk at Lakeside \u2013 the same weekend as the Rio Carnival. Guests will be invited to the VIP opening party to read more …<\/span><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}