Ganguly follows Tendulkar into restaurant business

Sourav Ganguly is taking a leaf out of Sachin Tendulkar's entrepreneurial book. He is all set to open a multi-storey restaurant in Kolkata. "Sourav's" will combine formal and informal dining and is scheduled to come up in Park Lane, one of the most posh addresses in the city.

Apart from lending his name to the venture, Ganguly has taken a keen interest in the design, the menu, and in the recruitment of staff, reports the news agency IANS. However, it is believed that Ganguly does not own a stake in the project.

The new four-storey restaurant will have a coffee shop on the ground floor, a vegetarian restaurant on the first floor, a non-vegetarian multi-cuisine restaurant on the second floor and a sports lounge bar on the top floor. The promoters hope it will be up and running by October.

The cricket theme runs right through, with the coffee shop being named Garden of Eden, after Kolkata's famous Eden Gardens stadium, and the lounge bar being called The Prince of Kolkata, which is of course Ganguly's sobriquet.