India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly is planning to do a Sachin Tendulkar. Like the Mumbai batting ace, he is entering the hospitality business.
Ganguly plans to start a multi-cuisine restaurant by October in Kolkata which will be called Sourav's.
The restaurant will be a luxurious affair, catering to the palates of every gourmand. The site has been finalized, chefs and staff have been enrolled and work on interiors is on.
Sourav's will house four outlets. On the ground floor will be the 'Garden of Eden', a resplendent coffee shop that will have cricket as its theme. Various articles, belonging to members of the Indian cricket team, will be utilized to add to the décor of the coffee shop. Its windowpanes are to be embossed with Ganguly's signature.
On the first and second floors will be a vegetarian and non-vegetarian restaurant respectively, while the top floor will house a sports lounge bar that will be called the 'Prince of Calcutta'.
Ganguly, who is busy shooting for commercials these days, says he is only lending his name to the venture and doesn't have any investment in it. But sources close to him disagree.
