Inside the dazzling new £3 million San Carlo restaurant in Alderley Edge at landmark site

The lavish new location for famed Italian restaurant San Carlo has been unveiled in Alderley Edge. Bosses have spent £3m on a spectacular transformation of the London Road site, since taking over Gino D'Acampo's short-lived Luciano restaurant earlier this year.

It is a landmark location in the Cheshire village - sitting right next to the main line train station. And many will remember the venue in the 90s and 00s as the famous Alderley Edge celebhaunt Brasingamens.

The new San Carlo has given the site its biggest ever transformation - including a raft of new palm trees planted outside. It boasts jaw-dropping interiors and a stunning new garden terrace dining room with a retractable roof at the front of the site.

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It also features a vast new marble bar that can sit 30 around it. There's also a working fireplace for "that year-round inside out feel" and bespoke artworks lining the walls.

Bosses have also invested in an entirely new kitchen as part of the phase one development to the ground floor of the building. Phase two will involve creating an upstairs private dining and event space - in previous years it had formed part of the nightclub space at Brasingamens, and more recently was the Yu Chinese restaurant.

The new interiors have been inspired by Grand Milanese villas and gardens, creating a space that has a "captivating ambiance and a timeless sophistication".

The 164-cover restaurant includes a spacious new dining area, thanks to the relocation of the former kitchen, and a Venetian-inspired patterned terrazzo floor throughout. The terrace at the front of the building features a white interior pergola strung with Italian crystal