Our experience / Mapperley, Nottingham

MOOD Steakhouse.

Steak for dinner. Steak French Toast for brunch.

At 948 Woodborough Road, Shani took a restaurant already drawing a crowd and gave people a new reason to book a table.

Sliced steak in a skillet of sauce, served with fries, onion rings and salad — MOOD’s signature Steak & Sauce.

Changing a busy restaurant.

Shani recalls welcoming around 1,000 dine-in guests in a typical week at Tamasha. He felt the concept had reached its potential and could see demand for steak growing. He chose to rebrand the Mapperley site as MOOD, keeping the open kitchen at the centre of the dining room.

See the original Tamasha and the storefront transformation →

MOOD storefront with blue awnings reading Breakfast · Coffee · Steak — The blue awnings introduce the all-day menu from the street.

The illuminated MOOD sign with the open kitchen visible through the window — The Mapperley kitchen during evening service.

Building a menu around steak.

Steak & Sauce arrived at the table sliced, in a skillet, with fries and onion rings alongside. At brunch, Steak French Toast gave the same signature ingredient a second place on the menu. Asian fusion small plates, speciality coffee and mocktails rounded out the offer.

Explore MOOD’s menu ↗

A mocktail being finished at the MOOD bar — Finishing a mocktail at the bar. Photography supplied by Shani.

Instagram and TikTok

1.2 million video views.

Shani reports 500,000 views on one Instagram Reel and 700,000 on a TikTok video.

Watch the Instagram Reel ↗ · Visit MOOD on TikTok ↗

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