As of 17:00 hrs yesterday the doors of the new Gravity Lounge restaurant, situated on the top floor of the new towering store at the corner of Regent and Camp streets, was due to open its doors to the public.
On Wednesday evening, Acting Tourism Minister Irfaan Ali hailed the investment by the local company United Investment Trading, which he said could blaze a trail for “fine dining” in Guyana and open new doors to the country’s tourism industry.
When Stabroek Business spoke with the store’s Operations Director Clairmonte Cummings in October last year, the facility was in the process of opening its doors to the public and, according to Cummings, the creation of the Gravity Lounge was well underway. The evidence of Wednesday evening’s gala opening suggested that the facility was well worth the wait. In the opinion of the acting Tourism Minister, Gravity would probably match in elegance any comparable facility in the region and the more than 150 guests were evidently impressed with the new facility.
In the few minutes Cummings took to talk with the Stabroek Business on Wednesday he told us that the Gravity Restaurant could accommodate in excess of 400 guests.
The 25-year-old is an International Business Graduate of the Florida International University and the most senior executive of what is arguably the country’s single largest department store. The five-storey edifice which stands on 60,000 square feet of real estate at the south-eastern corner of Camp and Regent streets houses three stores that were once separate business houses – Essential Shopping Complex, Footsteps and Home and Beyond. Inside the same space there is a café called Upper Crust, a pharmacy, a Western Union outlet, a Chester Fried franchise and a facility that offers cellular phones and accessories. As of yesterday it became a centrepiece of the hospitality sub-sector.
