Ronnies cocktail bar, which opened on Ramsgate seafront in December 2022, is moving to a new home at the former Modern Boulangerie site in Harbour Street.
Ronnies, run by Thanet businesswoman Charlotte Silver, has outgrown its current premises due to success of events such as its bottomless brunches.
Charlotte, 26, aims to combine the glitzy bar and her Silver Slipper dance school businesses at the site. The cocktail and events bar will be on the main floor, the dance studio at basement level and costume storage on the upper floor.
She said: “Ronnie’s has been at the harbour for about two and a half years and we have outgrown {the property}.We could sell all our events twice over.
“The new place is huge and will become Silvers Show Bar, although we will keep the Ronnies branding for a while.
“Downstairs will be the dance school with the costumes upstairs and it will be the hub for everything we do.
“There is quite a lot of work to do but it will, of course, have sparkle and the signature colours of black and silver. We will be having the disco party toilets and each cubicle will have a different theme, such as Barbie and the neon chat up lines.
“There will be the bottomless brunches that we are known for and I want to do themed nights, live entertainment and all the events that we have been smashing at Ronnie’s but where we could only have 30 people we will now be able to have over 100.”
The success of Ronnies means Charlotte is able to invest in the Harbour Street site which had been The Modern Boulangerie between 2022 and 2024. Prior to that it was an indoor market until that shut in 2014.
In 2023 Charlotte won the Young Businesswoman of the Year title at the Kent Women in Business Awards.
She has headed up her own businesses since the age of 18 when she inherited money and invested it by opening Silver Slipper dance school.
Now she will celebrate bringing them all under one roof with the opening of Silvers Show Bar/Ronnies on March 28.
The launch event will have themed bottomless brunches and music from band The Accidents.
Charlotte said: “It’s a great space, I’m very excited.”
The property, previously known as Celandine Hall, offers 7,400sq ft of space.
It has a history of trade from a toy shop in the first half of the 1800s to a drapers and gentleman’s outfitters in the latter half of the century before being annexed by the growth of the Hyland, Lewis and Linon department store.
During this era the building had significant alterations and sometime after 1929 the shop front was unified and remains as found today.
It eventually became an indoor market, closing in 2014, and was The Modern Boulangerie from 2022 until that business closed in August last year.
I wish it every success
Great that this site has a good new use. The old Celandine Hall always looked very tatty and run down so good it’s got an upmarket use. Fingers crossed it’s a success.
I bet you can’t get a pint of Gadds number 5 like in my local The Artillery Arms?
I think I will pass.
ovelling oat does gadds, just round the corner. Good ar i m told
Any real ale,cask or keg?
Thats very good news. Local knowledge, Success will happen.
It was also The Haberdashery Shop for years. Now moved to King Street and still my favourite shop.
Thank goodness for this enterprising lady – fantastic to see this huge space used again so quickly! Here’s hoping it’s very successful.
Fantastic lady , independent business woman, always brightens up a venue