One of Birmingham city centre’s best-known venues is spreading its wings to leafy Warwickshire.

Award-winning Jewellery Quarter restaurant Anderson’s Bar and Grill is set to open a new outlet in countryside near Henley-in-Arden.

Work has commenced on the major investment – Anderson’s at The Bulls Head, in Wootton Wawen – which was formerly known as The Bulls Head Inn.

Parts of the timber framed pub date back to the 14th Century and it is known as one of the UK’s oldest licensed premises. An official opening date has not yet been confirmed.

Ambitious plans for the new restaurant include a shellfish bar and a smoke house to enable chefs to produce the venue’s own smoked salmon and cured meats. A kitchen garden will also be used to grow the restaurant’s fresh organic produce.

The new venue will predominantly serve a steak-based menu but there are plans for some extra innovative additions to the food offering.

Andersons Bar and Grill is a favourite of Birmingham’s business community and is one of the few dedicated steak houses in the region. It opened in 2009 in the St Paul’s Square cellar premises of The Bucklemaker.

Chef director Daniel Anderson, 35, heads the operation alongside fellow directors Nick Crudgington, Simon Marsh and Richard Blundall Palthorpe. He is a former Seafood Chef of the Year and has worked in some of Birmingham’s best restaurants.

Nick Crudgington was proprietor of The Bucklemaker before it closed in summer 2009.