A town centre restaurant has launched a ‘luxurious’ new brunch menu at its Blackburn venue.

Heavenly Desserts, which is based in Sudell Cross, is offering the new menu seven days a week from 11am until 4pm.

The new menu was rolled out at Heavenly Desserts sites across the country this week.

Restaurant owners also said they had been proud of the ‘redevelopment’ of this quarter of the town centre in recent years, following its opening six years ago.

On offer on the brunch menu are a range of breakfast and lunch options, including smoked salmon and avocado sourdough and shakshuka, which is made up of spiced red pepper, tomato ragu, baked egg. Crumbled feta and toasted garlic butter flatbread.

Also on the menu are a range of 'croffles' - a croissant/waffle hybrid - and flatbreads including the mushroom and Swiss cheese croffle and feta which comes with olive and pesto flatbread.

Heavenly Desserts said the healthy breakfast and lunch options have gone down a 'treat ' with diners Shabaz Akber, from Heavenly Desserts, said: “We have had a really good response so far this week.

“The Heavenly Dessert brand is well known across the country and the new brunch menu keeps to those standards people are used to.

“You will find that there are a lot of healthy options on the menu and it is something quite different to what the people of Blackburn may have been served.

“I think we have found people want healthy food cooked and presented well and the brand certainly does that.

“There is everything from toasts and bagels to our signature dishes.

“I think people have been impressed with the prices too which are very reasonable for the town.”

A special week-long opening attracted social media stars and guests from across Lancashire.

“It was great to see people taking to the new opening times and the staff have been working hard to ensure the launch went well," Mr Akber added.

The plush 70-seater Heavenly Desserts was the first restaurant to launch in the Sudell Cross area of Blackburn town centre.

Since then Safron Street, Toro’s Steakhouse, Kobeda Palace and Caffe Impresso have all opened helping to revitalise the area.

This is in conjunction with a number of new businesses including beauty salons and solicitors which have moved into newly developed offices.

Mr Akber said: “We have seen the local area change quite remarkably in recent years.

“I do remember people querying why we were opening on a spot where there were insurance brokers and estate agents.

“If you look at it now the area is a hub for high-end restaurants and it was great to be the first to move in which hopefully encouraged others to do so.

“There has been a mini redevelopment in an area which for many years had been heading in the wrong direction.

"I know there is always room for improvement and hopefully the right type of businesses will move into any vacant spots.

“Thankfully through the work of local businesses, the area is a lot different to what it was some years back.”