
Hospitality
Planning & Strategy
Campaign Management
Outcome Reporting
United Kingdom
2025
TANGRA is a vegetarian restaurant bringing the energy from modern India's food scene to Soho. Serving as a lunch spot, dinner date location & a place for late night fun.

Summary
TANGRA approached Novastory with the task of launching their new restaurant in November 2025: a vibrant vegetarian indo-chinese restaurant in the heart of Soho. Built for spice punks. The goal was to build brand awareness and launch the site with a pipeline of reservations.
Born from the Tangra region in the Kolkata district of India, Indo-Chinese was a widely unexplored cuisine in London’s food scene - but that was about to change.
Considerations
Working with the TANGRA restaurant team, we created a phased paid social strategy that captured the interest of Londoners and converted it into measurable revenue. Phase One entailed a competition-style campaign to win one of ten exclusive tables once doors opened. This built an impressive email list, ready to convert into reservations.
With thousands of people already showing interest in the restaurant prior to launch, Phase Two leveraged this rich targeting pool to activate a reservations campaign. The goal was to get the people of London booking tables fast. This included retargeting strategies, building look-a-likes of our converting audience as well as brand aligned interest & demographic targeting to ensure we were continuing to reach new individuals daily. The campaign made it near impossible to snag a seat after 4pm on any given day of the week for multiple months post-launch.
As a result of the successful opening, we are now running monthly paid social campaigns to ensure a steady flow of bookings, keeping the team on track to hit their ambitious targets and revenue goals.
Our paid media strategy was planned alongside the TANGRA team to integrate with PR and organic social, making ads part of the overall commercial goals of the business.
Collaborating closely with Albert Penn, the creative agency, ensured that content being produced was transferable to paid media.
Outcomes
This launch strategy and always-on approach have contributed to the virality of the brand, reaching hundreds of thousands of foodies through paid media alone. Now the people of London have a new favourite spot for spicy dinner dates, late night cocktails and fiery sharing plates - all in the heart of Soho.
