Much-loved sausage restaurant The Big Bang is to make a comeback, two months after it closed due to redevelopment plans in Jericho.

The bangers and mash eaterie will reopen at the Brookes Restaurant at Oxford Brookes University’s Headington campus in Gipsy Lane on Saturday.

The Brookes Restaurant is open to the public at lunch-time, from noon to 2pm, leaving The Big Bang to open from 5pm to 11pm from Thursdays to Saturdays.

It was among the independent businesses given notice by a developer to leave shops in Little Clarendon Street and Walton Street this summer.

Firms there had benefited from low rents due to the poor condition of the building, which is now being renovated for a 2013 opening and is set to include a new Co-op.

The Big Bang closed in August with an impromptu street party on its final night.

Big Bang owner Max Mason said of the new home: “It is the perfect place to be, there are buses that run out from the city centre the whole time, there is loads of parking.

“We needed to find somewhere else but it is quite tricky to find somewhere in the middle of town because it is so expensive.”

He could not say how long the venture could continue until demand had been tested, but he expected it to be welcomed given its seven-year history in Walton Street.

Mr Mason said: “Many people regarded it as their favourite eaterie in Oxford. This temporary measure satisfies me and those who use it.”

Brookes Restaurant operations director and former Big Bang patron Jonathan War-hurst said: “It will be great to see them back.

“We have never done something like this before. It is a way of us supporting a local entrepreneur to keep his brand going. He was so well known.”

Other businesses to leave the Jericho row of shops included furniture shop Licious, The Last Bookshop and wine bar Bottega.

The plan will create six shops and 41 student rooms.

Co-op’s interest comes des-pite it already running a store on the opposite side of Walton Street, with the firm saying it would “widen the offer”.

Rumours have circulated that Tesco is bidding to open in the area but the supermarket giant said it had no current plans.

Developer Shirehall Properties originally wanted to demolish the Walton Street building, famous for its Lumley’s Tea advertisement on the corner wall.

Melvin Robinson, acquisitions director of parent company The Winston Group, said at least three other units would be available at the redeveloped site in addition to the planned Co-op store.