The client wanted to bring a quiet, underused part of the venue back into use as an open kitchen and casual all-day dining room. Years of successive fit-outs had buried the bar's original late-90s character - glass block, exposed steel - under later iterations. Our response was to strip that back and bring it forward, extending the recovered glass blockwork into new runs that screen the kitchen and guide circulation through the space.

The kitchen sits behind a low, deep counter run in continuous white granite, kept open and domestic rather than walled off. Reclaimed and vintage furniture fills the room, sourced piece by piece on a tight budget: marble café tables, jewel-toned moulded chairs in teal and orange, worn rugs and a mid-century sideboard, set against deep oxblood steelwork and exposed brick.