Lights! Floors! Vodka! Great excitement! The first part of the spectacular lighting designed for the Barbican Foodhall has arrived from the Middle-East. There was just one small problem as 600 olive jars entered the UK and got held up at customs because we needed an import license for them and had to pay import duty. [...]
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Barbican Food Hall Opening Day Gets Nearer
August 27th, 2010 
Barbican What A Week! It’s amazing how much you can pack into one week when you have to! As our opening day gets nearer and nearer we are all working ridiculous hours and multi-tasking ourselves into a frazzle. We got the building a bit late so we always knew this was going to be tight – [...]
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3 Comments »Book Bank At The Barbican
August 26th, 2010 Barbican Coffee and a Good Book We are just finalising the plans for our Book Bank which will be at the end of the Food Hall. It’s a bit like a modern take on a library. Anyone can come in, grab a coffee and sit down in a comfy chair. We are starting with about 200 [...]
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August 24th, 2010 Barbican We are all getting really excited about how the project is coming together – and a bit frightened about how much we have left to do before opening day. Our designers are SHH an architects practice and interior and branding design consultancy with a highly international workforce and portfolio. They initially made a name in [...]
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The First Tasting Of Our Small Plate Dining Menu
August 24th, 2010 Barbican We’ve now had the first tasting of our Small Plate Dining menu. And it’s fabulous! This is the opportunity we get to all try the suggestions from our head chef and his team who put together a selection it took us about three and half hours to get through. Normally there are some dishes we all [...]
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Helen Hughes’ View
August 24th, 2010 Barbican When we set about re-designing our two spaces within this iconic building we were very conscious that the eyes of the world – well the eyes of that proportion of the world that lives around or visits the Barbican anyway – would be upon our work. I think it is fair to say that this [...]
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It’s a tough life – etc etc!
August 12th, 2010 Barbican It’s a serious business really it is – wine tasting that is. We are concentrating on every detail to make sure that the Barbican Lounge becomes the restaurant/bar of choice for anyone in and around the area. We know the food is going to be something new and wonderful – hope to be able to [...]
