D&D London to convert warehouse into restaurant complex

Published: 13 June, 2012

D&D London is to reopen a warehouse built by the East India Company to incorporate a modern British grill restaurant, cocktail bar, fish restaurant and a specialist wine shop.

D&D London is to reopen warehouse built by the East India Company to incorporate a modern British grill restaurant, cocktail bar, fish restaurant and a specialist wine shop.

The sites, which are being designed by Conran & Partners, will occupy the ground and basement floors and will include outdoor seating at the Old Bengal Warehouse, a Grade II-listed building in New Street EC2, close to Bishopsgate in the City.

New Street Grill will be a modern take on the British grill, offering "superior steaks", and other meat and fish dishes, as well as a wine list focused on the best red wines from Bordeaux, Burgundy and the New World.

Fish Market will feature classic English dishes such as cockles and whelks, with a daily changing fish of the day, and a seafood bar will offer a selection of platters alongside an extensive selection of English wines.

Sitting alongside New Street Grill will be the Old Bengal Bar, where head mixologist Milos Popovic will offer a selection of cocktails including signature drinks, such as Black Velvet and the Courtney Love, alongside more familiar cocktails with a twist.

The New Street Wine Shop will specialise in wines from Bordeaux and Burgundy, and the space will be available for wine tastings and dinners. Guests will be able to sample wines before purchasing, using the enomatic wine dispenser, and a colour spectrum system will ease customers through the process of identifying different styles of wine. There will be a team of sommeliers, led by Nicolas Clerc.

David Loewi, managing director of D&D London, said: "This is an exceptional building with a fascinating history, being the first of the spice warehouses to be built by the East India Company in the City.

"The Old Bengal Warehouse will be a beautiful venue, but mostly it will be about food and wine. Our hope is to create places that the founders of the East India Company themselves would have enjoyed frequenting."

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