Vineries Counters
Amanda handed over this beautiful new coffee shop at the Vineries in Leatherhead this week.
Look how nice the counters are looking – good luck to them and let’s watch the customers roll in!
Read this article from the Caterer and Hotelkeeper containing all the details of the kitchen at Dinner by Heston Blumenthal
I just had a nice catch up with one of our key account managers, David. He was telling me about all the new, exciting projects he has got coming up. They cover a variety of different sites but I thought I would tell you about this one first as it is something quite different for us.
ACF Hospitality (http://www.acfhospitality.co.uk/index.php) based in Bristol run fantastic corporate events and we are delivering a full kitchen and bar in their newly developed function suite.
Whilst on site at a Garden Centre yesterday our Amanda McGreavy received a compliment from another happy customer. The compliment went something like this:
“Amanda, I usually dread having sub contractors on site. My experience is that they are loud, blast their music out and swear too much! I have to tell you that your subbies have been completely the opposite. They are a pleasure to have on site.”
Vision pride ourselves on our team and so we won’t work with just anyone! More to come soon on these “unusual” subbies and the Garden Centre they are helping us transform!
Heston Blumenthal’s Dinner has won one of the capital’s top restaurant awards four months after opening at the five-star Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Knightsbridge. Dinner, which is home to a Vision kitchen, has just been named Tatler Restaurant of the Year.
Apparently restaurant owners are encouraging live tweets from their customers whilst they enjoy their meal, plus some are turning to iPads to display their menus.
Something quite striking about the use of technology in your beautiful garden centres. Does anyone think there is a place for this? Perhaps we should start building iPad docks into our front of house designs!
Vision have completed the next phase of the Mandarin Oriental featuring new restaurant “Dinner by Heston Blumenthal”. Click to read more: http://tinyurl.com/6akxtzl
Petersham Nurseries, Richmond, London are the first Garden Centre to be awarded a Michelin Star, following the latest awards announcements last month. http://tinyurl.com/65er9du
Nestled amongst some other very high profile names this is an excellent acheivement for a restaurant that only opened in 2004 and still confesses to having wobbly tables and chairs!
It just goes to show how simple food can be rewarded. Maybe this could be your Garden Centre in a few years and if so is your kitchen up to scratch?
Our lovely friends at the HTA have informed us of this great offer this morning:
For all those gardening lovers out there make sure you pick up a copy of the Sunday Mirror this weekend.
National Garden Gift Vouchers has teamed up with the newspaper to offer every reader a fantastic wall hanging calendar for FREE! The calendar will be available in this Sunday’s issue (28.11.10) and is packed with useful gardening hints and tips to inspire you throughout the year.
See newspaper for details of how to claim.
Take a look at this clip we have found of Daniel Boulud speaking about his latest venture, Bar Boulud at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, London.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8x60pz2Ivc
We think the kitchens look fantastic! Pay close attention to the charcuterie bar running along the edge of the open kitchen, which Daniel actually mentions.