London restaurant Pacific Oriental successful with feature brewery
Oriental Restaurant Group plc (ORG) entered the boutique brewing market in 1998 opening Pacific Oriental at No. 1, Bishopsgate - a fine dining restaurant with feature brewery. Peter Frost, Head Brewer, discusses the process from conception to beer in glass.
No. 1 Bishopsgate has a Grade One listed early Edwardian façade with a mid 1980’s refurbished interior. The front is graced with thirty-foot tall Corin-thian columns interspersed to their full height by six feet wide plate glass windows. What better place to situate a state-of-the-art gleaming, copperclad brewery and dispense tanks in all its glory?
The answer, of course, is nowhere. Having seen various boutique breweries in the US, I thought the concept fresh and exciting and saw the market opening up in London......
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