Darwin and Wallace, a new bar and restaurant company backed by the Imbiba Partnership Bar and Restaurant EIS fund, has re-opened The Ebury in Pimplico as No 11 Pimlico Road after acquiring it back in November.
An Enterprise Inns pub, the site now offers an all-day, casual bar dining experience with an emphasis on ‘“interior aesthetics, fresh, scratch-cooked food and first rate service” as well as a wide-ranging drinks offer. It describes itself as ‘not quite bar, not quite restaurant’ – an all-day venue with a relaxed, eclectic style that is ’more home than high street’. The menu focuses on user-friendly, brasserie-style food with a European accent – from various ‘tossed and sandwiched’ options to Sunday roasts. The company hopes that food will contribute around 40% of sales.
Darwin & Wallace, which is led by managing director Melanie Marriott now aim to expand the business by opening sites between 5,000sq ft to 7,000sq ft mainly located in affluent London areas such as Chiswick, Chelsea, Kensington, Knightsbridge, Notting Holl, Soho, Fitzrovia, West Ham, Hampstead/Haverstock Hill, Camden, Islington and Shoreditch.