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Cafes & Coffee Shops

Award-Winning Java Joints! Over 350 full color photos showcase 100 top coffee shop designs from around the world, illustrating just how hot this area of food retailing remains. Cafes and Coffee Shops, by Mike Pegler, reveals the work of renowned and up-and-coming architects-details the atmosphere that gave each establishment award-winning appeal-and coveRs every coffee-shop theme from cafes, and cafeterias and coffee houses to food courts, fast-food outlets and specialty stores. What's more, for each design you'll find: complete presentations of store interiors, lighting schemes and floor plans; full data on the client, project team leaders and construction program; cogent analyses of the design strategy and special challenges each project presented; plus much more.

1956 Wednesday June 27th.

The re-opening of a restored bar in St Nicholas Market in the heart of old Bristol hardly looked like a moment of British post-war history. But it was. No-one afterwards could blame the Post's man sent to cover the story of Night One in the refurbished bar at the ancient Rummer tavern which had been taken over by the Bristol company Hort's, which was run by Frank and Aldo Berni and Paul Rosse. How was he to know that he was witnessing the opening salvo in a revolution that was to change the eating out habits of the British for the next two decades? But he was.

He was among the first to hear news of a 'Berni', as a meal at one of the scores of Berni restaurants up and down the country would soon be known. The company was named after Hort's restaurant which the Berni brothers had bought in 1943. After the ending of meat rationing in 1954, the Bemis hoped to import American-style, controlled portion steak and chips catering, served in as authentic an Olde English atmosphere as possible.

The Rummer, sometimes claimed as one of the oldest inns in the country, was to be their prototype. They heard that the Bristol Corporation-owned pub was available and moved quickly. They won the tenancy and called in a designer who exploited all the period details.

The place was a rabbit warren and it perfectly suited their plans for a series of bars and restaurants . . . and steak grill rooms.

Opening night on June 27th, 1956 brought plenty of interest. 'In three short weeks a complete transformation has been effected. Thirteen coats of old paint, nearly half an inch thick, had to be removed before the redecoration could begin. 'As customers moved into the new bar, work on dismantling the old one began. Some of the pipes bringing beer from the cellar have been found to be at least 100 years old.

'Looking through the window on to the Market, one's eyes are caught by a notice recalling the presence of Morrison's old restaurant. 'Lunches at 1s 6d and 1s 9d.' 'These prices, I am told, prevailed until just before the war—an unpleasant reminder of the tremendous rise in the cost of catering and the difficulties now facing all restaurateurs. 'When the ground floor is finished the new occupiers hope to open a grill room on the first floor, but that will be some time in the future'.

The grill room with its soon-to-be- famous limited menu was open within months. Any difficulties facing the Berni restaurant were over weeks after that. The Berni revolution had begun.

The Montreal Eaton's 9th floor restaurant is an Art deco landmark in Montreal. It used to be known simply as "The Ninth Floor".

Lady Eaton was the wife of the multi-millionaire owner of the former Eaton's chain of department stores in Canada. For several decades she endeavoured to give her own interpretation of "class and style" to the major stores in the chain. On January 26, 1931, she opened a large art deco restaurant on the top 9th floor of the Montreal Eaton's store, designed by the architect Jacques Carlu.It was a very close copy of the first class dining hall of her favourite transatlantic liner, the Ile de France. After being closed for several years following Eaton's bankruptcy in 1999 the 9th floor restaurant was given heritage status by the Quebec government. Plans for retrofitting the restaurant to modern safety standards were drawn up by Fournier, Gersovitz, Moss et associes, a Montreal architectural firm but have yet to be implemented. Currently it is mothballed and slowly deteriorating.

This restaurant is now the largest memento of the defunct liner and is a registered historical site. It has been the locale for rites of passage and/or female bonding activities over several generations, as described in the National Film Board of Canada documentary Les Dames du 9e, known in English as The Ladies of the 9th Floor. The main 9th floor corridor leading from the elevators to the restaurant is also finished in the art deco style

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