Carluccio's Italian Restaurant on Garrick Street, London

Carluccio's is a fast-growing chain of restaurants and delicatessens serving authentic Italian dishes made with fresh Italian ingredients. As Carluccio's was so pleased with the job Caterware did on their original flagship restaurant at St. Christopher's Place in London, when they decided to open a new flagship restaurant on Garrick Street in Covent Garden, London, they turned to us to design and install the kitchen and provide all the prime cooking equipment.

Vapiano case study The new Garrick Street location is based in a listed building so we had to be very mindful of the requirements relating to what architectural changes we could make to the building. For example, we were not allowed to drill or cut holes in the walls or knock anything down. In addition to these restrictions, the restaurant kitchen itself is located in the basement of the building which means that access is restricted, so we had to recommend kitchen equipment that would physically fit through the existing access and make sure that food could easily be carried up to the restaurant area.

Caterware designed and installed a magnificent professional kitchen for the restaurant so that the Carluccio's chefs would have plenty of room to cook up scrumptious dishes on their Angelo Po Alpha suite of prime cooking equipment. Basing our recommendations on the equipment they would use to prepare their hearty Italian menu, we helped choose a series of Angelo Po modular units from pasta cookers to hobs that on which they could cook everything from indulgent breakfasts to exquisite antipasti to savoury beef and lamb to mouth watering panna cotta and tarts.

Because the Garrick Street restaurant is the new flagship location, the large kitchen needed to contain workspace which could serve as a test area for chefs working on new recipes for the entire chain of restaurants and food shops but could also be seamlessly integrated back into the regular workings of the restaurant kitchen when necessary. The Angelo Po Alpha range is particularly suited to this because of the choice of different prime cooking modular units in different sizes. We were able to build an entire independent workstation using Angelo Po units which fulfilled the needs for the chefs working on new recipes, but designed so that the prime cooking units can be effectively used during a busy service as part of the main kitchen.

The new Carluccio's restaurant kitchen at Garrick Street is a stunning example of the flexibility that using modular prime cooking units from Angelo Po can offer, especially when combined with the first rate professional kitchen design service provided by Caterware.

For more information on our kitchen design services or on the Angelo Po products we supply, phone us on 0870 1433 164 or send us an email.

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