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Shot 20. The restaurant and bar on a winter evening. Long oak tables and benches with wool throws, a gritstone feature wall with wall lights, and a vaulted ceiling with exposed timber trusses. The bar runs down the left with rush-seated stools. A dozen or so guests eat and talk in the light of table lamps and candles. Big windows show dark woodland, with lanterns on the terrace outside. Off brief: the trees outside are wrapped in strings of fairy lights, which works against the dark-sky lighting on the rest of the site.

← the floorWoodland Lodge Park/hub·if / 064

Restaurant and bar

The one place on site where guests meet, kept small and low-lit, with a terrace facing the sunset.

The card

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Restaurant and bar

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The notes

rendered

The restaurant and bar sit below reception in the hub clearing, with a stone terrace on the south-west corner. This is where the evening draw is, away from the lodges.

inside

Long oak tables and benches with wool throws, a gritstone feature wall and a vaulted ceiling with exposed timber trusses. Lamps and candles on the tables, and no bright ceiling lights. The brief is small and intimate: not a pub, and not a chain restaurant.

the terrace

A stone-flagged terrace off the south-west corner, facing west into a clearing so the summer sun sets through the trees. Oak tables and festoon lights, warm and dim, strung low between the trees.

why it is at the hub

It sits by the entrance and the car park, so diners from outside the park never drive the lodge tracks, and the noise and light of an evening service stay well away from the decks.

against the renders

The winter interior is close to the brief, apart from fairy lights wrapped round the trees outside, which work against the dark-sky lighting everywhere else. On the terrace the festoons hang well above head height rather than low between the trees.

not decided

No covers, kitchen size, opening pattern or menu have been set, and I found no benchmark for restaurant or bar income on a park like this, so the money section on the main page leaves it out.

The plates

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Shot 20. The restaurant and bar on a winter evening. Long oak tables and benches with wool throws, a gritstone feature wall with wall lights, and a vaulted ceiling with exposed timber trusses. The bar runs down the left with rush-seated stools. A dozen or so guests eat and talk in the light of table lamps and candles. Big windows show dark woodland, with lanterns on the terrace outside. Off brief: the trees outside are wrapped in strings of fairy lights, which works against the dark-sky lighting on the rest of the site.
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Shot 21. The restaurant terrace on a summer evening. A wide stone-flagged terrace runs out from the charred-timber restaurant, whose glazing shows the warm bar inside. Groups of guests eat at oak tables with wool throws on the chairs, among stone planters and candle lanterns. Festoon lights are strung between the building and a large oak, and the sun is setting through the trees across a meadow clearing to the west. Off brief: the festoons hang well above head height, where the brief has them strung low and dim.
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