An allotment-themed bar is coming to Shoreditch

Hospitality group Bourne & Hollingsworth are launching an allotment-themed bar housed within the grounds of Shoreditch’s Geffrye Museum.

What B&H Group hope Beautiful Allotment will look like when it opens next month. (Photo: B&H Group)

Tapping into the garden cocktail trend currently sweeping the capital’s bars and restaurants, cocktails curated by the Bourne & Hollingsworth team will be fresh, seasonal and sustainable, using ingredients grown on the grounds.

Beautiful Allotment, which will open within the grounds of the Geffrye Museum next month, will recreate the feeling of a private allotment withy mismatched furniture, hanging plants, and herbs grown on-site.

The food offering will almost be entirely BBQ led and locally sourced, with a range of vegan, vegetarian, fish and meat options platters to share.

A custom travelling tractor pulling a vintage trailer with seating for up to 30 will be available to ferry groups to and from the allotment.

Beautiful Allotment will also have bookable garden areas designed for larger gatherings of between 30 and 100 guests.

The Beautiful Allotment pop-up will run from 25 July until 3 September.

The news comes as scores of bars in the UK and beyond are taking the fashion for locally-sourced ingredients to new extremes.

Earlier this year chef and owner of Michelin-starred restaurant Carters of Moseley, Brad Carter, revealed he would collaborate with a Birmingham-based craft brewery to release a beer made using wildflowers that he foraged from the city’s urban meadows.

The trend isn’t exclusive to mid-tier drinkers. Five-star hotel Palé Hall in north Wales now also hosts a gin botanical foraging experience within the estate grounds, priced at £1,642 for two people.