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BOOM: BATTLE BAR TO OPEN

NEW WANDSWORTH VENUE POP GOLF OPENS ITS DOORS
Launched last month at BOXPARK Wembley,
Pop Golf offers a completely unique social
Greenland UK has secured ‘adventure experience for crazy golfers and 21st-century
bar’ operator Boom: Battle Bar for a new pop music fans, built on the belief that nothing
outlet at its Ram Quarter development brings people together like music and play. The
in Wandsworth – bringing a unique new venue features a course of nine pop-themed
evening out for south London thrill-seekers holes paired with a killer sound system.
Boom is a new concept bar – pairing
cocktails, craft beers and street food
with an eclectic variety of indoor gaming WOKING WELCOMES BRANDS
experiences. Guests will be able to try Woking Shopping, which consists of the
their hand at a range of fun-filled group Peacocks Centre and Wolsey Place, has
games – from crazy golf, table tennis and announced the signing of four new F&B
shuffleboard to beer pong. operators totalling over 15,500sq ft of space.
The new Ram Quarter venue is due to Island House, Black & Irons Bar & Grill and
open later in 2021, taking a 10,000sq ft Duke’s Bar & Deli have signed - complementing
prime spot on the development’s riverside Gordon Ramsay’s Street Burger.
promenade, Barley Walk, overlooking the
River Wandle. Boom has taken a 15-year TADA & TOY LAUNCH STORE
lease on the site. London jewellery brand Tada & Toy launch first
flagship store in Notting Hill. The shop location
of Portobello Road was picked for being
BYRON JOINS LINE-UP AT LDO AS ‘iconically London’ with a bustling, vibrant and
WEMBLEY KICKS-OFF SUMMER creative community. The spa-like interior was
inspired by mediterranean curved sea villas.

As restaurants, bars and cafés across begin to ease, it is set once again to benefit
Wembley Park prepare for a summer of from the nearby offices filled with workers, LENDLEASE SIGNS UP TENANT
play festival fuelled by post-lockdown cheer, day-visitors from across the affluent They have announced the signing of Four
guests at London Designer Outlet will have catchment and event goers travelling to Quarters - London’s first ‘arcade bar’ - at
yet another option to sink their teeth into. experience the world-class attractions of the latest phase of the £2.5bn Elephant Park
Premium burger chain Byron is the latest the North West London destination – in regeneration. The brand will be taking its
brand to sign at the capital’s leading fashion addition to the thousands of residents living biggest space yet, a 3,268sq ft unit on Ash
and lifestyle outlet centre, and will be one above the shops, restaurants, bars and cafés Avenue, Elephant Park’s emerging F&B, lifestyle
of three restaurants to have opened across of Wembley Park. and leisure precinct.
the Wembley Park neighbourhood over Byron’s new restaurant at London
the course of the pandemic, a sign of the Designer Outlet, which will span nearly PAUL SMITH OPENS NEW SITE
destination’s thriving food and beverage 5,000sq ft, is a return to the popular burger Britain’s leading independent fashion and design
(F&B) offer. chain’s roots, with a design based on the brand, Paul Smith, has opened a new London
London Designer Outlet, which is part brand’s original restaurants with a modern shop at Borough Yards. The shop and exhibition
of Quintain’s multi-billion pound mixed-use twist. The restaurant, which will feature space will be the first retail offering of the
transformation of Wembley Park, is one of a warm and friendly design, will feature new shopping and dining district adjacent to
few outlet centres in Europe that blend a bigger and better burger patty from its London’s Borough Market. The 2,000sq ft space
retail, F&B, leisure and events in an easy-to- butchers in Yorkshire along with premium will stock Paul Smith clothing and shoes.
reach urban setting. As national restrictions burgers and draught craft beer.

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