ABSTRACT
The Neal Street Restaurant opened in 1972; this small venture very soon gained a reputation and had an influence well beyond its Covent Garden location. For the interior of his new restaurant, Terence Conran was able to build on the formula of his earlier ‘Soup Kitchen’ and on his experience with his chain of Habitat shops, the first opened in 1964. Among the enterprising younger people with a design business was Terence Conran who at just the right moment acquired his own warehouse, in Neal Street. The brickwork shell of the warehouse is painted white throughout, the floors are of durable cream clay quarry tiles; fittings and tables in the restaurant are in dark wood. The restaurant’s modest facade, was formed of a series of broad timber window mullions set parallel to the pavement and receding towards the entrance.
