London’s original Bar.B.Q institution, Big Easy Bar.B.Q & Lobstershack has announced that it will open its largest venue to date in early November: A new 400-cover restaurant with additional outside terraces, bars, take-out / retail and nightly live entertainment open 18 hours a day.
Big Easy founder, Paul Corrett: “This is an extremely exciting development for Big Easy with a round the clock offer. It’s our biggest site to date in a landmark that is already one of the most talked about new buildings in the capital.”
Exclusive to the new site
- A truly all-American big breakfast from 7am
- Full afternoon tea offering with European and American cakes, pies and savoury dishes including a marvellous display of fine teas and coffees
- Weekend brunch
- Take-away shop and grab and go menu, offering fresh lobster rolls, pulled pork sandwiches, cold-pressed juices, American candy and other treats
- ‘Rum Bar’ and Lounge featuring over 100 rums, extensive cocktail menu and casks of rum on tap
- ‘Captains Table’ Private Dining Room seating up to 26 with own private terrace
Key features
- 11,000 sq. ft. site occupying part of the top floor and roof terrace gardens of the new Norman Foster Cross Rail Terminal.
- 400-cover restaurant with terraces, bars, take-out and retail
- Spectacular 150-cover west facing terrace for alfresco dining, and incredible views
- A remarkable 18 metre wraparound bar split into ‘The Main Whiskey & Beer Bar’ and ‘The Rum Bar & Lounge’ cocktail bar
- The world’s coolest and most expensive cocktail shaking machine – one of only 10 in the world created from an original 19th century etching
- Bar display with over 500 bottles of whiskies and bourbons
- Rum Bar featuring over 100 rums, plus casks of rum on tap
- 14 different draft beers and house cocktails on tap
- Pit Master supremo at the helm: Jared Male ex Hill Country BBQ, NYC
- Huge 14 metre open kitchen and one of UK’s largest pit rooms, housing three enormous two tonne US built smokers
- The freshest Nova Scotian lobsters and local seafood
- Imbibe Louis Roederer award-winning wine list (Covent Garden)
- Fabulous design which evokes the features of a turn of the 18th century dock-side warehouse, paying homage to the area’s unique heritage and history: the West India Docks which opened in 1802
- Private dining rooms with a private terrace, in the style of panelled ship dining room with a touch of Jack Sparrow!
On the menu
Big Easy Bar.B.Q & Lobstershack provides the most authentic, American in-house home -smoked Bar.B.Q seafood, cocktail and drinks offer in the UK. It was established on the King’s Road, Chelsea in 1991 and opened its second location in Covent Garden in March 2014 to overwhelming success marking a pivotal moment for Big Easy and crystallised its expansion in the UK.
The Bar.B.Q Pit team will be headed up by Pit Master supremo Jared Male formerly of Hill Country BBQ, NYC. The Bar.B.Q is based around the finest Bar.B.Q pork and beef cuts and “low and slow” cooking.
Another star of the show is the selection of the freshest Nova Scotian lobsters and local seafood. The lobsters are sourced all year round from Nova Scotia for their consistency, flavour and quality and flown in fresh several times a week.
As always, Big Easy’s ever-popular, daily-changing specials will continue to ensure unparalleled value for money. The menu will feature Big Easy favourites as well as some exciting new additions. The new take-away shop and grab and go menu will include classics such as the lobster roll and pulled pork sandwiches as well as cold pressed juices, artisan coffees, cakes, pastries, American candy and assorted goodies.
Evoking an 18th century dock-side warehouse
The vision and challenge for Big Easy was to pay homage to this unique location and period in British history, focusing on the East India and West India Docks which opened in 1802 almost on the very site that Big Easy now occupies. Warehouses stacked full of the cargoes shipped from around the world, particularly rum from the Caribbean, were very much a part of the landscape and rum will be a key feature of the new Rum Bar & Lounge.
Big Easy Canary Wharf’s design is intended to evoke the features of a turn of the 18th century dock-side warehouse with all the intrigue and excitement of cargo shipped from the new world of America, the Caribbean and of course the East Indies. With spectacular views overlooking the whole of Canary Wharf and its adjoining skyscrapers and live music every night, Big Easy Canary Wharf’s aspiration is to become a landmark destination in its own right.
Big Easy founder, Paul Corrett, comments: “This is an extremely exciting development for Big Easy with a round the clock offer. It’s our biggest site to date in a landmark that is already one of the most talked about new buildings in the capital. We are really proud of what we are creating, not to mention the 170 new jobs we are generating.”
Address: 1 Crossrail Place, Canary Wharf, E14
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