Green & Fortune expanding with South Bank partnership
The restaurant, bar and events operator has been chosen to develop the hospitality offerings at the advertising firm's new 225,000 sq.ft Sea Containers headquarters on London’s South Bank.
The facilities will include two bars, a restaurant and lounge, café and staff dining areas, private dining room, 250-seat amphitheatre and a series of event spaces.
Green & Fortune founder John Nugent – a former Searcy’s chief executive – explained that the group would be working to create ‘newer, fresher’ hospitality areas.
“Prior to 2008 we saw the development opportunity in Kings Cross and were the first significant food and event operator to move into an area that is now a bustling conurbation,” he said.
“It is now a thriving business and one that cannot be classified in the normal food service or contract catering world. These skills are what we will bring to Ogilvy & Mather and are what attracted them to us in the first instance. They wanted a newer, fresher operating model, taking a long term approach and a commercial operating approach at its heart.”
Green & Fortune will move in to the Sea Containers site along with Ogilvy & Mather in early 2016.
The hospitality specialist also runs the Rotunda Restaurant & Bar, the Green & Fortune Café and Kings Place Events in King’s Cross.
