Where To Get Wood: Restaurants With Trees In Them
Proving there really is a listicle for everything, here’s a guide to where to find restaurants that have trees inside them.
From acorns grow mighty oaks, unless you had them shipped in ready-grown as part of a refurb. But nevertheless, there’s something undeniably magical about a living tree inside a restaurant, or in the case of many of these (I discovered during my research), so is a totally fake tree. Kind of Jack and the beanstakly, right? Whatever. Here you go…
Restaurant Ours
The Norman Foster designed ‘catwalk’ entrance may dominate the Insta feeds, but a close second come the trees dotted across the restaurant. Foliage covers much of the building, with ivy on the walls, and ceilings. Billing itself as ‘Unpretentious, effortless and elegant with a nod to retro chic’ (which, ironically, sounds just a tad pretentious if you ask me), but the nod to nature in the form of the fairy-lit trees will no doubt remain in the memory, though not as long as the award winning menu.
Where: 264 Brompton Road, Knightsbridge, SW3 2AS
Website: www.restaurant-ours.com
Bandol
An olive tree takes centre-stage at Bandol, on the Fulham Road, though I’m sure the chef (and hopefully the diners) would say otherwise. Nevertheless, the potted tree dominates the French restaurant that brings Nicoise and Provencale cooking to Chelsea.
Where: 6 Hollywood Road, Fulham, SW10 9HY
Website: www.barbandol.co.uk
Sky Garden
Clue’s in the name, right? Sky Garden occupies the top of the Walkie Talkie tower and brings with it dining options and one of the coolest party venues in the capital. And climbing up the back wall sits a sort of exotic railway cutting planted with exotic plants and trees and setting off the entire building off as a tropical paradise in the clouds. Also, as it’s free to visit, this makes Sky Garden the country’s highest park.
Where: Sky Garden, 20 Fenchurch Street, London EC3M 8AF, UK
Website: skygarden.london
