The Vaults

“A Bohemian pub / restaurant in the heart of Southsea”

Westwood Studios were given the challenge of re-designing this sprawling pub / restaurant, spread over three floors with four bars, a pizza oven and roof top terrace!

We tried to retain as much of the existing quirkiness and character the building already had, there are a number of different areas with various seating arrangements but we wanted to try and bring them all together to create a more harmonious feel. This was achieved by continuing the colour scheme throughout and maintaining the rustic / vintage feel, including unique artworks and antiques.

One of the existing areas did have more potential, situated on the corner of the site with double aspect glazing it was particularly visible externally. It housed a small dispense bar and loose seating areas, we felt it was a perfect opportunity to introduce a more wine bar / small plate food offer. The space now has a large, open bar design with feature tiling to the front alongside high seating built in to the surrounding windows.

The first floor now boasts a new function room with flexible fixed seating and a new dispense bar. We also introduced new booth seating to the adjacent pizza oven offer.