With the opening of BungaTINI & Bunga Bunga Covent Garden earlier this year, there was really nowhere else more fitting for Inception Group’s annual trip.
To congratulate everyone’s hard work for the past year, we boarded the plane to Naples in Italy and celebrated in true Inception style.
We’re extremely pleased to announce that our oldest and 1st venue ‘Barts’ is Overall Winner of Cocktails in the City 2017! Winning by a whopping 73 points, Barts received an overwhelming amount of online and social media support. We’d like to thank everyone that supported Barts in CITC 2017.
Make sure you pay a visit to Barts, and find out exactly why we won.
Barts and Cahoots are proudly representing the group at Cocktails in the City this year, at 1 Marylebone. Running from Thursday 30th March to Saturday 1st April, Cocktails in the City celebrates all things ‘cocktails’, with world-leading bartenders from 28 bars across London presenting their best creations.
We’re extremely pleased and proud to announce that Inception’s first venue ‘Barts’ has won not one, but two awards in the DesignMyNight 2017 awards.
DesignMyNight awards kicked off on the 1st of February and ran for the entirety of the month. Like every year, the awards received fantastic pick-up with several mentions in national and trade press and over 100,000 votes were cast.
Inception group are very excited to be featured in Virgin Experiences piece “Inside the business taking storytelling to a whole new level”
“As far as innovative uses of storytelling go in business, Inception Group takes some beating. The brainchild of co-founders Charlie Gilkes and Duncan Stirling, the nightclub, bar & restaurant operators, prides itself on immersing customers in unique and theatrical storylines…
Inception Group venues are designed to bring people on immersive and unexpected experiences. A great example of which is one of their latest spaces in Covent Garden – inspired by mobster films, it’s accessible through an industrial meat locker, where guests ‘negotiate’ with a butcher to enter.
Having promoted the brand through pop-ups at events such as Queen’s Club tennis championships and Henley Regatta the pair oversaw sales of £14 million in 2016, chalked up a place on the Fast Track 100 and now boast a staff of over 300. We spoke to the guys to get a better understanding of what storytelling means to their business.”
The full interview here: https://www.virgin.com/entrepreneur/inside-business-taking-storytelling-whole-new-level
We’re very excited to launch our latest video, which highlights the wacky, unique and exciting experience of a night at Bunga Bunga Covent Garden.
For online bookings: https://bungabunga-london.com/covent-garden/make-a-booking/
Inception group visited the Bombay Sapphire Distillery on Monday 16th for our annual away day. We saw some excellently motivating presentations, one in particular by our Head of Maintenance Jerry who drew an impeccably thorough – but entirely improvised – analogy between team Inception and a military ranked army.
Later we engaged in a team-building ‘egg drop’ exercise; highlighting the creativity of certain team members. (Most eggs were successful.) We then ended with a tour of the Bombay Sapphire Distillery, educating ourselves on all that is required to make this incredible brand of Gin.
Mr Fogg’s Residence, has become the first bar to send a cocktail into space. The cocktail (From The Earth To The Stars) will be used as bitters and available for guests to enjoy in a limited edition cocktail at the bar.
A bottle of the bitters was sent 27km above the earth’s surface to capture this photo, with the help of acclaimed food and drink scientists, Bompas & Parr, who sent the drink into space using a bespoke balloon. The bottle journeyed for 2 hours and 15 minutes with temperatures dropping as low as -57 degrees.
The bottle has now be taken on the final leg of its journey and turned into London’s most well-travelled drink, with From The Earth to The Stars, a celestial libation made with Tanqueray TEN Gin, fresh lavender, grapefruit peels, orange peel, lemon peel, fresh chamomile and angelica root. This interstellar cocktail will be both delicious and offer drinkers a unique chance to travel to infinity and beyond with just one sip.
For a chance to try this extra-terrestrial libation, come and visit us at Mr Fogg’s: https://mr-foggs.com/residence/reservations/
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