The antique bricks for the walls arrived in shipping containers that were used to decorate Lock, Stock & Barrel.
Caterer Middle East editor Sarah Jacotine visits Lock, Stock & Barrel and finds industrial décor with great food and drink.
Front of house
Lock, Stock & Barrel (LSB) opened in Tecom’s Grand Millennium Hotel last month, launched by Solutions Leisure Group, the same nightlife and entertainment company that owns Dubai venues Asia Asia, Karma Kafé & Q43.
Inspired by the trend of casual, industrial and live-music venues in cities around the world, the outlet has positioned itself as a party bar that focuses on live music and sports.
LSB is spread over two floors and covers more than 8,000m2, with décor that pays homage to New York, and the capacity to handle 600 to 700 guests.
With two bars, a live music stage, 11 screens, a daily happy hour and a 3am licence, the outlet is unashamedly all about the party. “The idea was to have Q43 meets Coyote Ugly meets Hard Rock Café, in a way,” says Sacha Daniel, operations manager, Solutions Leisure Group.
“After launching Q43 we always wanted to have a party bar and then Paul Evans [managing director of Solutions Leisure Group] found this place, which we thought it would be a great venue for live music. Tecom was a market we were interested in; there is nothing like this here, and it has loads of offices and residents, so there is an audience.”
Dubai-based Broadway Interiors designed and constructed the venue, which included building a mezzanine that overlooks the stage and houses a second bar and one of LSB’s pool tables. The outlet has an industrial feel with shipping containers on some of the walls, as well as second-hand speakers, but with warmth coming from bricks and colourful artwork, which will change periodically.
Daniel tells Caterer Middle East: “We wanted antique bricks, so [Broadway Interiors] bought bricks in India and the UK, cut them in half so as not to lose the depth and secured them to the walls. The bricks came in shipping containers that we also purchased, cut up, re-painted and welded inside the venue.
“[Evans] wanted a speaker wall so he spent a long time buying as many speakers as he could find from the 1960s and 1970s on eBay and in salvage yards in the UK. We used a lot of reclaimed wood, mainly from India and the UK. With the bars we used old railway tracks.
“While [re-using old materials] has given us the look that we wanted, it’s also about sustainability — instead of making something new, we use what we can find, and it looks great.”
“It’s all about the details and everywhere you look there is something to talk about — it’s very interactive for guests,” remarks Daniel.
The venue is very much about entertainment as well as F&B, with Toulet pool tables — as Solutions Leisure used for Q43 — and the stage for live music.
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