I’m slightly obsessed with kooky-foodie architects Bombas & Parr, the London-based company behind the rather fabulous St Paul’s jelly.
The walk-in breathable cocktail is their latest theatrical food experiment, and it’s being unveiled today on Ganton Street. They're using the same technology as Anthony Gormley’s Blind Light at the Hayward Gallery – which was quite an unsettling and disorienting experience.
It also involves donning a special protective suits before walking into a mist of gin and tonic water. To further enhance the ‘inner cocktail world’ experience, the interior will be decorated with giant limes and oversized straws. Once inside you can order food from a special menu that compliments the cocktail.
And by the sounds of it, Bompas & Parr are just getting started. Harry Parr says, “I’m interested in states of matter. Here we’ve vaporised a cocktail. In the future I would like to make a liquid banqueting table. In the 1905 Gondola Banquet the Savoy Hotel was flooded and the meal was eaten on a floating gondola surrounded by live swans with dessert presented on the back of a baby elephant. That would be the ultimate meal.”
While we’re waiting for the liquid banqueting table, feast your eyes on some of the other edible creations in Bompas & Parr’ s portfolio… I adore the bespoke tiered jelly display - perfect for wobbly wedding celebrations!
Alcoholic Architecture
16 to 18 April and 23 to 25 April
2 Ganton Street
London, W1F 7QL
Opening hours:
5pm – 11pm
Tickets £5, available from www.jellymongers.co.uk
Wow! I'd love to be one of their assistants! xx
Posted by: the likkle girl who wurves pwetty things | April 16, 2009 at 03:06 AM
Damn they need to hire me! Note it is all alcohol not tea!!
Posted by: Film Upstart | April 16, 2009 at 01:42 PM
Amazing stuff. I wish I could get down to London to experience it.
Posted by: Jules | April 16, 2009 at 03:06 PM
I'm off to the launch in half an hour! Shall report back on the experience. xx
Posted by: Top Bird @ Wee Birdy | April 16, 2009 at 06:24 PM
I think I'll head off and have a little daydream about all that jelly...mmmm... yummy and visually appealing
Posted by: Char | April 16, 2009 at 07:09 PM
They are art, just in wobbly jelly form! The idea of a breathable cocktail is fascinating - worth going down to London to see!
Posted by: Lauren | April 18, 2009 at 09:15 PM
Why is there jelly in the hospital ward? is this an installation or did they do some kind of morale booster in an actual ward?
And why isnt the harp made of trifle?
xx
Posted by: hammie | April 19, 2009 at 12:41 PM
Some bloggers have been to this already and it sounds fantastic. I love how they have almost single handedly made jelly cool.
Posted by: Gourmet Chick | April 20, 2009 at 02:29 PM