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Next Sunday 22nd is FRUIT JUICE!!!

Join us from 5pm @cafe_deco_bloomsbury for a few glasses, a spot of food and maybe a little dance

Thank you again to Aitor @forbidden2enterwithoutsmiling for the poster and this super cute animation

Full details in our main post 🧡

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FRUIT JUICE is returning a little earlier than usual in the year!! Because we think it’s about time to brighten things up, but also because @bene_pics is leaving soon for sunny Melbourne and we wanted to squeeze one more in before he goes 🤸🤸‍♀️🤸‍♂️

Put the Sunday 22nd February in your diary - things begin at 5pm - and join us as we pour our favourite wines along with delicious focaccias and a dance into the night 👯👯‍♀️👯‍♂️

Fruit Juice is an occasional night we run celebrating and bringing together LGBTQIA+ people who work in the industry, or who just enjoy drinking wine and having a little party. The vibes are always cute and friendly, and we welcome allies with open arms 🤗

We have another stunning poster. This one is the work of the very special @forbidden2enterwithoutsmiling, a dear friend of ours who many of you will know from the restaurant. We’re big fans of Aitor’s art and have wanted him to make a poster for us for a long time. Obviously we were thrilled when he said yes 🧡

Can’t wait to see you all!! 🪩🪩🪩

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BEAUJO DAY RECAP - Early 830 start at @gordonswinebar for the first (2) bottles of the day accompanied by English breakfast but most importantly fabulous company. We then moved on to be at the opening of @bar_crispin with @aliyahswinebabble serving up some amazing juice. We then hovered back East for some English Nouveau @provisionsldn and then to @restosune where we indulged in oysters accompanied by the amazing @obora__ Nouveau. Finished things off at Blinds before headed to Kew Gardens Christmas Lights 🎄

What a day! Can‘t wait to do it all again (&better) next year!

#beaujo #beaujoday #nouveau #wine #wineoclock #winestagram

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VINYES TORTUGA TAKEOVER 🐢

We are so thrilled to be hosting Dido from Vinyes Tortuga in Empordà for a bar takeover on Saturday 22nd November. Their wines are some of our all-time favourites, and we’ve been desperate to get Dido into the restaurant for years. Well, we did it.

Join us all evening on Saturday, Dido will be up and behind the bar, pouring wines and telling stories alongside our à la carte menu. It’s going to be super.

Reservations are open now - use the button in our bio to book online.

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Introducing @chateau.orlando x @cafe_deco_bloomsbury

This September Chateau Orlando collaborates with Café Deco, a bar, restaurant and wine shop opened in 2020 by @tobiasanna and the 40 Maltby Street team on Store Street in London’s Bloomsbury.

The collection celebrates several of Café Deco’s iconic dishes including fresh radishes and egg mayonnaise. I have rendered these dishes in colouring pencil, and the designs have been printed on cotton t-shirts and tote bags. We have also created two limited edition posters. A special ceramic radish brooch handmade by my neighbour Jenny Knight, a potter and artist, completes the collection.

After making a poster for Cafe Deco’s queer wine night Fruit Juice last year, it’s really nice to be doing something with the restaurant again. Although I live in the countryside, whenever I’m in the city I make a beeline for Café Deco. The elegant, buzzy and light-filled room, with its pink bar and bentwood stools, is exactly the sort of place I want to spend time in, and here is where I arrange to meet my friends for Negronis, long lunches and dinners. Anna’s simple, delicious food is the kind I always want to eat and I read her ever-changing menus with relish: a little something on toast, leeks vinaigrette, crab and chips, peach pie and cream, treacle pudding… Café Deco to me feels like a very English place to eat, but one that brings together influences from across Europe, full of colour and brightness, and this very much chimes with my vision for Chateau Orlando. This marks our first collaboration with a restaurant, and I can’t think of one I’d more like to be working with.

Discover at Café Deco and online at chateauorlando.com.

Big thanks to @carolinagrg and @federicomirata for manning our trunk show at the restaurant this week, and @tobiasanna and @bene_pics for having us!

Photos by @sophieedavidson

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@chateau.orlando x @cafe_deco_bloomsbury 🫜

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Introducing Chateau Orlando x @cafe_deco_bloomsbury

This September Chateau Orlando collaborates with Café Deco, a bar, restaurant and wine shop opened in 2020 by @tobiasanna and the 40 Maltby Street team on Store Street in London’s Bloomsbury.

The collection celebrates several of Café Deco’s iconic dishes including fresh radishes and egg mayonnaise. These dishes have been rendered in colouring pencil by @lukeedwardhall, and printed on cotton t-shirts and tote bags. In addition, Luke has created two limited edition posters, which are signed and numbered by him. A special ceramic radish brooch handmade by Luke’s neighbour Jenny Knight, a potter and artist, completes the collection.

Discover at Café Deco and online at chateauorlando.com.

Photos by @sophieedavidson

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FRUIT JUICE is tomorrow!!! 🍇🍇🍇🍇

Come by any time from 5.30 to join in with drinks and festivities 💖💝💘

Looks like the sun’s coming out just in time ☀️🍑❤️‍🔥

Everyone is welcome and we’d love to see you 💗

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We are looking for a new general manager to take over from the wonderful Benedict, who will be starting a new adventure.

This is an opportunity to run Cafe Deco and put your stamp on it. What is important to me is that you want to work with me (Anna) to make the restaurant the best that it can be - from welcoming in customers, providing excellent but unobtrusive service, maintaining an inspiring wine list, to ensuring that we are fostering the most supportive and inclusive environment possible.

You will also ensure operations run slickly so that the business flourishes - less sexy but as essential to ensure we run a responsible business.

We are closed on Sundays and you can expect to have 4 nights off a week in general. We like to think of ourselves as an adaptable restaurant and will always do our best to accommodate people’s needs.

If you think you’d like to be a part of this restaurant that I’m exceptionally proud of then please email a CV and cover letter to anna@cafe-deco.co.uk

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FRUIT JUICE is back for a little end of summer party!! And for the first time, it’s a Saturday night 💃💃💃

Put the 13th September in your diary, and join us as we pour some of our favourite wines of the year, along with delicious focaccias and a dance into the night 🪩🪩🪩

Fruit Juice is an occasional night we run celebrating and bringing together LGBTQIA+ people who work in the industry, or who just enjoy drinking wine and having a little party 🎈

Please join us any time from 5.30pm. The vibes are always cute and friendly, and we welcome allies with open arms 🤗

This gorgeous poster is the work of @bathtime.baby, a very dear friend of ours. We were so excited when Tom said yes to putting something together for us, and completely delighted by his creation 🤩

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FRUIT JUICE is back!! It’s been a while since our last queer wine party and we’ve been desperate to get another one in the calendar. Sunday 8th June is the date! 🤸🤸🤸

Fruit Juice is an occasional night we run celebrating and bringing together queer people who work in the industry, or who just enjoy drinking wine and having a little party 🎈

As ever, we’ll be pouring our favourite wines, serving delicious focaccias (ice cream too!), spilling out onto the terrace and dancing with friends old and new 🪩

Please join us any time from 5pm. The vibes are always cute and friendly, and we welcome allies with open arms 🤗

We were so thrilled when the incredible @kirafreije said yes to making our poster. It is a welded and riveted masterpiece and we could not be more delighted. Come by to see it in person!

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Megan & Aman’s cocktail in Sintra was just perfect 🤍

Wedding Planner: @fashionmomentseventos
Catering: @foradecasa.catering

Shot on:
@sigmaportugal 28-45mm 1.8 DG DN Art E-mount
@sigmaportugal 50mm 1.4 DG DN Art L-mount
@leica_camera_portugal M6 and Minilux
@yashica.official Mat
Film devolp and scan: @lxfilmstore

#weddingphotographerportugal #weddingonfilm #leicaweddingphotographer #authenticwedding #sintra #barcelona #italy #weddingplannerportugal

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