Boston Tea Party (BTP), the West Country based all-day dining concept, has won a national design award for its Plymouth restaurant–café.
BTP won the Café Design of the Year, given out at the Café Life Awards 2015 last week.
The group opened its 16th café on Plymouth’s waterfront this summer in an historic grade II listed building that it converted into the café-bar.
The two-storey Jamaica House venue overlooking the waterfront opened in July with seating for 150.
Sam Roberts, managing director of BTP, said: “The judges felt there had been a real effort made to retain the original features of the build at Jamaica House at the same time as creating something fresh, new, vibrant and welcoming for Plymouth, and we were over the moon as this was exactly our intention.
“We’re incredibly proud to have earned this award, and to have created a new venue for Plymouth of such quality that its design has achieved national acclaim. As part of our ethos to encourage sustainability throughout, our design team relied heavily on using salvaged furniture and fittings wherever possible, but employed the second-hand pieces in a fun and creative way.”
The Café Life Awards are held to encourage good design practice in the sector, and reward companies which manage to launch venues which combine innovative design with customer comfort and commercial viability.
BTP is preparing to open its 17th cafe in Bath in November, with plans for new venues to open in Stratford and the Moseley area of Birmingham early next year.
It already has café-bars in Bristol, Bath, Cheltenham, Worcester, Salisbury, Birmingham, Exeter and Barnstaple.
