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Inception Group to open second Cahoots bar
London-based Inception Group will open a second Cahoots venue in October, inspired by a vintage post office from 1946.
Located within an old railway arch in the Borough Yards development of south London, Cahoots: Postal Office will be modelled on a vintage post office, with guests entering the bar through a false shopfront.
Charlie Gilkes, co-founder of Inception Group, said: “After the enormous success of the original Cahoots in Soho, which imagined the scoundrels had occupied a 1940s underground tube station and ticket hall, we are very excited to be expanding the network.
“Borough Market feels like the perfect location for our second opening, and we are very excited to be exploring another great British institution; the post office, and have created our most immersive venue to date.”
Cahoots guests will be greeted at the overflowing mail counter by a ‘postie’, who will direct them through a post box into an immersive ‘sorting area’.
In stark contrast to the façade of the post office, the two-floor sorting area bar will be ‘a hive of bustling activity’, with capacity for 80 seated guests, or 120 standing guests for private events.
The focal point of the bar will be a pneumatic tube system, based on 1940s mail delivery technology. This ‘world first’ installation will see cocktails ‘whizzing’ overhead as they are delivered to guests from the bar through a series of air-powered tubes.
Notable serves from the menu include This Way Up, made with Patrón Silver Tequila; Signed, Sealed, Delivered, created with Bombay Sapphire gin; and Par Avion, featuring Grey Goose L’Original vodka.
Inception Group has confirmed the space will be fully flexible to accommodate groups of all sizes, with a combination of seating arrangements including repurposed mail sack chairs and seats within a converted mail train cart.
In typical Inception Group style, immersive and interactive elements will feature throughout the venue.
Decorative elements will include ‘suspicious’ rattling parcels, carrier pigeons, and an exotic airmail freight from Cuba containing Winston Churchill’s favourite cigars.
On the bar’s mezzanine level, guests will find The Dead Letter Depot: a ‘treasure trove’ of precious mail that ‘never reached its intended destination’.
‘Undelivered’ parcels and packages will wrap the curved walls of the old rail arch, and an anti-theft deterrent alarm system will be triggered by guests that touch ‘the most highly valued loot’ on display throughout the bar.
In addition, guests can take a break in the ‘tea corner’, where repurposed telephone switchboards can be used to ‘listen in on tantalising 1946 gossip and top secret dispatches’.
Cahoots: Postal Office will open on 11 October at 20 Stoney Street, and will join Inception Group’s portfolio of 15 immersive bars across London, including the Mr Fogg’s venues.
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