‘Welcome to the 1950s,’ bids the hostess at the stairs to Control Room B, which first opened back then for a very different reason. It’s now home to the first bar in Battersea Power Station, brought to you by Charlie Gilkes as well as Duncan Stirling of Inception Group, behind Mr Fogg’s, Cahoots, Bunga Bunga and Maggie’s.
Designed by Alan Ellis of Ellis Design Studio, the circular, walk-in-only bar is studded with furnace-like lights and overlooks banks of dials and levers, with the massive turbine hall to one side.
