Friar Gate Studios - Built to inspire

Cafe Bar

Cafe Bar imageOur café bar is central to creating a sense of community and provides a great place to network with other creative's in the building. Its friendly and welcoming atmosphere provide a welcoming meeting place for anyone. The cafe is situated in an accessible and relaxed environment with an ethos to encourage clients to enjoy food and drink but to also taste the world of arts through touring exhibitions by local and professional artists, live jazz and contemporary music, poetry and dance. 

The café bar operator is a small company called ‘Artsmith’ their aim is to please and use their own artistic backgrounds to present food and drink alongside various forms of art so that eating is a performance to be savoured. Cafe Artsmith will be somewhere to relax, meet, exchange ideas and enjoy time out. 

Refreshments provided range from a selection of tempting light snacks, drinks and buffet lunches; all may be pre-ordered and served in the meeting rooms or the café bar. Café Artsmith will cater for formal and informal occasions.

The café bar has WiFi, a huge TV screen and a selection of the day’s newspapers on hand and the option to open our full height glass doors in good weather onto our courtyard makes the café bar the perfect place to enjoy your lunch when the sun is shining or to entertain guests.

Hiring the Cafe Barcafe Artsmith Logo

For sit down events we can cater for up to 150 people.

£200 per half day or evening

£350 per full day

All catering must be provided by Café Artsmith.