The Ampersand Hotel’s Apero Bar & Restaurant was an award winner for designers Dexter Moren Studio in 2013. The modern Mediterranean eatery is to be found in the Victorian basement, and is a more industrial place than the hotel as a whole; cast aluminium wall lamps and reclaimed wooden tables are examples of this concept. Apero is organized into zones, such as the snug which crouches beneath the cellar arches, and there’s more informal dining available at the marble bar or an ornate bench table for larger parties. The main attraction though has to be the dizzying five-metre cabinet of curiosities extending up through two levels.
