Depot Bistro
A name you can shout across the platform.
A bistro in a working train station that needed a name you can shout across a platform.
The owners had a lease, a chef and a working title nobody could pronounce over a departure announcement.
What we did
We named it after the building. Depot is one word, two syllables, and was already painted on the facade in 1930s lettering we redrew rather than replaced.
The menu is a single printed sheet, reset weekly by the chef from a two-style template. Interior graphics reuse the departure-board grid.
11 min
Average order-to-table
Team
Claire Simmons, Bea Newman
Photography
Jake Sutton
The room, platform side
The counter at noon
11 min
Average order-to-table
1 sheet
The entire menu system
2 wks
Name to opening
First agency that hit the date they wrote down.
Peter Haviland, owner
