What is Bench?
Bench is going to be a neighbourhood bistro with great food, great drinks and a small shop element. It’s an extension of a series of successful pop-ups we have done over the past couple of years in Sheffield. It’s something that’s been in our heads for a long time, and now we have found a space in Nether Edge we’re excited to be able to put down roots in a place we can call 'home'.
What will Bench be like?
A communal setting for drinking and dining. We want it to be fun and we want it to be informal. We want everyone to be comfortable when they’re inside our space. Most importantly, we want to Bench to be an extension of ourselves. We want it to be like coming around to our house, grabbing a drink and a bite to eat and just having a good time.
Why do we need help?
With your help we’ll be able to make sure we have the best ventilation and extraction needed to ensure a nice environment for our guests. In our opinion, there's nothing worse than a smoky, smell-lingering space, and this is something we really want to make sure we get right, not only for our guests but for the community too, ensuring it is completely odourless.
We also want to support local independent businesses as much as possible, such as our favourite local joiner Rocket Design to build the 'Bench' and brilliant local ceramicist Grey Suit Clay to make our crockery. There are some amazing people in this city doing brilliant things and we’d love to work with them to celebrate the city and make sure we boost the local economy – not the bank accounts of the big chains and corporations.
What will we get for our investment?
In return for your investment we’ve invited over some friends to come and cook in a series of Sunday Sessions. A celebration of some of our favourite local places like Pina and VorV, as well as friends from afar like Anglothai legends John & Diz, Brad Carter of Michelin starred Carters of Moseley, Sam Grainger of Belzan, Cinder and Madre, and Lee Wescott, most recently of Michelin starred Pensons.
They will be over serving family-style Sunday feasts. Some breakfasts, some brunches, some dinners.
As well as this, we’re also gonna knock out our inaugural Bench merch. Pins, tees and totes. Super stylish fashion accessories, all acting as a little thank-you to help us reach our goal.
And then of course you can get gift vouchers for drinking and dining at Bench. Also, if you’re feeling really flush we’ll even bring Bench to your home, or you can hire the whole place out for a private do.
Finally, if you wanna just be an absolute legend, you can just stick us a bit of money to basically say good luck and here’s a little something to help you on your way. Literally anything you guys can give us is crazy helpful and we will be forever grateful.
You’re helping us achieve our dream and we can’t explain how much it’ll mean to both of us.
Thank you,
Jack & Ron.