Restaurateur Daniel Costa and Henry Singer Fashion Group announced Bar Henry, a European-inspired, all-day licensed café that will be introduced later this year at the Henry Singer flagship store in Edmonton’s downtown ICE District. Like the Singer brand, known for crafted luxury clothing, the intimate café will seat about 30 people in a post-modernist Italian-designed space, with dark graphite tile and burlwood wall panels, back-lit with warm lighting. The furnishings are styled to bring in the classic Italian flavour of the modern man, featuring leather, tubular steel swing chairs and chrome finishes and Costa’s team will create a concise, quality-driven cocktail and wine list focusing on small producers from Italy, France and Spain. Also on the menu are snacks, which Costa, founder of Bar Bricco, Uccellino and Corso 32, calls ‘spuntino,’ in Italian. “Daniel is an incredible chef who brings his passion and inspiration to Bar Henry with a thoughtful and creative presentation of coffee, food, wine and cocktails,” says Jordan Singer, president of Henry Singer. “We are creating a warm and sophisticated space, with an intimate energy found in the typical European or Italian bar, which isn’t the bar or pub you think of in Canada.” The flagship store revolutionizes retail shopping by creating a ‘Henry Singer Multiverse,’ drawing people physically into the space, adds Singer, who envisions a procession of experiences as customers flow through the store. The 10,500 square foot Henry Singer is an anchor tenant in the new Stantec Tower in ICE District. Bar Henry sits on the store’s northwest corner, with its own street entrance.
Daniel Costa –(www.danielcosta.ca)
Henry Singer Fashion Group, Manulife Place, #160, 10180 101st St., Edmonton, Alberta T5J 3S4 (780/423-6868 www.henrysinger.com)