5/11/24 - updated with launch plans
The Metropolitan Arcade at Liverpool Street, an Edwardian shopping arcade once saved from demolition during the 80s, is now being reinvented as a food hall for the 2020s. It's going to be part of a series of spin-off concepts from Boxpark called BoxHall. They've been promising to open it for a while (it was first announced way back in 2022), but now things are properly moving forward for a 2025 launch.
Unlike Boxpark, this is not something that's built from shipping containers (like the original in Shoreditch or the more recent Boxpark Camden). That makes this the first diversion from their successful Boxpark format since the initial food hall opened back in 2011. Apparently, they've been looking for inspiration in places like Chelsea Market in NYC and have brought in Macaulay Sinclair, the designers who worked with Hawksmoor and Dishoom, to bring it all to life.
The new space will be made of 13 new spaces for food (either kitchens or "food retail") and the team are just at the stage of looking for people to take on those spaces. The new BoxHall will also have a "Chef’s Kitchen" which they say "gives rising talent a space to showcase their emerging culinary concepts and menus".
On top of all that, literally in fact, there will be a 3,000 sq ft roof terrace with views across the City.
We'll have more details about who will actually open at BoxHall closer to the opening date.
More about BoxHall City
Where is it? The Arcade, Liverpool Street, LONDON, EC2M 7PN
When? Spring 2025
Find out more: Visit the website or follow them on Instagram @boxhallcity.
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