Café Vaudeville, Belfast’s number one venue for food, beverage and entertainment was created for the Charioteer Group by McNally Design International.

The project was set in an old bank and required the team to employ its extensive conservation architectural experience with listed buildings and at the same time create a venue with a difference.

Back of house services moved to a newly created building allowing the greatest consumer experience to take place in the original building. The centre space hosts a two floor high bar with a plaza in classic checkerboard. Original columns are highlighted in rich organic marble colors and are now flanked with modern balustrades, creating a buffer to the mezzanine.

Interior design reflects Asian, American desert, and modern deco influences. A contrast between vintage architecture and modern expressions of cultures; McNally’s global sourcing is evident everywhere. 

The champagne bar was chosen by the world famous Bollinger brand and named Belfast’s first ‘Bolli Bar’. Vaudeville is unique in that it offers day part food through nighttime entertainment. Lighting effects are spectacular and nowhere is the original dullness of banking architecture evident, yet McNally pay homage to a listed building in such a spectacular way that Café Vaudeville features in Irish tourism television ads.

McNally Design provided architecture, conservation, building control, licensing, construction and project management, procurement and fit out to turnkey.

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