Brighton looks after its own. We've cut suits here since 1999, a few minutes from the seafront, so dressing Riddle & Finns, the Champagne and oyster bar that's become part of the city's fabric, felt less like a brief and more like a favour for a neighbour.
Restaurant uniforms are their own discipline. A dining room runs hot, fast and close to the guest, so the clothing has to read elegant from two feet away and still take a splash of brine and a brush past a chair back. For Riddle & Finns, the answer leaned into the room itself, the marble, the candlelight, and the theatre of a raw bar, rather than fighting it.
What we enjoy most about a project like this is that it's never just a garment order. It's a conversation about how the staff want to feel on a Saturday night service when every table is turning. Confidence is cut into a uniform long before anyone puts it on.
This kind of work sits with the studio's uniform division rather than our Bond Street tailoring side, and you can read the full Riddle & Finns case study over at Gresham Blake Studios.
The wider point: a restaurant uniform shouldn't look like it came from a workwear catalogue any more than the menu should read like a vending machine. If it's designed properly by people who think about cut and cloth all day, it becomes part of the experience guests pay for. That's the approach behind every restaurant uniform programme the team takes on.
Brighton-born, Brighton-proud. Some briefs you say yes to before you've heard the budget.