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ome might say that the 2020 Scottish Bar & Pub awards Lifetime Achievement recipient Alan Tomkins took a risk by spending £600k refurbishing and rebranding popular Glasgow institution Urban Brasserie as Ralph & Finns during a global pandemic. But he’s always been a confident and instinctive operator and when it opened last month early indications were that he was right to go with this impulse because the whole project, designed by Mark Brunjes of CM Design had been a triumph and was very well received by customers before it had to shut for the second lockdown. The entire project lasted from 1st September and it was ready by the end of October. The bar has been moved and there are now various rooms off the central area – The Whisky Room, The Board Room and The Garden Room with the main structural change being the move of the bar from to the left as you enter to pride of place in the centre of the space. All your brain tells you when you walk in is ‘wow, wow, wow’ because this is a stunning redesign. Said Mark Brunjes, “Spending that much money in this current climate shows how upbeat Alan is about the future of the hospitality industry. “I had never been to Urban Brasserie before and when I did The Anchor Line for Mario Gizzi and Tony Conetta, it was general knowledge that a lot of Urban Brasserie’s clientele crossed the road to the Anchor Line and I can remember feeling a bit bad about this at the time. But what we have done with Ralph & Finns has caused
