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Visitors to the Artlog will recall that I recently posted an image of the logo I designed for La Cuina, a new Catalan deli and restaurant in Cardiff opened by our friends Montserrat Prat and Richard Edwards. 11 King’s Road, Canton, Cardiff. There is a website under construction HERE.
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On Thursday last week Peter attended the launch of La Cuina for both of us, as I was unable to get away from Aberystwyth. He took photographs on the night, and the following evening returned to take more for the La Cuina website that’s to be launched shortly.
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It’s lovely to see the La Cuina logo on the shop-front, the menus and the carrier-bags. It’s even printed on the tissue paper used to wrap produce. A few weeks ago the logo was just a slip of paper with some cut-out letters glued to it, and now it’s shorthand for the ‘identity’ of the business. The whole enterprise makes me very happy, and I can’t wait to get to Cardiff to see it for myself.
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Above is a photograph of the launch of Cardiff’s first Catalan deli and restaurant. Standing to the left (in the checked shirt) is my friend James, the cellar of whose music shop in Castle Arcade, Cardiff was my studio for nearly three years. The Cardiff music shop is no more, though James’ music shop in Abergavenny still thrives, and with the lettering I designed for it in place over the window.
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Artlogger Phil Cooper on a flying trip to Cardiff, dropped in at La Cuina and was clearly seduced by what was on offer, given that he arrived at Penparc Cottage later that evening laden with Catalan delicacies!
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Contemporary art lining the stair-well, including my Mari Lwyd etching Winter (the larger of the two works at the bottom) commissioned by the Contemporary Art Society for Wales.
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Catalan earthenware on sale in the shop.
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The best honey I’ve ever tasted.
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The La Cuina labels on Montse’s range of Catalan sauces.
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Montse and her daughter Megan.
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The deli looks great! I love Catalan food!
Ditto!
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what a beautiful and delicious-looking place! wonderful design!
Another good reason for you to come and visit us in Wales!
How lucky for all!
Can’t wait to get there and taste that food!
Looks a lovely place, nice food, nice people and I’d like to have some of those pots too!
Likewise, Janet!
I was lucky enough to drop into La Cuina last week, only for coffee and a Catalan custard but it was excellent, exactly how those little pastries should be. Peter’s pics capture the atmosphere of the place. It’s a warm, earthy, stylish restaurant. The menu looked so good and the deli stocks a range of produce you’re just not going to find anywhere else, I think. I agree, Clive, that evergreen oak honey is the best I’ve tasted, I could live on the stuff. We need a branch of La Cuina in Canary Wharf!
And one in Aberystwyth as well!
Chislehurst too!
Longing to be there…
Ha ha! Me too!
Yum! (no other word comes to mind).
And bother that I am a gazzillion miles away from Cardiff!
We will have to live on the images alone! Tee hee!
You can be proud of many things Clive. I know I would be in this matter. But I did miss the vibrant colours, because I thought they added something. A feeling of warmth, summer, happiness… But nevertheless, great pictures. And merchendise after all with your design
Yes, I too liked the colours on the flier, which are also the colours of the Catalan flag. But the restraint of the plain blue frontage with the while lettering above has appeal, and I think that even in restricted colours it nevertheless conjures a spirit of Catalunya and of Montse’s vision for the business. I’m told that the logo will be used in different colour-ways for different aspects of presentation, and so the red and yellow will no doubt appear again elsewhere.
The logo is excellent and the place looks wonderful. Congrats and best wishes to all!
(Speaking of honey, last week I assisted a beekeeper!)
Having long enjoyed Montserrat’s cooking and the home she and Richard have filled with art, it should come as no surprise that La Cuina is full of visual and culinary enticements. The project has been simmering away for quite a while, and judging by the photographs Peter took last week, her vision for the business has been wonderfully realised. I’m so glad to have been able to contribute a little to it. Richard and Montse have been good friends to us, and we wish them every success with their venture.
You assisted a beekeeper? I think I need more information here. Did you take your camera? May we expect photographs over at Form is Void?