BAR DESIGN, MANUFACTURE AND INSTALLATION
We design and build high-performance bar systems that maximise speed of service
For more than 35 years, we have worked alongside some of the world’s most influential bartenders and operators, helping shape the way bars around the world operate.
Clients
CLIENTS
Dishoom
Sky Garden
The Newt in Somerset
Olympia
Gleneagles
The O2
Corinthia
Royal Ballet and Opera
Sushisamba
Selected projects
Each of these projects started with a survey, a brief and a conversation with the people who'd be working behind the bar. Click through to see what we built and why.
The Vinyl Room
Copenhagen, 2025
Dishoom Battersea
London, 2023
London, 2024
SAMBAROOM
Hotel Amigo
Brussels, 2023
The Cyder Bar
Somerset, 2021
The NinetyThird
London, 2023
We help premium hospitality venues design and install ergonomically optimised bar systems without the workflow bottlenecks or installation delays that slow down opening night.
Services
Underbars
Stainless steel underbars drawn up from your operational brief and space, with every station laid out around how your team actually makes and serves drinks.
Full build bars
The whole bar, from bartops and fronts to backfittings, gantries, mirrors, lighting and footrails, in high quality materials and finishes.
Mobile bars
Standard and bespoke mobile bars for venues and events, from compact units to multiple connecting bar stations, built around how each venue operates.
Home bars
Residential bars taken through exactly the same process as our commercial work, from the first survey to the final fit.
Work with us
As an employee-owned business, our close-knit team of bar specialists shares in every project we take on. We’re based at our head office in Stonehouse, with designers also working from Glasgow, Belfast and Cardiff. However far apart we are, we work together as one team, taking the space, the operational brief and the aesthetic vision, and designing a bespoke bar that is as beautiful to look at as it is effortless to work behind.
How a project runs
01
Brief
Every great bar starts with a conversation. Before we draw a single line, we take the time to listen, getting to know the space, the concept and the people it's for.
02
Design
Once we understand what you want to create, we start shaping it, beginning behind the bar with the drinks your team will be making, the way they move as they make them and how your guests interact with them. Over the last 35 years we've designed thousands of bars around the world. You can lean on us for honest advice at every stage, until we have a design that looks beautiful and will hold its own on the busiest night of the year.
03
Manufacture
With the design signed off, we turn to the partnerships we've built over decades in the industry, bringing together the people best placed to make each part of your bar, all of them here in Britain. We guide the build from start to finish and source the equipment alongside it, so that when everything arrives on site, it fits perfectly, works as it should and is ready for years of hard service.
04
Install
On site, our install team takes it from there, coordinating with contractors, M&E and project managers to bring your bar together. New build or renovation, they know how to work on a live site, and because they're part of Cantilever, every bar is finished to the same standard and handed over ready for the first pour.
05
Rollouts
For groups opening across several sites, we can take a bar that works and make it again and again, keeping the details consistent while adapting it to each new space. It means your guests get the same experience wherever they are, and you get a partner who already knows exactly what you need.
06
Aftercare
We don't disappear once you're open. Whether it's a repair, a service, a refresh or a rethink of how your bar works as your menu changes, we're on hand to keep it looking and working the way it should for years to come.
DESIGNED WITH SALVATORE CALABRESE
The Calabrese Sink™
A sink arrangement we developed with Salvatore Calabrese that lets bartenders clear fruit peel and other perishables in one movement, without turning away from the guest. It's now in bars all over the world.
“Working with Cantilever has been key in this evolution.”
Jake Odlum, Bar Operations and Development, Dishoom, on opening ten sites with us
Tell us about your bar
Whether it's a new opening, a refit or a single underbar, share a few details and one of the team will come back to you as soon as possible.
01453 732040