Following the success of restaurant and cocktail bar Shrub & Shutter – a recent Time Out awards winner – Chris Edwards and Dave Tregenza have opened the deliciously unusual First Aid Box in Brixton.
The duo has developed First Aid Box as a health-inspired all day café and bar. As would be expected of the pair, who are also behind cocktail and menu ‘counselling’ group Salts of the Earth, the cocktail menu offers an innovative twist on the medical theme.
Cocktails such as the Brockwell Park Bramble playfully combine gin and plum bitters with vitamin C and a Chambord syringe, whilst the stand out Thirst Aid cocktail is delivered in a drip bag.
The medical theme continues into the interiors of the bar, with decorative objects including framed liquor prescriptions and medical equipment. Salts of the Earth’s Chris describes the design concept as a “modern, stark, clinical-nod to Nordic design”, with simple white wall tiles and ash-coloured wood. The bar area in particular resembles an alchemist’s workspace, which suits the experimental style of the First Aid Box menu.
