Olympic Studios

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Olympic Studios - Wikipedia

In 1965 it was purchased by Olympic Sound Studios and became a renowned independent commercial recording studio, best known for the many legendary rock and pop recordings made there from the late 1960s onwards.

However, Olympic has now been converted into an independent local cinema incorporating reminders of its own history, including a new studio designed with the help of original members of the studio's staff.

Olympic was a popular studio with Decca, EMI, Pye and Philips recording A&R staff, as well as hosting London Weekend Television's music recordings.

[12] Barbara Jefferies, then Studio manager for Virgin Music at Olympic Studios,[19] instructed that the master tapes of the studio's vast library of recording sessions be discarded.

[25] However, in 2013 a new smaller studio facility opened at Olympic, designed with the help of original members of the studio, and envisaged to continue operating alongside its original role as cinema, which has also recommenced in line with its history and with the help of studio staff, using the latest audio cinema techniques.

Olympic Studios: Restaurant review - The shrimps had a mysterious ...

Recently it's been re-constituted as a cinema, bar and restaurant.

This is the place for Sight & Sound readers to discuss Alfonso Cuarón's light filters and gleaming backdrops – though they might be distracted by the chef's kitchen table, on which a maître pâtissier glumly constructs croissants and pains au chocolat for next morning's drop-in breakfast market.

The menu offers mostly familiar comfort food, from home-smoked mackerel to Old Spot pork belly, but includes a selection of made-before-your-eyes quiches and tarts that I haven't seen in a restaurant since the 1980s, and three monster main dishes to share: 'Sutton Hoo Roast Chicken', named after, and presumably resembling, the famous Anglo-Saxon burial ship, a seabass en papillote, baked in (hopefully not Anglo-Saxon) parchment, and the confusingly named 'O'Shea's Irish Angus Côte de Boeuf' which has been hung for 44 days, and will set you back £66.

When the roast duck with creamed leeks wasn't available, our friendly waiter offered an alternative confit of duck with butter beans and spinach.

Angie's roast cod with brown shrimp butter was frankly undercooked.

Olympic Cafe and Dining Room - restaurant review | London ...

A starter of gnocchi and butternut squash was perfect winter fare — there was cheese in the gnocchi and the squash had a deep, spicy flavour.

Salad of artichoke, fig and goat’s cheese was promising but drowned by the sweet dressing, and there wasn’t enough artichoke or fig.

The dish that really tests a chef is chips.

My friend prides herself on being a connoisseur of British classics such as bread and butter pudding.

Pudding aside, the Olympic Café and Dining Room serves food that is fit for a pop star and is a welcome addition to Barnes.