Update 2019: Been a lot to Olympic Studios and love both the restaurant and the cinema. The Disabled Toilet is well decorated and in a corridor between the cinemas and the restaurant. It’s a left hand transfer once you’ve moved the massive bin! Flat smooth flooring all the way in the corridor. Colour contrast between walls and floor in corridor not great but within limits.

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2016: A visit to the Olympic Studios in Barnes, (see my previous review),

Name: Olympic Studios
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once home to recording artists such as The Eagles, Jimi Hendrix, Queen, The Stones etc. (see the full Wiki history here it’s impressive). Now it’s a cinema, a private members club and a restaurant/cafe. I and Lieutenant No.1 went to see The Grand Budapest Hotel which I thoroughly enjoyed especially the performance by Ralph Fiennes as a gigolo concierge/manager of the hotel. There was maybe one too many guest appearances – if you blinked you missed one – from the likes of Harvey Keitel, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson et al.

We didn’t eat there but the menu looks good and not too expensive, with dishes such as Pork Belly, The Olympic Dog and Seabass En Papillotte for 2. It’s open all day serving from breakfast to dinner and already appears to be a hangout for the Barnes Yummy Mummies. The woollen tea cosy on the pot of tea was maybe a step to far in trying to be ‘trendy’.

They have room for wheelchair seating in the cinema but it’s at the front. As the screen wasn’t too large I could see everything, but a longer film may have given me a stiff neck. It’s privately owned and has been refurbished to a high standard with reclining seats and tables for your drinks and nibbles. But I was most impressed by the fact that they had bothered to put in a platform lift to enable full accessibility. They also have good disabled toilets and the service was excellent. So the Olympic Studios get a fully audited 3 BBSTicks… Well done for not asking the local authority for an ‘exemption’ re the access issues.

So from a bad start with an attempted cab theft I ended up feeling good that a privately owned cinema had gone to great lengths to be fully inclusive, see you next week.

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