Precision Comes To New Chester Restaurant

The brand new G.A.L. Restaurant and Bar in Chester broke new ground in restaurant design when it opened last December. An interior of pastel blue with light African wengi wood décor, combined with elegant booth-style seating gives G.A.L. a stylish international ambience to match a wide-ranging, very eclectic food menu.

This isn't a 'theme' restaurant in the sense of a particular type of food, says head chef Joe Lynch, who came from an existing high street restaurant group to explore new ideas and varieties in dining at G.A.L.

"We are a city centre location and wanted to offer something to appeal to everyone. It has to be affordable, but at the same time it's all freshly prepared and top quality."

So, in the brand new kitchen at G.A.L. there's a focus on counter refrigeration and refrigerated preparation wells. As the dishes are being created, the fresh ingredients need to be not only kept cool, but ready for immediate cooking and plating.

And when it came to refrigeration, there was one key choice - Precision.

Says Joe Lynch: "I'd worked with Precision before, in my previous jobs, and was impressed by the quality and reliability" he says. "But what impressed me more was the flexibility. Precision could tailor the units to fit the space in the new kitchen. I'd recommend them to all restaurants."

Included in Joe's new kitchen is the PPC 307 3-door prep station underneath the service hatch, for making up main courses - complete with 12-well ingredient makeup - and HCU 211 gastronorm counter refrigeration, serving as the restaurant's dessert station. Both were customised by Precision to fit the kitchen's exact needs. 

Space in the kitchen is always at a premium, and the PPC prep counter is more compact than standard units, allowing a frame, gantry and pass shelf to be added without increasing the overall footprint.

In G.A.L.'s striking designer bar it was essential the bottle coolers, on show to customers, added to the theatrical style. Precision's Back-Bar BBS range were the units of choice here. They have a striking 'retro' feel that fits well with the G.A.L. interior and makes them powerful sales tools.

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