Parcel Yard, leased from Network Rail, is a two-storey 10,000sq ft site and is due to open on 18 March. The site features a “mix of modern and heritage” influences in the design.
Modern furniture will sit alongside reclaimed doors and stone lintels in the Grade I-listed building. The menu will offer traditional British food.
Fuller’s already has a pub at Paddington station, the Mad Bishop & Bear. The number of people passing through King’s Cross is expected to double following the investment, which started in 2007 and will be completed next year.
“The whole station is being revolutionised,” said Fuller’s public relations manager Candice MacDonald. “It is about the reinvention of station dining.”
Around 1.3 billion people pass through British stations every year and sales at station retailers continue to grow by at least 5% each quarter.
“The new retail and dining mix at King’s Cross will be one of the best at a British station and complement the increased capacity,” said Gavin McKechnie, Network Rail’s head of retail.
Fuller’s is also opening the 41-bed White Swan Hotel in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, in April and the eight-bed Crown Inn in Bishop’s Waltham, Hampshire, in March.
The company has also just bought 15 tenanted pubs from Enterprise Inns, bringing its total purchases in the last financial year to 29.
