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“It’s a relaxing place where you can pop in. You’re not goingtoBarHenrytohavea refined, sit-down dinner.
It’s about maintaining a buzz —you’reconstantlysippinga drinkorsnacking.” —DanielCosta
“I tried having a stand-up bar in both Bar Bricco and Uccellino and they never worked out,” Costa laughs. “People just want to get to
a table.” When designing the bar at Bar Henry, Costa opted not to add stools and try the stand-up bar concept again. “Everyone looked at me and said, ‘Daniel, you’re going to be the only person standing at the bar having a drink.’ But we tried it and it ended up working right off the bat. We’ll get people who put their name down for a table, but then opt just to stand at the bar the whole time. It has the right energy.”
While Costa has had offers for collaborations before, he says none of them have been quite the right fit. He wasn’t even looking to take on a new project, as he’s been busy developing three concepts for the Citizen on Jasper apartment building. But when Jordan Singer, the president
of Henry Singer, approached him to be part of the brand’s new lifestyle destination in the Stantec Tower in the Ice District, “the stars aligned.”
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