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Table Settings: The Eccleston Yard Pizza Spot Filled With Family Heirlooms and Vintage Charm
From New York-inspired pizza nights to vintage finds and family memories, Weezie’s is full of personal touches. In this behind-the-scenes tour, founders Abbie Roden and Will Sandbach share how they transformed an industrial Eccleston Yards space into a warm, characterful restaurant built around good wine, great pizza and pieces they truly love.
Weezie’s doesn’t feel like a restaurant that was designed overnight. There’s no sense of polish for polish’s sake, no perfectly matched tables or identikit interiors. Instead, the new Eccleston Yards pizza spot from Abbie Roden and Will Sandbach feels deeply personal, layered with stories and sentimentality.
After four years running their wine bar Amie Wine Studio next door, the couple took on the neighbouring space with a clear vision: somewhere relaxed enough for cocktails and pizza, but with all the warmth and character of a lived-in home.
The restaurant is named after Abbie’s grandmother Louise, affectionately known as 'Weezie' by her grandchildren. Her presence quietly runs through the entire space. The logo is taken from her handwriting, lifted from an old birthday card. Framed photographs line the walls alongside her iconic red glasses. There’s even a cabinet dedicated to family memories and behind-the-scenes moments from the restaurant’s creation.
The interiors are an eclectic mix of vintage finds, market discoveries and pieces sourced through Vinterior, all brought together with an instinctive eye rather than a strict design formula. A cow-print chair sits confidently beside worn leather dining seats. Old wooden bowls become wall art. An antique trough now doubles as an ice bucket for parties (genius). Every detail has clearly been cared about.
Rather than working with a traditional interiors studio, Abbie enlisted friend and ceramic artist Flora de Boinville to help bring the space to life. Together, they leaned into the building’s industrial bones with stainless steel, exposed brick, long narrow proportions, while softening it with texture, artwork and layers of vintage furniture that stop it feeling overly refined and personal touches ground the space and give it something many new openings lack: soul.
“I didn’t want anything too new or too commercial. I love having a real mix of things and mashing them together”
Abbie Roden
Original paintings by friends hang beside secondhand market finds. Handmade tiles sit alongside old shutters repurposed as mirrors. Embroidered textiles, church pew seating and softly worn woods create the feeling that the restaurant has existed for far longer than it actually has.
In a world of copy-and-paste hospitality interiors, Weezie’s feels refreshing precisely because it resists perfection. It’s thoughtful without trying too hard, stylish without feeling staged - the kind of place where every object seems to come with a story, and usually does.
You’ll find Weezie’s tucked away in Eccleston Yards, Belgravia, the perfect spot for pizza and wine after work or a slow summer evening with friends.
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