What Drake & Morgan does

Drake & Morgan is a London-based hospitality company that owns and operates a portfolio of bars and restaurants across the United Kingdom capital. Founded in 2008, the group offers food and wine alongside seasonal and cocktail menus, targeting London consumers and visitors seeking premium casual-dining and bar experiences. The company employs between 251 and 500 staff, indicating a multi-venue operation with centralized back-office functions supporting front-of-house service across its sites.

The company's business model is straightforward hospitality retail: revenue is generated through on-premise food and beverage sales at its owned and operated venues. Drake & Morgan pursues scale through a multi-site London footprint, with brand-driven differentiation in a competitive central London bar and restaurant market. No pricing, subscription, or alternative revenue mechanics are disclosed in the available data, and the company remains privately held with no disclosed parent company or investor base.

In 2016, Drake & Morgan acquired Corney & Barrow, a move that expanded its London venue portfolio and signaled an inorganic growth posture. Beyond this acquisition, no subsequent strategic actions — including funding rounds, additional M&A, product launches, or geographic expansion — are documented in the supplied source material. The company's own website (drakeandmorgan.co.uk) was inaccessible during data collection, displaying only a bot-protection loading page, which materially limits the depth of firmographic and operational intelligence available for this analysis.

Name

Drake & Morgan

Website

http://drakeandmorgan.co.uk/

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Drake & Morgan is a privately held London-based hospitality group, founded in 2008, that owns and operates a multi-venue portfolio of bars and restaurants offering food, wine, seasonal, and cocktail menus to London consumers and visitors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Restaurant and Bar Hospitality

NAICS

Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages) (72241), Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages) (7224), Restaurants and Other Eating Places (72251), Full-Service Restaurants (722511)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810), Retail-Eating Places (5812)

akta.pro primary industry

Cocktail Bars & Lounges (CRANACAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Rooftop Bars & Beach/Pool Bars (THAFAEAJ), Neighborhood Bars & Taverns (CRANACAA)

Keywords

• Restaurant operations
• Bar services
• Hospitality venues
• Food and beverage
• Cocktail bars

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Core offering

Drake & Morgan owns and operates a portfolio of bars and restaurants in London. It offers food and wine, seasonal, and cocktail menus, providing dine-in hospitality services to consumers across multiple venues in the city.

Product overview

No product information available. The source data consists only of a verification/loading page ("One moment, please...") with no access to actual website content.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Drake & Morgan Bars and Restaurants

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• The Ivy Collection: The Ivy operates full-service restaurants and bars across London and the UK with cocktail and all-day food menus, making it a directly comparable premium London hospitality operator.
• Be At One: Be At One is a UK-focused cocktail bar chain with multiple London sites, directly comparable to Drake & Morgan's cocktail-led venue model.
• D&D London: D&D London operates a portfolio of premium restaurants and bars across London, directly comparable to Drake & Morgan's multi-site London bar/restaurant estate with similar food-and-drink-led formats.
• All Bar One: All Bar One runs a chain of bars offering cocktails, wine, and light food in London and the UK, directly comparable to Drake & Morgan's bar-with-food concept.
• Corney & Barrow: Corney & Barrow is the wine bar business acquired by Drake & Morgan in 2016, directly comparable as a London-based wine and food venue operator under the same ownership.
• Simmons Bars: Simmons Bars operates a portfolio of late-licensed cocktail and music bars across London, comparable as a multi-site London cocktail-led bar operator.
• Dirty Martini: Dirty Martini operates cocktail bars in London and other UK cities, directly comparable as a cocktail-specialist multi-site operator targeting similar premium nightlife occasions.

Broad incumbents

• Soho House & Co. Soho House operates private members' clubs, hotels, and restaurants globally including London venues, comparable as a broader hospitality platform with overlapping food, drink, and cocktail programming.
• Fuller, Smith & Turner: Fuller's is a UK-listed pub and brewing group with extensive London holdings, comparable as a broader incumbent in the London bar and pub space with food-led offerings.

Emerging players

• Wagamama: Wagamama operates a large UK casual dining chain with growing cocktail and bar programs, comparable as a UK multi-site food-and-drink operator with London concentration.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/drakeandmorgan
• Facebookfacebook.com/drakeandmorgancollection

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A1 record

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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