Spread across 17,000sq ft and split over three floors, the high-end restaurant group is to ‘create an inclusive and inviting place to eat, drink and socialise’.
The design will incorporate a ground floor café and brasserie, a first-floor restaurant, and a rooftop bar.
IQL is a £2.4bn joint venture between Lendlease and regeneration specialist LCR that stands at the gateway to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
“D&D has an established reputation for being at the forefront of restaurant development within emerging areas of cities both in the UK and oversees,” says the group’s chairman and CEO, Des Gunewardena.
“We see Stratford as an exciting new cultural and leisure quarter of London, particularly following the 2012 Olympics, and we are admirers of Lendlease’s bold vision for IQL’s development.
“We look forward to occupying what will be some beautiful spaces and hope to develop restaurant, café and bar concepts to do justice to a building which is sure to become an iconic landmark for Stratford and for London.”
D&D currently operates more than 40 restaurants worldwide, principally in London, but also with locations in Leeds, Manchester, Paris and New York.
Last month it was announced that the group is on course to launch its first location in Birmingham next year, which is set to open within the city’s tallest office tower at 103 Colmore Row.
