Metro names Colonel Saab 's Mrs. Doubtfire the Musical Dining Experience their Number One entertainment pick.
A delicious cherry on the top of some gorgeous coverage of the new, themed tasting menu and show package, poppets 👵
Cult Media is celebrating 15 years of #art #PR, representing some of #London's (and the world’s) most prestigious, leading #galleries
💥 We’ve also handled award-winning campaigns for everybody from #MrBrainwash (including a red heart balloon stunt which tested our maths skills…) #Maxim, The Connor Brothers, #Aspencrow, amazing artist and friend Dan Pearce, Conrad Jon Godly and Markus Klinko to major retrospectives of iconic artists like Terry O’Neill, Andy #Warhol and #HelmutNewton.
💥 We’ve explored the art of toilet #graffiti, wrapped a #Bentley in art, put together public art treasure hunts for #free pieces worth thousands, and wowed the world with hyper-realistic sculptures of #KateMoss and Cara Delevingne or unveiled previously unseen works and #photos.
💥 The world has got to know the amazing #curators, #gallerists and #dealers behind the art, through our press and we’ve handled too many private views (and champagne flutes) to count, worked with some amazing #charities over the years on art campaigns and amassed A-list collectors and blanket, national coverage along the way.
** Huge thank you to all of the amazing galleries and artists over the past 15 years for letting us put you in the frame** 🥳🪅
We've kicked off an exciting campaign that will help and entertain many, with a really productive BBC meeting.
Looking forward to announcing our new client (and old friend) with their tsunami of projects, soon ❤️
It’s a tough time for #hospitality.
But Chef Stuart Gillies knows how to plate up profitability - he was CEO of The Gordon Ramsay Group for seven years; worked at the world’s biggest #Michelin restaurants and now runs his acclaimed #London and #Kent #restaurants Bank House Chislehurst and Number Eight Sevenoaks .
🍽 His full page Stir It Up magazine guide to finding light in a challenging trading period is a must-read for anybody in hospitality.
🍽 In the current issue, he talks through the biggest #costs, margins, the #savings operators should focus on first, fair #wages, tips on reducing #foodwaste, cost-saving #tech and whether restaurants should increase prices.
Great British Food Awards celebrate the very best #artisanal produce in the #food and #drink industry.
⭐️ And we’re chuffed to announce that we've signed up #Michelin star Chef Ben Crittenden and celebrated Chef @stuart_gillies1 as judges for this year’s awards, joining fellow judges including @michel_roux_jr and @raymondblanc OBE.
⭐️ Ben will be judging beef and pork. He's chef patron of acclaimed Mersea Island restaurant STARK , was named Good Food Guide’s Chef to Watch in Stark's second year, and wowed viewers on #MasterChef the Professionals.
⭐️ Stuart will be judging poultry and lamb. He was CEO of The Gordon Ramsay Group for seven years and, before that, earned international acclaim as chef at Michelin-starred restaurants, including Daniel in New York and The Connaught alongside Angela Hartnett. He currently runs acclaimed #London and #Kent restaurants Bank House Chislehurst and Number Eight Sevenoaks
Hold the front page - Chef Ben Crittenden is the COVER interview of today's Daily Gazette and Essex County Standard.
He discusses how he and wife Sophie have realised their dream of moving their Michelin star restaurant STARK to Mersea.
A juicy cherry on the top of a delicious cake of launch press for the restaurant, this month 🍒
Exciting announcement coming soon, poppets!
Cult's been busy cooking up something delicious for the past five months, and it REEKS of taste, dear.
Watch this space 👀👵
Today is World #MalalaDay, named after #MalalaYousafzai, who spoke to The #UnitedNations on this date (which is also her birthday) to remind world leaders that all girls must go to school for free and that #education is not just a special privilege, but a basic right for everybody.
Our client Colonel Saab has been honoured to host Malala over the years - most poignantly, for her celebrations after graduating from Oxford University.
Malala is an inspirational example of how crucial education and gender equality are - she was the youngest ever recipient of the #NobelPeacePrize and is a powerful activist for education and opportunities for women and girls.
Happy birthday, Malala, and thank you for your amazing work, this World Malala Day ❤️
The Observer has explored Britain’s most exciting new #icecream combos today, from #oysters and #olives to #stilton.
And they pick out Colonel Saab 's hit #ThandaiCrumble #dessert, which gives vanilla pod ice cream a fresh and surprising #Indian hit of cashew nuts, fennel, watermelon kernels, rose petals, pepper, poppy seeds, cardamom and saffron, alongside dark chocolate silk cake and candyfloss.
Ditch the Cornetto and give your tongue something more exciting to lick this summer 🍨
The #elections weren’t the only exciting thing happening in #Westminster last night.
Our very own Colonel Saab headed to the House of Lords to collect their #award for #Culinary Excellence, where they were named one of the Top 100 #Asian restaurants in the United Kingdom.
This will join their other awards, which include being the current title holder of UK's #BestAsianRestaurant at the Asian Curry Awards (the Oscars of the curry world), Best Newcomer at British Curry Awards, Best Restaurant in Feed the Lion awards and #Harden’s Certificate of Achievement.
Congratulations, @rooppartapchoudhary and team 👏 🎉
After making waves in #Kent with their #Michelin star restaurant #Stark, #Chef Ben and Sophie Crittenden have relocated the unique dining experience to #MerseaIsland - OPENING TODAY.
**And we can’t wait to be part of STARK 's new chapter**
💥 The husband and wife duo’s long-term dream has always been to settle in the idyllic, #Essex coastal area where Sophie grew up, and the new #restaurant offers nearly twice the covers of the previous, 12 seat restaurant.
💥 Stark broke the mould of traditional Michelin restaurants - there is loud music, dark walls, no white table clothes or frills and famously, Chef Ben works alone in the kitchen of the intimate venue, meticulously crafting the frequently changing, seasonal six-course #tastingmenus.
💥 It started life as a tiny sandwich shop on an inconspicuous street in #Broadstairs, which Ben and Sophie transformed into a destination dining spot. Ben won #GoodFoodGuide’s Chef to Watch award in Stark's second year, and it became the only Michelin star restaurant in #Thanet by its third year, which they retained since 2019.
💥 Described as “dazzling” by Good Food Guide editor, Elizabeth Carter and “the real deal” in a glowing #Guardian review by one of Britain’s most revered #critics, Marina O’Loughlin, Stark has become a Mecca for #foodies over the past eight years.
Their motto is “good food, laid bare” and the new restaurant offers the same pared back decor and skilled flavour combinations using seasonal ingredients, as Ben says: “If it’s not in season, it has no flavour and no right to be on the plate."
#CharlotteChurch shot to fame when she was just 11, surrounded by a team, who told her what to say and do.
She wanted to change all of that and reclaim her voice, story, and direction with her own, carefully selected team.
We’re happy she chose us for one of our favourite campaigns, showing the clever, funny, refreshingly unedited #feminist powerhouse she is, and launching her exciting, new musical direction.
Highlights included:
💥 A 5 page cover interview with #Stylist, an #NME cover, 2 #Guardian cover interviews, #Metro cover interview, #independent Mag cover among 800 #reviews, #news stories, #interviews and #features.
💥 Our launch event for Charlotte’s Four EP at Hammersmith’s Riverside Studios received blanket coverage. Charlotte performed new songs in a futuristic, UV costume with illuminated tentacles, which were wrapped around the audience, who could control the colours using interactive buttons. Naturally, all audience members were slathered in UV paint on arrival
Cult handled the whole press campaign for Charlotte, servicing her Four and Five #EPs, #single release, and #musicvideo. We also launched Charlotte’s publishing company, See Monkey Songs.
As Charlotte would say, it was lush - she even introduced us to some Cheeky Vimtos to celebrate ❤️
**We’re marking #15 years of #Cult by looking back on the best 15 campaigns we’ve worked on**
First up, #Honda’s Live Every Litre, a ground-breaking crowd-sourced, social media activated, documentary film.
Working with the amazing Grey London and our gorgeous, former office buddies Persuasion Comms, we travelled around Europe over 38 days, sending 13 people on their dream road-trips in the same Honda CR-Z hybrid, including:
🚘 Sending a trio across #LakeGarda on a giant bouncy castle - interrupting the sailing regatta
🚘 A war veteran’s emotional return to the site he landed in D Day
🚘 A metalhead driving to #Lisbon to meet his favourite band, #Metallica
🚘 Taking an inspiring blind lady to #France to realise her dream of driving a car
🚘 Taking a man to #Amsterdam to find love for his lonely boxer #dog
🚘 A performance artist driving to Paris to realise her #burlesque dreams
Each roadtrip and #shortfilm generated reams of coverage, and the final #documentary, directed by the legendary Claudio Von Planta, premiered at an underground cinema and online, followed by launches in European cities.
It's been quite a ride.
Happy new year, y'all!
2023 has been a tough one. But big respect to all of our hospitality clients for battling against the odds to come through the aftermath of Covid and our art clients for keeping their creativity alive in difficult times.
We're ALL getting stronger by the day and we've some awesome events and launches, starting in January, so here's to 2024 being a bumper year 💪 🍻
We're about to launch something big.
THE FINAL FRONTIER OF FREE SPEECH
A Sh!t Show ten years in the making.
#newclient #art #graffiti
As we're getting ready to launch a new @ColonelSaab, we thought we'd look back at some of the VIPs, celebs and influencers we've had through the doors of our Holborn Town Hall location over the past few years. It's been a busy one!
Big thanks to our guests, @mewossy @therealbaddiel @jalithgow @malala @antheaturner @ranvirtv @wonderwomanshel @mrsrachelstevens @koloabibtoure, Nasser Hussain, @lydiabright @laurahamiltontv @sundarpichai @itsbigzuu and of course, the REAL VIPs - Colonel Manbeer Choudhary (the original Colonel Saab!) and @binnychoudhary.
We hope to see you all at our Trafalgar Square venue soon!
Cult Media Academy Workshops
Relying on word-of-mouth? Hoping customers walk through the door? That's not a viable business model.
⚡️⚡️⚡️We're launching shiny, NEW PR Academy WORKSHOPS to help businesses take control of their own PR.⚡️⚡️⚡️
💥 Press Release 101
💥 Pitch Perfect skills
💥 PR Strategy
💥 Stand out from the Crowd
💥 Private Consultation
💥 Social Media Booster
Click the link for more info.
https://www.cultmediacollective.com/academy
NEW WEBSITE, WHO DIS?
We've launched our brand, spanking new website and we think it's right pretty. If you're on the hunt for PR, marketing or social media services then please head over to www.cultmediacollective.com and take a look.
NEW WEBSITE, WHO DIS?
We've launched our brand, spanking new website and we think it's right pretty. If you're on the hunt for PR, marketing or social media services then please head over to www.cultmediacollective.com and take a look
