Our Story

About

An independent delicatessen, fine food store and cookery school, Pavilion is proud to introduce an extraordinary new food experience to Henley. More than just a shop, it is a sensory celebration of the delicious flavours and aromas of wonderful food, from the simplest seasonal ingredients to the imaginative dishes skilfully prepared by our chefs.

Enjoy succulent meats and roasted seasonal veggies from the rotisserie oven that sits at the heart of our store; watch our talented chefs at work in the vast open kitchen as they prepare a selection of impeccably prepared, restaurant-quality dishes, ready for you to take away. Use our in-store coffee grinder to create your own freshly ground coffee to create the perfect brew. Top up your own water bottle in partnership with Join The Pipe, a company committed to a world with less plastic waste, and in which everyone, everywhere in the world, has access to safe drinking water.

Whether you’re just curious about cooking or you’re already a whizz in the kitchen, we’d love our store to become your foodie playground – a cornucopia of inspiring produce, curated with our community in mind.

“A ‘pavilion’ is a place where people from all walks of life can join together, a hub for the community, a place to build friendships and make lasting memories. At Pavilion, Henley, we aim to build bonds through a love of food. By curating and creating the most delicious food within a shopping environment like no other, we hope to inspire the foodies of tomorrow.”

– Micah, Founder & Owner

The Finest Ingredients

You’ll love exploring our fridges, shelves and deli counter for interesting ingredients for your next cooking adventure. We’ve searched high and low for artisanal products of exceptional quality, so you can create delicious dishes at home.

Chefs

The on-site kitchen, led by Tania Steytler, serves up familiar deli classics as well as dishes hailing from Europe and beyond, showcasing the chef teams’ skills and backgrounds. Whether it’s a hot breakfast take-out of verbena harissa shakshuka, a rotisserie chicken and wild mushroom sandwich or a proper suet-crust steak and porter pie to enjoy at home, the kitchen creates dishes to cover morning, midday and later.
Formerly of Severn & Wye Smokery, Gloucestershire, and, more recently, Jeow Jeow in London, Tania says, “Honestly, it’s quite simple – we’re chefs because we love it. Guided by suppliers and customers, our goal in the kitchen is to do our absolute best to produce really great food.”

A Potted History

25 Market Place is thought to be among four properties left by William Barnaby to the Corporation of Henley, the greater part of the rents and profits going to poor townsfolk and the upkeep of the church and bridge. Barnaby (d.1587) was a successful draper who owned at least ten tenements and a shop.

Start

c. 1471

The long rear wing may represent an extension to a medieval open hall, itself rebuilt in the C16 as a two-storey, timber-framed structure

1658

Referenced in the Quakers’ Minute Book of 1705 25 Market Place was known as the Rose and Crown coaching inn (not to be confused with the public house of that name formerly at 56 New Street, Henley-on-Thames

1771

The stables and outbuildings were damaged by a fire in 1766 and rebuilt by William Bradshaw to a specification of December 1771

1821

After the closure of the Rose and Crown, the property was let on an 11-year lease to the waggoner William Atkins in 1812, while a small shop, part of the same premises was let to William Cooper as yearly tenant

1831

An adjoining gateway (and presumably the chamber over) was leased to Robert Owthwaite for 99 years from 1831. Owthwaite described himself in the 1841 census as a cabinet maker, but is better known as a Henley builder and landowner

1896

In 1896 the brothers John and Thomas Facy established a drapers' stores at 25 Market Place, expanding into the adjacent properties after the First World War. Facy’s vacated 25 Market Place in 2011, but continue to occupy nos 27-31

1974

The property was awarded Grade II listed status

2021

Pavilion launches its first store at 25 Market Place, Henley

We look forward to welcoming you to Pavilion
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