Tall poseur tables for standing chats, square and round coffee tables for the quieter corners: this is the Italia range in all its shapes, plus the Impulse coffee tables with metal frames and the arrowhead leg version. Bistro tables do their best work in the spaces between desks and meetings, the kitchen corner, the breakout area, the spot by the window where people actually talk to each other.
Choosing a bistro table
Start with height. Poseur tables are bar height and pair with high stools from our stools range; they suit standing catch ups and busy canteens because people naturally keep things short at that height. Coffee tables sit low and belong with soft seating, where nobody is in a hurry. The Italia range makes both, in round, square and rectangular tops, including slimline versions, so you can run one consistent look right through a breakout space.
Then think about the base. The Italia cross base versions are the steady choice on uneven floors and shrug off knocks in high traffic areas. The Impulse coffee tables with metal frames match the Impulse desking finishes, which matters if your breakout corner sits in view of the open plan office. For something with more presence in a reception or waiting area, the Italia High Gloss Boardroom Coffee Table brings a polished top without demanding a boardroom to put it in.
What goes around them
Bistro tables rarely stand alone. Pair poseur tables with seating from café and bistro seating, put canteen and restaurant furniture alongside for the lunch rush, and use coffee and occasional tables where the sofas gather. If the room doubles as a meeting space, a couple of folding and flip-top tables let it change jobs in minutes.
Bistro tables in Belfast and across Northern Ireland
We are Office Interior Solutions, a Belfast based firm that supplies and installs office and breakout furniture right across Northern Ireland: Belfast, Lisburn, Antrim, Newtownabbey and Bangor most weeks, and on to Derry and Newry when the job calls. Delivery and installation are included, and we take the packaging away with us, so your new canteen corner is usable the same day.
Breakout spaces are usually squeezed into odd corners, so measurements matter more than usual. Send us the room sizes, or ring +44 (0)2890 770019, and we will tell you honestly how many tables the space will take before you order a single one.