Bambi is a restaurant first, but the sound is too deliberate to treat as background. The booth area is carried by Tannoy Cheviots supplied by Friendly Pressure, with Tannoy Revolutions over the bar, TW Audio M10i through the main rooms, a TW Audio B14i sub, and TW Audio C5i covering the mezzanine. Dynacord IX Series amplification handles the system, with the refurb setup by Heath-AV.
The booth runs on an AlphaTheta euphonia mixer with PLX-1000 turntables. It has to cover dinner service, close booth listening, and the later Friday/Saturday room without turning thin when the room fills up.
The music policy is open rather than purist. Bambi gives newer selectors and established DJs space to play longer solo sets, with jazz, Latin psych, soca, funk, disco, Balearic and lo-fi pop, house variants, and broken beat all in the orbit. That makes it less of a hushed listening room and more of a London restaurant-bar where the records shape the evening.
Go for dinner if you want the music in the room rather than over the room. On Fridays and Saturdays the late licence changes the contract after 11pm: tables move, the dance floor appears, and the listening bar becomes something looser.
