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21/10

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Cantina de Comida Mexicana, Mexico City

Architects Taller Tiliche designed a restaurant in Mexico City that operates as a Mexican food canteen. They decided on a neutral palete and kept materials in their natural state as far as possible, the result is an unfinished look.

A polished concrete floor creates a continuation between the indoor and outdoor spaces, inviting passing pedestrians in. Walls were painted white and tiled upto 1.2 m height with concrete tiles. The ceiling was purposefully left unfinished, with holes and lumps of plaster littering its surface.

Folding timber shutters can open the restaurant up completely to the street front and allowing natural light to wash into the space.

Sanded wooden tables and benches are paired with steel folding chairs and shelves stacked with bottles stretch across the bar, as well as between the kitchen and dining room. The result is a simple, casually unfinished, yet chic interior that encourages leisurely eating.

(Images via Dezeen)

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19/10

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GRAB Thai Street Kitchen by Mansikkamäki+JOY

GRAB Thai Street Kitchen intends to introduce London to the simplicity of Thailand’s urban street food culture. This new ‘fast food’ restaurant sits a short walk away from Old Street and serves up good, affordable, everyday meals freshly prepared and dispensed from behind a counter.

The design was done collaboratively by Mansikkamäki+JOY and Lifeforms Design. In keeping with the idea of street food the restaurant has a ‘rough around the edges’ industrial feel, using materials associated with construction for the interior fixtures and fittings. Pallets and corrugated metal sheets line the walls and large globe light bulbs dangle haphazardly from a web of red and blue cables, creating an interior that, although minimal, hints at the lively scenes of Bangkok. Red plastic stools, similar to those used in urban street vending in Thailand, surround communal tables made from construction left overs.

(Images via Dezeen)

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11/10

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Komomoto, Barcelona

Komomoto is a trendy, casual restaurant in Barcelona’s hip El Born district that serves up Peruvian/Japanese fusion cuisine. The sleek interior that uses colour sparsely is enlivened with informal arrangements of photographs, posters and illustrations that literally cover the walls, a feature that is complemented with Ingo Maurer’s post-it note chandeliers. The interior creates the sensation of having walked into someone’s notebook.

Timber is used throughout the interior, from the floors to the wall paneling and modern furniture, bringing additional warmth and texture to the large, bright space.

(Images via weheart)

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05/10

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Café Liberty, London

SHH architects have been asked to redesign the second floor restaurant of Liberty, the famous London department store originally built using the timber from two warships in 1924. The aim was to integrate the café with the store and introduce an Arts & Crafts movement spirit to the restaurant of the store that has a well known dedication to design.

The new interior is refined, hinting at the history of the store but in a fresh, contemporary way. Bent wood chairs and glass light fixtures with a handmade feel set the scene for this contemporary-classic interior. Delicately patterned wallpapers from Chiswick artist Marthe Armitage, who started designing and producing her beautiful wallpapers just after WW II, adorn the walls; while a flying duck sculpture in pink neon, custom designed by lead designer Helen Hughes, add a surprising twist to the otherwise demure interior.

(Images via weheart)

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04/10

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The Disappearing Dining Club, London

The Disappearing Dining Club is a step away from the conventional restaurant experience. It occupies a permanent ‘Dining Room’, a one table space that can only host ten people at a time, in Featherstone Street near Old Street, but also throws dinner and drinks parties in empty warehouses, hidden rooftops and basements, secret galleries and gardens, and just about any unusual space you can think of.

The interior of the Dining Room, which opens only for bookings, is warm and homely. Guests are encouraged to forget about time, as all of the clocks on the walls have stopped long ago. The shelf that runs all around the room just below ceiling level is stacked with well-thumbed novels and 20th century bric-a-brac. The large wooden table is set with mismatched cutlery and old-fashioned glassware and creates the feeling of sitting down to a big family meal. The dimly lit interior, along with its quirky decor and limited amount of place settings creates a nostalgic dining experience that you are unlikely to have anywhere else.

(Images via The Disappearing Dining Club)

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03/10

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Derrier, Paris

Mourad Mazouz’s restaurant Derrier is described as a ‘home away from home’ – and I can see why: the restaurant, styled as a family apartment, gives the impression of having stumbled into an eccentric friend’s well-lived in home. The restaurant follows the idea of ‘home’ and is structured like one, diners can sit in the lounge, dining room, bedroom or boudoir. The main room is fit out with a kitchen table, comfy sofas and oddly, a ping pong table for amusement between courses.

The restaurant takes its name from its location, it is hidden in a courtyard at the back of 404 and Andy Wahloo, Mazouz’s other Paris restaurants. The off -hand chic interior is just as tongue in the cheek as the name of the restaurant. The eclectic interior mixes styles that gives the feeling of nonchalance. Throughout the restaurant shelves filled with books and other knick-knacks line the walls, along with an assortment of photos, paintings, posters and the odd empty frame. The food is French, simple and wholesome, made with the finest quality products.

In the bedroom diners are perched on mattresses, complete with alarm clocks at bedside.

And somewhere, behind one of the many mirrors in Derrier, is a secret smoking room.

(Images via derrier-resto.com)

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19/09

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Prosopa Restaurant, Athens

Prosopa is a restaurant next to the train tracks in Rouf, a busy Athens neighbourhood. It occupies a former glass factory, this gives the space plenty of rough, industrial appeal which has been maintained and is accentuated by minor alterations.

The interior unfolds on two levels, both benefiting from the large industrial windows, with views of the passing trains adding a theatrical, urban edge to the space.

The design draws from the building’s industrial heritage, acknowledging it through material choice and detailing: screed and timber floors, steel and rough brick work, with exposed services throughout. These raw elements blend harmoniously with the high design fittings and furniture from Moooi and Magis.

(images via yatzer)

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19/08

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Dishoom, London

Dishoom is London’s very first Bombay Café. It draws inspiration from the cafés opened by Persians in what was then Mumbai, these types of establishments cemented themselves in the lives of many a Bombayite and Dishoom is sure to do just that in London.

The elegant restaurant is full of old world charm, with bentwood chairs, marble topped café tables and memorabilia loosely arranged on the walls.

Wood is used throughout the interior, from the floors and furniture to the wall panelling, and contrasted with the light ceiling and antiqued mirrors it creates a warm, but contemporary feel.

Slow turning ceiling fans and procarious lighting lends extra appeal to what is already a very attractive interior.

(Images via weheart)

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16/08

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Chambers Eat and Drink, San Francisco

Chambers Eat and Drink is a new bar in San Francisco’s Phoenix Hotel, located in the city’s infamously gritty Tenderloin district. Despite its ’50’s motel’ past it is known as a rock royalty favourite, with the likes of Pearl Jam and Keanu Reeves passing through its doors in the past.

It’s new facelift, the handy work of Oakland’s Mr. Important, seems to reflect the affinity celebrities have for it. Chambers’ walls are lined with 10,000 odd records that acknowledge its past and creates a library of sorts with a warm, interesting texture. The lush interior is comfortably furnished and my suspicion is that you’d want to obey the glamorously lit bar and be amazing.

(Images via weheart)

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01/08

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Colonie, Brooklyn, New York

Another new addition to New York is Colonie restaurant in the beautiful Brooklyn Heights neighbourhood.

Architect Alex Meyers of MADesign is responsible for the interior that effortlessly marries old and new. The interior is largely composed of recycled and reclaimed materials, mixed with contemporary pieces. Floors, ceilings and tabletops are made of reclaimed wood and the lovely banquettes are in fact reworked church pews.

The live wall brings a splash of colour and serves as a vertical herb garden of sorts.

The open kitchen is one of the best parts of this fresh new restaurant. Diners can watch their food be prepared in front of a subway tiled backdrop, between stacks of pots, pans and plates.