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April 12, 2023
Lyon, France-born, two-Michelin-star chef Claude Bosi has opened a new culinary enterprise, Socca, located on Mayfair’s South Audley Street in a Grade II-listed building. Socca describes its cuisine as “nostalgic French Mediterranean” and it gets its name from the flatbread made of chickpea flour known as socca, but also farinata, cecina or calentita, depending on the region. The concept of […]
April 10, 2023
Starting a business at any time is risky and challenging. Starting one in particularly uncertain times is doubly so. But starting one when your country has just been attacked seems suicidal. And even more so when your business is a girly beauty salon with pink décor details. But that is exactly what Kiev-based entrepreneurs Sabina […]
April 5, 2023
With its long, turbulent history, Tbilisi, the capital and largest city of Georgia, is today a truly multicultural city and an eclectic mix of ancient, historical, Soviet-era and modern architecture and establishments. Joining the growing ranks of trendy bistros, Chicos represents several of these characteristics with its international menu and cool interiors. Chico’s opened late last […]
November 21, 2022
With designers and architects tripping over themselves to interpret the latest, popular trends – often at the urging of their clients – it is easy to miss subtle genius or sensitive interpretations of vernacular styles. When we saw Moos, a bar and café in Amsterdam, we almost passed it buy. It is not particularly striking, […]
August 3, 2022
Rehousing their Michelin-starred restaurant Äng into a starkly minimalist glasshouse is the latest development at Ästad Vingård winery . The owners, the Carlsson siblings, continue to tick off all the correct trend boxes at their winery in southwestern Sweden. Yes, a winery in Sweden. In fact, there are more than 40 wineries in the Scandinavian country […]
June 13, 2022
Known as the Miami of South Korea, Busan is famous for its beaches and mountains. When the design team at Seoul-based Matter Better Interior Design Studio (mttb) approached their assignment for a beach café in the town of Gijang-eup in the Busan Metropolitan City region for a local brand Off.O, they knew the scenery had […]
May 30, 2022
Toronto-based restaurateur Matty Matheson is known for many things but subtlety is not one of them. He swears, huffs and waves his hands, and his many tattoos, beanie cap and unkempt beard, he looks slightly dangerous. And it is obvious that he likes it that way. Matty Matheson is a brand. But there is one […]
March 12, 2022
Described by local media as Adelaide’s first open-flame restaurant, arkhé is a refreshingly unassuming entry into the city’s culinary scene. In a time marked with constant change, disconnection and uncertainty, the restaurant’s frank design and cuisine, both centred around fire, evoke a sense of clarity and community. It’s name is the Greek word translated as “something that […]
November 28, 2021
SOMA Soho is the first bar venture of chef Will Bowlby and former accountant Rik Campbell, the men behind the three Kricket Restaurants located in Brixton, Soho and White City in London. Bowlby had worked in restaurants in Mumbai and reinterpreted his ideas of Indian cuisine for Krickets, ever since the first one opened in […]
November 16, 2021
Vic and Anthony Puharich, a father-and-son team, opened their first butcher shop, Victor Churchill, on Queen Street in Woollahra, Sydney. Their second shop is on High Street in Armadale, Melbourne. It shares the values of the first, but it was designed as its own space rather than a copy. A former bank building Unlike the […]
October 18, 2021
Located near the ancient Xi’an City Wall’s Yongning (South) Gate in Xi’an, the new HEYTEA café is aiming to connect the past with the present. This is nothing new as pretty much every café project coming out of China right now reveals similar aspirations. Designers trip over themselves talking about emerging lifestyles and historical metaphors, […]
October 7, 2021
Blue Bottle Coffee, the American chain founded by James Freeman in California in 2002, has opened its first permanent store in Osaka, Japan. The 345-square-metre cafe was designed by Tokyo-based Studio I IN. In Chayamachi The cafe fills the ground and first floors of a new concrete and glass building in the Chayamachi district, an […]
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