Unusual Restaurants

I want my building to be redesigned into something unusual and unique. But what could it be; A restaurant? Art gallery? Bar? Hotel? Trying to think of something that isn't mediocre is really difficult. Mayby I should write a brief from a 'client' give myself something to follow.
Looking for some kind of inspiration to spark an idea, I began to look at unusual public attractions like restaurants for a starting point.

 

Abracadabra, London

Abracadabra Restaurant serves an authentic and eclectic menu of delicious and wholesome dishes from around the former Soviet Union and the West. The restaurant has a combination of tables, intimate booths and the Focal Point is the spell binding revolving table that can sit from 8 to 12 people and revolves a full circle every hour providing an ever changing view of the restaurant. Each booth boasts its own unique design.

Sketch, London

The triple dream of launching a centre, a “lieu” or destination place, for food, art and music has been realised by Mourad “Momo” Mazouz and his team of chefs and designers over two expansive floors of a converted 18th century building in Conduit Street, Mayfair, London. sketch is a complex and unique site. Conceived by French master chef Pierre Gagnaire and restaurateur Mazouz, it has attracted unprecedented media reaction for its myriad food, drink and entertainment styles since it opened in December 2002.

Martin Creed @ Sketch

In the first of a new long-term programme of artist-conceived restaurants, Turner-prize winning artist Martin Creed presents a series of functional and decorative works, creating an environment that is at once an exhibition, an artwork and a restaurant at sketch. Exemplary of the logical and welcoming systems that recur throughout his work, the floor, walls and furniture take the form of new artworks inspired by the boundaries of art and functionality. Work No. 1347 consists of 96 different types of marble, in a formation of zigzagging lines across the floor, while Work No. 1343 is a new work specially made for the restaurant in which every single piece of cutlery, glassware, lamp, chair and table is different. This work brings together a mix of the mass produced and hand-crafted, from classic antiques to contemporary design from around the world. Four different wall drawings are overlaid by 18 paintings by Creed, including the series of four canvases Work No. 1100 (2011).

 The Gallery

The Parlour

Lounge on a variety of Louis XV seating in the quirky and eccentric patisserie, restaurant and bar from breakfast, through comfort food and afternoon tea for up to six persons until the last drink before home…

The Glade

Artists Carolyn Quartermaine and Didier Mahieu, have created an enchanted fairy-tale forest. For The Glade at Sketch, they have created a découpage forest which appears like something half-remembered and yet completely contemporary. Taking inspiration from early c20th stationery, they re-painted, enlarged and reversed the design, printing it onto hundreds of metres of paper. Each piece is handcut, and découpaged to the walls. In this forest, delicate 50s rattan furniture, from the South of France, creates a startlingly modern fairy-tale romance.

The East Bar

An ultra modern bar and lounge created by Mourad Mazouz & acclaimed designer Noe Douchafour Lawence, the East Bar is an intimate, stylish space for sketch diners to enjoy a pre-dinner cocktail.

Circo, Liverpool

Circo is a unique venue in Liverpool City Centre, with fabulous views of the docks, inspirational dishes and extravagant entertainment. At Circo we aim to provide the very best in restaurant, bar and café culture set in this stunning location within a stylish environment.

Roll Up! Roll Up! Liverpool’s legendary Freakshow is in town like a raucous freight-train – full of sexy performers, stunning visuals and a sense of humor that keeps the audience enthralled. It is a dark vaudevillian extravaganza that keeps spectators coming back for more.
Circo FreakShow is not a “collection of glowing light” or “avant garde tribal culture” – it does not pretend to be “immersed into otherworldly magic” or “marching into the stratosphere on the wings of imagination…” Circo FreakShow certainly is not made up of “outsider artistic children that never grew up” who wish to “travel upon a modern day pirate ship.”
Circo FreakShow is about the Rreal. It deals in flesh and blood, in pain and pleasure, in flame, fire and sharp pointy things! It treads the fine line between the dastardly and the divine. Circo FreakShow is made up of professional entertainers – and through our actions, we prove the amazing and the astounding that anything is possible.