MYT+GLDVK completes eclectic meals courtroom Cocina Abierta in Mexico Metropolis
Structure studio MYT+GLVDK has created an upscale meals courtroom inside a Mexico Metropolis shopping center with components that take cues from Japanese and Mexican design traditions.
Cocina Abierta, or Open Kitchen, contains a number of eating places providing totally different world cuisines, and a wide range of seating choices by which to take pleasure in totally different meals.
Among the many number of eating choices is a German-style Biergarten with an out of doors patio, a cocktail bar with artwork deco accents, and some decisions for Mexican meals. Native agency MYT+GLVDK describes it as Mexico’s first “multi-cuisine restaurant”.
Cocina Abierta is situated within the Artz Pedregal purchasing centre, a mixed-used growth designed by Mexican and Spanish agency Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos.
The complicated additionally consists of workplace house and a beneficiant public park within the centre of the event.
A big central opening reveals a helical staircase and ramp that circle round each other, main as much as mezzanine overlooking the house.
Two eating places, known as La Imperial and Moshi-Moshi, have a extra outlined seating space, and are distinct from the opposite distributors.
La Imperial, a Mexican restaurant, was designed to “evoke the golden age of cantinas and provides baroque and late 19th-century Mexican touches”, in accordance with the studio. A patterned tile ground, an vintage bar, and whitewashed brick partitions are among the many conventional ingredient.
Ryo Kan lodge blends Mexican supplies and Japanese traditions
Moshi-Moshi, a Japanese eatery, has a lighter and extra modern palette. Pale wood cubicles with denim accents recall Japanese design, and the house is lit by hanging fixtures that should reinterpret conventional paper lanterns.
The restaurant is specified by 4 rows of cubicles, between which run conveyor belts carrying particular person plates of sushi for diners to select from.
“Moshi Moshi brings collectively the Cocina Abierta inside design with a brand new vary of supplies — together with blue terrazzo, denim and wooden — together with the excellent redesign of this famend conveyor belt sushi restaurant,” stated MYT+GLVDK.
The Mexico Metropolis studio is a newly shaped agency that resulted from the merger of two places of work, led respectively by husband and spouse Andrés Mier y Terán and Regina Galvanduque.
Galvanduque additionally accomplished the Ryo Kan lodge within the metropolis’s Cuauhtémoc neighbourhood, which is designed to merge Mexican supplies and Japanese traditions.
Different restaurant initiatives in Mexico Metropolis embody a “cave-like” house by Michan Structure that’s illuminated by outsized, prismatic skylights, and a small Italian restaurant by Taller ADG that’s situated inside a board-formed concrete vault.
Images is by Isa Arjona.