We love design. We can’t get enough of it. But, designing another restaurant building is not our task. Rather, every ounce of our creativity is directed toward designing an activity, and that activity is dining. The dining experience.

Approaching, greeting, waiting, laughing, eating and drinking until it’s time to say goodbye.

We begin each story with many sketches. Loose sketching unlocks the imagination. We never turn on the computers until everyone loves the sketches. At that point CAD or Revit become merely a feverish documentation of what is already completed on paper. We believe that drawing and sketching are the key to finding the spirit and the story of magical dining experience.

Dining is unique activity that spans an enormous spectrum from date night to a corporate deal. From a sweet birthday to a reunion of long lost friends. In every situation there is a special need for people to relax, get comfortable and really connect. Creating an environment that can nurture and foster this is our challenge.

There seems to rarely be a memorable event that is not connected to good story and we believe that a dining setting must evoke a compelling and authentic story. It is most often about food or the owner or even the owner’s mother, but the experience is rooted in a real story.