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Restaurant fit-outs, from strip-out to first service.

Dining rooms, bars and serveries, designed and built by one team.

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Built by usKashmiri Karahi, Slough. Qabaña. A restaurant under a floral ceiling.

A dining room seen through slatted timber screens: a coffered timber ceiling, warm low light, dark chairs at oak tables.

The work

The dining room, the bar, the servery.

The dining room comes first: the plan of the covers, the fixed seating, the walls, the ceiling and the light.

We draw it, then we build it, and the people who drew it are the people on site. The bar and the servery follow the same drawings: the counter, the back bar, the splashback, the shelving and the joinery behind them, priced line by line before anything is built.

We coordinate with the kitchen contractor and the other trades, and we programme the build around the opening date. The room is handed over snagged, cleaned and ready for first service.

  1. 01

    Design

    Plans, elevations and a materials board, signed off before the price is written.

  2. 02

    Costing

    A priced schedule against the drawings, line by line, so you know what is in the price and what is not.

  3. 03

    Build

    Strip-out to first service by one team, with the person who drew the room on site.

  4. 04

    Fixtures

    Banquettes, bars, serveries and signage, made to the drawings.

  5. 05

    Lighting

    Concealed LED, pendants and wall lights, set out on the plan with the seating.

  6. 06

    Aftercare

    Property maintenance after handover, for the room we built.

The dining room at Kashmiri Karahi in Slough: three arched recesses in polished plaster lit by concealed LED, brass wall lights and pendants, a fluted tan leather banquette and stone-top tables.

Materials we have fitted

Plaster, leather, brass, neon, stone.

Everything here was fitted by us in Kashmiri Karahi or Qabaña. The room each one went into is beside it.

  1. Polished plaster

    The dining room walls at Kashmiri Karahi, with the arched recesses picked out in concealed LED.

  2. Fluted and buttoned leather

    The fixed banquettes at Kashmiri Karahi.

  3. Brass

    Pendants, wall lights and table bases at Kashmiri Karahi.

  4. Stone table tops

    On the brass bases in the dining room at Kashmiri Karahi.

  5. Mirrored diamond splashback

    The length of the fitted counter in the servery at Kashmiri Karahi, with open shelving beneath.

  6. Backlit gold monogram

    The far end of the dining room at Kashmiri Karahi.

  7. Deep green fluted panelling

    Floor to ceiling on the walls at Qabaña.

  8. Illuminated wordmark and neon

    The signage and the artwork at Qabaña.

  9. Brass-toned frames, dark glass tops

    The tables at Qabaña.

  10. Concealed warm LED

    At floor level under the banquette and around the table bases at Qabaña.

  11. Overhead heaters

    Mounted into the canopy at Qabaña, so the seating works beyond summer.

A restaurant with a red floral ceiling, gold ring lights, a mustard banquette and a black stone floor.
The Qabaña wordmark on deep green fluted panelling above a buttoned green banquette, with brass-framed dark-glass tables lit from beneath.

Questions

Asked before a restaurant fit-out starts.

Every question
Can you build around an opening date?

Yes. The build programme is written with the price, trade by trade, and set around the date you need to open. We coordinate the kitchen contractor and the other trades within it, and the room is handed over snagged, cleaned and ready for first service. How a project runs, stage by stage, is on the process page.

Do you do the design, or just the build?

Both, and only together. The dining room, the bar and the servery are drawn in the studio, priced line by line, and built by the same team. A scheme that arrives from another designer is drawn again here before it is priced. Kashmiri Karahi and Qabaña were delivered that way.

Do you take on restaurants anywhere in the UK?

Yes. The studio travels to the site wherever it is in the UK, and the person who drew the room is on site while it is built. Kashmiri Karahi is in Slough.

See also

Rooms and services beside this one.

  1. Kashmiri Karahi, Slough

    Case study: a dining room and servery in polished plaster, leather and brass.

  2. Qabaña

    Case study: a covered seating area in fluted green panelling, lit from the floor.

  3. Commercial fit-outs

    Adjacent service: offices, shops, terraces and front of house.

  4. A restaurant fit-out, stage by stage

    Guide: the sequence from strip-out to first service, and the approvals inside it.

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