The restaurant is located on the ground floor of an office-building in Athens city center. The store frontage faces a public walk-through portico, while the wide sidewalk in front of the portico serves as the exterior space of the store. The city walks by and through the restaurant.

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Exploring the relation between ground-floor stores and the city, in one of its most central locations, was the key-issue of the project. The aim was to design an extrovert space-creator of public experience.

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In that purpose, three ‘faces’ towards the city were designed:

- the kitchen is set in the background of the store, organized on two levels behind semi-transparent surfaces in order for the food preparation to be exposed

- the 'living' storefront displays the movement of employees and customers, while allowing the view to the background 

- the exterior space, furnished with potted plants seeks to create the quality that public space is deprived of.

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In the intermediate spaces, the flow of customers is mixed with that of the city.

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As the dominant feature, the marble buffet-counter develops linearly throughout the depth of the space, highlighting the movement from the background -kitchen- to the façade -cashier- where it bends to form the storefront.

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The double-height space allows the kitchen area on the loft to display itself across the restaurant to the portico.

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Textures and colors were chosen to create a bright space in contrast to the surrounding urban space. Bespoke tables and sofas were designed especially for the restaurant.