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&Moshik Restaurant

Pitsou Kedem Architects

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entrance - Amit Geron
view from the open kitchen to the dining area - Amit Geron
view from the open kitchen to the dining area - Amit Geron
entrance - Amit Geron

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Innovation
Functionality
Creativity
Eco-Social Impact
Total
JURY VOTES
Restaurant
7.05
7.75
7.80
7.45
7.51
Client
Chef Moshik Roth
Floor area
160 ㎡
Completion
2024
Social Media
Instagram
Furniture
Lighting

The Michelin-starred chef returned from Amsterdam to his homeland, looking for a space for an intimate restaurant that would represent his signature and his work over the years.

The connection between the different worlds he represents - the chef's personal background and the refined European cuisine that characterizes him - is found in an old German templer building for preservation from the early 20th century in the Sharona colony.

At the heart of the design, as in Moshik's culinary world - integration into the existing while respecting history and tradition, with an innovative, minimalist and precise interpretation. The main goal was to create immediate hospitality, a private experience characterized by a warm, natural and enveloping palette of materials. Only 20 diners are present at each meal, so the feeling is almost like private hospitality in the chef's home.

The restaurant space is divided into three: an active open kitchen, which you encounter at the initial entrance to the restaurant, which turns its face and presents an event towards the diners' space, an intimate but airy diners' space opposite the kitchen, and a transparent wine room that invites a visit inside, which will complete the culinary and design experience.

The kitchen is within the visitor's reach, and he experiences, as in a play, the different stages of the evening, the installation of the dishes and the transformation of the scenes. As in the theater, the lighting also accompanies the process and the visibility of the materiality changes shape and appearance during the visit. Additional seating was placed on one of the work counters for diners who choose to be part of the open kitchen.

The use of green technologies accompanied the project - original natural mineral plaster covering the walls and original beams and surfaces and cladding made of recycled materials. The restaurant is another layer in time, in the life of the old Templer building.

Materiality is based on natural materials in a uniform palette that unifies and calms the existing geometry of the existing space, provides a basis for the culinary event and constitutes a canvas for the development of the meal. The appearance of red travertine stone and surfaces in a warm earth tone at significant points in the space creates an additional design layer and hints at the drama that is about to occur during the meal.