Tollgate addresses the client’s concept of serving signature dishes inspired from local Dhaba(Indian highway eatery) food to Global bite-size cuisine. It has majority of outdoor space with multiple types of seating and scenarios relating to street-theme. The entire flooring has a patterned road while a network of freeways above you lead you into the space. The artwork at the entry depicts the city’s heritage building, Charminar, from which a tourist bus drives into the space symbolizing journey and origin of the restaurant from this city, leading to an interesting yet ambiguous abstracted city shown in another artwork at another end of the space. Five food counters with different cuisine are scattered in this space creating visual connection. This is inspired from Indian street vendors cooking on carts on the street. Another artwork shows a taxi appearing to descend from one of the freeway tracks as a man calls for it. This sets the mood and adds light humor and imagination of transporting the viewer onto the tracks above. The space on level two is hugged by the network of these six freeways that are clearly visible as two continuous stripes of lighting define each freeway and its position respectively.