Tasting Counter — Form Design + Construction

The counter at Tasting Counter, seats facing the open kitchen

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Full Build of a 20 Seat Ticketed High End Restaurant. From Concrete Cutting for mechanicals to custom live edge vanities and hydroponic grow wall.

Type: Restaurant
Location: Somerville, Massachusetts
Architect: McMahon Architects
Photography: John Skibbee

Seats on one side, the kitchen on the other, with nothing between them.

Timber barn doors on a track, closing the room from the building.

Growing under light on timber shelving, within reach of the cooks.

A long shelf of glasses above a line of fruit.

Equipment set into timber, with the shelving carried over it.

A concrete counter at the centre, lit from above.

The working kitchen behind, in stainless steel.

Racks and refrigeration, kept as orderly as the front.

The room seen past an open timber and steel door, upholstered stools along a timber-clad counter.

A concrete-topped counter wrapping the kitchen, with stools on the outside and herbs growing in the window behind.

A live-edge timber counter over glass-fronted fridges, with lit shelves of jars, bottles and glassware behind.

Stainless steel and timber stations under a blackened steel hood, with a small oven set into the island.