Cocktail Kitchen is a specialist Dubai restaurant - bar that focuses in equal measure on the craft of mixology and the culinary skills of the Head Chef. The customer’s experience of preparing ingredients and making both cocktails and dishes was important to both the Client and the project.

ANARCHITECT created a sequence of spaces that maximize social interaction as part of the overall experience. It was important to create a journey and narrative embedded in the project that continually intrigues and invites guests back to engage and enjoy these experiences in a relaxed and beautifully crafted social environment.

The refined material palette is made up of three core elements; stone, metal and wood. Each in itself respectively represents solidity, precision and nature and when combined they create a superlative refinement and playfulness in the project. References to kitchen chopping boards, (larch parquet) mixologist tools (copper) and natural ingredients (Ivy print wall) also instilled humor into the project material selection to add personality to the space.

Cocktail kitchen at its essence has always been playful, individual, social and entertaining. But behind all of this lies a passion to create something that will last and to seed a social culture where regulars, visitors, new and old faces come to enjoy the environment that has been created and which continues to organically evolve. The project was also designed to subtly reveal itself and its detail which may or not be noticed until the second, third or even fourth visits.