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The kitchen at Bistric restaurant returns to the traditional craft of cooking. It strives to present the honesty of home-grown ingredients, serving the food prepared from them without unnecessary glitz or opulence. It follows the motto: Food can only be as good as its ingredients. The restaurant's interior reflects this idea. It highlights touch, hearing, and smell as unconventional senses for perceiving an interior. It does not attempt to overwhelm the visitor with a single dominant feature; the goal is to perceive it as a whole. We therefore opted for a careful selection of traditional materials, which has made it a place where people subconsciously enjoy staying and returning to. We added a human scale to the generous height of the space by inserting a mezzanine, which also increases seating capacity. The layout respects the main operational relationships for both staff and visitors while striving to provide a diverse palette of atmospheres combined within a single space. A bar counter placed opposite the entrance, with a backdrop formed by an open kitchen, divides the layout into a restaurant section on the right and a bistro with a breakfast counter on the left. The restaurant combines simple, variable tables placed above and below the mezzanine with tables intended for à la carte dining directly in front of the open kitchen. The bistro, conversely, provides space for quick breakfasts or, alternatively, stand-by tastings in the evening hours. The morning atmosphere is underscored by brightness due to its connection to the glass facade, while the evening atmosphere is defined by an all-black wine cellar located in a niche adjacent to the back-of-house area. The materials used in the interior highlight tradition while simultaneously showcasing a contemporary, meticulously detailed execution. Whether it is the stone floor in the bistro or the solid wood floor in the restaurant, they are connected by split-stone cladding that spans the full height of the space. The furniture, combining solid wood, leather, and metal, is selected with an emphasis on timelessness and comfort. The atmosphere is completed by a combination of various types of lighting coordinated into scenes, which follow the division of the space. Acoustics are addressed by a suspended ceiling made of natural fibers.
Ing. arch. Dominik Haviar