An 800 SF restaurant seating 38 indoors with an adjacent patio. In a space this tight, the bar had to do more than serve drinks — angled into the rear and wrapping the building's central core, it seats eight while defining the working kitchen behind it. One element solving two problems is what makes 800 square feet feel like enough.

We designed and fabricated the bar ourselves, cast in carbon-pigmented concrete and carried through to a custom beer faucet structure in the corner. Dark, dense material in a small room reads as intentional rather than cramped.