Cheese hole

Moscow restaurant "Cheese hole" Tatyana Antoshina, Alexey Tobashov

Passing the gallery

Text: Julia Shaginurova

A photo: Elena Koldunova

Architect: Tatyana Antoshina

Designer: Alexey Tobashov

Painter: Vera Sedacheva

Magazine: N5 (72) 2003

One of the most interesting entertainment in the Moscow restaurant "Cheese Hole" (Pokrovsky Blvd, 6/20) is to read what is written under your feet. "Comedians, warriors, Catholics ...", "Instant and Eternity ...", "... protest by public ...", "Night of museums in Lausanne" - scraps of Swiss newspapers rolled up under a thick layer of yellow varnish with natural scuffs , picturesque dark cracks, as if in a crust of fat cheese. The very same - pale yellow, with large holes. The visitor, who tramples his feet on a set of random truths, will have other, equally fascinating experiences. Creating a restaurant on the corner of Pokrovsky Boulevard and Khokhlovsky Lane, the authors of the interior and the young restaurateur Anna Sokolova most of all counted on the recognition effect. They wanted to come up with a place in which the visitor would recall his speculative impressions of the country of victorious neutrality. The option of imitation mountain chalet was not considered in any way. There are roughly decorated surfaces, photos with alpine views, trivia from European flea markets. The walls of one of the first cooperative cafes, where the Cheese Hole is now located, were cleared of a thick layer of drywall, exposing the brickwork, the low ceiling was underlined with arches, the bearing partitions were replaced with thin columns, entrusting them with conditional zoning of the restaurant. Such a "transparent" division corresponds to the concept of the institution: "Cheese Hole" is a home restaurant, where it is understood that it is pleasant for visitors to see each other. What is capaciously called Lokale in German is an institution for those who live and work nearby. In our case for the animators of the Pilot studio, white-collar workers from the nearest bank, for the Cheese Hole architect Tatiana Antoshina, who every time, before ordering an espresso, meticulously inspects the filler floor and shakes her head dejectedly: “They walk too much” .

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