a small restaurant in Novosibirsk Fedor Bukhtoyarov, Yuri Kulikov, Sergey Fomin

Passing the gallery

A photo: Vitaly Nefedov

Text: Alexey Zemskov

Architect: Fedor Bukhtoyarov, Yuri Kulikov, Sergey Fomin

Magazine: N6 (62) 2002

A small restaurant in the center of Novosibirsk cost its creators smaller investments than the gangster "saga" with a budget of $ 30 million. But the architects managed to convey the spirit of New York times of poor neighborhoods, prohibition and convey to the guests the era of the formation and flourishing of the Jewish mafia. The first thing you pay attention to when entering the restaurant is brick walls, the metallic color of window openings, the ceiling and the “soaring” mock-up of a Ford of the early 30s. The restaurant has two guest areas. The first is dominated by the democratic style of the American bar with a long oak bar. Window portals are made in the form of metal structures that are in harmony with the supports supporting the car body.

Powerful ceiling beams and technocratic lamps above the tables resemble the factory floor. The second guest zone is fine-dining, the boundary of which is marked by parquet and aristocratic snow-white walls. This part of the restaurant takes us to the heyday of the mafia, the sunset of which we will not see here, since it remains somewhere behind the scenes of architectural solutions.