The unit stripped back to a bare shell with the old floor broken out.
Gusto D'Italia took on a unit that needed taking apart before anything could be built. We stripped it back to the structure and worked from there: old finishes out, floor broken up, services disconnected.
"Down to the bare slab and back up again: dining room, commercial kitchen and customer WCs, all delivered as one package."
With the shell clear, first-fix services went in for a full commercial kitchen: extraction, gas, drainage and power all set out before the walls were closed. The kitchen was then fitted out in stainless throughout, with the cooking line, prep benches and wash-up built to work at service speed.
Front of house, the dining room was finished with marble-effect tiling, a patterned feature floor, botanical mural panelling and layered pendant lighting. The customer WCs were tiled and fitted to the same standard.
The finished restaurant reads as one considered space, but it started as an empty shell with rubble on the floor.