TBSP is a 38-seater restaurant designed as if diners are eating inside a professional kitchen. The design process began by cataloguing tools, equipment, and workflows of an industrial kitchen and translating them into spatial elements. Stainless steel counters become tables, tiled walls define the palette, and suspended utensils animate the ceiling. The result is an immersive environment where the everyday mechanics of cooking become theatre.
An industrial kitchen turned into a dining experience
Tablespoon
Varun Tuli
CyberHub, Gurugram
2022
Built Up : 1571 sq ft
AT A GLANCE
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90
cms height the worktop and dining table align; collapsing making and eating into one plane
PROJECT OVERVIEW
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TBSP redefines fast dining by turning the industrial kitchen into both inspiration and setting. Designed as a 38-seat, quick-turnaround restaurant, it blurs the traditional divide between back-of-house and front-of-house. LAB began by cataloguing the components of a professional kitchen—tools, prep counters, extraction ducts, utensils—and transforming them into a design vocabulary.
The dining room becomes the kitchen itself: stainless steel counters double as tables, open shelving frames sightlines, and tiled walls maintain hygienic clarity while creating atmosphere. Suspended utensils and exposed ducting animate the ceiling, turning utility into spatial theatre. Lighting rigs further amplify the sense of choreography, where precision and speed are made visible.
This industrial honesty is balanced with rhythm and comfort—ensuring that diners feel part of a performance without losing intimacy. TBSP is not themed design; it is a translation of process into place, proving that the everyday tools of cooking can shape immersive, successful hospitality.
FIG (O1)
Stainless Steel
Stainless steel defines the kitchen and counters, its reflective clarity supporting hygiene, efficiency, and the theatre of open culinary processes.
FIG (O2)
Tiles
Ceramic tiles define the backdrop, their subtle grid introducing rhythm and order. It forms a warm, graphic backdrop, anchoring the counter.
FIG (O3)
Oakwood
Oakwood chairs and tabletops introduce warmth and tactility, softening the industrial palette with durability suited to everyday funtionality.
