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GRAB Thai Street Kitchen by Mansikkamäki+JOY
We found this Thai canteen furnished with construction materials a few streets away from Dezeen Space, our recently closed Shoreditch pop-up.
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Design studio Mansikkamäki+JOY designed the London GRAB restaurant, where diners sit on red plastic stools at tables made from scaffolding.
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Behind the counter, menu boards are mounted onto timber pallets and display a selection of street food dishes.
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Walls at the back of the canteen are lined with corrugated metal, while light bulbs attached to red and blue cables dangle from the ceiling.
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Furniture made from building materials seems to be popular with a few designers - see our older stories about a boutique with rails made of bronze-plated scaffolding, an office with wooden pallet tables and a motel made from scaffolding.
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Photography is by Valerie Bennett.
The following text was sent to us by the restaurant:
GRAB Thai Street Kitchen by Mansikkamäki+JOY
A few minutes’ walk from Old Street Station sits the recently opened GRAB Thai Street Kitchen - a new concept in Thai cuisine. GRAB believes good Thai food does not have to be a once-in-a-blue-moon fine dining experience, instead, GRAB returns to the simplicity of Thailand’s urban street food culture - tasty, affordable and everyday. Customers walk into an accessible array of freshly prepared dishes with curries dispensed from behind the counter. Good food can be fast.
Mansikkamäki+JOY, in collaboration with Lifeforms Design, create an urban street atmosphere by translating affordable construction materials and street furniture into a clean and minimal interior space. Menus hang off a wall of backlit wooden pallets, whilst corrugated metal sheets line some of the neighbouring vertical surfaces. Large globe light bulbs are suspended from a web of red and blue cables, hang from the generous ceiling, reminiscent of the lively scenes of Bangkok. Communal tables were made in-house using the by-products of the restaurant’s construction and are coupled with the iconic red plastic stools that are so integral to the image of urban street vending in Thailand. An easy-going atmosphere, raw design and simple materials allow the food to speak for itself.