Frieze Founders Opened the Toklas Restaurant Informed by Brutalism
Elena Rahman — November 10, 2021 — Art & Design
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The Toklas restaurant recently opened in London just off The Strand in a 1970s brutalist building. Toklas is a versatile dining experience featuring a restaurant, bar, bakery, and grocery shop. The new brutalist-informed restaurant is the brainchild of Frieze magazine and art fairs founders Amanda Shar[ and Matthew Slotover.
The restaurant nods to the love of food documented in writer Alice B Toklas' eponymous cookbook. Boasting an elegant Mediterranean menu, the restaurant offers primarily fish and plant-based meals. The space's design details boast a vintage flare in accordance with its brutalist exterior. The designers used reclaimed parquet floors, reclaimed iroko tables and countertops, and Borge Mogensen chairs to create a laid-back yet sophisticated design scheme throughout.
Image Credit: Toklas
The restaurant nods to the love of food documented in writer Alice B Toklas' eponymous cookbook. Boasting an elegant Mediterranean menu, the restaurant offers primarily fish and plant-based meals. The space's design details boast a vintage flare in accordance with its brutalist exterior. The designers used reclaimed parquet floors, reclaimed iroko tables and countertops, and Borge Mogensen chairs to create a laid-back yet sophisticated design scheme throughout.
Image Credit: Toklas
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