Sushi Confidential
Expect a table-hopping tour de force at BondSt’s West Coast outpost. Here we predict where the agents, the stars, and the Johnsons of Peoria will find their rightful settings. ‘Mr Spielberg, your table’s ready.’
Administrator
January 22, 2007
PROJECT: BondSt Beverly Hills
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Jonathan Morr, owner of BondSt New York, BondSt Lounge South Beach, Republic in NYC, and Townhouse Hotel, Miami.
TEAM: Co-partner and General Manager Steven Durbahn, design coordinator Christian Schultz (Dodd Mitchell Design), furniture by India Mahdavi and BDDW, kitchen designer Russell Stilwel, a slew of sushi chefs flown in from New York, hot waiters, and signature bartenders.
DESIGN: Staying true to BondSt original, mixed in with a local sensibility. A major difference is to make the restaurant conducive to lunch by bringing in the outside with big open windows, ivy and grass walls. And yes, there will be an al fresco smoking section when it opens this fall. “It’s not really about creating design,” says Morr. “It’s 100 percent about the feel of the space.”
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