Township stands in an old train yard in downtown Tallahassee, a new building built to feel original to the Industrial Revolution, a building inside a building. Inside: 25-foot ceilings, garage doors ringing the dining room like a loading dock, and inside-outside dining along a 5,000 square foot garden. The point...
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The playful and whimsical design concept for Ciao Hound was to take the traditional family style Italian restaurant and turn it on its head, with a style and atmosphere unique to the Florida Keys. The historic setting at the iconic beachside resort provided the foundation for a laid back, dog...
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A hip neighborhood with a hip celebrity chef. This pairing of high style with chef Suzy Crofton was intended to be chic yet accessible. All of the fixtures in this 80-seat eatery with a large bar scene were specifically designed and fabricated by BTD. This was the first all-inclusive design...
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Union was ours, start to finish: Bigtime's exclusive design project at The Press Hotel, the old Portland Press Herald building, a project 100 percent ours. We let the building write the concept: food as theater, kitchen as stage. The center-core kitchen is exposed, the line worked into the bar experience,...
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Angelina Ristorante: the everyone-has-a-grandma place. The design concept was to create a dining experience that felt like you were in your grandmother's dining room. Rich colors and textures and a hand crafted interior, with the intent to create a timeless restaurant design. A Chicago institution that is still relevant in...
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In this little local jewel we created a cross-cultural fusion between Italian and French cuisine, combined with a stunningly decadent interior design. The decor and the menu were a little bit French country and a little bit Italian rock and roll. This project was designed and built in just 45...
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Dirty Martini opened in late May 2011 at Downtown at the Gardens in Palm Beach Gardens, 8,600 square feet in the former Strip House, built for 400 people and 25 celebrity-named martinis. We split the room three ways: a high-energy main room with a stage, an elevated VIP lounge above...
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Creating a fine dining experience fused with a west coast lounge scene posed the most unique challenge for this 4,000 square-foot concept. Supper club roots with nightlife spirit was the design intent of this high volume design, sophisticated enough to attract the most discerning diner and cool enough to keep...
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Located on Clematis Street, the restaurant row of West Palm Beach, the muse for Bobbi Sue's down home barbecue concept was the Southern Belle appearance of the owner's fiancé. The design directive, to recreate the authentic family experience of a backyard BBQ, was accomplished by using all the bells and...
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Bubble was Charlotte's first champagne bar, a high-energy club and lounge with a petite chef-driven menu, up a dramatic staircase at Epicentre. Oversized circular booths, luminescent silk-screen Barbies on the walls, linen towels in the bathroom, and a liquid nitrogen cloud lingering over your cocktail: no details were spared. The...
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