Charcoal cooked Steak and Seafood Restaurant

Adelphi Kitchen, located on Adelphi Lane just off from Union Street in the heart of Aberdeen, had the most amazing launch after a previously known and much loved La Stella restaurant went through a complete transformation from previous fine dining setting to a cool and contemporary on-trend seafood and dirty steak joint. The newly re-opened, re-branded and re-designed restaurant was welcomed to the Aberdeen foodie scene with most warmest of receptions - the press wrote wonderful reviews and the restaurant was completely packed every night. In fact if you wanted a table reservation for a weekend you had better booked it at least three weeks in advance to avoid disappointment.

Curated Stories Interiors had the honour to be part of designing the interiors of Adelphi Kitchen. And what an amazing project it was to be part of with a brief full of creative freedom and a restaurant owner enthusiastic for big changes.

Under the previous owners La Stella restaurant interiors had got dated in featuring a lot of dark wood and mixture of terracotta colours. Heavy curtains and lack of light made the small space feel even smaller. The bar was impractical for the staff and the restrooms in need of an upgrade. Lack of cloakroom made the entrance to the restaurant cumbersome. 

Early on in the design process it was decided that the existing furniture and flooring would be kept but the all other aspects of interiors would be part of the re-design. All the walls were painted, a blackboard re-created and a new bar re-designed with a concrete tabletop and a row of feature lights. Old scaffolding planks were used in creating a warmer backdrop for the bar, to refresh the partition wall separating the kitchen and the dining area and to create a new entrance.

In re-organising the layout of restrooms a cloakroom was established. The entrance to the restrooms and the bathrooms themselves were wallpapered with trompe l'oeil Brooklyn Tin paper. The sink units got the matching concrete tabletops like on the bar and featured industrial style valve taps and bucket sinks.

In the dining room the fitted seating was re-upholstered with locally woven wool. Cushions were sewn and screen printed with new branding and existing blinds replaced with more modern versions. All new crockery, cutlery, glassware and table decorations were ordered according to the new colour scheme and new artwork was created. Bookcase for themed cookbooks was built with the scaffolding planks and all lighting was replaced by modern pendants.

Adelphi Kitchen