YEAR: 2021
AREA: 127 sq. m.
LOCATION: Kyiv, Ukraine
PHOTO CREDITS: Evheniy Avramenko
ISTETYKA
YEAR: 2021
AREA: 127 sq. m.
LOCATION: Kyiv, Ukraine
PHOTO CREDITS: Evheniy Avramenko
The name “Istetyka” is a combination of two Ukrainian words — to eat and aesthetics. The aesthetics of ready-to-eat food is the main message of the eatery traced in the interior of the space and the dishes served. The owners sought to change the attitude to fast ready-to-eat food — turn ordinary into a ritual, food into an experience.
Guests are welcomed by the laconic entrance embodied in wood, clay walls and unprocessed concrete, original to the building where the eatery is. A painting depicting bread is a representation of the aesthetic approach to food as an art. The work says: less means more.
