Restaurant chain Gourmet Burger Kitchen carries out regular refurbishment projects across all of its restaurants within its portfolio, ensuring the latest design trends are utilised to offer its customers unique and visually appealing dining spaces. With this in mind, the decision was made that Gourmet Burger Kitchen’s popular Earls Court restaurant was to be refreshed with an eye-catching makeover to update the brand image and create further space for additional tables.

moreno:masey Architecture, an innovative interior design practice that has built-up a strong working relationship with Gourmet Burger Kitchen over five years, offering Gourmet Burger Kitchen’s customers fresh and vibrant dining spaces, oversaw the design of the refurbishment.

With Gourmet Burger Kitchen’s restaurant located on a busy street corner within Earls Court, moreno:masey Architecture wanted to ensure the interior design was of such appeal that passers-by would be enticed into the restaurant.

To achieve this, moreno:masey Architecture opened up the views into the kitchen and linked two previously separate dining areas into a single space, maximising the available floor space. A focal point of this design was the visual linkage from the bar to the kitchen fronts, which was realised through the use of hexagon-shaped floor and wall tiles from Solus Ceramics’ versatile Program range. The bold and angular lines offered by the hexagonal shape, combined with mixing and matching different coloured tiles together, allowed moreno:masey Architecture to create a modern and energetic central aesthetic that flowed throughout the entire restaurant.

Talking to the specialist technical staff at Solus Ceramics, the team recommended the use of the Program range for Gourmet Burger Kitchen’s Earls Court restaurant, not only as it offered a broad spectrum of colour options and bespoke shapes that helped elevate previously plain painted surfaces, but it also had a robust and slip-resistant finish that is absolutely essential in heavy traffic areas such as restaurants.

With the help of Solus Ceramics, moreno:masey Architecture has been able to create a modern and dynamic restaurant interior and a welcoming dining environment for Gourmet Burger Kitchen’s customers. So much so, that this refurbishment project has been shortlisted for a Restaurant and Bar Design Award.

Solus Ceramics’ Area Sales Executive, Jo Burley, concluded: “We have worked with Gourmet Burger Kitchen on a number of projects and it’s great to collaborate with a team that sets the bar so high when it comes to restaurant interior design. moreno:masey always bring new and exciting ideas to design briefs and we look forward to working alongside them again in the future.”