Project name: Cock & Bull restaurant
Interior Design: Open AD
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Team: Zane Tetere – Sulce, Ieva Makena, Helmuts Nezborts, Elina Tetere
Photographer: Alvis Rozenbergs
Location: Riga, Latvia
Year: 2020
Description from architects Open AD
The slow living philosophy is at the heart of the Cock & Bull experience and has guided everything from interior to menu. The restaurant serves pure and uncomplicated meals with a focus on the best possible ingredients to encourage awareness of and respect towards our roots. Meat is celebrated at the restaurant. Diners are reminded that eating animals is not unnatural but should be done responsibly. The chefs receive most of their ingredients from local family-run farms and businesses, to honour the humble and honest origins of what we eat.
The leather, charred timber,
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As the interior concept so clearly represented the restaurant’s values and owners’ intentions, it ended up shaping the the backbone of the restaurant’s marketing strategy. With a location in Riga old town the restaurant easily draws tourists but needed to appeal to locals as well.
Cock & Bull took over from another restaurant. Some interior features have been retained or adapted to ensure longevity and responsible reuse. For example, the floors have been kept, and the round sofas have been integrated into the new interior through
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