Hospitality2013-14

Mai-Tai Restaurant

Client: Mai-Tai Restaurants
Scope: Civil & Interior
Location: Lower Parel
Area: 2,500 sq ft
Duration: 90 days
Year: 2013-14
Architect: The Architects (Ashish Kamble)

Bar counter with high stools beside a black slatted timber column carrying a carved tribal mask

01Carved mask mounted on a charcoal slatted column screens the bar counter and stools.

Mai-Tai — the Trader Vic’s restaurant and bar for JSM GGC Restaurants — 2,500 sq ft of civil and interior work over 90 days, with Ashish Kamble of The Architects.

A tiki bar is a joinery problem more than a construction one: carved timber, rattan, bamboo cladding, low warm light and a great deal of bespoke fit-out in a small footprint. The register places it at Todi Estate, Lower Parel.

The old site titled this project “Mai-Tai Restaurant, Kurla”. Both the current register and the 2013 archive give the address as Lower Parel, so that is what is shown here.

Dining room with slat-back timber chairs, black steel glazing and an open-cell metal grid ceiling — 02Main dining floor faces a skylit courtyard through black steel glazing with geometric mullions.

Cane-back settees and low timber tables against a rust-orange wall, facing a raised service counter — 03Lounge seating in cane and timber sits below a rust-rendered wall opposite the service counter.

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