Before & after
Same viewpoint, photographed at shell and at handover. Drag the handle — this is the distance covered, and the programme it took.
How it was built
What the brief asked for, what the building demanded, and what was handed over.
The brief
A 455 m² lounge and restaurant on Sheikh Zayed Road, taken from a bare concrete shell to opening night. Full-height feature walls, arched joinery, planting through the room, chandeliers over a private dining table, and a facade that had to read from the road at speed.
The constraint
Nine weeks, and the heaviest approval chain in Dubai fit-out. Municipality for the build, food control for the kitchen and its ventilation, Civil Defence for suppression and escape. Any one of them sending the drawings back would have taken the opening date with it.
The kitchen was designed from the menu before the front of house was detailed, so extraction, gas, drainage and the interceptor set the floor levels once rather than twice.
The result
Handed over in August 2025, in nine weeks, cleared without a second inspection. It remains our fastest delivered restaurant, and the reference we give when a client asks whether an F&B date is real.
The rest of the room
Photographs from handover. Click any frame to open it full size.
What the work included
F&B carries the heaviest approvals of any fit-out in Dubai, and every week of delay is a week of rent against an empty room. Our fastest delivered restaurant was 455 m² in nine weeks.
Extraction and make-up air, gas, water and drainage, grease interceptors sized for the menu rather than the drawing.
Panels, doors, refrigeration and floor build-ups that survive trolley traffic.
Banquettes, bar, servery, feature ceilings and lighting — the part guests photograph.
Finishes, falls and clearances specified so food control signs off without a second visit.
Dubai Municipality submissions, food control, civil defence where the layout demands it.
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