90cm Above Floor Level

The book investigates the needs of haute cuisine and defines the concepts and standards of today’s professional kitchen facilities. In research and analysisi conducted have tended to the needs of cooks on ergonomics, sustainability and energy efficiency. It includes the point of view of the main international chefs in order to extrapolate their concerns and…

Restaurant Architecture

Agents involved in any restoration facility, whether social or commercial, are: The location and promoter. The technical team restoration specialist multidisciplinary. Companies specialized construction and installation. Note that this approach is valid for any new project to remodeling existing ones. As a tip, you should always be made to study the project as a new…

Latest trends and novelties of the culinary space

The counter and the open kitchen as a show have become the great protagonists of restaurants There are two defined modernity lines in the design of restaurants: the counter and the open kitchen as a stage for cooking shows and an exercise of transparency towards dinner guests. The counter conveys the soul of our territory…

Tha Caravan of Health

The Silestone Institute participates in “The Caravan of Health”, an initiative launched by Carrefour along with Disney and the chef Ferran Adrià to promote healthy lifestyles.  The Silestone Institute will organize Express Domestic Food Handler Workshops in the Caravan of Health by an expert on Food Safety. “The Caravan of Health”, an initiative launched by Carrefour along with Disney and the chef Ferran Adrià. The Caravan of Health will…

The design of Disfrutar restaurant: the success of a creative process that has broken the moulds

As part of the Hostelco fair, a new session of Dialogues of Architecture and Gastronomy has been organized by the Silestone Institute. The chef Oriol Castro – Restaurante Disfrutar-, the architect Oliver Franz Schmitz –El Equipo Creativo – and Pilar Navarro –Cosentino Group– have shared a talk about “Disfrutar. the challenge of designing a new restaurant”. The event was…

Kitchen hygiene decalogue

1. Shopping, the first step toward trust Examine the shop: – Cleanliness of the establishment and personnel – Products which need to be refrigerated or frozen are properly stored Examine the product: – That the external appearance of the food is good – That packages are in perfect condition – That the label contains all…

Design or Functionality in a restaurant?

Design or functionality? Chef Paco Roncero and interior designer María Villalón describe the process of designing a restaurant • Transmitting the essence of the restaurant to the interior designer and the presence of chemistry between the chef and interior designer is key to achieving the soul of the restaurant in the design (Paco Roncero) •…