A 10,000 square foot upscale American casual restaurant and wine bar offering 100 wines by the glass and wine tasting flights located in a former bow truss garage. The owners. Steve and Howard, encouraged 1930’s imagery; the hangar-like structure of the building and the idea of wine “flights” suggested images of aircraft from the thirties to the team.
Budget (1996) $980.000 for construction, fixtures, furniture and audio, visual and food and beverage equipment with construction managed by the owners. Sales averaged about $800,000 per month in the first year with average checks of about $50, 50% of which from food.
The hangar-like bow-truss structure and ‘flights’ of wine suggested images of portals at 500 miles an hour stretch horizontally into ellipses, light reflected off of riveted aluminum façade wings and interior plaster wings, blimp cushions, streamlined seating and railings, a squadron of light fixtures. The future city mural was located in the private dining room.