The Milos restaurant is home of the finest Greek cuisine
in Manhattan and so for the last 25 years, something unprecedent in this city. With longevity comes new challenges, especially in a competitive environment as New York.
If there was a challenge it was how to do more with the
restaurant. So came the time when the building owner offered
Milos the 10,000 square foot basement, formerly unused, as
an opportunity to expand its private dining options.
It was then decided to expand and renovate the existing
venue, so popular that it had to be achieved without any
temporary closure. A particular challenge, since a new larger
kitchen was to be designed below the existing one, implying
a very complex “ballet” of logistics during the service hours,
running from noon till late night...
Furtherso, the new space at the basement of the restaurant
had to propose a contemporary aesthetic that would finetuned
itself to the existing decor of the main floor, keeping some key
iconic components of the space.