FRANK restaurant

  • Prize
    Winner in Interior Design - Hospitality: Bar and Restaurant
  • Company/Firm
    DA BUREAU
  • Lead Designer
    Fedor Goreglyad, Ildar Gilmanov, Irina Oleynikova
  • Design Team
    Anna Lvovskaia, Boris Lvovskiy, Fedor Goreglyad, Maria Romanova, Ildar Gilmanov, Irina Oleynikova
  • Photographer Credit
    Nikita Kovalev
  • Location
    Bluewaters, Dubai, UAE

FRANK is a restaurant chain that combines elements of street style and hip-hop culture. The team approached us to create their first restaurant in the Bluewaters neighbourhood of Dubai.

FRANK's cuisine is an extension of the overall concept of the restaurant: simple, street, for everyone. Above all, the restaurant is known for its iconic ribs cooked with special technology.

In this project, we managed to pay tribute to traditions, to what FRANK projects started with, and to the associations its first visitors have. At the same time, the interior of FRANK has changed over the years: it evolved and became bolder and more serious.

Initially, FRANK can be characterised as a place of a courtyard, party, street style and music. This restaurant is divided into two floors, each of which has its unique atmosphere permeated with the spirit of street culture.

While designing this space we referred to the concept of a backyard party.
The ground floor is a quieter, daytime space for relaxed recreation, socialising, and delicious food. It's an open, bright space with plenty of greenery, a basketball hoop, garage doors, upbeat music, and of course a grill.