MONDO Sagami Ohno

This is a project for the all-day dining restaurant "MONDO Sagami Ohno" which will open on the 7th floor of Odakyu Hotel Century Sagami Ohno.
The restaurant, with a spacious space of over 666 square meters, is equipped with a gigantic wood-fired oven, which is the symbol of the restaurant MONDO. Based on the theme of "from the mountain to the table," the restaurant uses wood-fired cooking to bring out the natural flavors of the ingredients, providing simple and innovative flavors. Guests can casually enjoy authentic Italian cuisine, including a lunch buffet featuring carefully made handmade bread, and steaks baked in a wood-fired oven. The restaurant also houses BAR ROJY, where you can casually enjoy authentic cocktails and rare old whiskey, and Kogasaka Bake Sagami Ohno, where you can purchase freshly baked bread and baked goods, offering a free, warm and unique restaurant experience to the people of the city.

This project is one of the value-up projects for the 7th to 10th floors of the Odakyu Line's Sagami-Ono Station Square produced by Keep Will Dining. The existing tenant in this area had been in operation for over three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The client requested that we make good use of the existing facilities and create a neighborhood restaurant that would have the feel of having been in the location for a long time.
However, this section is located further back from the hotel reception, so the interior of the restaurant is completely invisible from the common areas, and the façade is also located in an area with low visibility, meaning that customers have to walk through a long corridor before finally reaching the seating area, which is an irregular layout. We needed to find a way to expose the restaurant's face and ensure a flow of traffic that would draw customers in, as well as find a way to make the restaurant coexist with the adjacent hotel lobby.

By removing the partition wall that separated the hotel lobby and the restaurant, we eliminated the long corridor that had been a bottleneck, creating a larger lobby space. We then installed a new hotel reception counter and a restaurant cafe counter with a common concept design, creating a layout where both the hotel and restaurant aspects are visible.
The restaurant's interior features a wood-fired oven as its centerpiece, with a bar lounge, dining area, semi-private rooms, and private rooms that can accommodate large groups, offering a variety of seating options to suit a wide range of customers and purposes, and is designed to accommodate both lunch buffets and dinners. interiors reuses existing finishes and designs, combining them with materials such as antique mirrors, plasterwork, and black ironwork. Soft indirect lighting and decorative lighting are scattered throughout, creating a comfortable space that feels as if it has always been there.