La Tequila Restaurant / LOA

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Zapopan, Mexico
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La Tequila Restaurant  / LOA - Interior Photography, Kitchen, Table, Countertop, Chair
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Text description provided by the architects. The restaurant is located within a shopping and financial district in Zapopan, Jalisco, near the city of Guadalajara, Mexico. The objective of the project was to implement the aesthetic and architectural identity of a business with almost 3 decades of history and a rooted culture of artisanal products and processes. Throughout the last 26 years, La Tequila has made itself a reputation as the city’s premier destination for Mexican cuisine and, as such, it has built a strong sense of identity that we were tasked with preserving.

La Tequila Restaurant  / LOA - Interior Photography, Kitchen, Table, Chair, Beam
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Plan - Ground floor
La Tequila Restaurant  / LOA - Interior Photography, Kitchen, Shelving, Facade
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Plan - 1st floor
La Tequila Restaurant  / LOA - Interior Photography
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The project aims to reinvigorate that identity, by taking the original textures & components and applying them in novel ways to create a renewed but familiar language. This is analogous to the restaurant’s cuisine, which takes traditional Mexican recipes and transposes them to a modern context.

La Tequila Restaurant  / LOA - Interior Photography, Kitchen
© César Béjar Studio

The origin of the source was the main concern, with locally produced materials and handcrafts that would reaffirm what the concept stands for.

La Tequila Restaurant  / LOA - Interior Photography
© César Béjar Studio

The program is fairly straightforward. Back-of-house areas, including kitchen, product reception, staff bathrooms, and offices, are distributed across two levels and take up roughly 40% of the total volume. Meanwhile, the front of the house, which occupies the remaining 60% of the restaurant, is divided into 3 distinct areas: an interior hall, ideal for family gatherings, that faces the open section of the kitchen and is in close proximity to bathrooms and kids' club; a large semi-outdoor area for different seating configurations directly in front of the bar, that offers great views of the neighboring commercial district; and an adjoining terrace that can be enclosed by a series of textile curtains to serve as private dining areas.

La Tequila Restaurant  / LOA - Interior Photography
© César Béjar Studio

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Address:Plaza Comercial "The Landmark Guadalajara" in Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico

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Cite: "La Tequila Restaurant / LOA" [Restaurante la tequila / LOA] 14 Aug 2021. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/966739/la-tequila-restaurant-loa> ISSN 0719-8884

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