The finest restaurant interiors are those that make the food look better. Not through distraction or spectacle, but through the quality of the light that falls on the table, the colour of the wall that the food is seen against, the texture of the surface on which it is placed. Indriya Mishran — a fine-dining continental restaurant designed by Bricolage Bombay — was designed from this conviction. Every decision in the interior was made in the service of the same goal: to make a guest feel that they are exactly where they want to be, eating exactly what they want to eat, in a space that enhances both without calling attention to itself.

The palette is muted almost to the point of silence: raw lime plaster on the walls, their surface irregularities catching and releasing the light from fabric-wrapped pendant fixtures; terracotta accents in the flooring and the custom joinery; a restrained but playful use of printed fabric in the upholstery and the hanging installations that introduces colour without committing to any. The effect is of a space that feels both raw and refined — the apparent contradiction that distinguishes the best contemporary restaurant interiors from those that merely follow trends.

The restaurant is distributed across two floors. On the ground floor, the bar commands the room: a generously proportioned counter of polished wood and backlit stone that becomes the social anchor of the space, the place from which the restaurant’s energy radiates. The bar’s design was developed in close coordination with the kitchen team, ensuring that the service flow between bar, floor, and kitchen is as efficient as the spatial experience is enjoyable. Custom bar stools, designed by Bricolage Bombay, provide seating at a height that encourages the kind of relaxed, lateral conversation that bars at their best enable.

The upper floor is organised around the concept of the alcove — a spatial condition in which private dining happens without formal enclosure. Low screens of perforated timber, custom-woven textiles suspended from the ceiling, and carefully placed furniture group the upper floor into a series of intimate zones, each with its own light quality and sight-lines. The privacy is real but not absolute: the energy of the full restaurant is always present, which is precisely what fine dining requires. Complete isolation produces the quality of a meeting room; the calibrated permeability of well-designed alcoves produces the quality of theatre.

The tabletops are terrazzo — a material of extraordinary surface beauty and remarkable durability, recently rediscovered by the restaurant design world after decades of neglect. All furniture was custom-designed and made, with fabric selections developed in direct reference to the restaurant’s wall surfaces and lighting conditions. The lighting design, critical to the success of any restaurant interior, was developed through mockup and testing rather than specification alone. Indriya Mishran has received extensive coverage from food bloggers and restaurant reviewers, consistently praised for the quality of its ambience as much as for its food.