We are well aware of the several boons of home-cooked food. Yet we prefer running to the restaurants and cafes at the drop of a hat. The biggest perk of dining out is that you don’t have to sweat it out in your home kitchen to cook the meal. In a restaurant, you can simply sit nice and pretty, sharing niceties with your family or friends while the freshly cooked food is served to you.
If we look a little further from just the food part of it, we also visit a restaurant to have our meal in a nice ambiance. We look for a cozy nook where we can bond with our loved ones leaving aside the mundane clutters of our daily lives that our homes remind us all the time. But what if we can create the same nook in our house itself?
Yes. It is absolutely possible to recreate the same ambiance, look, and feel of a restaurant in our own kitchen. Right from the best carbon steel pans used by the top chefs to a professionally planned working surface, you can have it all. No matter how big or small your kitchen or dining area might be, here are some quick tips to deploy restaurant layout design in your home kitchen.
Layout
Restaurant design has its layout planned to keep in mind the capacity to accommodate the guests. They deploy the most cost-effective, yet indigenous use of space that perfectly ensures –
- Ease of movement
- Procurement of equipment and ingredients
- Easy delivery of the food from the cooktop to the dining table
Efficient Storage Solutions
Make sure your kitchen and dining area is absolutely clutter-free for smooth operations. Assign a place for every ingredient as well as equipment around your cooktop. Have open shelves or inbuilt wall units for storage solutions. Make sure your storage does not require stacking one item on the top of another to avoid spillage and falling down of containers off the shelf while cooking. Take a queue from restaurant bars designs to keep a couple of stylish bar tools around your work table.
Restaurant Style Working Surface
The best of the chefs all across the world swear by stainless steel working surface simply because they are easy to clean, heat resistant and hygienic as bacteria cannot percolate into the surface made by stainless steel.
Having said that, it also requires being attentive while working on a stainless steel surface. It may be very easy to put down a hot vessel right from the cooktop on the stainless steel surface, but at the same time, it also has the risk of getting your hands burnt if you are not quite accustomed to the process.
Décor
Just as a brand represents the vision of its owner, a home kitchen reflects the personality of the homeowner. Hence, choose a theme for your kitchen that makes you absolutely feel at home. The kitchen is a very important place where you cook for yourself and your family. It is also a place where you spend a lot of time of the day. Make sure you design the space in a way that makes you feel like coming back to it.
When it comes to the décor, the restaurant exterior design can provide a lot of inspiration. Add up a plant or two to give that much-needed freshness to your kitchen. If you are an art lover, add a painting or mix and match with some element of typography to quirk up space. Assign a corner for a small portable music player to enhance your mood while cooking.
Heating and Ventilation
Every professional kitchen lays a lot of importance for heating and ventilation. The same holds true for home kitchens as well. A lot of heat, smoke, and smell is emitted at the time of cooking. Hence it is important to have the space well ventilated.
Restaurants use both ventilation hoods and exhaust fans. While hoods take care of the heat, smoke, grease, and smell, exhaust fans ensure proper circulation of air in the kitchen.
Having talked about heat and ventilation, let’s not forget about a fire extinguisher. No professional kitchen would even be given a license of they don’t have an efficient fire suppression system in place. It is essential to have one at home as well.
Lighting
Ideally, it is preferable to have natural lights coming inside the kitchen. However, if that is not possible, here is what the chefs prefer every time they place up their fondest recipes for the customers. Bright over lights or recessed LED lights inbuilt into the ceilings is a restaurant design staple. It ensures a well-lit cooking area without emitting much heat inside the kitchen.
These are also easy to clean as compared to the pendant or shuttered lights.
Implement these easy and efficient ideas from restaurant kitchens and make cooking fun without making a hole in your pocket.
Are you planning to renovate your home kitchen? Hope you find our tips useful. Let us know about it in the comment below.
Author Bio:
It was like a dream come true for Holly Miller to stay a vegetarian for 3 years. She depends on her kitchen juicer and other cooking appliances that help her to make a satisfying meal each time. Likewise, she is happy to keep a healthy, mindful diet throughout her life. And she writes about food on mykitchenadvisor.com
