Restaurant Hospitality featured William Duff Architects’ latest restaurant project for Brick x Brick Hospitality Group, Kaiyo Rooftop.

A few excerpts from the article by Megan Moseley.

‘Kaiyo Rooftop is located on the 12th floor of the Hyatt Place Hotel in the SOMA neighborhood. The 3,300-square-foot restaurant accommodates 236 people.

In the new elevated space, which offers panoramic views of the San Francisco skyline and nearby sports stadiums, [Jim] Park hopes to give Kaiyo a bigger stage…

Park, in partnership with William Duff Architects, designed and decorated Kaiyo Rooftop with “contemporary decor and natural finishes, vibrant pops of color and lush greenery accents, including live palm trees,” according to press materials. There’s also a rainforest-inspired mural on site created by artist Jeff Carnie…

Park said what makes this restaurant unique is that it’s blending the past, meeting the present and pushing forward the future of Nikkei cuisine by using what they can in today’s broken supply chain market, evolving and creating along the way…’

Read the full feature here.