PUNK Kitchen
Madrid, Spain · Hospitality & Restaurant Design · Concept to Completion
PUNK Kitchen is a healthy fast-casual restaurant in Madrid that manages a difficult balance with apparent ease: it's bold enough to have a personality, and refined enough to make you want to stay. Led by our designer Coro Urdaneta, the project spans 255 sqm across three floors, each designed as a distinct but connected experience, from the active, open ground floor to the calmer, more social upper level. The name says punk. The space says something more nuanced than that.
Design Concept
The material palette is warm, tactile, and considered. A custom brick, its geometric relief pattern running continuously across walls and up into the ceiling plane, is the thread that holds all three floors together, giving the space an identity that is immediately recognisable and impossible to replicate with off-the-shelf finishes. Against this, the sage green juice bar counter, clad in glazed ceramic tile with built-in uplighting, anchors the ground floor with a fresh, organic confidence. A custom cement floor with embedded stone pieces, laid on site, flows throughout all three levels, its texture and warmth sitting closer to natural stone than polished terrazzo, entirely in keeping with the handcrafted, organic spirit of the space.
Typography plays a significant role in the brand expression. Madrid, You Rock! is rendered in oversized lettering directly onto the lime washed render wall of the second floor, a declaration rather than a decoration, and entirely in keeping with a brand that wears its values on its sleeve. The ground floor carries the same energy with bilingual Order Here wayfinding integrated directly into the counter fascia.
Greenery is woven through both floors with intention, cascading trailing plants crown the arched bar surround on the ground floor, large-scale olive and bonsai trees punctuate the second floor dining space, and planting troughs divide the banquette seating from the main circulation zone, creating intimacy without enclosure.
Two Floors, Two Moods
The ground floor is designed for pace. Floor-to-ceiling windows flood the space with natural light, and the open kitchen behind the ordering counter puts the food at the centre of the experience from the moment you walk in. The layout moves efficiently, the curved ordering counter draws guests naturally through the space, and the mix of individual tables and rattan cane seating keeps the room feeling light and flexible.
The second floor shifts gear. Lower lighting, a full juice and cocktail bar, banquette seating backed by a dense planting trough, and the Madrid, You Rock! wall create an atmosphere that is altogether more settled and social. It functions as a destination in its own right, a place to linger rather than move through.
The Staircase
Connecting all three floors is one of the project's most resolved moments. Viewed from above, the stairwell becomes an architectural composition in its own right, a full-height stainless steel wall runs continuously through the void, linking the ground floor bar and kitchen to the second floor juice bar, while blackened steel mesh balustrades frame the descent at each level. The stair walls are finished in lime wash, their soft, organic texture a deliberate counterpoint to the steel. Underfoot, the same custom cement floor with embedded stone pieces continues, laid on site, carrying the material logic of the wider space into every corner of the building. A column of stacked rattan pendant lights drops through the full height of the void, the lighting fixture developed in collaboration with Pichiglas Studio from Barcelona.
Scope of Work
Coro delivered the full interior design across all three floors: spatial planning, material and finish specification, lighting design, furniture curation, and brand integration throughout. The basement level, housing restrooms, storage, and a concealed office behind a mirror was also fully resolved within the design scope. Kitchen and bar were designed for operational efficiency across both floors, with service flow, storage, and peak-hour throughput built into the layout from the earliest stages.