Atari - The Restaurant with the Dark Green Façade

By Hessa Al Habashi

A post about a restaurant, because everyone else is doing it, but I think I’ll try something new. Everyone who’s met me knows how much I love food, and doing posts about restaurants will not only give me an excuse to go to new restaurants and review their architectural ‘elements’, but also, I get to eat. Who doesn’t love a math equation that goes like that? So from now on, every month, we’ll be reviewing the architecture of a selected restaurant around Kuwait, and to our delight, we have quite a concentrated amount of adequately designed restaurants in Kuwait.

This month’s pick is Atari. You might’ve passed by it a couple of times on your way to Slider Station/Prime & Toast. What caught my attention was the dark green façade; it makes anyone give it a second glance. It had a fun menu, and I might go back again, but since this is an architecture blog, no one comes here to hear what I have to say about the food, right? (unless you want me to, I won’t say no).

The place is small and cozy, two floors, and reminds me of the restaurants I see on TV. You know the ones owned by the couple that just had to open up their own restaurants. The kitchen and the seating area is separated by a wall with a small window looking into what the chefs are up to. The floors are paneled and reminded me of being in a bathroom, just a tad.

I think I’ve criticized the place a bit too much, maybe I should go into compliments now? They have these little stickers around the restaurant which I really liked. It made me want to tour the place and look for them, and boy did I find a lot. What I also liked was the graffiti on the wall and on the tables of typewriters, TV sets and rabbits!

But aside from all that, I enjoyed the food and it was pretty quiet so I can’t complain (at least not more than I have already). The designer is Aseel Al Yaqoub, and the place is located in the Seef strip of restaurants where I also saw a cat watching me, look down for photos of said cat.