2023-12-09 15:04:42
Tina Hüttl is full of praise. Not just in terms of the food, but also because of what happens around the plates at Verōnika. The new restaurant, which opened in the new Fotografiska museum on Oranienburg Street, is characterized by a “stateless, but very tasteful Manhattan style,” our gastro critic recently wrote. Finally, “the symbiosis of cuisine and culture is being taken seriously”.
Now it could be argued excellently whether Berlin actually needed another photography museum in addition to the C/O and Newton Foundation. It is also an offshoot of an international art house chain that opened its Berlin branch with a show on the rather unimaginative topic of nude photography. There is also the discussion about the old Tacheles as a location – as is well known, a place of explosive urban political power.
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However, the integrated Verōnika restaurant is “an enrichment that the city can tolerate,” says Hüttl, who almost raves about the golden yellow lighting concept and photo-printed leather menu cards. She also noticed the “black unisex uniform skirts.” They come from the Berlin designer Esther Perbandt – the premise of regionality is not only fully lived at Verōnika in terms of cuisine.
We’re still practicing the smile: a waiter’s look by Esther Perbandt.Ejen Studios
Perbandt designed five different costumes for the waitresses, bartenders and other employees of the restaurant; They are all united by the bold, cool style of the designer, who designs exclusively in black and with a penchant for asymmetrical cut details. Similarly, these designs could already be seen in Perbandt’s regular collections, and for the staff they were adapted to the working conditions.
The idea of designer uniforms in restaurants is not entirely new
As it is now, only very few waitresses and waiters in Berlin are dressed as well as Verōnika – but the idea of the designer uniform is not entirely new. In recent years, some top restaurants, cafes and hotels have stood out with extremely high-quality workwear; the execution is sometimes more skilful, sometimes more intentional.
Good service can be so nice: Studio Older Paris specializes in high-quality workwear.Older Paris
For example, the Munich label Talbot Runhof, which usually presents its fashion in Paris, caused irritation a few years ago. In 2019, the designers Johnny Talbot and Adrian Runhof designed unusual uniforms for the star restaurant Tantris in Munich. Shirts and blouses were printed extensively with floral patterns that correspond to the designs of the curtains in the washrooms of the same gourmet store.
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The Tantris staff also wears black pants with red piping and brightly colored sneakers – this didn’t necessarily cause a storm of enthusiasm on social media. More muted colors were used when the Belgian Dries Van Noten designed for the Bayerischer Hof in Munich almost ten years ago: his work uniforms for the noble hotel are in anthracite and midnight blue, equipped with a shawl collar and of elegant, flowing length.
Belgium meets Bavaria: In the Munich hotel they wear Dries Van Noten.Alina Tyulyu
The Italian designer Letizia Caramia and her Danish colleague Morton Thuesen have specialized in well-fitting and good-looking workwear. The two had previously worked for labels such as Alexander McQueen and Isabel Marant – with their own studio Older Paris, they now exclusively design high-quality uniforms, especially in shades of blue and brown, often inspired by the traditionally dignified workwear of Asian countries.
In addition to the Copenhagen top restaurant 108, which is part of the legendary Noma’s gastronomy group and where objectively shaped pinafore aprons and collarless shirts made of heavy cotton are now worn, Caramia and Thuesen have already equipped several hotels in the Radisson Hotel Group or the Hoxton Group with uniforms for Les Restaurant in the Palais de Tokyo in Paris or the star hotel Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles.
In recent years, work clothing has been further developed, which is characterized by an interesting ambiguity: the waitress or waiter should ultimately disappear into the uniform and still stand out – not outshine the guest, but be immediately recognizable in their function, please very. The fact that this can not only be achieved with the traditional combination of black trousers and white shirt is now also proven in the Verōnika.
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