Txalupa Gastroleku Restaurant, San Sebastian Commercial Interior, Northern Spanish Architecture Images
Txalupa Gastroleku Restaurant in San Sebastian
13 Mar 2019
Txalupa Gastroleku Restaurant
Design: El Equipo Creativo
Location: Fermin Calbeton Kalea, 3, San Sebastian, Spain

A Bar, a Club and a suggestive red staircase? colour helps us differentiate them while connecting with the neighbourhood’s maritime essence.

The Txalupa Gastroleku Restaurant project began with a pintxos (small tapas) bar in the old part of San Sebastian, which had to be transformed entirely due to a change of ownership, without losing part of the essence of these traditional pintxos bars, with their long bars full of exposed tapas and their lively and casual atmosphere.
The bar is located on Fermín Calbetón Street, a classic street of pintxos in San Sebastian. This street literally connects to the port. The small fishing boats still dock to La Bretxa market, the old fish market in the city which still maintains the use of gastronomic market. Its old name, Txalupa is how the small and colourful fishing boats are called. The name became an opportunity to talk about the essence of this neighbourhood which is inseparable from the sea.

The bar on the ground floor has been designed with a clear reference to the port and its colour. The water of the port of San Sebastian, with a certain depth and calm, acquires a dark greenish hue, which becomes the main tone of the space. The curved wooden bar ...