Toronto’s Prime Seafood Palace is a perfect serve of Japandi minimalism

A hearty menu of steak and seafood is offset by ‘light-as-air’ interiors at this new Toronto restaurant on Queen Street West.

Chef/owner Matty Matheson and architect Omar Gandhi designed Prime Seafood Palace together, turning its barrel-shaped interiors into a calming, wood-lined dining room.

The pair brought in an impressive 900lb of maple slats, which emphasise the Toronto restaurant’s curving ceiling and create built-in shutters for the windows. Wood panelling dominates the space, set off by brass light fittings and rails, as well as a set of curved leather-upholstered banquettes.

Dining chairs draped in sheepskin, a wood burner and a stash of logs add a Scandi twist to a separate dining area, known as ‘The Cottage’.

There’s a long list of seafood on offer at the aptly named Prime Seafood Palace including Dungeness crabs, sea urchins and Humboldt squid, as well as prime rib.

944 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M6J 1G8

[Via Architectural Digest]

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