BAO Chinese Restaurant

In the Ukrainian city of Kiev, for a few months now, everything with style and a name has been coming together at one place: in the noble BAO Chinese restaurant, where the perfectly designed dishes court attention with the perfectly designed interior.

FORTUNE, WELL-BEING AND WEALTH

Nothing here is purely “deco”, everything has a meaning. Architect, Vladimir Nepiyvoda, and his art director, Dmitry Bonesko, modelled the design of BAO on Asian and US Chinese restaurants. Before taking your seat, you step through a very elaborately carved wood door. It acts as a kind of “cleansing threshold”, in order to be able to concentrate on one's food and company free of negative energy. In addition, the guest stepping through the door is surrounded by softly whispered Chinese words that conjure up fortune, well-being and wealth. 

TREMENDOUSLY MYSTICAL

The dining room itself is also mystically charged. Above a huge wooden table, which can easily seat 50 diners, hangs an equally huge ceramic installation. Each separate part symbolises a koi, which turns into a dragon whilst crossing a waterfall illustrated at one end of the room.
The wooden table itself was made out of Chinese rain tree and weighs 2.5 tonnes. Such an exclusive piece is made for eternity and is therefore painted with ADLER PUR-Antiscratch. This surface withstands any merry celebration. At other places in this restaurant of superlatives too, ADLER enhances the wood: the trendy parquet flooring with large panels is oiled with ADLER Legno-Öl. Thanks to its anti-slip properties, spontaneous dance interludes and stilettos to match the evening dress are no problem either. The natural wood oil for matt, velvety surfaces is also used on the ceiling joists and gives the elaborate wood-deco elements on the wall the perfect finish. All the woodwork was carried out masterfully by the company Kirmax, a customer of our Ukrainian ADLER dealer, LLC Living Wood.

Besides the enormous table for large gatherings and celebrations, there are naturally also retreat niches and cosy corners. A smaller room on the second floor provides an elegant, romantic atmosphere with an open fire and yin and yang symbolism.

With so much beauty around, you could almost forget the food. But only almost! Anyone who has scrolled down the BAO Facebook page will probably book a flight to Kiev straight away: 
www.facebook.com/bao.kiev