Zibibbo, in Palo Alto, a second project for Rowena Wu, is the sister restaurant to LuLu in San Francisco. The 14,000-square-foot, 400-seat restaurant is a casual place with a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces that bask in the gentle Peninsula climate. Like the menu, the design references the Mediterranean—from Southern France to Morocco, Spain and Italy.
Zibibbo, a full city block in length, is organized along a yellow brick road that links three buildings as well as dining gardens set with olive trees, aromatic herbs, flowers and fountains. The first building is an 1890s Victorian that has been transformed into the main bar for the restaurant. The second building, built new as the main dining room, has an industrial barrel vaulted roof and is oriented to extend into the adjacent gardens via slide-away glass doors on either end.
The third building, a renovated 2-story commercial structure, features two floors of dining and a bustling, open kitchen. The mezzanine overlooks the tremendous working kitchen, a frenzy of oak fires, burners and rotisseries. Where this building meets the street, there is a modern French-Italian sidewalk café and wine bar. Alongside the café is the ‘gallery’ – a long dining room with a collection of photography exhibited within full-height panelized walls.
LOCATION: Palo Alto, California
TYPE: New Restaurant
SIZE: 14,000 sq ft
COMPLETED: 1998
ARCHITECTURAL TEAM
Design Principal: Cass Smith
Project Architect: Alex Chiappetta
Project Team: James Miller, Curtis Hollenbeck, John Bass
Consultants
Color/Materials: James Goodman
Lighting Design: Architectural Lighting Design
Landscape Design: Bradley Burke
Graphic Design: Spotted Dog
Structural Engineer: Yadegar Associates
Mechanical/Electrical: O’Kelly & Schoenlank
Food Service: Joe Yick, Robert Yick Co.
General Contractor: Pacific General
Photography: Michael Bruk
Zibibbo, in Palo Alto, a second project for Rowena Wu, is the sister restaurant to LuLu in San Francisco. The 14,000-square-foot, 400-seat restaurant is a casual place with a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces that bask in the gentle Peninsula climate. Like the menu, the design references the Mediterranean—from Southern France to Morocco, Spain and Italy.
Zibibbo, a full city block in length, is organized along a yellow brick road that links three buildings as well as dining gardens set with olive trees, aromatic herbs, flowers and fountains. The first building is an 1890s Victorian that has been transformed into the main bar for the restaurant. The second building, built new as the main dining room, has an industrial barrel vaulted roof and is oriented to extend into the adjacent gardens via slide-away glass doors on either end.
The third building, a renovated 2-story commercial structure, features two floors of dining and a bustling, open kitchen. The mezzanine overlooks the tremendous working kitchen, a frenzy of oak fires, burners and rotisseries. Where this building meets the street, there is a modern French-Italian sidewalk café and wine bar. Alongside the café is the ‘gallery’ – a long dining room with a collection of photography exhibited within full-height panelized walls.
LOCATION: Palo Alto, California
TYPE: New Restaurant
SIZE: 14,000 sq ft
COMPLETED: 1998
ARCHITECTURAL TEAM
Design Principal: Cass Smith
Project Architect: Alex Chiappetta
Project Team: James Miller, Curtis Hollenbeck, John Bass
Consultants
Color/Materials: James Goodman
Lighting Design: Architectural Lighting Design
Landscape Design: Bradley Burke
Graphic Design: Spotted Dog
Structural Engineer: Yadegar Associates
Mechanical/Electrical: O’Kelly & Schoenlank
Food Service: Joe Yick, Robert Yick Co.
General Contractor: Pacific General
Photography: Michael Bruk
Zibibbo, in Palo Alto, a second project for Rowena Wu, is the sister restaurant to LuLu in San Francisco. The 14,000-square-foot, 400-seat restaurant is a casual place with a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces that bask in the gentle Peninsula climate. Like the menu, the design references the Mediterranean—from Southern France to Morocco, Spain and Italy.
Zibibbo, a full city block in length, is organized along a yellow brick road that links three buildings as well as dining gardens set with olive trees, aromatic herbs, flowers and fountains. The first building is an 1890s Victorian that has been transformed into the main bar for the restaurant. The second building, built new as the main dining room, has an industrial barrel vaulted roof and is oriented to extend into the adjacent gardens via slide-away glass doors on either end.
The third building, a renovated 2-story commercial structure, features two floors of dining and a bustling, open kitchen. The mezzanine overlooks the tremendous working kitchen, a frenzy of oak fires, burners and rotisseries. Where this building meets the street, there is a modern French-Italian sidewalk café and wine bar. Alongside the café is the ‘gallery’ – a long dining room with a collection of photography exhibited within full-height panelized walls.
LOCATION: Palo Alto, California
TYPE: New Restaurant
SIZE: 14,000 sq ft
COMPLETED: 1998
ARCHITECTURAL TEAM
Design Principal: Cass Smith
Project Architect: Alex Chiappetta
Project Team: James Miller, Curtis Hollenbeck, John Bass
Consultants
Color/Materials: James Goodman
Lighting Design: Architectural Lighting Design
Landscape Design: Bradley Burke
Graphic Design: Spotted Dog
Structural Engineer: Yadegar Associates
Mechanical/Electrical: O’Kelly & Schoenlank
Food Service: Joe Yick, Robert Yick Co.
General Contractor: Pacific General
Photography: Michael Bruk
Zibibbo, in Palo Alto, a second project for Rowena Wu, is the sister restaurant to LuLu in San Francisco. The 14,000-square-foot, 400-seat restaurant is a casual place with a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces that bask in the gentle Peninsula climate. Like the menu, the design references the Mediterranean—from Southern France to Morocco, Spain and Italy.
Zibibbo, a full city block in length, is organized along a yellow brick road that links three buildings as well as dining gardens set with olive trees, aromatic herbs, flowers and fountains. The first building is an 1890s Victorian that has been transformed into the main bar for the restaurant. The second building, built new as the main dining room, has an industrial barrel vaulted roof and is oriented to extend into the adjacent gardens via slide-away glass doors on either end.
The third building, a renovated 2-story commercial structure, features two floors of dining and a bustling, open kitchen. The mezzanine overlooks the tremendous working kitchen, a frenzy of oak fires, burners and rotisseries. Where this building meets the street, there is a modern French-Italian sidewalk café and wine bar. Alongside the café is the ‘gallery’ – a long dining room with a collection of photography exhibited within full-height panelized walls.
LOCATION: Palo Alto, California
TYPE: New Restaurant
SIZE: 14,000 sq ft
COMPLETED: 1998
ARCHITECTURAL TEAM
Design Principal: Cass Smith
Project Architect: Alex Chiappetta
Project Team: James Miller, Curtis Hollenbeck, John Bass
Consultants
Color/Materials: James Goodman
Lighting Design: Architectural Lighting Design
Landscape Design: Bradley Burke
Graphic Design: Spotted Dog
Structural Engineer: Yadegar Associates
Mechanical/Electrical: O’Kelly & Schoenlank
Food Service: Joe Yick, Robert Yick Co.
General Contractor: Pacific General
Photography: Michael Bruk
Zibibbo, in Palo Alto, a second project for Rowena Wu, is the sister restaurant to LuLu in San Francisco. The 14,000-square-foot, 400-seat restaurant is a casual place with a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces that bask in the gentle Peninsula climate. Like the menu, the design references the Mediterranean—from Southern France to Morocco, Spain and Italy.
Zibibbo, a full city block in length, is organized along a yellow brick road that links three buildings as well as dining gardens set with olive trees, aromatic herbs, flowers and fountains. The first building is an 1890s Victorian that has been transformed into the main bar for the restaurant. The second building, built new as the main dining room, has an industrial barrel vaulted roof and is oriented to extend into the adjacent gardens via slide-away glass doors on either end.
The third building, a renovated 2-story commercial structure, features two floors of dining and a bustling, open kitchen. The mezzanine overlooks the tremendous working kitchen, a frenzy of oak fires, burners and rotisseries. Where this building meets the street, there is a modern French-Italian sidewalk café and wine bar. Alongside the café is the ‘gallery’ – a long dining room with a collection of photography exhibited within full-height panelized walls.
LOCATION: Palo Alto, California
TYPE: New Restaurant
SIZE: 14,000 sq ft
COMPLETED: 1998
ARCHITECTURAL TEAM
Design Principal: Cass Smith
Project Architect: Alex Chiappetta
Project Team: James Miller, Curtis Hollenbeck, John Bass
Consultants
Color/Materials: James Goodman
Lighting Design: Architectural Lighting Design
Landscape Design: Bradley Burke
Graphic Design: Spotted Dog
Structural Engineer: Yadegar Associates
Mechanical/Electrical: O’Kelly & Schoenlank
Food Service: Joe Yick, Robert Yick Co.
General Contractor: Pacific General
Photography: Michael Bruk
Zibibbo, in Palo Alto, a second project for Rowena Wu, is the sister restaurant to LuLu in San Francisco. The 14,000-square-foot, 400-seat restaurant is a casual place with a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces that bask in the gentle Peninsula climate. Like the menu, the design references the Mediterranean—from Southern France to Morocco, Spain and Italy.
Zibibbo, a full city block in length, is organized along a yellow brick road that links three buildings as well as dining gardens set with olive trees, aromatic herbs, flowers and fountains. The first building is an 1890s Victorian that has been transformed into the main bar for the restaurant. The second building, built new as the main dining room, has an industrial barrel vaulted roof and is oriented to extend into the adjacent gardens via slide-away glass doors on either end.
The third building, a renovated 2-story commercial structure, features two floors of dining and a bustling, open kitchen. The mezzanine overlooks the tremendous working kitchen, a frenzy of oak fires, burners and rotisseries. Where this building meets the street, there is a modern French-Italian sidewalk café and wine bar. Alongside the café is the ‘gallery’ – a long dining room with a collection of photography exhibited within full-height panelized walls.
LOCATION: Palo Alto, California
TYPE: New Restaurant
SIZE: 14,000 sq ft
COMPLETED: 1998
ARCHITECTURAL TEAM
Design Principal: Cass Smith
Project Architect: Alex Chiappetta
Project Team: James Miller, Curtis Hollenbeck, John Bass
Consultants
Color/Materials: James Goodman
Lighting Design: Architectural Lighting Design
Landscape Design: Bradley Burke
Graphic Design: Spotted Dog
Structural Engineer: Yadegar Associates
Mechanical/Electrical: O’Kelly & Schoenlank
Food Service: Joe Yick, Robert Yick Co.
General Contractor: Pacific General
Photography: Michael Bruk
Zibibbo, in Palo Alto, a second project for Rowena Wu, is the sister restaurant to LuLu in San Francisco. The 14,000-square-foot, 400-seat restaurant is a casual place with a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces that bask in the gentle Peninsula climate. Like the menu, the design references the Mediterranean—from Southern France to Morocco, Spain and Italy.
Zibibbo, a full city block in length, is organized along a yellow brick road that links three buildings as well as dining gardens set with olive trees, aromatic herbs, flowers and fountains. The first building is an 1890s Victorian that has been transformed into the main bar for the restaurant. The second building, built new as the main dining room, has an industrial barrel vaulted roof and is oriented to extend into the adjacent gardens via slide-away glass doors on either end.
The third building, a renovated 2-story commercial structure, features two floors of dining and a bustling, open kitchen. The mezzanine overlooks the tremendous working kitchen, a frenzy of oak fires, burners and rotisseries. Where this building meets the street, there is a modern French-Italian sidewalk café and wine bar. Alongside the café is the ‘gallery’ – a long dining room with a collection of photography exhibited within full-height panelized walls.
LOCATION: Palo Alto, California
TYPE: New Restaurant
SIZE: 14,000 sq ft
COMPLETED: 1998
ARCHITECTURAL TEAM
Design Principal: Cass Smith
Project Architect: Alex Chiappetta
Project Team: James Miller, Curtis Hollenbeck, John Bass
Consultants
Color/Materials: James Goodman
Lighting Design: Architectural Lighting Design
Landscape Design: Bradley Burke
Graphic Design: Spotted Dog
Structural Engineer: Yadegar Associates
Mechanical/Electrical: O’Kelly & Schoenlank
Food Service: Joe Yick, Robert Yick Co.
General Contractor: Pacific General
Photography: Michael Bruk
Zibibbo, in Palo Alto, a second project for Rowena Wu, is the sister restaurant to LuLu in San Francisco. The 14,000-square-foot, 400-seat restaurant is a casual place with a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces that bask in the gentle Peninsula climate. Like the menu, the design references the Mediterranean—from Southern France to Morocco, Spain and Italy.
Zibibbo, a full city block in length, is organized along a yellow brick road that links three buildings as well as dining gardens set with olive trees, aromatic herbs, flowers and fountains. The first building is an 1890s Victorian that has been transformed into the main bar for the restaurant. The second building, built new as the main dining room, has an industrial barrel vaulted roof and is oriented to extend into the adjacent gardens via slide-away glass doors on either end.
The third building, a renovated 2-story commercial structure, features two floors of dining and a bustling, open kitchen. The mezzanine overlooks the tremendous working kitchen, a frenzy of oak fires, burners and rotisseries. Where this building meets the street, there is a modern French-Italian sidewalk café and wine bar. Alongside the café is the ‘gallery’ – a long dining room with a collection of photography exhibited within full-height panelized walls.
LOCATION: Palo Alto, California
TYPE: New Restaurant
SIZE: 14,000 sq ft
COMPLETED: 1998
ARCHITECTURAL TEAM
Design Principal: Cass Smith
Project Architect: Alex Chiappetta
Project Team: James Miller, Curtis Hollenbeck, John Bass
Consultants
Color/Materials: James Goodman
Lighting Design: Architectural Lighting Design
Landscape Design: Bradley Burke
Graphic Design: Spotted Dog
Structural Engineer: Yadegar Associates
Mechanical/Electrical: O’Kelly & Schoenlank
Food Service: Joe Yick, Robert Yick Co.
General Contractor: Pacific General
Photography: Michael Bruk
Zibibbo, in Palo Alto, a second project for Rowena Wu, is the sister restaurant to LuLu in San Francisco. The 14,000-square-foot, 400-seat restaurant is a casual place with a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces that bask in the gentle Peninsula climate. Like the menu, the design references the Mediterranean—from Southern France to Morocco, Spain and Italy.
Zibibbo, a full city block in length, is organized along a yellow brick road that links three buildings as well as dining gardens set with olive trees, aromatic herbs, flowers and fountains. The first building is an 1890s Victorian that has been transformed into the main bar for the restaurant. The second building, built new as the main dining room, has an industrial barrel vaulted roof and is oriented to extend into the adjacent gardens via slide-away glass doors on either end.
The third building, a renovated 2-story commercial structure, features two floors of dining and a bustling, open kitchen. The mezzanine overlooks the tremendous working kitchen, a frenzy of oak fires, burners and rotisseries. Where this building meets the street, there is a modern French-Italian sidewalk café and wine bar. Alongside the café is the ‘gallery’ – a long dining room with a collection of photography exhibited within full-height panelized walls.
LOCATION: Palo Alto, California
TYPE: New Restaurant
SIZE: 14,000 sq ft
COMPLETED: 1998
ARCHITECTURAL TEAM
Design Principal: Cass Smith
Project Architect: Alex Chiappetta
Project Team: James Miller, Curtis Hollenbeck, John Bass
Consultants
Color/Materials: James Goodman
Lighting Design: Architectural Lighting Design
Landscape Design: Bradley Burke
Graphic Design: Spotted Dog
Structural Engineer: Yadegar Associates
Mechanical/Electrical: O’Kelly & Schoenlank
Food Service: Joe Yick, Robert Yick Co.
General Contractor: Pacific General
Photography: Michael Bruk
Zibibbo, in Palo Alto, a second project for Rowena Wu, is the sister restaurant to LuLu in San Francisco. The 14,000-square-foot, 400-seat restaurant is a casual place with a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces that bask in the gentle Peninsula climate. Like the menu, the design references the Mediterranean—from Southern France to Morocco, Spain and Italy.
Zibibbo, a full city block in length, is organized along a yellow brick road that links three buildings as well as dining gardens set with olive trees, aromatic herbs, flowers and fountains. The first building is an 1890s Victorian that has been transformed into the main bar for the restaurant. The second building, built new as the main dining room, has an industrial barrel vaulted roof and is oriented to extend into the adjacent gardens via slide-away glass doors on either end.
The third building, a renovated 2-story commercial structure, features two floors of dining and a bustling, open kitchen. The mezzanine overlooks the tremendous working kitchen, a frenzy of oak fires, burners and rotisseries. Where this building meets the street, there is a modern French-Italian sidewalk café and wine bar. Alongside the café is the ‘gallery’ – a long dining room with a collection of photography exhibited within full-height panelized walls.
LOCATION: Palo Alto, California
TYPE: New Restaurant
SIZE: 14,000 sq ft
COMPLETED: 1998
ARCHITECTURAL TEAM
Design Principal: Cass Smith
Project Architect: Alex Chiappetta
Project Team: James Miller, Curtis Hollenbeck, John Bass
Consultants
Color/Materials: James Goodman
Lighting Design: Architectural Lighting Design
Landscape Design: Bradley Burke
Graphic Design: Spotted Dog
Structural Engineer: Yadegar Associates
Mechanical/Electrical: O’Kelly & Schoenlank
Food Service: Joe Yick, Robert Yick Co.
General Contractor: Pacific General
Photography: Michael Bruk
LOCATION: Palo Alto, California
TYPE: New Restaurant
SIZE: 14,000 sq ft
COMPLETED: 1998
ARCHITECTURAL TEAM
Design Principal: Cass Smith
Project Architect: Alex Chiappetta
Project Team: James Miller, Curtis Hollenbeck, John Bass
Consultants
Color/Materials: James Goodman
Lighting Design: Architectural Lighting Design
Landscape Design: Bradley Burke
Graphic Design: Spotted Dog
Structural Engineer: Yadegar Associates
Mechanical/Electrical: O’Kelly & Schoenlank
Food Service: Joe Yick, Robert Yick Co.
General Contractor: Pacific General
Photography: Michael Bruk
Zibibbo, in Palo Alto, a second project for Rowena Wu, is the sister restaurant to LuLu in San Francisco. The 14,000-square-foot, 400-seat restaurant is a casual place with a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces that bask in the gentle Peninsula climate. Like the menu, the design references the Mediterranean—from Southern France to Morocco, Spain and Italy.
Zibibbo, a full city block in length, is organized along a yellow brick road that links three buildings as well as dining gardens set with olive trees, aromatic herbs, flowers and fountains. The first building is an 1890s Victorian that has been transformed into the main bar for the restaurant. The second building, built new as the main dining room, has an industrial barrel vaulted roof and is oriented to extend into the adjacent gardens via slide-away glass doors on either end.
The third building, a renovated 2-story commercial structure, features two floors of dining and a bustling, open kitchen. The mezzanine overlooks the tremendous working kitchen, a frenzy of oak fires, burners and rotisseries. Where this building meets the street, there is a modern French-Italian sidewalk café and wine bar. Alongside the café is the ‘gallery’ – a long dining room with a collection of photography exhibited within full-height panelized walls.
Zibibbo, in Palo Alto, a second project for Rowena Wu, is the sister restaurant to LuLu in San Francisco. The 14,000-square-foot, 400-seat restaurant is a casual place with a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces that bask in the gentle Peninsula climate. Like the menu, the design references the Mediterranean—from Southern France to Morocco, Spain and Italy.
Zibibbo, a full city block in length, is organized along a yellow brick road that links three buildings as well as dining gardens set with olive trees, aromatic herbs, flowers and fountains. The first building is an 1890s Victorian that has been transformed into the main bar for the restaurant. The second building, built new as the main dining room, has an industrial barrel vaulted roof and is oriented to extend into the adjacent gardens via slide-away glass doors on either end.
The third building, a renovated 2-story commercial structure, features two floors of dining and a bustling, open kitchen. The mezzanine overlooks the tremendous working kitchen, a frenzy of oak fires, burners and rotisseries. Where this building meets the street, there is a modern French-Italian sidewalk café and wine bar. Alongside the café is the ‘gallery’ – a long dining room with a collection of photography exhibited within full-height panelized walls.
LOCATION: Palo Alto, California
TYPE: New Restaurant
SIZE: 14,000 sq ft
COMPLETED: 1998
ARCHITECTURAL TEAM
Design Principal: Cass Smith
Project Architect: Alex Chiappetta
Project Team: James Miller, Curtis Hollenbeck, John Bass
Consultants
Color/Materials: James Goodman
Lighting Design: Architectural Lighting Design
Landscape Design: Bradley Burke
Graphic Design: Spotted Dog
Structural Engineer: Yadegar Associates
Mechanical/Electrical: O’Kelly & Schoenlank
Food Service: Joe Yick, Robert Yick Co.
General Contractor: Pacific General
Photography: Michael Bruk
