Durrant Designing Restaurant and Bar at New Guthrie Theater

Durrant Designing Restaurant and Bar at New Guthrie Theater
Rolling out its new food-service design practice with a high-profile project, the Minneapolis office of The Durrant Group Inc. is designing Cue at the Guthrie, the 7,760-square-foot, street-level restaurant and bar at the new Guthrie Theater.

The Guthrie building is designed by French architect Jean Nouvel, with local architectural firm Architectural Alliance.

Opening this summer, the new Guthrie is under construction in the historic Mill District, on the banks of the Mississippi River in downtown Minneapolis.

Operator of the Cue restaurant and bar will be the Minneapolis office of Bon App�tit Management Company, which joined forces with Durrant and the Minneapolis office of Landmark Restaurant Equipment & Design, kitchen design consultants, to win the project.

Known internationally for its architectural work, Durrant previously provided food-service design as an integrated element of buildings it designs.

These have included large-scale banquet facilities, medium-size cafeterias and restaurants, and small themed concessions.

The firm's new food-service design practice, led by interior architect Ira A. Keer, AIA, CID, will now also market and work independently from Durrant-based architecture projects.