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Food
Here’s Your Delicious Pizza: Wood Fired Pizza Oven Design
We designed and constructed a wood fired pizza oven for our interior courtyard using recycled brick from the building site to create the base.
Futuristic Features with a Personal Touch: Square Roots Kitchen Gets a Permanent Location
Square Roots Kitchen, a technology-driven healthy fast food spot, is complete.
The Izakaya, Ramen Bar & Kaiseki Restaurant: What Makes their Design Distinct?
Learn about some design distinctions of the izakaya, ramen bar and the kaiseki restaurant.
From Food Truck to Restaurant Guide and a Truck News Recap
Recent court rulings maintain restrictions for food truck owners
The French Bistro, Brasserie and Café: What Makes Their Design Distinct?
We explore the key design differences between the classic French restaurant types.
How moss Drinks Coffee: Chemex, Phin and Moka
There are a zillion ways to make the perfect cup of coffee. Our favorites include Vietnamese-style, Moka Pot, and Chemex.
Get Excited for Fall Produce!
These cool weather crops include Spinach, Beets, Squash, Grapes and more.
Coming Soon: Wild Blossom Meadery
When artisans create mead, they do it in a meadery. We’re so excited to be done with permitting on the new Wild Blossom Meadery building.
April Showers: Learning From California’s Drought
Continuing news on Californian drought is scary, even on a rainy day. What can we learn from the west coast water crisis?
How We Operate: Thanksgiving and Great Food at Moss:::
Thanksgiving, that foodiest of all holidays, is a personal favorite of everyone at moss. In the spirit of the holiday we wanted to give thanks for our favorite food traditions.
Your Pumpkin Pie is a fake, but Thanksgiving will be OK
Have you heard the old joke: “When is a pumpkin not a pumpkin? When it’s a pie.” It’s true! Most pumpkin pie, or more accurately, the canned pumpkin used by most Americans, contains squash not pumpkin.
Cycling Sonoma and Designing Sustainable Wineries
With news that Sonoma County intends to become the first 100% sustainable wine region in the world, it seems only fitting that we explore it by bike. moss visited the region to explore some of the current sustainable practices and taste some of the wine, of course. This sparked some thoughts about how design and layout […]
Coming Soon: Jolly Posh Foods is Moving to moss Designed Expanded Shop and Restaurant on Southport Avenue
We’re excited to introduce you to our next project under construction: the new location, expanded shop, and restaurant design for Jolly Posh Foods. Jolly Posh Foods has been a feature of the Lakeview neighborhood for two years; bringing the taste of classic British food to America. An anglophile’s dream come true, the shop currently serves […]
Food Truck to Restaurant Part II: Keep your New Food Truck Running Hot; Developing Your Concept
(This is the second installment of a column we’re writing on the ins and outs of restaurant and food design, where we’ll be exploring topics like food trucks, building conversions and energy efficient kitchens. In this installment, two of Chicago’s finest food trucks weigh in on what you need to know before you start a […]