The 473 Square-Foot Chef’s Kitchen

• March 14, 2014

by UrbanTurf Staff

Many people are content with 470 square feet of living space (or so we are learning), but one Chicago restaurateur was not going to be happy until he had a kitchen that size.

The Wall Street Journal recently ran a piece on the renovated home of Nick Kokonas, who owns Next and the Michelin-rated Alinea in Chicago. Among changes he made when renovating, Kokonas installed a 473 square-foot kitchen that would be suitable for the chefs at his restaurants.

From the WSJ:

Mr. Kokonas and his wife, Dagmara, designed their home kitchen to run as efficiently as the one at Alinea, where the menu includes “edible balloons” and “black truffle explosion.” The 473-square-foot kitchen has become the hub of their home, which consists of two connected 19th-century wood-framed houses in the Old Town section of Chicago.

The kitchen offers separate prep spaces for different types of food and both a gas oven and an electric oven with burners that can generate temperatures twice that of normal ovens. There are also hidden spice racks behind the oven, a shelf with about 300 cookbooks and a wine cellar directly beneath the kitchen.

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Photo from The Wall Street Journal.

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