Restaurant Bottle Wall Behind the Dining Room
A bottle wall as the back of a restaurant dining room: storage for service, display for the room, and enough of both that nobody has to walk to the cellar mid-service.
What the photographs show
A wall of bottles behind banquette seating and tables, with the service side behind it. Chairs, glassware and a bar are in the frame because the room is in use, which is the point of the photograph.
What the build had to solve
A restaurant wall has two speeds: the bottles the room sees, and the bottles the staff need within reach. The bottom two tiers are set to service height and left without glass, the upper tiers are glazed, and the pitch is set to the house champagne and the house red rather than to an average bottle. Panels stay under 2,400 mm so a damaged one can be replaced in a week.
What to copy, and what to avoid
Worth copying: service height on the lower tiers. Worth avoiding: glazing the whole wall, which makes staff open a door 200 times a night.
- Lower tiers
- Open, set to service height
- Upper tiers
- Glazed, tempered
- Pitch
- Set to the house bottle shapes
- Panels
- Under 2,400 mm, replaceable singly
- Lighting
- Warm, on a separate circuit from the room
- Production
- 30 to 40 days, quoted per project
Frame 18 mm · glass panes up to 2,400 mm · scribe 40 mm · door reveal 3 mm · lead time 30 to 40 days, quoted per project · crated to a numbered setting-out drawing
The same scene, frame by frame
Photographs from our project archive, grouped by room type rather than by client. No client and no address is named on these pages.
What clients ask about a room like this one
How many bottles does a wall hold?
It depends entirely on pitch and depth. Send the house bottle shapes and the wall length, and the drawing comes back with a count per tier rather than an estimate.
Can it be locked at night?
The glazed upper tiers can be locked; the open service rows are inside the room and are counted at close. Both are normal on a restaurant wall.
A room like this one, to your dimensions
Send three photographs of the wall and the bottle count. What comes back is a scheme, a drawing and a fixed price.