SUMIBIスミビ十席 · Ten seats · tonight

深夜の炭火

A ten-seat yakitori counter. Open midnight to four.

Bristol · a fictional restaurant, drawn as a concept by Signal Studio

001Photography: licensed stock, to be replaced

00:30 · The charcoal · 炭

Holm oak, carbonised until it rings like metal. It burns near a thousand degrees with no flame and no smoke of its own. The only smoke in the room is dripping fat, and that is the seasoning.

Bed temperature 940°C · lit an hour before you arrive

002Photography: licensed stock, to be replaced

00:07 to 03:40 · The counter · 串

There is no menu to hold. Ten sticks cross the pass between midnight and last orders, each grilled to the second, not to the clock.

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The night's ten

chef's choice, grilled to the second

01 TSUKUNE — TARE 00:0702 NEGIMA — SHIO 00:2403 SHIITAKE — YUZU KOSHO 00:4104 TEBASAKI — SANSHO 01:0205 BUTABARA — MISO 01:1906 HATSU — SHIO 01:3707 TSUKUNE, AGAIN — EGG YOLK 02:0008 NASU — DENGAKU 02:2209 KAWA — CRISP 02:4810 YAKI ONIGIRI — LAST ORDERS 03:40
003Photography: licensed stock, to be replaced
Two worn wooden stools under a dark counter, lights low
The whole restaurant is the counter. Interior photography: licensed stock, to be replaced.
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02:00 · The tare · タレ

Soy, mirin, the bones of every bird that has crossed the counter. The pot is topped up, never emptied, never finished.

each dipped skewer leaves something behind, and takes something older away

005Photography: licensed stock, to be replaced
炭火

SUMIBI · a ten-seat yakitori counter · Ten seats, chef's choice, one skewer at a time.

Doors 00:00 · Last orders 03:40 · Ten seats, no tables, no second room

SUMIBI is a fictional restaurant, invented by Signal Studio as a concept build. There is no address, no phone number and no bookings, because there is no restaurant. All photography is licensed stock, standing in until a real client's own; the design, type and motion are original work, not a template.

A Signal Studio concept · signalstudios.uk

006Photography: licensed stock, to be replaced