Domus Features Avling Kitchen & Brewery by LAMAS
Avling Kitchen & Brewery by LAMAS was featured on Domus in 2019 in an article by Francesca Grillo titled “Avling Kitchen & Brewery processes food on site.” The project is located in Toronto, Canada, and was published as part of Domus’ online architecture gallery series focused on contemporary hospitality and adaptive reuse projects.
The feature presents the project as a transformation of a former grocery store and industrial food-processing site into a combined restaurant and brewery. The Domus article highlights the building’s layered history, noting its previous uses as a mid-century commercial grocery space and later as a facility for bean sprout cultivation before its architectural conversion. The project is framed around its integration of food production systems directly within the building, including brewing infrastructure and rooftop cultivation.
The project develops a continuous relationship between production and public space, with visible fermentation tanks, integrated mechanical systems, and a rooftop garden that supplies the restaurant. Rather than separating front- and back-of-house operations, the design organizes them as a single interconnected system, where agricultural production, brewing, and dining coexist within one spatial framework.