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Work

Venues I designed for the businesses I run, and concepts I created for other owners through my studio.

My businesses

Venues designed for the brands I run.

  1. The central island bar at Underdoggs Aerocity under a slatted timber ceiling, with screens along both walls.

    Underdoggs

    Ludhiana · Jalandhar · Amritsar · New Delhi · Gurugram · 2017–2019

    Founder & Director of Underdoggs; designed five of its venues

    Venues designed by someone who also has to run them, for a brand built around the busiest hour of the week.

  2. The navy shopfront of Mrs Kaur’s on Golf Course Road, with a gold script sign, glazed doors and planters in front.

    Mrs Kaur’s Bakery & Cafe

    Golf Course Road, Gurugram · 2025

    Director of Mrs Kaur’s Bakery & Cafe since 2009; designed the flagship

    A flagship for a twenty-year-old family bakery that many people grew up with: familiar to them, and built to work from breakfast to dinner.

Through the studio

Concepts created for other owners through Breakthrough Design Studio.

  1. The Ālaya dining hall by day: a central aisle of green marble tables and cream chairs under timber beams and fabric pendants, with the bar and windows beyond.

    Ālaya Café & Bar

    Shillong · 2026

    Breakthrough Design Studio, led by Rish Saini: concept to opening

    An open brief taken all the way: name, identity, rooms, food and drink, training and launch, planned as one engagement.

  2. The Uptown Escape dining room: marble-topped tables and cane chairs under strings of hanging lights, with a window wall on the left.

    Uptown Escape

    Guwahati · 2019

    Breakthrough Design Studio, led by Rish Saini: concept to completion

    A café by day and a cocktail bar by night: one business built around two complementary demand curves.

  3. The Nuts & Brew main hall: red stools and high tables down a long room under pendant lights, a tiled bar along the right.

    Nuts & Brew

    Guwahati · 2025

    Breakthrough Design Studio, led by Rish Saini: repositioning

    An established brewery that traded well but felt dated. The whole proposition moved, and the beer went from four taps to eight.

  • Woks & Pans

    Gurugram · 2018

    Breakthrough Design Studio: restaurant design

    A fast-casual Asian and Italian bowl restaurant, and my first design project outside Underdoggs.

Get in touch

Building something in hospitality?

Get in touch about partnerships, speaking, press, joining the teams at Underdoggs or Mrs Kaur’s, or AI in hospitality.

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