Mileta

  • Prize
    Winner in Interior Design Restaurant – Fine Dining
  • Company/Firm
    Mileta
  • Lead Designer
    Dallas Rose
  • Other Designer(s)
    Sagan Rose; Courtney Rose
  • Architect
    Laura Attolini
  • Photo Credit
    Anya Grant, Killian Rose
  • Location
    Lexington, KY
  • Project Date
    November 2024

A renovation of a 7,500sf former indoor golfing range and sports bar is now a contemporary Italian-inspired fine dining restaurant that evokes mid-century and bohemian influences while using reeded wood paneling and a color palette of olive green and mauvy pink with pops of French navy blue, rattan, and leather throughout. The front of the restaurant houses the Pasta Room, a pasta production space enclosed in glass.

The bar top is Michaelangelo quartzite, with bold olive green, pink, and navy blue veins to tie the space together. The retro floral wallpaper has pink, deep violet, and burnt orange hues to pop against the nocturnal green walls and ceiling.

Finer details include commissioned art from Spencer Reinhard, a piece from Patrick Smith in the Pasta Room, a vintage 1800s mirror that stands seven feet tall from an old Kentucky mansion, and a 1980s Italian leather sofa.

A custom glassed-in wine display was built flush into the wall separating the Rose Room (a 600sf intimate cocktail lounge and private event space) from the main dining room, highlighting the vast wine list. To separate the kitchen from the dining room, arched windows with rattan and wood create mystique.