Dear reader,
I write to you as the eldest of three, part of a family of five who decided to embark on the adventure of opening a restaurant. And I also write to you as someone who, just like you, sits at a table expecting to be welcomed, cared for, and surprised.
For us, SAVVIA is not just a project: it is a mirror of who we are and what we have shared throughout the years.
Each of us has found a place here. Kiara, the youngest sister, transforms memory into flavors from the kitchen. Jess, the middle one, sustains the restaurant’s daily life with her sensitivity and rigor as manager. I, the eldest, accompany from the creative direction, seeking for the space and atmosphere to tell the same story as the food. And behind it all, our parents, Vero and Juan, are the roots that hold us, the silent and constant support that makes this dream possible.
But there are more threads in this weave. The recipes and gestures inherited from our grandmothers also live here. Together with our mother, they taught us that cooking is a way of caring, that the table has always been a place of gathering, and that the act of sharing food carries a memory that transcends generations. SAVVIA is also a tribute to that heritage, which remains alive in us.
Conceiving this restaurant has pushed us to look back: to return to childhood, to the family table, to the everyday gestures that shaped us without us even noticing. In that exercise of memory, we discovered that opening a restaurant is also a way of bringing ourselves back together as a family.
The space responds to that pursuit. Designed by close friends whom I invited to join this process, Camila and Ricardo, SAVVIA is conceived as a refuge: a warm interior where raw tones contrast with dark wood and stone. From them came a key decision: to free the ground floor for diners and raise the kitchen, allowing the experience of hosting and sharing to occupy the center.
From this idea came the communal table—not as a simple piece of furniture, but as a sculptural and symbolic gesture that defines the heart of the restaurant. The red marble table not only organizes the space but also becomes a ritual axis: a meeting point and dialogue that condenses the gastronomic and architectural proposal. Around it, a totem closes the circle and acts as a piece imbued with meaning, open to being inhabited as both symbol and ritual.
Camila and Ricardo also imagined a lighting piece to accompany the table, taking advantage of the space’s verticality. It was our friend Andros who gave it form: a circular metallic structure that dialogues with the central table and reinforces its sculptural presence. At the same time, the wall pieces with brass details were designed to hold candles and bring a warm, human gesture to every table.
Stone appears at different moments, in the light fixtures, in the details, in the table itself, as a reminder of permanence and roots. The furniture, carefully selected by the architects, reinforces the idea of containment: wood supports, stone grounds, light softens. Even the tableware was conceived and designed especially by Mon, created to embrace the food and extend the gesture of care from the kitchen to the diner.
Kiara’s cuisine moves between the contemporary and the ancestral. It does not seek to invent the new but to reveal what was always there: local ingredients, native seeds, flavors that withstand time. Each preparation is a narrative of what we have received and what we wish to pass on.
For me, SAVVIA is proof that returning to the table is returning home. It is a reminder that sharing remains one of the most honest and human ways of living together.
This goes with all my love to my family, friends, those who will place their trust in us, and to all the hands and hearts that are part of this project that already feels like an extension of our family.
With affection,
Francisco (Zaickz)