Bajavaria is a biergarten and restaurant in the Las Tunas neighbourhood of Todos Santos — a pub that reads as modern and old-world at once, built around a U-shaped bar small enough that conversation starts by itself. Outside, string lights and picnic tables turn the garden into somewhere people stay for hours with friends, dogs and children.Interior design is by
Hillary Kent. Mercantil handled sourcing and procurement for owners Tim and Tina Kanaday.The sourcing brief here was unusually specific:
every material made in México, with the accessories and art assembled rather than ordered — pieces from the family’s own collection, flea-market finds, and work from México, the United States and, for a biergarten, Germany.That is a different discipline from specifying a restaurant package. There is no single supplier and no repeat order behind it; each piece has to be found, judged in the room it is going into, and made to sit alongside things bought decades apart on three continents. Getting a space to feel gathered rather than furnished is a procurement skill, and it takes longer than buying to a schedule.See how we source and produce
restaurant and bar furniture, or our wider
custom sourcing and production practice.Interior design: Hillary Kent. Client: Tim and Tina Kanaday.