Gridded oakwood panels sit alongside rough slabs of granite inside Hiba, a restaurant in Tel Aviv designed by local architecture practice Pitsou Kedem.Located in the city's midtown area, Hiba serves a menu of Arab-Israeli fusion food.The restaurant's use of fresh local ingredients influenced Pitsou Kedem to curate an equally raw, natural material palette for its interior.

Some of the partition's rectangular slots are blocked off while others are left open, allowing visitors to get brief glimpses of the hubbub happening in the restaurant proper.Hiba's facade and ceiling feature the same latticework, loosely informed by the mashrabiya window screens that are traditional to Islamic architecture.

The corridor opens up into an intimate dining room, which accommodates just 40 guests.Dotted throughout are a series of circular oak tables, each accompanied by curved-back oak chairs with woven seats.Some of the tables back onto a powdered concrete bench that runs along one side of the room.

Concrete was also applied to the restaurant's floor, where it was polished to reveal the aggregate within.At the back of the room, the practice created what it describes as an "inverted bar", where liquor bottles are displayed inside a backlit niche in the wall rather than a typical bar counter that projects out into the room.Another craggy block of granite forms the base of an oak-topped dining counter that extends directly into Hiba's kitchen in the corner of the restaurant.