After years of working a beloved Vietnamese pop-up across the nation, Anthony Ha and Sadie Mae Burns lastly debuted a brick-and-mortar Manhattan restaurant in December. Ha’s Snack Bar presents the husband/spouse group’s French-tinged bites and pure wine in a compact house crammed with DIY finishes and repurposed furnishings. “Folks hold telling us how cozy and homey it feels in right here,” says Sadie. “That why we’re so glad that we took on the design aspect ourselves. It actually does really feel like our two fingers constructed it.”
The one function the couple didn’t choose themselves was the prevailing hexagonal terracotta tile flooring, which supplied a heat base for them to layer with household heirlooms, art work by associates, and objects they’d amassed over time. “We have been simply amassing items and objects and issues that we fell in love with after which determining the way to use them, basically,” Sadie says. “It was fairly instinctual.” Be part of us for a go searching.
Pictures by Lucia Bell-Epstein.