Man behind a concrete bar counter talks to woman sitting on tall light wood bar chair in a concrete addition with a straw roof beside an 1800s brick structure in Todos Santos, Baja California, Mexico, renovated and expanded by Ernesto Kut Gomez, Ellen Odegaard, and Yashar Yektajo.

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Ernesto designed the villa’s kitchen more “for every day,” he says, but the one added to the courtyard has a professional range and parrilla to accommodate groups. “I don’t need super-fancy equipment,” Ernesto says. He and Yektajo designed the bar stools.