A few years ago, Derek and Daniel Koch, founders and managing partners of Dual Groupe Hospitality, changed the face of Saturday brunch in New York forever with their concept Day & Night, which made an afternoon more like an over-the-top Saturday night out. Now the twin brother duo is trying their hands at a more formal restaurant concept, MPD, yes named for its location in the Meatpacking District.

“We have a love for French-American food and wine. It’s what we know best,” the model/actors-turned-restaurateurs say. “We wanted to bring a sense of new comfort to the neighborhood with great energy, amazing décor, and delicious food without overdoing it.”

Working with designer Nicholas Rigos, they turned the former Los Dados space on the corner of Gansevoort and Washington Streets into an intimate, yet contemporary French bistro rich with texture and color. There are distressed white brick and venetian plaster walls, velvet tufted banquets, tufted leather handrails, oak floors, mercury mirrors, floral laser cut screens, bull hide leather chairs, and contemporary chandeliers, all done in a color palette of earth tones with pops of red.

The biggest challenge? Moving the solid oak bar from its original location. “But it was worth every minute we spent moving it,” the brothers say, adding that next up for them is a Tribeca restaurant designed by Thomas Schoos.