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Contemporary restaurant design

An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about contemporary restaurant design

project • Door MetagramRestaurants

Espresso Alchemy Nina Tower

The concept for the cafe was inspired by the rich red-brown colors of coffee crema. Using a white base to create an atmosphere of lightness and to reflect in maximum daylight, we used a selection of red toned materials, each with a unique quality to express different elements of the architecture. Metagram The most visible event, the bar bench, positioned parallel to the mall corridor gives the frontage impetus and provides a strong visual edge to define the space. Clad in triangular terra-cotta pigmented concrete tiles with distinct three dimensional fluting, the dynamic material breaks down the monolith into a play of pattern and geometry. Metagram The working surface, a carefully selected terrazzo, features shards of red marbl... Meer
Flames Hung to Road by Metagram
Flames Hung To Road by Metagram
Flames Hung to Road by Metagram
Flames Hung to Road by Metagram
Flames Hung to Road by Metagram

project • Door MetagramRestaurants

Flames Hung To Road

Flames Hung To Road in Kwun Tong is the fourth and flagship restaurant by the Flames brand in Hong Kong and the second store designed by Metagram. Caption Building off the success of the award-winning Flames restaurant in Whampoa - the design uses a matching palette of sandstone, blackened metal and terrazzo to recreate the atmosphere, now intrinsic to the Flames dining experience. Caption This branch is located in the heart of industrial Kwun Tong - Hung To Road, a street store in the recently renovated Skyparc Building (previously Paul Y Centre). Caption The design is formal and highly symmetrical, with dynamic seating arrangements set up around a crucifix layout. Central columns in the space, bookended with naturally st... Meer

project • Door BergmeyerRestaurants

Shake Shack Somerville, MA

Like an ideal dining experience, an ongoing design partnership thrives on delivering fresh, high-quality menu offerings with consistent service. Caption Shake Shack's restaurant expansion has been a savory opportunity to introduce the Shake Shack brand experience and serve up its delicious menu items to a growing list of locations all over the USA. Our collaborative project approach and trusted partnership with the fast-casual chain has allowed us to take on many roles with their internal team over the years, including prototype design, implementation, interior design, and project architect, to name a few. Caption While every location consistently delivers on Shake Shack's brand and food service standards, the experiences are un... Meer

project • Door Taller ADG Alonso de GarayRestaurants

Damian Restaurant

Damian is found within the Arts District of Los Angeles, California. This zone currently holds an outstanding number of repurposed industrial warehouses, which have brought new businesses, such as art galleries, workshops, restaurants, and coffee shops, preserving the neighborhood’s essence; having become a hot spot for the culinary culture, filled with art on every corner, displaying buildings with beautiful brick walls, as well as factories and warehouses built at the beginning of the 20th century.  Onnis Luque The restaurant lies in the intervention of an old warehouse, preserving the building’s original configuration, thus producing a modern space with an industrial setting, creating a unique place to dine at. Tha... Meer

project • Door DEEPSTREAM DESIGNS, INCWinkelcentra

Uncork’d

Unlike anything else in the region, Uncork’d features stunning wood décor, an enormous wine barrel ceiling, 40 craft beer taps, a wall of wine machines, a bourbon tap, outdoor patio, cigar room, live music, mouthwatering tapas and full plates. Caption An important feature of Uncork’d, in addition to its wide selection of wine, beer and food, is casual evenings on the open patio enclosed by planter-ballasted screen wall relaxing by the fire.   Caption The designers converted a wide sidewalk between the restaurant and parking area, using DeepStreams's modular anodized aluminum screen wall mounted seamlessly to Mariner recycled plastic planters, to create this special landscaped outdoor space to expand... Meer

project • Door DEEPSTREAM DESIGNS, INCKantoren

The Caboose at Cricket Square

Cricket Square gets its name from old cricket pitch that historically sat on the site at the turn of the 19th to 20th century. Established in 1994, developer King Flowers set out to offer a perfectly balanced and scaled environment for Grand Cayman’s professional business community. Caption Along with high-quality architecture, construction and landscaping, Cricket Square has established a carefully considered mix of facilities to support the Island’s most progressive and successful firms. Caption Home to several restaurants, the Caboose is one that allowed the architects and designers to literally break out of the walls to create an upscale outdoor eatery with flexible floor plan created with DeepStream’s cust... Meer

project • Door DesignCaseRestaurants

Chloe Restaurant

The chef/owner of Chloe has a strong affinity for design that is seemingly simplistic with warmth and texture; similar to his outstanding menu. It was important for the material pallet to be minimal with a maximum impact on experience. Jennifer Chase Photography Creating an intimate space with so many large windows was our biggest design challenge. However, we were able to achieve the goal by selecting materials that provide warmth both with daylight (for brunch service) and the warm glow of the lighting design. The toffee colored floor,warm grays, leather texture paired with the lighter textured wood walls and plant wall provide warmth with subtle pop. Jennifer Chase Photography The material pallet for the project is a simple o... Meer

NieuwsNieuws • 20 sep. 2021

Tomacado (Shanghai IFC) combines restaurant with flower shop in this heavenly and peaceful urban retreat

Led by Xu Liang, Liang Architecture Studio designed the  new Tomacado restaurant Shanghai’s International Finance Center (IFC) as a destination that combines catering services with a flower shop in a  heavenly and peaceful retreat form the noisy city. Sun Jun Liang Architecture Studio take the approach that space is formed by objects. As such, objects are the basis of functions, and also carriers of the circulation route. The architects explain further that  relationship between objects and vectors can visually bring a strong sense of rhythm to space, blurring interfaces and making spaces more playful. Sun Jun The designers integrated the natural form and beauty of flowers into the space through deconstructi... Meer

project • Door KARMAN SrlRestaurants

Peter Brunel Restaurant

The “Peter Brunel” restaurant is an elegant villa surrounded by the greenery of Arco, a few kilometers from Lake Garda. This location is full of personality and style and is set in a suggestive and idyllic environment. It was designed to blend a culinary and aesthetic experience into a single path.The restaurant’s style highlights the taste and character of chef Peter Brunel, who wanted to attend to the restaurant's atmosphere in detail, even devoting himself to designing some of the furnishings.The restaurant takes up about two hundred square meters and is designed as a large apartment: it is designed specifically to accommodate guests in the best possible way and accompany them along a specific path through different spa... Meer

project • Door sait arslan architectsRestaurants

The Kebap Restaurant

The Kebap, located on the sea front overlooking Gümüşsuyu, was designed as two separate floors, a restaurant on the ground floor and a service area on the lower floor. The Kebap has a warm touch with its social table as one of its first examples, Tom Dixon design illuminations, Koleksiyon Mobilya design chairs which were  used for the first time in this project, infinite forest optical illusion covering a wall in the dining area and a special design oven in the shape of the Maiden’s Tower.  Meer

NieuwsNieuws • 30 mei 2021

Istetyka restaurant concept combines minimalist with Ukrainian tradition

Decisively minimalist, this modern Kyiv-based eatery by Yakusha Design Studio features an interior of natural and recycled materials enhanced with artisanal objects. The name ‘Istetyka’ combines two Ukrainian words, being to eat and aesthetics. The owners sought to change attitudes towards ready-to-eat food with an interior concept that turns the ordinary into an experience. Yevhenii Avramenko Visitors are welcomed by a laconic entrance of wood, clay walls, and unpressed concrete - all materials original to the building. A small picture depicting bread is a representation of the aesthetic approach to food as an art. Yevhenii Avramenko Functionally, the eatery is divided into three zones. The main area includes a spac... Meer

NieuwsNieuws • 3 mei 2021

Masquespacio unveil a sensorial concept for a Spanish fine dining healthy food restaurant

In Huesca, Spain, Masquespacio have completed a concept for a fine dining healthy food restaurant that offers a sensorial experience alongside gastronomy. Like the healthy fare on offer, the architects proposed at the outset to work with 100% natural materials and integrate concepts from nature into the design. Courtesy Masquespacio The Spanish design studio began their design process by investigating the province of Huesca, exploring the beauty of the mountains and parks in its surroundings. Courtesy Masquespacio The colour palette developed for the restaurant is inspired by the earth itself, with different tones of brown and whites as well as greens. A touch of gold is added as an accent.  Forms are mainly organic, using... Meer

project • Door AB+PartnersRestaurants

Restaurant KIKU

Intimate atmosphere, elegant simplicity and subtlety are three indispensable components of a restaurant. For KIKU restaurant project we have chosen to create an elegant interior in loft style. Bare brick, rough concrete and wood were ennobled by scenographic lighting and fine textiles. We used glass railings in order to give ephemerality to the premises. We have focused on the right partitioning and neutral colours, underlined by warm light. Thus, we have separated the bar area from the rest of the hall by means of lighted shelves that serve as a separating element meant to provide privacy. We totally excluded the opulent details in order to give the premises the atmosphere of peace and comfort necessary for both morning coffee and a dinn... Meer

project • Door ArchisphereHotels

Hotel Andaz Vienna am Belvedere

Prince Eugene of Savoy, a true cosmopolitan and patron of the arts, inspired the latest hotel project in the luxury & lifestyle category: “Andaz Vienna am Belvedere”, part of a division of the Hyatt Group, with Signa as client. This design line by Hyatt places particular emphasis on embedding properties in the local environment: Vienna’s history is incorporated and continued in the visual narrative. The brand name “Andaz” is derived from Hindi and signifies “personal style”. Gabriel Kacerovsky and Claudio Carbone have engaged fully with this ambitious mandate – their designs for “Andaz Vienna am Belvedere” have resulted in a generous lifestyle hotel that impresses not only... Meer

project • Door CERAMICHE KEOPERestaurants

La Maison du Gourmet Restaurant

In a magnificent renovated farm building in the green Coloreto, at the outskirts of Parma, you will find the La Maison du Gourmet restaurant. The renovation project has been taken care of in every detail with the aim of highlight the strong link to the natural context. A distinctive feature of the architecture is the choice - for the indoor surfaces of the two large dining rooms and elegant lounge bar - of Pietra di Faedis, which is part of the In&Out Percorsi Extra by Ceramiche Keope.The essential style of the restaurant, designed by architects Antonio and Rosario Scalfone, perfectly combines the contemporary and linear look of the furniture with the natural patterns of Pietra di Faedis. The result is a welcoming and refined atmosphere... Meer