Cupcake shop, Melbourne, Australia

Handmade tiles and soft colours in the cupcake shop (Melbourne, Australia) evokes memories of a “home” style kitchen providing an organic feeling space to the cupcake shop; cupcakes are made using only natural ingredients. Custom pieces were designed to enforce the Joy Cupcakes brand and the product: tables and stools, pendant light fittings, custom benchtop and timber peg rails.

Design: Mim Design
Photography: Shannon McGrath

Cafe Kureon, Toyama, Japan

The idea was to create a building with a fluid and organic space with light and small materials. The element the designers chose was an affordable and ordinary rectangular 105mm timber. The construction can be easily disassembled and assembled at new location if you want to move the restaurant.

Design: Kengo Kuma and Associates

Tori Tori Japanese Restaurant, Mexico City

Maintaining a very subtle and intimate feel towards the first encounter with the Tori Tori Japanese Restaurant (Mexico City), after entering you’ll find yourself in a terrace, embraced by natural vegetation. The restaurant’s landscape and facade were designed to become an organic extension of the building creating a strong relationship between the outside and the inside.

Design: Rojkind Arquitectos and Esrawe Studio
Photography: Paul Rivera

Smokehouse Room restaurant, New Delhi, India

The Smokehouse Room restaurant designers tried to create an organically growing, psychedelic, fluid landscape that melts into various parts. Designers created a quiet, understated, elegant atmosphere as a dramatic stage for a great sensorial food performance, with organic subtle undertones.

Design: Busride Design Studio

Chiringuito Pez Vela restaurant, Barcelona, Spain

The Chiringuito Pez Vela restaurant in Barcelona was designed by Spanish architectural firm Sandra Tarruella and opened in 2011.

Design: Sandra Tarruella Studio
Photography: Jordi Sarra

Modern restaurant P.S., Beijing, China

Golucci International has designed this visually stunning modern restaurant in Beijing. The interior design is intended to emphasize the "Fresh is best" policy of the restaurant.

Design: Golucci International
Photography: Sun Xiangyu

Fabbrica restaurant, Bergen

Tjep studio designed several interior elements for Fabbrica restaurant, located in Bergen, the Netherlands: cozy train cabins, pizza oven covered with Bisazza beautiful tiles and wall wood containers.

Design: Tjep

Coffee shop, Chicago

Cozy and warm Caffe Streets coffee shop (Chicago) provides a memorable experience for its visitors through standard of customer service, culinary and aesthetic excellence.

Design: Norsman Architects

La Grelha Restaurant, Jalisco, Mexico

La Grelha Restaurant design (Jalisco, Mexico) is determined by Guadalajara perfect climat and barbecue gastronomic concept. So terrace with a hidden window for short time rains is ideal for this combination.

Design: Hernandez Silva

Copper bar design

Copper bar design was created by Jenner Studio for Ketel One Vodka.

Design: Jenner Studio
Photography: Michael Franke

Honeycomb restaurant, Shenzhen, China

Visitors to the Honeycomb restaurant (Shenzhen, China) are mainly young people between the ages of 20 to 35 years, families and couples. The restaurant is situated in a commercial building that includes retail shops, skate rink and movie theatre etc.

Design and photography: SAKO Architects

Ice Cream and Yogurt Leggenda Restaurant, Israel

Designers of the Ice Cream and Yogurt Leggenda Restaurant (Israel) create a space with calm and airy feeling, as desired by the customer. Pine wood element camouflages the old foundations of the building and serves as sitting bar.

Design: SO Architecture
Photography: Asaf Oren

Jing Chinese restaurant, Singapore

The Jing Chinese restaurant (Singapore) is placed in a 3400 sqft. unit in One Fullerton building with a south east picturesque view of the Marina Bay. It is subdivided into two activity areas: 2400 sqft. dining area (two private dining rooms, main hall, ladies powder room) and 1000 sqft back-of-house area (staff room, kitchen and office). The ceiling shape of the dining area is a dramatic expression of the interior and at the same time is a design response to a technical requirements for air conditioning system and mechanical ventilation.

Design: Antonio Eraso Co.
Photography: Derek Swalwell

Conduit restaurant, San Francisco

Conduit restaurant (San Francisco) located on the low ceiling ground floor in a residential building had a tangled maze of electrical, sprinkler and plumbing conduits serving the living accommodations above. Instead of use covering these pipes and thus reducing the space, even more pipes were layered over the existing conduits to remediate the situation.

Design: Natoma Architects, Stanley Saitowitz
Photography: Rien van Rijthoven

Restaurant on the roof

Nomiya is a transportable, temporary restaurant on the roof of Palais de Tokyo museum (Paris, France). The 63 sqm restaurant features a 12 people dining room with a panoramic view over the Eiffel tower and the Seine.

Design: Laurent Grasso, Pascal Grasso
Photography: Kleinefenn

Restaurant 560, Lisbon, Portugal

The Restaurant 560 is located in an old building in Lisbon’s city centre. The unity of the two dining-rooms is given by the osb - wooden material that fully coats the walls, floor and ceiling. The separation between the services area and the eating area is made by a black tile wall, which draws the line to where the bar, kitchen and toilets are, and marks the change in materials.

Design: Joao Tiago Aguiar
Photography: Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

Nobu Dubai restaurant, Palm Jumeirah, UAE

The Nobu Dubai restaurant (Palm Jumeirah, UAE) includes a main dining area, bar/lounge, private dining room and sushi bar. Three dimensional abaca woven panels surround the main dining area, the bar is made from 3 inch timber solid planks with an onyx backlit front. Sushi bar surfaces are encased in black color bamboo embedded terrazzo.

Design and photography: Rockwell Group

Le Dauphin restaurant, Paris, France

Le Dauphin restaurant occupies 80 sqm and has very attractive and nicely done interior design, which received the 2010 Fooding award.

Design: Rem Koolhaas, Clement Blanchet
Photography: Clement Guillaume, Ruault

Ithaa Underwater Restaurant, Rangali, Maldives

Dine 5 meters below sea level at Ithaa, Rangali Maldives Island's unique underwater restaurant. Guests can enloy the beauty, clarity, and color of the underwater world through acrylic roof and walls.

Design: MJ Murphy

Green Bistro, Osnabruck, Germany

Green Bistro in Osnabruck (Germany) is a modern sustainable place, which provide green healthy food. The tulip tables and white chairs perfectly complete a welcoming design with an original ceiling shape that seems to belong to a magic fantastic world.

Design: Siddik Erdogan & Jorn Frohlich