Restaurant

Explore 179 award-winning designs tagged Restaurant on Magazine of Design.

Designer / Brand: Tianwen Sun Work: Restaurant Tag: Interior

Omakase

Omakase is a restaurant interior design for a kaiseki dining space in Shanghai, China. The design concept combines sakura petals and dewdrops within glass partitions, creating a clear decorative effect. Multiple layers of glass reflect light and shadow to form a dream-like setting. Pink sakura motifs contrast with a golden tatami room. The main materials are glass, paint and tatami, selected with environmental protection in mind. The building has two floors and a total area of 140 square meters. Central air conditioning, fire sprinklers and kitchen fittings support a safe dining space.

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Designer / Brand: devesh pratyay Work: Restaurant Tag: Interior

After Life

After Life is a themed restaurant and bar located in Downtown Dubai. The venue covers 500 square meters of interior space with an attached open balcony of 150 square meters. The entrance forms a tunnel with a mountain-like wall, engraved Babylonian script panels, burnt candles on a shelf and rock-shaped crystals hanging from the ceiling. A foyer with a driftwood tree and a large log chair leads into the main hall. The island bar appears carved from stone and is marked by a serpentine crystal installation of 30 meters. Rustic Indian sandstone covers the floor in a random pattern.

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Designer / Brand: Yuefeng ZHOU Work: Restaurant Tag: Interior

Nanjing Fishing Port

The project is a converted restaurant with three floors in Nanjing, covers about 2,000 sqm. Apart from catering and meetings, tea culture and wine culture are available. The decor ties together a vivid new Chinese feel from the ceiling to the stone layout on the floor. The ceiling is decorated with Chinese ancient brackets and roofs. It forms the main element of design on the ceiling. Materials like wood veneer, golden stainless steel, and painting signifying new Chinese feel are mixed together to create a new Chinese feel space.

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Designer / Brand: Guo Tingting Work: Restaurant Tag: Interior

Zhang Jiang Cheng

Zhang Jiang Cheng is an upscale restaurant interior located in a busy district of Shanghai. The restaurant serves Hakka fusion cuisine, and the idea of fusion guides the whole design. Chinese ceramics are redesigned with modern methods and placed within a minimalist modern space as art installations. Most of the tableware is custom made in Jingdezhen and fired at 1300 degrees Celsius. Each private dining room has its own design character. The intent is to offer a calm and elegant setting that presents Eastern aesthetics.

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Designer / Brand: Steven Hu Work: Restaurant Tag: Interior

Gao Wei

Gao Wei is a restaurant interior located on the third floor of a commercial mall in Kunming. The project covers 1100 square meters and presents Yunnan ethnic culture in a modern form. Different materials and colors define the functional areas, so physical partitions are reduced and the layout feels open. Smooth lines run across the walls and the ceiling, while inset lighting highlights the surface texture. The colorful exterior facade connects the interior with the mall and draws the attention of passing diners.

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Designer / Brand: Li Shou Hung Work: Restaurant Tag: Interior

Nostalgic Tunes

Le Ble D'or is a restaurant and bar interior in Taoyuan City, Taiwan, completed in May 2016. The design follows a nostalgic industrial theme. Recycled iron pieces are joined with wood veneer, and the joining angles and colors were adjusted repeatedly to create varied visual effects from the same materials. Mottled beer bottle walls and a large false window bring an image of continuous oxidation into the interior. Dark materials and careful color use capture subtle changes of light and shadow. The layout aims to create a strong sense of time and a close link between the space and its visitors.

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Designer / Brand: Zhixue Wei Work: Restaurant Tag: Interior

Modern Jiangnan

Modern Jiangnan Beer Music is a restaurant interior in Hangzhou. The design covers three floors and an outdoor area, with a total area of 1200 square meters. A stage and a three meter high LED screen are placed on the first floor. The second floor uses a stand-like layout, similar to a European opera house, so guests above can watch the performances below. Metallic tones from beer barrels and copper are combined with smoky gray granite on the walls, floors and tables. A luminous white beer bottle silhouette, 9.9 meters high, marks the entrance.

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Designer / Brand: Alvan Suen Work: Restaurant Tag: Interior

Ricky's Kitchen

Ricky's Kitchen is a restaurant interior in Hong Kong. The design reinterprets the city while keeping the brand identity. The feature wall uses materials that suggest a forest of concrete, with geometry recalling building facades with balconies and lighting that mimics lit households. A central linear LED ceiling represents the narrow strip of sky seen between high-rise buildings, and Leon lights on both sides recall highway traffic in long exposure photography. A T-shaped layout forms four semi-private zones, and benches with movable tables suit groups of different sizes.

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Designer / Brand: Ryuji Kojo, Toshihiro Obata Work: Restaurant Tag: Interior

Sushi Koji

This sushi restaurant uses an abundance of natural materials. The design was inspired by the owner's warm personality and his attitude as a craftsman. The counter was made of ginkgo and padouk wood, cut with a custom blade and finished smooth to the edges, and scraps were used for the sushi board. Chairs made of local cypress were designed to highlight the grain of the wood. Washi on the walls was made from processed mulberry, and organic patterns were created by pouring Gofun on the paper during the papermaking process. These elements creating an atmosphere that can only be felt here.

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Designer / Brand: mode:lina™ Work: Restaurant Tag: Interior

FoodX Poznan

The combination of good street art and iconic videos from the 90s is the clou of the latest project for FoodX. The designer love Investors, who come to us with crazy ideas, an open mindset and a fantastic brief, FoodX team belongs in that category, their food, real Street Art on a plate. This is how the place was created in a very street style and with colors straight from the 1980s and 1990s, coming directly from the colorful clips of the pop-music television, when it actually was playing music.

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Designer / Brand: Futoshi Masuda Work: Restaurant Tag: Interior

Marugo

Marugo Shinbashi is a wine bar and restaurant interior located on a busy street in Shinbashi, Tokyo. The circle of the Marugo brand sign is repeated through the interior to improve visibility and recall. A wine red tiled wall and a buttoned bench carry the circular motif, while colored copper plates of Takaoka copperware cover a full wall. Cube brick tile and mahogany wood complete the material palette. Indirect lighting was adjusted with a full-size mockup so that light reads clearly from each circle. The space covers 105 square meters.

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Designer / Brand: M.Arche Design Center Work: Restaurant Tag: Interior

Fresh Wood

Customizing an elegant encounter with food in the jungle at Enjoy the fresh. As the essence lies in simplicity all sophisticated arts draw inspiration from nature by gathering hues and flavors from nature, the designer crafts a surprising and sensory rich taste exploration journey, a banquet that invites all customers to take a seat and enjoy it. The designer artfully showcases the natural spices in a serialized design throughout the space each segmented area was transformed into a customized storytelling point turning the journey into an engaging exploration of food.

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