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Restaurant Interior Designs

Major modern dining projects from around the world: Properties and Architects.

post updated 28 January 2026

e-architect choose what we feel are the key examples of Restaurant Design across the globe.

We cover completed buildings, new interior designs, architectural exhibitions and architecture competitions for restaurants across the world. The focus is on contemporary Restaurants.

Restaurant Design

We have 2 pages of Restaurant Architecture selections.

Restaurant Interior : news + key projects (this page)

Restaurant Design : A-Z

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Restaurant Designs

Restaurant Designs – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

22 January 2026
MasaHouse Restaurant Mexico City, México
Design: Estereotomia ARQ

photo : Jaime Navarro

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19 December 2025
The Capsule Neo-Bistro, Lisbon Restaurant, Portugal
Architecture: Atelier Réalité

photo : Ivo Tavares Studio

17 November 2025
Mercure Bangkok Surawong Hotel, Thailand
Design: SPACE | STORY | STUDIO

photo: Weeraphon Singnoi

13 November 2025
TATTU Dubai Marina, Ciel Tower, Dubai, UAE
Interior Design: Studio WYZE

photo : Edmon Leong

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5 Aug 2013
Southwest NY Restaurant, New York City, NY, USA
Design: Wid Chapman Architects

photo © Paul Johnson
This freestanding restaurant in Battery Park represents a rebranding of a highly successful “Tex-Mex” restaurant that had existed nearby for over a decade. The challenge was to make the spaces feel distinct from one another while united by a cohesive theme, using rustic materials in unusual ways to create an upscale vibe.

28 Jun 2013
Favelous 963, Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Pop up restaurant
Design: Favelous, Architects

photo : Arne Kuilman
What can you make out of 900 meters of split bamboo, 600 meters of black rope and 300 meters of damaged bicycle tires collected from the local stores? The Favelous team made a pop-up restaurant at Mediamatic Fabrique.

20 May 2013
Jamie’s Italian Aberdeen, Scotland
Design: Stiff & Trevillion Architects

photo © Keith Hunter
Jamie’s Italian Aberdeen
The restaurant occupies the first and second floors of the Union Street frontage of the old Esslemont and Macintosh department store. This was a retail landmark in the city and is a listed building.

24 Apr 2013
1090 Rochus, Bauernfeldplatz, Vienna, Austria
Design: Söhne & Partner Architekten

photo : Severin Wurnig
Rochus Restaurant
When planning this building the instructors made a great effort to include all different requirements in the project without, however, neglecting the idea of a unified architectural line. A special element of the building is the sun garden from 1913.

19 Mar 2013
Il Milione Hong Kong
Architects: Design LSM

photograph courtesy of architects
Il Milione Restaurant
Elegant interior by English architects: “Il Milione was a challenging project, not least because of its location, relative to where the design was being developed. The building had limited natural light and a low, fixed ceiling height.

13 Feb 2013
Barbouni Beach Restaurant, Costa Navarino, Greece
Design: K-STUDIO

photograph © Yiorgos Kordakis
Greek Beach Restaurant
The major challenge in the design for this building was dealing with the dominant natural conditions: the burning 40-degree midday sun and the notorious ‘Meltemi’ summer wind. Rather than blocking the effects of these natural forces, the architects welcomed them, embracing their qualities, adding them to their palate of materials, and turning them to the advantage of the design.

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5 Jul 2012
French Restaurant, Seoul, South Korea
BANG by MIN emerging design group

image : Choi, Jungwoo
French Restaurant in Seoul
‘La Ville de Pins’ is a French Restaurant Remodeling project in Sinsa-dong, Gangnam-gu, which is the hottest district at metropolitan area in the city of Seoul, Korea. “I thought that the conciseness might tell the message more strongly in the age when the extraordinary designs are rampant formatively and visually”.

26 Mar 2012
Sake MANZO, Beijing, China
Beijing Matsubara and Architects

photograph : Misae HIROMATSU
Sake MANZO, Beijing
This is a renovation project of an old building made into a Japanese restaurant. As Manzo Bar (design by BMA 2005) was to move, the architects were requested to design the interior space again.

29 Feb 2012
NOMA Lab, Copenhagen, Denmark
GXN

picture : Adam Mørk
NOMA Restaurant
Interior by 3XN for NOMA Restaurant’s food lab unites the creative worlds of gastronomy and architecture in a modern expression of the Nordic aesthetic.

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Modern Restaurant Designs

Recent Restaurant Designs

14 Sep 2011
Rocksalt Restaurant, Folkestone, Kent, England, UK
Guy Hollaway Architects

photo from Guy Hollaway Architects
New Restaurant Design
Guy Hollaway Architects’ design for Folkestone’s new high-profile restaurant design elevates the harbour-side building on a pale green slate plinth. The modern building cantilevers it out over the water, creating 430 sqm of space and offering visitors stunning views.

21 Apr 2011
Garden Restaurant Kiev, Ukraine
4a Architekten

photo : beproactiv
The location of this restaurant – a green space surrounded by historical buildings at the heart of Kiev – and the old trees with their protective canopy of leaves have helped shape the spot and give it its unique atmosphere. The central concern of the Stuttgart architects was to capture these characteristic features and further enhance them with a sensitive approach to the overall design.

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Restaurant Interiors

Featured Contemporary Restaurant Buildings & Designs, alphabetical:

BIKO Mexico – Restaurant interior, Mexico
entasis arquitectos

picture from architect
BIKO interior

Café Estação Ciência, São Paulo, Brazil
Una Arquitetos

photo : Bebete Viégas
São Paulo Café

OCA restaurant, Mexico City, Mexico
Entasis Arquitectos

photograph : Jaime Navarro
OCA restaurant

Sarou Houmura – cafe & gallery, Japan
Nakayama Architects

picture from architect
Sapporo cafe building, Sapporo

New Delhi Restaurant, India
Morphogenesis

photo from architect

SHO Shaun Hergatt – restaurant, Manhattan, NY, USA
Robert D. Henry Architects

picture from architect
SHO Shaun Hergatt, New York City

More modern interior design projects online soon.

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Bar Designs

Interiors

Hotel Buildings

Other Restaurant Architecture – no images, alphabetical:

Monsoon, Sapporo, northern Japan
1990
Zaha Hadid Architects

Oloroso Restaurant & Bar, Edinburgh New Town, Scotland, UK
2001
Richard Murphy Architects
Oloroso : contemporary Scottish interior

More Restaurant Designs + Cafés Interiors welcome.

Buildings / photos for the Contemporary Restaurant Interior – new Cafés Architecture page welcome.