Celebrating Culinary Arts: Architecture and the Experience of Restaurants and Cafes

Architecture and cuisine build different relationships, depending on the local culture. When this combination results in stores, it usually enhances the experience of restaurants, cafes, bakeries, and bars.

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By exploring colors, textures, materials and even different shapes and structures, restaurants, bars and cafes often use their architecture as a tool to attract customers. The projects of this type of store tend to value innovations and have more freedom of conception, seeking to transmit the identity of the cuisine to the physical space as well. The spatial result, as well as the gastronomy involved, varies from place to place, therefore, we have selected experiences from all parts of the globe to inspire restaurant, bar and cafe projects:

North America

RYU Peel Restaurant / Ménard Dworkind architecture & design

MAGNET Restaurant / Undecorated

Latin America

Los Alexis Taco Place / RA!

Caffe del Popolo / Rare Studio Experimental

Bar Sánchez / Plan:b arquitectos

Restaurante NATTU / Estúdio Penha

Europe

Odeon Bar & Restaurant / Atelier Sergio Rebelo + Mary Jordan

Jess Restaurant / Biancoebianca

Asia

September Cafe / Red5studio + Ben Decor

DevaDhare Dining Space / Play Architecture

Middle East

Character Café & Gallery / OJAN Design Studio

Deco Temple, Elixir Bunn Coffee Roasters / AZAZ Architects

Africa

Stereokitchen / Paul Kaloustian Architect

MUDcafeteria / Anna Schweiger + Jaap Willemsen

Oceania 

Yellow Treehouse Restaurant / Pacific Environments

Maitland Riverlink / CHROFI + McGregor Coxalls