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Type - Restaurants
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The site constraints have informed unforeseen spatial qualities that offer liminal shelter within the cavernous volume.

Hidden treasure: Liminal

Presented with a cavernous, uninviting hospitality space, Melbourne studio The Stella Collective set about turning it into an open, voluminous and comforting dining interior for Melbourne’s city workers.

Hospitality, Interiors
Referencing the geometry of the late Art Deco period, the S-shaped banquette helps zone the large open dining space, giving patrons a variety of seating options as well as privacy.

Glamorous and gritty: Prince Dining Room

IF Architecture has taken cues from the history and culture of the Prince of Wales Hotel in Melbourne’s St Kilda to create a new dining experience in the upstairs restaurant.

Hospitality, Interiors
The space is layered with texture and detail, from the speckled terrazzo horseshoe-shaped bar to the tassels on the stools and the monochrome patterned floor.

A French affair: Bouzy

Jason M. Jones and Brahman Perera

In Melbourne’s prestigious suburb of Armadale, Jason M. Jones and Brahman Perera have created a Parisian-inspired wine bar that is about “making a special occasion of every day.”

Hospitality, Interiors
Cutler & Co.’s eastern wall in the main dining room is clad to half-height in beautifully marbled green Pilbara stone panels.

Palette pairing: Cutler and Co

Inspired by the neurological phenomenon of synaesthesia, where one sense can be stimulated by another, IF Architecture has given famed Melbourne restaurant Cutler & Co. a “creamy and crunchy” new fitout.

Interiors
Higher Ground is characterized by a series of smaller platforms that wrap around the space, taking the visitor on a journey through six different levels.

Intimate volume: Higher Ground

DesignOffice has teamed up with the owners of famed Melbourne cafes Top Paddock and The Kettle Black to turn a cavernous former power station into a refined and welcoming all-day dining venue in the CBD.

Hospitality, Interiors
The bar and counter frame the open kitchen and feature speckled grey terrazzo and floating white pendant lights.

Lights out: Second Home

Brahman Perera & Jason M. Jones

Designed by Brahman Perera with Jason M. Jones, Second Home is an elegant and serene cafe located in an Alistair Knox-designed warehouse in Melbourne’s leafy outer suburbs.

Hospitality, Interiors
Taken from the book Historic Heston, photographs by Romas Foord have been enlarged to add theatre to the dining room.

Gastronomic showpiece: Dinner by Heston Blumenthal

The Fat Duck’s time in Melbourne may be over but Bates Smart has transformed the space into Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, a permanent restaurant at Crown Melbourne inspired by historic British gastronomy.

Hospitality, Interiors
Inspired by the front gardens and fences of suburban homes in Melbourne, march studio used the arched “brick fence” as a recurring motif.

Psychedelic suburban: Jimmy Grants Richmond

March Studio’s design for souvlaki restaurant Jimmy Grants Richmond is “a psychedelic reinterpretation of the suburban Australian home.”

Interiors
The design of the sushi train was inspired by subway stations. it features subway tiles and glowing led rings that are reminiscent of train handles.

Dual dining: Tetsujin

In Melbourne, Architects EAT has converted a shopping centre tenancy into a spot for destination dining that offers a two-sided experience.

Interiors
The dining room features A display of burnished copper pots and other culinary artefacts.

A French reincarnation: L’Hotel Gitan

Inspired by the site’s art deco heritage, SJB Interiors has refitted this Melbourne bistro and dining room to give it French character in keeping with the menu on offer.

Interiors
Diners are basked in a warm glow that creates pockets of intimacy in the space.

Turning over a new leaf: Transformer Fitzroy

Breathe Architecture turns a vacant electrical transformer factory in Melbourne into a modern vegetarian restaurant and bar.

Hospitality, Interiors
Fluoro lights are arranged in a zigzag pattern over pegboard.

“Make it awesome”: Phamily Kitchen

Architect Mathew van Kooy adds bold colour to create this Vietnamese restaurant in Melbourne’s Collingwood.

Hospitality, Interiors
Hovering above the dining room (and seen here reflected in the bronze mirror), the exposed services and ceiling were painted in apricot.

Dining with drama: Prix Fixe

Designed by Fiona Lynch, Melbourne restaurant Prix Fixe merges metallics, marble and concrete to create an interior with a sense of theatre.

Hospitality, Interiors
Natural leather banquettes and blond 
rock maple tabletops imbue the space with 
a sense of luxury.

The Press Club

March Studio serves up luxury with sides of honesty and comfort at The Press Club.

Hospitality, Interiors
At Highpoint’s eastern entry, mature trees and a greengrocer lend a “public square” feel.

Highpoint Shopping Centre

Grimshaw Architects in association with The Buchan Group “civilizes” Australia’s third largest retail mall, in Melbourne’s north-west.

Commercial, Hospitality, Interiors
The neon “grocer” sign is in the architect’s handwriting.

Spring Street Grocer

A Melbourne gelateria, provedore and cheese cellar by architect Kristin Green.

Interiors
Light, airy dimensions and a modern colour palette connect the space to its inner-city, beachside location.

Foxes Den

Hecker Guthrie creates a dynamic chicken shop, with some wily moves in materials and space.

Hospitality, Interiors
Reinvigorated with a bold facade new rear facade of industrial concrete pipes stacked like kegs or barrels.

In the round: Prahran Hotel

Techne Architects transforms a tired corner pub into a lively hub with a hint of voyeurism.

Hospitality, Interiors
The six-metre-high ceilings are punctuated with glittering chandeliers.

Rosetta restaurant

For Neil Perry’s Melbourne dining room, Rosetta, BKH put opulence on the menu.

Interiors
Arches underpin the design of the space.

Conservatory, Melbourne

The new jewel of Crown Towers’ restaurant precinct, by Blainey North.

Hospitality, Interiors
Trocadero’s signature mural is by the Japanese artist Jun Inoue.

Trocadero

A classic riverside restaurant by Allan Powell Architects at Melbourne’s reborn Hamer Hall.

Commercial, Interiors
The dining area.

Saké Restaurant & Bar

Luchetti Krelle creates the fitout for a Sydney restaurant, along Melbourne’s Southbank Promenade.

Interiors
The interiors have recycled and vernacular layers.

Bridge Hotel

Techne Architects revives a Melbourne pub with fictional narratives and building salvage.

Hospitality, Interiors
Timber and brass dominate the main restaurant and bar.

Hell of the North

SMLWRLD, Coulthard Shim, Adam Ferrante (owner)

For a local bar and bistro in Fitzroy, SMLWRLD architects use a firey yellow and bluestone as the signature.

Hospitality, Interiors
Steel screens by Paul Dodd have sheet-music characters within their design.

My Mexican Cousin

In a pocket of the Melbourne Recital Centre, Six Degrees shapes an intimate restaurant and bar.

Hospitality, Interiors
The bar is in reflective bronze, while other materials and furnishings are light and airy.

Stokehouse

The Stokehouse’s interior by Pascale Gomes-McNabb features the materiality of brass, timber and oak.

Hospitality, Interiors
Tank Fish and Chippery.

Tank Fish and Chippery

Anna Drummond applies a set-design-inspired approach to space making at Melbourne’s Tank Fish and Chippery.

Hospitality, Interiors
The downstairs kitchen is casual in all white.

The Millswyn

A historical flavour combines with a love of fine dining in Hecker Guthrie’s interiors for a new French brasserie in Melbourne.

Commercial, Hospitality, Interiors
Hotel bedrooms are moody and contemporary with individually selected touches.

Crown Metropol

Bates Smart has made the biggest hotel in the Southern Hemisphere look boutique.

Hospitality, Interiors
Boomerang bar with private booths to the side.

Middle Park Hotel

Quirky details and a passion for sport set apart the Middle Park Hotel in Melbourne.

Commercial, Hospitality, Interiors