Category: Restaurant Decorating

People tend to eat at their favorite restaurants not just because of the food, but also because of the ambience of the place. It is apparent that their penchant for great food is enhanced by the atmosphere that the place is offering. In other words, the ambience of a restaurant can attract or repel diners.

It’s The Ambience Says The Survey

This fact is proven by a survey about the importance of a restaurant’s ambience. The survey recorded the opinion of 500 Australians who were asked what it is that would bring them back to a restaurant. A majority of those surveyed, about 42.7 percent, said that they would go back because of the atmosphere of the place. Approximately 40.8 percent of those questioned said it would be for the restaurant’s customer service. Around 28.9 percent answered that it is for the value that they’ll come back. About 20.8 percent replied that it is because of convenience. Only 1.4 percent of those surveyed gave other reasons.

Clearly, the survey shows that a majority of people return to a restaurant because of its ambience. The atmosphere in a restaurant appears to be more important than the food it is offering. That is why we have listed the restaurant design trends for this year for restaurateurs who want their tables to be filled with satisfied diners.

Green Is In

Increasingly, restaurants are getting the greens in. They are introducing more plants and greenery inside their premises and that includes living walls full of growing plants. Ray Chung, The Johnson Studio director of design says that we are going to see additional ornamental plants incorporated in interior design as an alternative to the machine and technology-enabled world.

Natural Textures Will Increase

In line with trend number one, the use of natural textures in restaurants’ interior design will increase. Cozy natural restaurant interiors will be the ‘in’ thing because it can add more to the tasty experience that diners will have. Wooden furniture or furniture that looks like wood, with their natural grains and textures, adorned with metal accessories will be used to attract more diners to restaurants.

Less Will Mean More

The restaurateur who established Smith & Mills, Matt Abramcyk, says that less is more. In 2018, he will continue to follow this mantra as he operates his recently-launched Osprey located at 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge. Abramcyk says that he is more inclined to embrace the space’s original architecture. Before, he was more on lavishing his restaurants with various color schemes, grandiose wallpapers and over decorated corners. Now he wants to highlight the place’s initial craftsmanship.

Bespoke Lighting Will Be In-Style

Restaurants will install bespoke lighting to attract diners. This is the projection of Kajsa Krause and Tracy Sawyer of the Krause Sawyer design studio. Anita Summers of The Johnson Studio agrees. This lighting specialist says that the biggest factor that will influence lighting in 2018 will be technology. By integrating apps and remote control, restaurants can control every single bulb in every part of their premises from changing colors, dimming colors, turning them on and off, and so forth.

Classic Finishes Will Return

In the 60s and the 70s, Chrome was very popular. This metal has returned in runway clothing from Gucci to Kenzo. It is now making a comeback in modern restaurant interiors. Anna Polonsky and Amy Morris, both designers at The MP Shift design studio say that Chrome will come back in 2018 and will be this year’s finish du jour, instead of brass. The two said that they are designing a place in Houston with chrome at the soffit of the bar and at the chrome kick in the banquette.

Vintage Will Be Mixed With Modern

Vintage pieces are also making a comeback. They will be mixed with modern restaurant projects. Artful furniture pieces, velvet upholstery and other luxurious vintage interiors will be incorporated in contemporary interior design layouts.

These are not all the restaurant design trends for 2018. There are other trends that are not listed in this short article. But the trends discussed herein are the most recent prognostications of experienced restaurant designers and project developers.

Starting your own dining establishment and getting into the restaurant business is by no means a task that can be taken lightly. Not only do you have to think of a concept or theme that will help you stand out from the rest of the competition, but proper management of resources and budget allocation becomes mandatory to avoid any potential losses, and increase revenue.

One of the things many business owners often invest time and money in is the aesthetic design of the restaurant. Not only does it help create a unique dining experience for guests, it also enhances it.
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• Be sensible with furniture, fixtures and other essentials

While it isn’t necessarily difficult to procure inexpensive furniture and fixtures, you will find great sites like restaurant-furniture.com for all the things you may need, it’s important to be sensible in the approach. Not only will this allow for potentially bigger savings on investment in the essentials, but it also reduces the clutter that a lot of restaurants are oftentimes guilty of being rife with. Form and function should always be balanced, no matter the theme or concept that you’re going for.

• Have a single theme and stick with it

Creativity is never a bad thing, unless there’s too much of it. Many restaurateurs suffer from having too many good ideas that may have been good on paper, but in application are a mess. They say that looks aren’t everything but this isn’t exactly true.

Atmosphere and environment can heavily affect the dining experience in a restaurant, and you could argue that this is another reason why people eat out in the first place. Don’t overburden yourself and simply stick to a single concept or theme. It will be easier to apply and maintain, and you’ll undoubtedly give guests a reason to come back.

• Control the prices and portions of the menu

It goes without saying that the food is an integral element in any restaurant design or business model. Having a dry run and even asking guests what may or may not work can help give you a better idea of how to control the prices and portions on the menu.

Giving too little for too much is just as bad as the other way around, and finding that sweet spot can do wonders for increased profit and revenue. You may even find food design ideas this way too.

It isn’t hard to get overwhelmed in the restaurant business. From the budget to marketing strategies, it isn’t uncommon to be swamped with a multitude of things to consider. However, we all have to start somewhere and pairing a unique concept with a comfortable design and a sensible approach is a good way to begin.

Breakfast bar stools can be a fantastic addition to your kitchen. Wooden bar stools, in particular, can be a real asset for kitchens that have been decorated in either contemporary or traditional styles. They can enhance your kitchen – widely recognised as one of the most important rooms in any home – on several levels and make it a better, more useful and more pleasant part of your household living space.

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Why Breakfast Bar Stools?

There are a number of different ways in which breakfast bar seating can improve your kitchen as a useful and pleasant part of your home. The first and most simple benefit of kitchen stools is as a practical item. They provide extra seating within the kitchen, and a kind that is very different from a dining table in many ways. Where seating at a dining table is very stiff and formal, bar seating involves nothing more than perching casually on a stool. Where dining chairs have to be shuffled in and out from under the table, you can hop on and off of bar stools at a moment’s notice. This makes it the ideal seating solution for everything from full meals to a quick snack. It is perfect for those who don’t have time for a full sit-down meal or don’t like the formality, but don’t want to always be on the go either.

This leads into the second major benefit of breakfast bar stools: they can enhance your kitchen from a social standpoint. Too often, kitchens are a purely functional room. You nip in to grab or prepare some food, then you dash out again. By providing some seating – and what’s more a very casual and accessible kind of seating – bar stools make people more inclined to linger in the room in order to eat that food, or simply to place themselves comfortably on a stool when milling around the house doing nothing in particular. This draws people into the kitchen, giving the room a new, bigger purpose and encouraging your family to spend more casual, social time together. This might be in the form of eating meals together in a less formal environment than a dinner table would offer, or simply involve hanging around and chatting in those moments where there is no pressing commitment to think about.

Why Wooden Bar Stools?

This is all well and good, but why choose wooden bar stools specifically? There are a number of benefits to choosing wood as the material for your bar seating needs. Wood is a high-quality material. When used properly in conjunction with high manufacturing standards, it is durable and practical without being excessively heavy.

It is also a very pleasant-looking material, and this is perhaps its greatest strength of all.

Wooden bar stools come in both classic and contemporary styles to fit neatly into any kind of kitchen, and both benefit from the very attractive look of smooth, polished wood.

This can greatly enhance your kitchen’s environment from an aesthetic standpoint, making it a more pleasant place to eat and spend your time.

Author Bio: Changiz Oskouiefar is the director of an office supplies company, based in Greater London, UK, who regularly writes about the use of office furniture at workplace. This article was written on behalf of www.furniturebay.co.uk

Toronto’s center is full of diverse content. Museums, theatres and opera houses are part of its culture life and they are among the biggest and most prestigious in Canada. CN tower can be easily included in the modern wonders of the world. Part of T.O.’s life that not many people are mentioning is its night life. There has always been a high demand for quality liquors in this area, which led to many establishments being opened. Nowadays the competition is very stiff and there is a large amount of different managers and bar owners that are each day pondering over how to improve their business and provide the customers with something new and innovative. One of the spots worth mentioning in that regard is the Toronto bar D.W. Alexander.

In order to understand the building in which this club is situated, you need to know the history of the city. Like in many other places at that time, the industry was situated in the very center of the town, near the water and the railroad. That made it easy to distribute goods all over the Canada and US. One of the buildings that was used as a sales store, was the one in which D.W. is situated today. Its brick structure bears a stamp of the industrial era. During the years it transformed from leather business to bar and lounge.

Today, this is one of the Toronto’s modern entertainment establishments which are famous for its cocktails. The selection of drinks is really good. Most of them are either high quality or rare. Half of the cocktails represent a standard offer which can be found in Toronto, while the rest are exclusive to this bar. Menu list is a bit shorter and it is characteristic for this type of bars. The barbeque in this place is exquisite and it is perhaps its strongest trump card when it comes to food. With this offer and high quality of liquor and meat used as the ingredients, it is no wonder that the prices in this place are above average. Yet the price is understandable given the product that you get for it. This lounge usually attracts middle and upper class, who feel right at home in this fashionable bar.

Building is in the center, in the Church Street, near the Union Station, making it easily accessible. For the tourists, this represents a nice spot to rest in between visits to museums and other popular sights. Naturally, having in mind that it is in the inner city circle, there is not much parking space. Fortunately, public transportation in Toronto is really efficient and you won’t have any problem planning your night out.

If you are a fan of cocktails, D.W. Alexander is definitely a great place for you to visit. Many exotic mixtures are among the best in Canada and almost everyone will surely find a flavor that suits them. Its unique design and hospitable staff will make your night a one to remember.

Meet Gochi, an inspiring Japanese bistro that captures and surprises the senses with a variaty of exciting smaller dishes, sushi and delicious yakitori in a casual, relaxed setting. Located in Melbourne, Australia, Gochi Restaurant’s unique design approach was envisioned by creative practice Mim Design, specialised in the design of interior environments. Their considerable experience with many projects from retail, hospitality, residential and corporate, allow them to create original looking spaces like this one, that are refined both in form and detail.

Opened this year, Gochi Restaurant is part of Crown Entertainment Complex and although it’s seems to be tucked away in a corner in a middle of a passageway, it will pleasantly surprise you with the food, service, and peaceful atmosphere. The space is well planned and the combination between textured materials and simple yet bold color scheme, distinctive for traditional Japanese interiors, exudes warmth and coziness. Red floor to ceiling sliding doors provides transparency, a sense of mystery and intrigue to passers-by, but also an intimate kind of feeling while separate the restaurant from passageway.

Proof that you are experiencing a modern take on a traditional Japanese style restaurant are the creative and eye-catching design details such as some parts of the ceiling structure which are made up of interwoven ropes or well-known chopsticks were transformed into custom-designed lighting which scale the walls. Edgy, comfortable, personalized. The mix of warm timbers and black and red color palette makes the restaurant interior exhales a certain sophistication that resonate with its Asian style.

Photos © Shannon McGrath & Mim Design

 

We’re sure that all of you have entered in a cafeteria at least once in life and could remember how uninspired and unattractive design display most of them, so today we’re showing you a totally unique and in the same time surprising cafeteria design for which the internationally acclaimed artist Tobias Rehberger received the Golden Lion as best artist at the 53^rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia.

We have to recognize that this cafeteria concept have nothing in common with those we know and it’s really a very inspiring place that reinvented the past ways of exhibition and turned its work of art into a trendy cafeteria. The modern art cafeteria called “Was du liebst, bringt dicht auch zum weinen” (“What do you love also makes you cry” in German) showcases geometric shapes and bright constrasting colors which intersects and interrupts each other forming complex patterns, a decorative style inspired by dazzle camouflage or dazzle painting used very much in World War I as a form of visual military deception.

The result was an amazingly cool environment that indeed created visually desorientation for the viewers and impressed through the ingenious use of customized furniture from Finnish furniture company Artek that complement and complete the whole design. This retro-inspired modern art cafeteria (if that makes any sense) pointed also the idea that catering halls deserve a more creative and artistic attention than they have in this moment. How do you comment this approach?

Photos © Katja Hagelstam and Wolfgang Guenzel

 

Opened since 1967, Pak Loh is a traditional, Hong Kong based family restaurant that serves Chiu Chow cuisine, a particular Chinese food. Situated in the heart of a building block in Causeway Bay district, Hong Kong, their highly successful flagship restaurant got in 2012 a new image for its public entrance area and for ‘Lo Mei food preparation area’, which was transformed into an exclusive VIP dining room by Hong Kong & Antwerp based architectural design and research practice LEAD.

This new lounge area is somehow separated from the restaurant main entrance by a public passageway, being positioned in front of the building block’s façade of the Pak Loh Chiu Chow Restaurant, situation that was seen as an opportunity by LEAD’s architects and designers to engage those passers by in an authentic and playful visual theatre. Causeway Bay’s busy street-life and the VIP room hidden deep inside interact in a beautiful manner, all designed elements ensuring a continuity between the publically accessible space and the private one.

They worked with geometrical elements, played with reflections and transparencies and amplified perspectival views, in order to trigger curiosity and seduce potential clients to enter Pak Loh Restaurant’s VIP dining area. Inside, the luxurious private space exudes elegance and intimacy. It reveals a seductive game of exposure and concealment with stylish curves and mirror and fins that replaced the space-limiting items such as walls and corners, all of them working together to create a unique dining experience. Have a look and share your experience with us if you had the change to eat there!

Photos © Dennis Lo Designs

 

Project details:

Architects: LEAD
Client: Pak Loh Chiu Chow Restaurant Ltd.
Location: 23-25 Hysan Avenue, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Program: Chinese Restaurant’s VIP Room
Project Management: 4N Architects, Laboratory for Explorative Architecture & Design Ltd. (LEAD)
Design Team: Kristof Crolla, Sebastien Delagrange
General Contractor: Kin Wah Decoration Co
Specialist Contractor Fins: E T Engineering Ltd.
Area: 25 sqm
Year: 2012