Top 20 Best Bar and Restaurant Designs

Know the 20 best interior designs!

For a restaurant and bar to be successful, we must think far beyond the food and drinks it offers. The menu and gastronomic experience -among others- are important, but not the only thing that catches the customer’s attention. It is necessary that the spaces have a striking and attractive ambiance with personality. To achieve excellence, control must be on three key factors: service, product, and atmosphere or interior design.




For this reason, today we will focus on this last aspect: design of the bar and restaurant. Designing these spaces is a challenge itself: one must take care of small details that will provide greater value (as far as experience) to the guests, which translates into competitive advantages for the business!



Getting the attention of customers in a positive way is essential for the style of a local. In a market with great competition such as gastronomy, being different helps boost your brand, maintaining a strong presence in this sector. Therefore, let's look at the 20 best interior designs of bars and restaurants around the world, which stand out for making use of a differentiation strategy (raison d'être of their brand).

Top 20 Bars and restaurants:

1. H.R. Giger Museum Bar (Gruyères, Suiza): the interior of the otherworldly environment that is the H.R. Giger Museum Bar is a cavernous and skeletal structure covered by double arches of vertebrae that crisscross the vaulted ceiling of an ancient castle. The sensation of being in this extraordinary setting recalls the tale of Jonah and the whale. Giving you feelings of being literally in the belly of a fossilized prehistoric beast or that you have been transported into the remains of a distant future civilization.



2. Truth Cafè (Cape Town, South Africa): the design of this place opens doors to the past. As soon as you walk in, you find a coffee shop full of vintage objects from coffee vending machines, banks, and candles, to typewriters and sewing machines. The cafeteria was designed by the studio Haldane Martin, who sought to do justice to coffee through selective vintage shopping.



3. The Jane Restaurant (Antwerp, Belgium): located in a renovated church with an avant-garde design that allows all the details of the church to be kept for a showcase. It is a work of art and history transformed to be one of the best restaurants in Belgium.



4. Bicycle Bar (Bucharest, Romania): this peculiar bar is full of made-to-fit furniture and other created from pieces of old Pegas bicycles, a well-known Romanian company. The interior design has that authenticity with the retro charm that represents the brand and is recreated in the atmosphere perfectly.


5. Logomo Cafè (Turku, Finland): figures and geometric lines invaded ceilings, walls, floors, and even pieces of furniture. It is a psychedelic and kinetic game in black and white. A hypnotic result.


6. Joben Bistro (Cluj-Napoca, Romania): this restaurant uses the steampunk style for interior decor. This artistic movement culture is characterized by combining the Victorian aesthetic with the technology of the 19th century. Entering the Joben Bistro is like becoming the main character of a steampunk story since walls and ceilings are adorned with the typical paraphernalia: zeppelins, velocípedos with propeller, compressors, valves, copper and brass tubes, old black and white photographs, cranks, engravings, images of animals with glasses, knights with a hat and gas mask, and so on.



7. What Happens When (New York, USA): this new creative experience aims to become a "work in progress" space. Floor, ceiling, and walls have been painted in black and act as a notebook for the architectural notes in a 1:1 scale. Each change of decoration is thus registered in the space. The furniture and lighting are white.


8. Ki Cafe (Tokyo, Japan): with a completely white and pure interior, it offers a small space inspired by a forest. The word ki translates to "tree" and you are constantly playing with that meaning throughout the entire site. The furniture is made of steel and highlights the minimal finishes that are trees either on the tables, chairs or scattered around the place.


9. AMMO (Hong Kong, China): a restaurant rebuilt in an old explosives warehouse that was constructed in the mid-nineteenth century by the British Army and remodeled by the architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien.


10. Le Pain Français Bistro (Gothenburg, Sweden): the interior decoration is slightly above eclectic, it takes you back to the days of Jules Verne and Gustave Eiffel.


11. Bangalore Express Restaurant (London, Great Britain): an incredible design where the use of space takes power in this restaurant.



12. The Design Bar (Stockholm, Sweden): designer Jonas Wagell created an installation representing the forest and the city.


13. Electric Bar, Paris, France: a bar where electricity is the protagonist.

14. Auriga Restaurant (Mumbai, India): an old factory warehouse was stripped of its exterior walls to allow the interior to be bathed in natural light and create a view of the large trees along the road. Partially open and partially closed between strips of galvanized metal sheets that are backlit.


15. Bluefrog Acoustic Lounge (Mumbai, India): is a performance space, restaurant, and recording studio nestled in a former warehouse in the old mill district of Mumbai. The project combines the organizational structures of the theatre and the dinning hall without losing the performative characteristics of each type.


16. Chocolate Bar (Opole, Poland): the customers’ area is brightly colored, while the service reflects the color of dark chocolate. The "chocolate" that fuses on the walls is the only decoration of the room and the "drops of milk" that drip from the ceiling are actually lamps.


17. Pakta Restaurant (Barcelona, Spain): a place of curious design with colorful threads, wood, and light bulbs.


18. Rocambolesc (Girona, Spain): singular ice cream shop that simulates a candy factory taken from a story, with various flavors in tubs or cones.


19. Ozone Bar (Hong Kong, China): an interior design that impacts from the first moment you enter the bar. The floor, the walls, and the sculptures are works of abstract art. In addition, it is the highest bar in the world, a title that was obtained by its location on the 118th floor of the Ritz-Carlton hotel.


20. Society Wine Lounge (Gatserelia, Lebanon): finalist for Best Bar in the Middle East and Africa, this bar is characterized by having a finish on the roof that resembles the morphological characteristics of stalactite and stalagmite caves. The play of lights, textures, and colors allows appreciating the beauty of this interior design.



Temples of good eating and better drinking. Bars and restaurants with design milestones. Each of these spaces generates an experience that makes you feel as if you were in another world.

Guide yourself to the ideal design of your bar or restaurant by taking a look at this "Top 20 Best Bar and Restaurant Designs."

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