Australian Hospitality Designs clean up at the international Restaurant & Bar Design Awards
Australia has done well at the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards recently held in London.
Three Australian venues picked up gongs in the awards. Judges came from all over the world.
That’s no mean feat given that the program is mainly UK-focused. The opportunity for the Australians came in the international category prizes.
Best Café award in the UK and international categories went to Melbourne café Kitty Burns.
Kitty Burns Café, Melbourne
Biasol Design Studio out together a venue in inner city Abbotsford featuring high ceiling and lots of natural light. Judges were impressed with the dining booths and the standalone coffee bar with its turquoise ceiling. It has faux windows along the walls giving views of green hedges and the outlines of buildings.
A really cool space that almost looks as though it’s been cut out of paper,” Bernadette le Roux, awards judge and Editor in Chief of South African publication Conde Nast told Architecture And Design.
“Great texture throughout, minimalist and interesting all at once.”
The Australia and Pacific bar category went to Adelaide’s Pink Moon Salon
Designed by Matiya Marovich of Sans-Arc Studio, it is located in a former laneway between two office blocks right in the middle of the bar precinct of Leigh Street. The timber-lined alpine hut has a narrow bar, an open kitchen with a wood oven producing deli meats, hand-cut chips, charred vegetables and club sandwiches for diners in booths. It also features a leafy courtyard.
And Sydney’s So 9 came up trumps in the Australia and Pacific restaurant category.
The eatery is designed in a U-shape by Brandworks and it’s divided into sections.
First, there’s a tuckshop on the street side serving up takeaway lunch.
The middle section in the kitchen focuses on noodle soups and it’s designed like a Vietnamese street stall with a long table and a series of booths.
And then there is a banh xeo (crispy pancakes) station.
by Leon Gettler, 12th October 2016