Hospitality architects for restaurants and cafes in NSW

Good restaurant interior design is part theatre, part logistics. Guests need to feel the atmosphere the moment they walk in, while staff need clear paths between kitchen, bar and tables on the busiest night of the week. We design both at once: the flow of people, the lighting, the finishes and the furniture.

Most hospitality owners are also working to a budget and a deadline, often inside an existing building. In our experience the best results come from a few bold moves done well, rather than expensive finishes spread thin.

Sweet Sour Salt is a well established and highly regarded modern Asian restaurant in Orange. When increased popularity demanded a bigger dining space, the owners moved into a converted 1920s house near the centre of town. We opened up the dining spaces through strategic wall removal, redirected the flow of guests at the entry, and moved the bar to the front of the building.

Colour and graphics were a key focus, and an innovative low cost lighting solution unifies the dining spaces. The project was a Dulux National Colour finalist in the Commercial category, and the restaurant quickly became a destination dining experience in the Central West.

Hospitality design in regional NSW often means wineries. Our cellar door for Montoro Wines outside Orange received a NSW State Architecture Award, and our DA approved design for R Winery combines a cellar door for 50 to 60 guests, a private tasting room and a restaurant and function space for up to 100, raised so diners look out over the vines. You can read more on our winery architecture page.

Function spaces bring their own challenges: flexible layouts, back of house for catering, and rooms that feel right for twenty people or a hundred. We plan those details from the start.

Cafes are some of the hardest working rooms in any town. They need to turn over quickly at breakfast, feel relaxed in the afternoon and look good in a photo. For cafe design in Orange and the Central West, we bring the same approach as our larger hospitality projects: a clear layout, honest materials and lighting that flatters food and people.

The Forbes Cultural Centre, now under construction, includes a cafe alongside its exhibition and function spaces, in the restored and extended former Forbes Ambulance Station.

Hospitality projects touch everything from council approvals to the chairs. Because architecture, interior design and styling sit in one studio here, a restaurant owner deals with one team who understands the building, the brand and the budget together.

If you are looking for a restaurant interior designer in regional NSW, talk to us early, before the lease is signed if you can, so the space you choose can do what your business needs. See our interior styling page for more on the finishing layer.