Mexico-based Worc Studio referenced familial traditions and shared experiences at Savvia in Mexico City, placing a circular, communal table, inside a historic structure in the city's core. More about Worc Studio centres circular stone table at "reverential" Mexico City restaurant
Design studio Safwat by Safwat has balanced a bar, lounge, and restaurant programme at Funny Bar in New York's Lower East Side, using glass brick and postmodern details. More about Safwat by Safwat balances "humor, clarity, and restraint" at Funny Bar in New York
Canadian studio Ménard Dworkind has designed a restaurant interior with a casual take-out counter and an upscale bar lounge in Toronto, Ontario. More about MRDK creates Toronto pizzeria with an upstairs-downstairs atmosphere
A large orange-lacquered communal table runs through the centre of this burger restaurant in Houston, designed by locally based Studio Danel to "transcend the conventions of a burger restaurant". More about "Architecture and everyday culture" meet at this Texas burger restaurant by Studio Danel
English interiors studio North End Design drew on 1980s Japanese and American boardrooms, British car companies from the 60s and wood-panelled recording studios when designing this restaurant in London with an unusual cut-out feature. More about Colourful restaurant Motorino offers peek into neighbouring Fitzrovia chapel
Design studio Rockwell Group has completed the theatre-style interiors of a Korean steakhouse at The Venetian resort in Las Vegas. More about Rockwell Group brings "theatricality of dining" to Las Vegas steakhouse
Next in our 2025 review, we look back at the best restaurants of the year, from an "urban greenhouse" in Mexico City to a colour-saturated eatery in Shanghai designed by film director Wong Kar Wai. More about The top 10 restaurants of 2025
Formica, leatherette and dark-wood furniture lend a retro feel to the interior of this east London eatery, which local studio House of Dré designed to evoke classic Italian trattorias. More about House of Dré creates "playful and familiar" interior for Tom's Pasta restaurant
Designers George Vlasis Pakalidis and Artemis Valyraki drew on the industrial origins of a tyre workshop when designing the Voulkanizater listening bar and restaurant in Athens. More about Athens' industrial Voulkanizater restaurant features wheel rims and car parts
An LA-based team comprised of Mouthwash Studio and Aunt Studio has designed Mexican restaurant with ample patio space underneath a railway in the city's Chinatown neighbourhood. More about Cafe Tondo designed to "fill the void" of social spaces in Los Angeles
Furniture made from melted aluminium and compressed wool features in this fine-dining restaurant in Budapest, Hungary, which architecture firm URBA designed to highlight sustainability and local identity. More about URBA uses reclaimed materials to craft "multi-layered" interior for Onyx Æther restaurant
Canadian studio Ste Marie has created three interconnected yet distinct hospitality venues at the base of a residential tower in Edmonton, Alberta. More about Ste Marie designs trio of atmospheric hospitality venues in Edmonton
Interiors firm UNC Studio has transformed a traditional wooden house in Kyoto into a Japanese-Mexican fusion cafe and eatery with a bold, all-red interior. More about Challe cafe in Kyoto fuses Mexican and Japanese design
Locally sourced, bio-based materials, including hemp and crushed seashells, feature in Spring Studio's interior for the World Heritage Centre building in Lauwersoog, the Netherlands. More about Spring Studio uses biomaterials to create sustainable interiors for World Heritage Centre Wadden Sea
The interiors of vintage limousines informed this Montreal bar and restaurant, in which locally based Ivy Studio has combined red velvet and dark wood panelling. More about Ivy Studio designs "bold and glamorous" Montreal restaurant
British studio Foster + Partners has transformed a 1970s building on the Champs-Élysées in Paris into a gallery and studio for US furniture brand RH, topped with a rooftop restaurant. More about Foster + Partners converts Parisian building into "hospitality-driven" gallery and restaurant
Designer Luke Edward Hall used antique and custom-made furniture, trompe l'oeil marble and hessian wallpaper to make visitors "feel very at home" at the Deux Gares Express restaurant in Paris. More about Luke Edward Hall blends British and French interior design at Deux Gares Express
Forty-eight rocks were handpicked from a Chilean mine to form the centrepiece of Mareida, a London restaurant designed by Macarena Aguilar Izquierdo of Santiago-based studio DAW. More about Chilean rock library forms centrepiece of Mareida restaurant by DAW
US studio Spaced Agency has built out the street level of the nearly 90-year-old restaurant Wo Hop in New York City, using the building's basement dining room and facade as references. More about Spaced Agency treats expansion of Chinatown restaurant as "architectural archaeology"
Architect Luca Cipelletti has renovated the lower-ground floor of Milan's Triennale Milano museum, including its restaurant, music venue and children's play area. More about Triennale Milano completes renovation that "enhances Giovanni Muzio's original 1933 design"