A shortlist of Melbourne’s best looking places to eat, drink in 2018

SOME of Melbourne’s best looking places to eat, grab a drink and stay the weekend have been shortlisted in the annual Eat Drink Design Awards. See if your favourite made the list.

SOME of Melbourne’s best looking places to eat, grab a drink and stay the weekend have been shortlisted in the annual Eat Drink Design Awards.

A total of 90 projects have been shortlisted in the awards, which celebrate design excellence in the hospitality industry.

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Restaurants, bars, cafes, nightclubs, food stores and pop up spaces that opened within the last two years were considered.

Baroq House in the CBD, Biggie Smalls in Windsor and Chandon in the Yarra Valley were among the seven Victorian venues shortlisted for the best bar design.

New space in Albert Park, Lenny 3206, was nominated in the best cafe design, as was Fitzroy’s Bentwood Cafe.

Jackalope and Brae Restaurant Accomdation featured in the new category best hotel design.

Collingwood’s iconic burger restaurant Easeys was also shortlisted for the best restaurant design award.

Winners will be announced at Luminare in Melbourne on November 13.

Each category winner will win a $1500 prize, from a pool of $10,500.

Tickets: www.eat-drink-design.com

BEST BAR DESIGN

Baroq House — Hachem (Melbourne, VIC)

Baroq House has been nominated for best bar design in the Eat, Drink and Design Awards 2018. Picture: Supplied.

Chandon Australia — Foolscap Studio (Coldstream, VIC)

Above Board — Chris James Studio (Collingwood, VIC)

Bouzy Bar À Vin — Jason M Jones & Brahman Perera (Armadale, VIC)

Biggie Smalls Windsor — Technē Architecture + Interior Design (Windsor, VIC)

Biggie Smalls in Windsor. Picture: Supplied.

Pentolina — Biasol (Melbourne, VIC)

Kicks — ZWEI Interiors Architecture (Melbourne, VIC)

BEST CAFÉ DESIGN

Lenny 3206 — Golden (Albert Park, VIC)

Cafe Godot — Aktis (Melbourne, VIC)

Cocobei — DKO (Docklands, VIC)

Sensory Lab — Studio Esteta (Melbourne, VIC)

Against The Grind — Joanne Motee (Mill Park, VIC)

Against the Grind. Picture: Supplied.

Hungry Fox cafe — LUKAS Partners Interior Architecture & Design (Essendon Fields, VIC)

Project 281 — Splinter Society Architecture (Brunswick, VIC)

Brunetti Flinders Lane — Technē Architecture + Interior Design (Melbourne, VIC)

Willow Urban Retreat — Meme (Armadale, VIC)

Sibling Spice — Studio Y. (Melbourne, VIC)

Bentwood cafe — Ritz & Ghougassian (Fitzroy, VIC)

Bentwood Cafe. Picture: Supplied.

Lightyears — ZWEI Interiors Architecture (Hawthorn East, VIC)

Plain Sailing — Fiona Drago Architect (Elwood, VIC)

Lights in the Attic — Architects EAT (Hawthorn, VIC)

Pierrick Boyer Cafe Patisserie — ZWEI Interiors Architecture (Prahran, VIC)

BEST HOTEL DESIGN

Brae Restaurant Accommodation — Six Degrees Architects (Birregurra, VIC)

Brae Restaurant Accommodation. Picture: Supplied.

Mitchelton Winery Hotel — Hamish Guthrie, Paul Hecker & Stacey van Harn (Nagambie, VIC)

Jackalope — Carr in collaboration with Fabio Ongarato Design (Merricks North, VIC)

Jackalope on the Mornington Peninsula. Picture: Supplied.

BEST RESTAURANT DESIGN

Ishizuka — Russell & George (Melbourne, VIC)

Ishizuka has been nominated for best restaurant design in the Eat, Drink and Design Awards 2018. Picture: Supplied.

Restaurant Navi — Finnis Architects (Melbourne, VIC)

Mr Carpano Dining + Bar — Interior design: Fender Katsalidis, Architecture: Woods Bagot and NH Architecture (South Wharf, VIC)

Bar Carolina — Chris Connell Design (South Yarra, VIC)

Easeys — ITN Architects (Collingwood, VIC)

Easeys in Collingwood. Picture: Supplied.

Sunda Bar & Restaurant — Kerstin Thompson Architects, Figureground

Architecture (Melbourne, VIC)

Longsong — Jackson Clements Burrows with John van Haandel (Melbourne, VIC)

Congress — DesignOffice (Collingwood, VIC)

Angus and Bon — Bergman & Co. (Prahran VIC)

BEST RETAIL DESIGN

Hunter & Co. Deli — Mim Design (Elsternwick, VIC)

Chandon Australia — Foolscap Studio (Coldstream, VIC)

Asian Grocery — T A Square (Glen Waverly, VIC)

Little Bonny’s — Luchetti Krelle (Sydney, VIC)

Mercedes Me has been nominated for best retail design in the Eat, Drink and Design Awards 2018. Picture: Supplied.

Mercedes Me — Jackson Clements Burrows (Melbourne, VIC)

Sensory Lab — Studio Esteta (Melbourne, VIC)

Pafu, QV — T A Square (Melbourne, VIC)

Hella Good — Bergman & Co. (Melbourne, VIC)

Hunter & Co. Deli has been nominated for best retail design in the Eat, Drink and Design Awards 2018. Picture: Supplied.

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