The 2021 Eat Drink Design Awards have announced the venues that have made waves for their innovative and inspiring spaces.
The shortlist sees venues listed under categories including best restaurant; best cafe; best bar; best hotel; best installation; best retail and best identity designs.
This year will also see another venue inducted into the hall of fame, which recognises a space that has provided excellence in design for more than a decade.
All the venues in the shortlist are new projects completed between 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2021, with the winners announced on 5 November.
Shortlisted restaurants, cafes and bar below:
Best restaurant
Sunset Diner – Guru Projects
Local Connections at The University of Newcastle – Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects
Shaffa – Squillace
Cucina Porto – Tom Mark Henry
Hinchcliff House – Mitchell & Eades
Harbord Hotel – Alexander &CO.
CicciaBella – Fiona Lynch Interior Design
Siso – CTRL Space
Euro – CTRL Space
Three Blue Ducks, Melbourne – Pattern Studio
Agnes – Amok
ITL – Genesin Studio in collaboration with Walter Brooke
Sol Bar & Restaurant – Genesin Studio in collaboration with Walter Brooke
Aurora – GSID – Georgie Shepherd Interior Design
Fugazzi – studio-gram
400 Gradi East Brunswick – Dean Dyson Architects
Hazel – The Stella Collective
Chancery Lane – Bergman and Co
Hero ACMI – Chris Connell Design
San Lorenzo – Peter Ryan Architects
Teller – Ewert Leaf
Master Lanzhou Noodle Bar – ElvinTan Design
Prince Public Bar – IF Architecture
Hope Street Radio – Peter Frederick Cole Architect
No.179 – Proto-Tipo
New Quarter – Ewert Leaf
Society – Russell & George
Luci Restaurant – Bates Smart
Gimlet – A C M E
The Graham Hotel – Techne Architecture + Interior Design
Ten Minutes by Tractor – COX Architecture
Emily Taylor at the Warders Hotel – Matthew Crawford Architects
Best cafe
Lava Espresso Kingston – Avanti Design House
ARC Coffee – Capezio Copeland
Valentinas – How High
Industry Beans Brisbane – Platform by DesignOffice
Nodo Hawthorne – Cameron & Co Architecture
Bottega Bandito – studio-gram
Bloom-Sans – Arc Studio
Ona Coffee Melbourne
The Budapest Café – Biasol Studio
Bench Coffee Co. – Arkhe Tekhne
Ritzy – Moonee – ElvinTan Design
Midi – Sans-Arc
Top Tea – Wall Architects
Prior Thornbury – Ritz & Ghougassian
Best bar
Atomic Beer Project – YSG
Bar Sopra – Guru Projects
Hotel Ponsonby – CTRL Space Saint
Fugazzi – studio-gram
Westward – Buchan
Above Board – Back Bar – Studio Edwards
Hope Street Radio – Peter Frederick Cole Architect
Nick and Nora’s Melbourne – Studio Y
Little Prince Wine – IF Architecture
Quiet Deeds Brewery and Taproom – Splinter Society Architecture Pty Ltd
Ponyfish Island – studio-gram
Society – The Lounge – Russell & George
Prince Public Bar – IF Architecture
Stomping Grounds Moorabbin – Studio Y
Curious Bar – W Melbourne – Hachem Architecture