Food is not only about enjoying delicious dishes, but also about experiencing unique and impressive spaces. In Vietnam, more and more restaurants are focusing on design to bring diners memorable culinary experiences. Let’s explore restaurants with unique and creative designs, imbued with cultural and artistic imprints, promising to satisfy even the most demanding diners.
1. Marukin – Harmony of Modernity and Japanese Tradition
Marukin Japanese restaurant is a sophisticated combination of modern style and the unique cultural features of the Land of the Rising Sun. The main materials are wood and bamboo, along with shoji doors and natural landscape paintings, creating a cozy and intimate space.
Marukin Japanese restaurant design model
A special feature of Marukin is the charcoal grill area at each table, allowing diners to prepare their favorite grilled dishes in Japanese style.
The restaurant space uses a mysterious deep brown color scheme as the main theme, combined with unique Mount Fuji paintings, bringing a sense of lightness and attraction. CNC partitions are used delicately, creating private spaces while ensuring ventilation for diners.
Cozy space of Marukin restaurant with deep brown tones
Delicate CNC partitions at Marukin restaurant create private spaces
2. Hinomaru Sushi – Soba: Sophisticated and Minimalist
Hinomaru Sushi – Soba is a famous restaurant brand known for traditional Japanese sushi and soba dishes. Hinomaru’s design style aims for minimalism, sophistication, and uses warm, natural colors.
The restaurant uses traditional elements such as bamboo blinds, folding screens, and display cabinets, creating a classic and unique space imbued with Japanese culture. Overall, Hinomaru Sushi – Soba offers a luxurious, sophisticated, and comfortable space where diners can enjoy Japanese cuisine in a beautiful and relaxing environment. Hinomaru Sushi – Soba is located in Da Nang, don’t forget to visit if you have the opportunity.
Hinomaru Sushi – Soba restaurant space with minimalist Japanese style
Bamboo blinds and folding screens create Japanese cultural highlights for Hinomaru Sushi – Soba
3. Sushi World Viprooms: Unforgettable Impression
The Sushi World restaurant chain has chosen the style and unique culture of Japan for its Viprooms project. The restaurant space brings a gentle, unique traditional touch of the Land of the Rising Sun, sophisticated, simple but leaving a big impression on each visiting customer.
Luxurious and sophisticated space at Sushi World Viprooms
The interior space of Sushi World Viprooms in District 1 exudes luxury, with Japanese restaurant design style, each space highlighting unique cultural features.
Sushi World Viprooms stands out with a space imbued with Japanese culture
4. Sushi World – Ha Huy Tap: Immerse Yourself in Nature
Each branch of Sushi World has its own unique mark, and the branch in Ha Huy Tap is no exception. The design of Sushi World – Ha Huy Tap is inspired by images of bamboo rows, with warm colors (wood brown, yellow) as the main theme.
The restaurant space is integrated with many natural elements, creating a feeling of closeness and familiarity. The exterior facade stands out with bamboo louvers, preserving the rustic nature of the main material. The entrance to the restaurant is like stepping into nature, combining pebble and gravel miniatures and bamboo rows. Customers can venture on each stone slab to enter the inner space.
Sushi World – Ha Huy Tap with design inspired by bamboo rows
Natural and inviting space at Sushi World – Ha Huy Tap
5. Tam Duong Cuisine: Creative and Unique
Tam Duong Cuisine is a project implemented in Vinh Phuc, taking the main idea from Japanese architectural and interior style, recreating the cultural and culinary space of the Land of the Rising Sun.
However, the investor wanted creativity in the design to increase customer attraction and compete more effectively with other Japanese restaurants. The restaurant space resembles a modern Japanese house, combining steel frames with natural wood materials. From fences, wooden bridges, lighting to interior appearance and colors, they are all divided and used appropriately.
Tam Duong Cuisine restaurant space with modern Japanese style
Customers can easily feel the Japanese space without any related information. That is the success in conveying emotions, ideas, and style characteristics into the design drawing.
Unique and creative design at Tam Duong Cuisine restaurant
6. Sekai Sushi: Simple and Modern
Sekai Sushi has a modern and luxurious style of a shopping center space. The investor wanted to design a simple but modern Japanese restaurant, with the main menu being sushi with diverse flavors.
The entire entrance door is made of clear glass, helping customers easily recognize and see the entire operation as well as the interior design of the restaurant. This design also helps the restaurant space become brighter and more modern.
Modern clear glass facade of Sekai Sushi restaurant
Bright and modern space at Sekai Sushi
When designing the restaurant interior, the architect combined both scientific elements and creativity, making the dining space more reasonable. A row of high tables and chairs placed close to the window provides a unique and impressive view. Two rows of tables and chairs designed in an L-shape not only maximize space but also make moving or serving in the restaurant easier.
7. Sushi Ikeda: Wabi Sabi Spirit
True to the Wabi Sabi spirit, Sushi Ikeda restaurant space is designed minimalist, with unique designs from the sushi bar, wooden cabinets to the bar body. In particular, the body of the sushi bar uses Japanese-style imitation tile cladding, which is extremely impressive and creates a highlight for the entire 1st floor space.
Unique sushi bar with Japanese imitation tile cladding at Sushi Ikeda
Instead of arranging too many décor details, the restaurant interior space is decorated with wall-mounted wooden shelves or recessed shelves to create empty spaces for the space to be more spacious and airy.
The main material here is natural wood with a gentle brown color attracting. Brown tones from dark to light with wood grain have created natural, rustic lines but bring a comfortable and pleasant feeling.
Cozy space with natural wood material at Sushi Ikeda
The decorative details are designed to optimize the ground area, so they are mainly designs on the wall, such as wall-mounted wooden shelves, windows, or recessed cabinets. Tables and chairs are also made with simple, unpretentious designs but add a natural, rustic look to the Wabi Sabi style. Sushi Ikeda is located in Ba Dinh, Hanoi, you can visit to experience it.
8. Yakiniku Kokugyu: Japanese Culture
Kokugyu restaurant in District 1 is designed with the theme of Japanese culture, emphasizing material and color details. The functional zoning of each restaurant interior area brings perfect luxury, creating a strong impression right at the walkway and service counter area.
Luxurious and sophisticated space at Yakiniku Kokugyu
The restaurant interior decoration style is inspired by unique Japanese culture, wall paintings combined with wooden walls and electric lights create attractiveness in every corner of the space. Luxury and sophistication are what the Yakiniku restaurant design model expresses.
Yakiniku Kokugyu embodies Japanese culture in every design detail
The design theme brings harmony with nature into the interior of Kokugyu. Green trees and rock gardens are perfectly combined with wood materials used for the restaurant project. With the amount of light, the layout details maximize the area that the restaurant owns.
9. Sushi Masa: Dining Experience Like Japanese Locals
Sushi Masa Japanese restaurant design model has a minimalist modern style, cleverly combining wooden slats to create privacy but without losing connection with the common space.
Sushi Masa provides private space while still connecting with the common area
Unique paintings and decorations originating from Phu Tang culture such as traditional dolls, Geisha wall paintings, Maneki Neko cats, Chabudai tables, Tatami mats… create a feeling for diners like enjoying food in an authentic Japanese family.
Cozy and authentically Japanese space at Sushi Masa
With the desire to bring the experience of “Eating like Japanese people in an authentically Japanese space”, Sushi Masa has been meticulously designed in every detail of the interior space.
10. Tohoku: Simple and Rustic Beauty
Tohoku restaurant is transformed from traditional Japanese architectural style, characterized by natural wood louvers running diagonally. The space is warm with brown wood colors from interior items such as tables, chairs, and bamboo and rattan lamps.
Unique wooden louver design at Tohoku restaurant
The Shippou symbolic highlight is highlighted on the noren curtains, creating uniformity from space design to brand identity. Tohoku restaurant portrays the characteristics of the Tohoku region of Japan, not as bustling as Tokyo capital, nor as contemplative as Hokkaido, but carrying a simple and rustic beauty.
Simple and rustic space at Tohoku restaurant
Instead of cramped partitions, there are beautiful natural miniatures, not only functioning to divide areas but also helping to create airiness and comfort for the space. From the exterior appearance to the interior space, traditional elements are fully preserved. The Japanese spirit from familiar materials in Phu Tang architecture is flexibly applied to create unique highlights.
Conclusion
Above are restaurants with unique designs in Vietnam, offering wonderful culinary experiences and impressive spaces. Each restaurant has its own style, from modern to traditional, from luxurious to close to nature, meeting all tastes of diners. Hope this article will give you more interesting suggestions for dates, meeting friends or simply finding a space to enjoy food in the most complete way. Which restaurant design impressed you the most? Please share your opinion!