2025/26 Restaurant Design Trends
June 4, 2025
The food and beverage industry has always been influenced by nostalgia, but right now, we’re in the middle of a full-blown mid-century revival. Everywhere you look, restaurant branding is embracing
What started off as a strategic brand development and English naming challenge snowballed into a enormous brand identity endeavor.
From 3D, interior design, furniture design and sourcing, to uniform design, brand website and even lighting. This project encompasses [almost] everything what we do as a company.
Within the Beach Club, we designed two stand alone sub brands, KIPO, a high end Mediterranean restaurant, and DOXA, a floating cocktail bar experience.
HOMESLICE
A short story of how we took an existing brand and gave it a new core message: New York Attitude
Our Fook Wo Kong branding tells the story of a 20 years long friendship, sharing the same passion for authentic Cantonese cuisine, an art traditional yet complex to master.
La Mezcaleria’s core brand idea takes inspiration from plant medicine, street art and the spiritual energy of Oaxaca
Good design is like growing cherries, the very last thing to grow, is the cherry.
BOXING CAT BREWERY
Boxing Cat needed something irreverent and eye catching that communicated:
‘I’m so busy I am going mad’
The best communication tools are those that work for you and your objectives, not the other way around.
Far away from home, the Global Retailer honed in on consumers’ needs and wants to deliver a fully localized experience. From strategy to ALDI’s Chinese logo design…
Design is not restricted to one element or dimension, design is finding a clean space in the mess!
Coming into China at a time when the market competition is fiercer than ever, how might they take the pole position of home consumer coffee products? Curious?
Find a unique position in a crowded market.
We are NOT looking to be the most authentic Pho from Vietnam, we’re the BEST Pho available taking the finest elements from around the world. Brand Strategy consultants to the rescue.
The food and beverage industry has always been influenced by nostalgia, but right now, we’re in the middle of a full-blown mid-century revival. Everywhere you look, restaurant branding is embracing
Global brands face a choice: stay classic or localize fast. This article explores how coffee packaging now wraps more than beans—it wraps culture, price point, and personality—from old world to
The food and beverage industry has always been influenced by nostalgia, but right now, we’re in the middle of a full-blown mid-century revival. Everywhere you look, restaurant branding is embracing
Thread Design’s recent work on the menu relaunch for Coquille Seafood Bistro—refining the fine dining experience through subtle menu psychology and elevated menu design.
Between the blazing sun, monsoon rains, drunk people, and the occasional generously proportioned guest testing the limits of physics, it became clear that durability wasn’t optional.
This is, hands down, the biggest project we’ve ever taken on—and honestly? It’s been wild. What started as a branding challenge snowballed into everything. We’re talking furniture design, sourcing materials,