How We Design
We are experts in understanding your project needs and creating a bespoke solution. We start from scratch and arrive at amazing.
We design and run our own restaurants and our team excels at experience driven concepts that are both unique as profitable.
For your new specialty restaurant, bar, or F&B venue, we create custom solutions that blend original design with compelling storytelling.
We deliver fully integrated solutions, covering everything from concept development, branding, and interior design to culinary and beverage programs, food service and operational design, OS&E, team attire, and even long-term management partnerships.
The Nuts and Bolts…
Strategic Planning
F&B Licensing
License existing brands
Develop & license new brands
Food & beverage development, training & continuous improvement
Insight & Positioning
We analyse industry trends, consumer insights and your core essence in order to position your project in the market to differentiate from conventions and disrupt the market for success.
Once we have found the unique voice for your project, this becomes a ‘guiding light’ for the rest of the projects development.
The value of having a clear sense of direction, purpose and an ownable space is a vital competitive advantage.
Brand Identity
Express Yourself. Differently.
Great brand design distills insights and trends into a distinct personality, a voice, and a unique identity that defines the soul of a venue.
Before anything else, we craft a brand personality that serves as the foundation and narrative, shaping the other components that follow. Like a breath of fresh air, we help you discover your voice and identity through original design and compelling content.
Culinary & Beverage
Working with the experienced chefs and mixologists who run the culinary & beverage development of the Locavore Group, we develop creative and highly unique culinary products and experiences.
Our services range from concept development, to client tastings, sourcing suppliers, menu development, training and recipe guidance.
Spatial Design
Spatial design is fundamental to creating immersive F&B experiences, shaping ambiance, mood and operational flow.
Depending on the project’s scope, we develop a Venue Design ID to guide interior teams, ensuring seamless alignment with the concept and narrative. Our expertise spans from conceptual direction for key F&B elements to full venue design, encompassing FF&E, staging, and landscaping.
With experience operating and designing venues, we bridge front-of-house aesthetics with superior operational efficiency. Our hands-on knowledge of operational millwork, bar, and kitchen design allows us to guide foodservice, MEP and bar layouts, ensuring a seamless blend of form and function.
Interactive & Technology
Complementing venue experience design development we explore the application of technology and installations that add value to the guest interactions.
Our services include custom technology applications from the use of LED screens, Internet powered devices, sensors, dynamic lighting solutions and other innovative ideas.
Art
Memorable guest experiences create lasting value for a venue. Curated artworks not only elevate interiors but also add depth to the guest journey through compelling narratives and immersive design.
Through our art studio, Black Hand Gang, we develop tailored artwork programs that seamlessly integrate
with a venue’s identity. We oversee the full process— commissioning, production, and installation—ensuring a cohesive and high-quality result.
From installations and sculptures to paintings and framed works, our artist roster features both established and emerging talents from across Asia Pacific.
Music & AV
Music is at the heart of all our venues, thoughtfully curated to shape the guest experience and reinforce the brand’s identity. At times, it serves
as a subtle backdrop, while in other cases—such as Club Soda—it becomes an integral part of the design concept, including the commissioning of fully custom speaker designs.
Depending on the project’s needs, we curate bespoke playlists, develop detailed music briefs, or collaborate with a professional BGM partner to create a continuously evolving music program.
Menus & Collateral
Bridging the venues food and drinks service is the ubiquitous menu. Our design philosophy seeks to develop unique ways to bring the brand to life through the guest experience with the menu and supporting collateral design.
Innovative design ideas and concepts, production techniques, crafted and creative collateral and engaging storytelling.
Team Attire
Working with local designers and brands we develop suitable stylish attire and functional wardrobes for venue & kitchen teams.
As the front line presentation of the brand experience, its imperative to consider the teams role for guest perception. The wardrobe is tailored to express uniqueness about the brands’ identity and suitability for each team department in the venue.
The designs are often so strong they are used for brand apparel for retail and commercial sales opportunity.llateral and engaging storytelling.
Servingware
We develop concepts and design direction for the presentation of the food and drinks and general tabletop creativity.
Working with established creative leaders in each discipline, we partner with artisan designers in ceramic, glassware, wood, textile, and other materials.
We cultivate relationships with both local artisans and global distributors, ensuring a blend of craftsmanship and operational sensibility.
