The Eat Drink Design Awards finalists for 2025 have simply been introduced and as we speak, we’re looking on the resort finalists. With three in Australia and one in New Zealand, they’re a severely fashionable bunch and I really feel a minibreak approaching!
In the extremely aggressive hospitality trade, a key ingredient to a profitable and memorable venue is an distinctive design. Australia and New Zealand’s best-designed eating places, cafés, bars, inns and hospitality retailers for 2025 have been revealed within the Eat Drink Design Awards shortlist. For culinary connoisseurs, the 64 venues recognised within the Awards shortlist are a roadmap to essentially the most arresting, modern and must-visit new venues round Australia and throughout the Tasman.
Much greater than only a listing of 2025’s most Instagrammable eating places and bars, the Eat Drink Design Awards reveal the newest improvements and shifts in modern design and provides insights into the cultural and financial forces shaping the hospitality panorama. Notable on this yr’s shortlist is the sturdy presence of regional venues; the dominance of business interiors; a patriotic embrace of native supplies and the Australian identification; and an expanded imaginative and prescient of what hospitality venues might be — each as locations and as neighborhood hubs.
The 4 finalists within the resort class are The Eve Hotel Sydney by SJB (Redfern, NSW), Melbourne Place by Kennedy Nolan (Melbourne, VIC), The Standard X by Hecker Guthrie (Fitzroy, VIC), and Drifter by CTRL Space (Christchurch, New Zealand). Let’s take a more in-depth have a look at these beauties…
The Eve Hotel, Sydney
Photos of The Eve Hotel by Anson Smart
Melbourne Place, Melbourne
Photos of Melbourne Place by Derek Swalwell
The Standard X, Fitzroy, Melbourne
Photos of The Standard X by Shannon McGrath
Drifter, Christchurch, New Zealand
Photos of Drifter by Ain Raadik
See the Eat Drink Design Awards finalists in each class
The winners might be revealed on Wednesday 29 October 2025.
