We have curated 50 Best Cafe and Coffee Shop Counter Designs from everywhere in the world. Each cafe counter design links to a full design article from our bestcafedesigns.com blog.
One thing bestcafedesigns.com aims to do is feature things that are not featured anywhere on the internet. We are already the only blog within the top 100 Architecture blogs that focuses on cafe designs. We like to focus on topics that are interesting but also very specific to a design and travel-oriented audience.
As bestcafedesigns.com explores cafe designs all over the world. In other articles we look at cafe booth seating design, Interior design ideas, cafe design considerations and exterior.
Harudot / Nana Coffee Roasters / IDIN Architects Thailand
A super long counter bench for the full span of the amazing skylight
Brownie Project Gallery / Shanghai / Offhand Practice
Set within an existing concrete structure of a gallery, with a striking V shaped timber frame and mezzanine deck above
Cloud Cafe, Victoria Shanghai Academy / MAD Studio
Clean white counter with curved corners, set within a curved arch with indirect lighting and vertical pink tile splashback
Kirkuk Mars Coffee House
Dark timber counter with timber batten features, dense batten splashback and open shelving with integrated lighting
La Joie Dose Bakery & Cafe / Riyadh Saudi Arabia / Livelli Architects
Stone counter top with timber curved siding, suspended curved lighting, and perforated screen with integrated planting
Arabica Xiamen Cafe
White on white counter with integrated glass display with glazed rolled corners, integrated lighting in kickplate
Shanghai Cafe / Aloha Cafe / Atelier IN
Plywood counter with furniture ply exposed edges, facebricks stacked vertically as siding, and rear shelving
Collins Street Cafe / First Love Coffee
Countertops are made from Verde Alpi green marble. Green terrazzo, which contains Verde Alpi marble chips, sweeps across the floor and up the main wall.
Roastery Bali / Expat Coffee / Expat Roasters Seminyak
Stone and steel counter top, with split height to allow for counter service and seating at the bar
Art Cafe / Bound Cafe / Anatomy Architecture
Stainless steel cafe counter with barrel vault ceiling
Armadale Cafe / Hanks Café & Bagelry / Leftfield Studio
Cranked counter with stone top and vertical slip porcelain tile siding. Painted white brick walls behind
Best Berkeley Cafe CA / Mind Coffee / Mahyasalehistudio
Folded vertical surfaces, counter under curved fabric ceiling
Toronto Cafes / Buno Coffee / Architecture Riot
Mirror stainless steel counter, lower service counter with glazed display, open shelving
Bogota Review / Colo Coffee Usaquén / CREARQ
Stone cafe counter with integrated pour over stations
Bogota Cafe bar Colombiano / Colo Coffee Andes / CREARQ
Stonelike cafe counter with carved out seating areas, kickboar lighting and a seamless finish
Kazakhstan / Julius Cafe / New Almaty Architects Workshop
Cafe counter with continuous tile finish on counter top, siding and floor. Dark wood panelling behind.
Cat Cafe Bangkok Thailand / Petrichor Cafe / AA+A Architecture
Stainless steel with curved sections, curved timber panelling in vertical plane behind
Cafe Buenos Aires / DUCA Caffe / OHIO Estudio + Estudio RIPANI
Timber counter top with blue siding, and open shelving behind
Southbank Cafe / Cafe Gadot / Aktis Architects
Cafe counter integrated with scaffold structure in solid timber
Alchemy Origin / Metagram
Terracotta stacked tile
Fineprint HK / Metagram
Exposed steel frame, stone counter, integrated siding lighting
Espresso Alchemy Harbour City / Metagram
Stone cafe counter, integrated linear down lighting under counter top, vertical ceramic tiling with tilt upper course to integrate lighting
Gold Coast / Burleigh Cafes / Palm Springs Burleigh
Pastel green cafe counter, horizontal log detail
Arboleda Monterrey / Antilope Cafe / Massoperations
Cafe counter in deep stone reveal, translucent glazed panels surrounds with integrated lighting
Sets Cafe Berlin
Stone counter, curved fibreglass siding
Best Cafes in Berlin / Aera
Timber counter with charcoal and mirror rear walls
Dickson Cafe / High Rd
Concrete look cafe counter with monolithic appearance, and integrated storage
Canberra Cafe / Cupping Room
Timber cafe counter design, wood panelling siding
Curitiba Paraná / Brazil cafe / Bonin Bakery / MOCA Architecture
Timber and stone cafe counter top with timber batten siding
Maros Cafe / Hifi Coffee Eatery / INS Studio
Vertical Batten siding, timber ceiling
Cafe in Makassar / MKO Culture / INS Studio
Timber cafe counter with timber bar, under ephemeral enclosure
