
Haymaker, Farm to Table Restaurant
The restaurant’s design melds rustic, mid-centruy modern and industrial touches. The goal was to create an approachable space, where a night out on the town or a meal before or after a baseball game can happen, Dissen says. “You want to have that blend between the space and the food,” he says.
Source: PHOTOS: New restaurant brings farm-to-table dining to Charlotte’s uptown – Charlotte Business Journal

Postino is known for bruschetta and red wine. JIM POULIN/PHOENIX BUSINESS JOURNAL
Business Insider gave a nod to Upward Projects’ well-known habit of adaptive reuse, describing how Postino was “built within a 1950s-era post office” and its “premiere wines and impeccable food made with local ingredients.”
Source: Business Insider: This restaurant is Arizona’s “top-rated bar” – Phoenix Business Journal
Curbed.com had a great list of adaptive reuse examples. Check it out!

Starbucks design director Liz Muller worked with local artists to create a concept store inside a historic bank vault in Amsterdam. Via Dezeen.

The restaurant at Chile’s eco-tourism resort Espejo De Luna was built inside a seafaring vessel washed ashore.
16 Fantastic Examples of Adaptive Reuse in Restaurant Design – Eating Pretty – Curbed National.

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This time it’s an abandoned Boeing 747 restaurant, looming huge over the highway, and yet dwarfed by a swarm of apartment buildings all around.

via Dark Roasted Blend: Abandoned Boeing 747 Restaurant (and Other Plane Conversions).

Located in a converted warehouse space in Fremont, the restaurant’s interiors were designed by Heliotrope Architects.

via The Whale Wins: A Seattle Restaurant Inspired by the Sea: Remodelista.
Beagle is a restaurant in London, England built into railway tunnels. Their site has amazing photos of the adaptive reuse, not to mention the food looks good too!



BEAGLE LONDON.

It’s called the Filling Station: how appropriate. It used to be a shabby and abandoned gas station in London’s King’s Cross. And suddenly it’s a stunning restaurant that does not want to be called a pop-up. Mainly because it is meant to be a semi-permanent building that will be there for two years before new homes are built in the rapidly gentrifying area.


via Abandoned Gas Station Becomes a Restaurant : TreeHugger.
Reclamation Administration: News and Research on Building Material Waste Prevention