Restaurants & Hospitality
Restaurant, Bar & Café
Interior Design & Fit Out
Atmosphere-led interior design and full fit out for restaurants, bars, cafés and hospitality venues. Commercial kitchens built to pass Environmental Health, dining rooms designed to fill every cover, every service.
Hospitality Fit Out Specialists
Every Cover is a
Commercial Decision
Great restaurant interior design is not simply about making a space look beautiful — although it must do that. It is about making decisions that translate directly into commercial performance. How many covers can you seat without the room feeling cramped? Does the bar layout allow your team to serve 200 guests in a two-hour window? Is the kitchen positioned to minimise pass-to-table distance?
Whether you are opening a new restaurant, commissioning bar interior design for a premium cocktail venue, working with a café interior designer for an independent coffee shop, or rolling out a concept across multiple sites — Acroft delivers hospitality fit out that performs commercially from day one and for the years that follow.
We have delivered projects ranging from intimate 40-cover neighbourhood restaurants and café fit outs to 400-cover destination venues and multi-site hospitality group rollouts.
Spaces We Design
Every Area of Your
Restaurant, Bar or Café
From the commercial kitchen at the operational heart of your venue to the terrace that extends your season — every space designed with equal care and commercial rigour.
Front of House & Dining Areas
The guest experience lives or dies in the dining room. We design front of house environments where layout, lighting, materials and acoustics work together to create the specific atmosphere your concept demands — and the covers your business model requires.
Bar Design & Cocktail Areas
Statement bar designs that anchor the space, support high-speed service and give your bartenders the ergonomic workspace to perform. Back-bar display, cocktail stations, draught systems and cellar integration all coordinated and built in.
Commercial Kitchen Design & Fit Out
The kitchen is the engine of your restaurant, bar or café. We design and deliver fully compliant commercial kitchens — from brief to Environmental Health sign-off — including ventilation canopies, gas and electrical infrastructure and workflow layout designed around your menu.
Private Dining Rooms
High-value intimate dining spaces that generate premium covers and memorable occasions. Bespoke joinery, AV integration, independent lighting control and acoustic separation from the main restaurant.
Outdoor Dining & Terrace Areas
Properly considered outdoor dining environments — sheltered, heated, well-lit and consistent with the interior brand — that extend your cover count and trading season significantly.
Staff Areas & Back of House
Well-designed staff changing rooms, welfare areas and management offices that support the team who make your restaurant run. Consistently overlooked, consistently important to the quality of service your guests receive.
Our Approach
What Makes a Hospitality
Interior Design Work
Commercial Kitchen Compliance
Every commercial kitchen we design and deliver is built for Environmental Health sign-off from day one — correct ventilation specification, gas compliance, wash-up and food prep zone separation, grease management and hygienic surface finishes throughout.
Covers Optimisation
Cover count drives revenue. We design dining rooms that maximise the number of guests you can seat comfortably without compromising the atmosphere — the difference between a profitable and an unprofitable operation can be six tables.
Atmosphere by Design
Lighting, acoustics, materials and spatial proportion work together to create the specific feeling guests associate with your restaurant, bar or café. We translate brand concepts into physical environments that generate the emotion you want people to experience.
Operational Flow
Kitchen-to-table efficiency, bar service flow, staff circulation and guest wayfinding are all designed into the layout from the start. Poor flow costs covers, creates service failures and demoralises staff. Good flow is invisible — and invaluable.
Featured Project
Recent Restaurant
Interior Design Project
The Larder House
Manchester, M1 — 2024
A full new-build restaurant and bar fit out across two floors of a landmark Ancoats building. Ground floor: a 60-cover bar and informal dining area with a full-length back bar, cocktail station and open kitchen pass. First floor: an 80-cover main dining room and an 18-cover private dining suite with bespoke joinery and AV integration. The commercial kitchen design was developed directly with the head chef — a bespoke layout with pass positioning minimising cover-to-kitchen distance across both floors. Achieved Environmental Health sign-off on first inspection and opened three days ahead of schedule.
I have worked with three fit out contractors across previous restaurants. The difference with Acroft is that they genuinely understood from day one that the kitchen is the operational heart of the building — and that every layout decision flows from there. The kitchen they delivered is exceptional. The dining room has exactly the atmosphere we wanted. And we opened three days ahead of schedule.
Where We Work
Restaurant & Café Design
Across the UK
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