Name: Slava Nossar
Price range: $

Good Luck Restaurant Lounge

Designed to capture the energy of 1970’s underground dining in New York, Tokyo, and Hong Kong.

The venue design overlays a beautiful heritage setting with kitsch opulence and an unmistakable 70's character.

Good Luck's floorplan connects a series of spaces including a bustling main dining room, a red neon lit cocktail bar and private + semi-private dining rooms. Glass brick wine rooms and high-gloss burl joinery meets dining chairs upholstered in deadstock florals; rose-hued vinyl banquettes are paired with tabletops in red, aqua, pink, and jade. Live tanks, mirrors and Japanese mosaic tiled columns delineate the spatial experience with chrome trims and vintage sconces, with lavish chandeliers dangling like jewellery. Musk pink banquettes wrap around behind the bar and toward the kitchen.

The kitchen is designed to feel as though it has been cast in place. Its presence and sense of permanence is owed to its monolithic design and is completely clad in jade green Portuguese tiling. As a backdrop to Eggert’s kitchen team - all dressed in white aprons with red caps – the kitchen anchors the arrival journey into the venue. In contrast, the open prep area and kitchen room is intentionally lo-fi and utilitarian with a stainless steel and cream-tiled dining space reminiscent of a staff kitchen and dining room.

The bathrooms deliver a retro-glam experience with floor to ceiling mirrored doors, and stalls clad in high-gloss piano-finished joinery mixing walnut trim with pink and cream laminated mirror.

There’s a bit of the Hong Kong family restaurant going on - a collision of the homespun and the opulent, suggestions of Bruce Lee movie sets, Hong Kong diners, late nights in Tokyo and neon infused karaoke bars.

Further driving the Good Luck theme, the design team commissioned two artworks from Sydney-based artist Bridget Stehli; a wall-hung carpet in the private dining room, and a classical oil painting in the main dining room, both depictions of a ragdoll kitten, the latter surrounded by ripe fruit and roses in full bloom, the former seated in a noodle box wearing a pussy-bow tie.

“My vision was to transport people to another place – one that they can’t quite put their finger on. We sourced unique and vintage pieces from around the world, many locally too. The chandeliers are handmade in Italy from Murano glass and are designed to make you feel like you’ve stepped into another era. We hope we’ve achieved that”, Justin Hemmes.