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Devin Toolen

"It's a Highly Sensory Arena" — 'Severance' Served As Inspiration For This Cutting-Edge Brisbane Restaurant

A restaurant in a brutalist design style with stone counter tops, a ceiling covered in ceiling lights, and a stack of several plates on the counter.

Underneath the bustling streets and busy city life of Brisbane hides a secret space. That is, a subterranean dinner hotspot that serves up traditional Cantonese cuisine with the most unusual side — psychological thrill. Designed by Queensland-based firm J.AR Office, Central is certainly not your average restaurant.

It's not every day that a restaurant design draws inspiration from a TV show, let alone a series as hair-raising as Apple TV's Severance. However, Central's underground setting was enough of a reason to lean into the thrill.

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