IL Corso Restaurant Wins the Prestigious Food in Space Awards 2025 in Italy

IL Corso restaurant, located in Vyshhorod and created by a Ukrainian architectural team Loft Buro, has won the Club category at the international Food in Space Awards 2025 held in Italy. The award is considered one of the most authoritative recognitions in the fields of gastronomic design, futuristic concepts, and food-related innovation.

A distinctive feature of this competition is that it is impossible to submit a project independently. The jury selects entries on its own, scouting outstanding works and innovative concepts from around the globe that combine design, technology, and forward-looking approaches to food and spatial experience.

IL Corso was among the selected projects and ultimately secured the victory in the Club category, which celebrates spaces that bring communities together through culture, sport, and gastronomy.

“This award is an important recognition of our team’s work and a strong confirmation that Ukrainian design is confidently integrating into the global context,” the authors of the project note.

About the Food in Space Awards 2025

This is an annual international award recognizing outstanding achievements and innovations in food and technology related to space exploration and the future of food on Earth.

Award Concept

The award aims to stimulate the development of new solutions for food production and consumption in extreme environments, such as long-duration space missions to the Moon or Mars, as well as for the application of these technologies on Earth, such as in resource-limited environments or urban farming.

Goals and Objectives

Innovation Promotion: Recognize teams, companies, and startups creating innovative food production technologies.

Food Solutions: Find efficient, scalable, and sustainable food systems that do not require large amounts of resources (water, energy) and can operate in closed loops.

Earth Applications: Adapt space technologies to improve food security and sustainable development on our planet.v

2025 Details

In 2025 (the award's second year, the first being in 2024), the award continues to draw attention to this important field. Information on the specific winners and nominations for 2025 was published, among other places, on the award's official website, FoodInSpace.net.

The award organizers are working closely with leading space agencies, such as NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), which also host their own competitions, such as the Deep Space Food Challenge, with similar goals.