The best new dining rooms around the world aren’t just places to eat. In the Instagram age, a restaurant’s interior — and how much attention it’s likely to draw on social media — may be as important as its haute cuisine.

Here are five restaurants around the world with truly arresting design bon fides.

Nestled in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Loulou marks the third collaboration between restaurateur Gilles Malfosse and French designer Joseph Dirand, who’s created a two-level space complete with a 200-seat terrace where diners can whet their appetites with views of the Louvre and the Musée d’Orsay.

The sensibility here is a très Parisian black-and-white marbled floor and curving pedestal chairs warmly accented with low hanging sconces (107 Rue de Rivoli).

Local restaurateur Stephanie Izard (she of the famed Girl & the Goat and Little Goat Diner) continues to expand her empire with this homage to the restaurants of America’s Chinatowns.

The décor, by famed hospitality design firm AvroKO, pulls out every Chinese trope in the book: tasseled hanging lanterns, red curtains and napkins, old family photographs.

The clichés are so clearly rooted in fantasy that it all magically, smartly works (857 W. Fulton Market).

The second iteration of a popular BA cafe, this restaurant — designed by Alejandro Delisio of local firm Estudio +3 — is cleverly housed under railway tracks.

Its industrial design elements (iron window frames, subway-like tile flooring, a concrete bar) all make reference to the eatery’s rough-hewn beginnings — and make for a que auténtico evening (The Rose Garden, Arco 9, Avenida del Libertador 3887).

This hot spot in Columbia Square (which was, until 2007, the site of CBS’s TV and radio operations) injects a bit of old Hollywood glamour into a new Hollywood setting.

The midcentury-modern feel here — expressed via a curvilinear bar, criss-crossing glass light fixtures and warm leather banquettes — is the result of a collaboration between designer Masa Miyama and LA-based design firm Bishop Pass, which also handled the interiors of Curtis Stone’s buzzy Beverly Hills eatery Maude (6115 Sunset Blvd.).

Fifty-foot vaulted ceilings are the most eye-catching element in this Aussie restaurant-cum-cafe. Spread over three levels in a heritage-listed former 19th-century power plant, Higher Ground’s ingenious layout creates intimate, separate spaces — a long bar, smaller nooks and a mezzanine — that feel less like caves and more like open-plan hideouts (650 Little Bourke St.).