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Over the past several years, The Essex Culinary Resort & Spa in Essex Junction, Vt., has been redesigning much of its facility. Through this project, the resort has launched a new fine dining concept (in an existing space) that celebrates food and the overall culinary experience.

Broken Rice was supposed to be a fine-dining restaurant. But, like so many projects, things changed along the way from concept to completion.

In 2008 Michael Dorf, former owner of New York’s iconic Knitting Factory, opened his first City Winery in the Big Apple. This multi-concept space combines a fully-functioning winery with a music venue, to which he added a 50-seat restaurant in 2010.

In honor of Pantone’s color of the year — Ultra Violet (18-3838 to you color nerds) — we’ve rounded up 5 hot restaurant designs that use shades of violet to create fun, dramatic, eye-popping interiors.

Based in Milwaukee, Wis., Colectivo Coffee started 25 years ago as a small coffee roaster operating out of a warehouse basement. In the time since, it has evolved into a chain with 17 specialty coffee shops as well as a bakery making the pastries sold in these stores.

Based in the Chicago area, Beerhead is a craft beer concept offering roughly 500 beers in each of its seven restaurants. Open since 2012, the chain recently began selling franchises and has four such locations in its pipeline.

Shuang Ba, which aims to offer authentic Chinese fine dining in an ultra-luxurious setting, opened December 8 at the Grand Hyatt Baha Mar Resort in The Bahamas.

The Cordish Companies’ $40 million overhaul and rebranding of Norfolk, Va.’s iconic Waterside Festival Marketplace has resulted in the Waterside District, a development that hosts events and numerous restaurants on the Elizabeth River waterfront.