Design
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- Valerie Killifer
Mexico City has earned a reputation for being a food lover’s mecca. So it’s no wonder that the city’s restaurant design has taken an innovative and artistic turn. Fueled by a Mexican cooking renaissance thanks to menu globalization, diners have become privy to creative menu items served in intoxicating environments. These two restaurant designs are as architecturally inspiring as the food they serve.
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- Toby Weber
Connors Steak & Seafood recently opened its fourth location, this one in Franklin, Tenn.
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- Dana Tanyeri
During rd+d’s recent webcast, Designers Dish, Live! (you can hear the whole thing for free here), three seasoned designers shared insights on some of the biggest forces and trends shaping their restaurant projects today. Top among them is the move to create integrative, immersive designs that bring diners closer to the action, that eliminate traditional barriers between front of the house and back of the house.
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- Toby Weber
While many chain restaurants are making moves to bring in Millennial diners, not many recognize the need to start drawing in these younger customers as much as Burton’s Grill.
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- Dana Tanyeri
"Authentic” and “natural” are big buzzwords driving restaurant concepts and design today. Brands attach them to their menus, ingredients, cooking styles and, increasingly, designs. Grace Jeffers, who for the past 20 years has researched, wrote about and lectured on the history of materials, argues that sentimentality for supposedly “real” materials such as wood, stone and leather is often misplaced.
