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Get Into Modular and Container Construction

In addition to quality food and a top-notch experience, consumers crave convenience. It’s an Amazon world, after all, one where we can get what we want where and when we want it. That most certainly applies to restaurant quality food, which explains the solid growth of off-premises consumption in recent years.

Rooftop Dining

The appeal of ascending to the top of a tall structure with panoramic views of an urban space has always been stirring. Here's how establishments across the country are cashing in on rooftop dining.

Reader’s Choices: Michael Lawless and Keiko Matsumoto

Designers Michael Lawless and Keiko Matsumoto highlight some of their favorite restaurant design trends right now.

Design Market: St. Louis

From a Space-Age-meets-punk-rock burger joint to a veg-forward eatery with an on-site garden, anything goes in The Lou.

MGM Grand Opens International Smoke Las Vegas

With family customs and global cooking techniques at its foundation, International Smoke celebrates culture and tradition with creative smoke-infused and wood-fired dishes.

Q&A with Terry Eaton, Eaton Fine Art

Furnishings and finishes set the stage, but it’s often the art pieces displayed that really bring restaurant interiors to life and create brand differentiation.

Luxury Hotel Updates Dining Options with Fresh Designs

California’s Four Seasons Westlake Village hotel recently upgraded three of its foodservice operations. The spaces were all designed by EDG design and are owned by billionaire businessman David Murdock.

Products in Play: Furnishing Ghost Light Restaurant and Lounge, Cleveland

Four Must-See Beautiful, On-Trend Nashville Restaurants

Home to country music and a thriving foodie scene, Nashville has a crop of fun, trendy, beautiful restaurants to check out on your next visit. 

New Seattle Restaurant Seeks to Create Connections

Located just steps from Pike Place Market in Seattle, Wash., Conversation is the new signature restaurant at the Thompson Seattle hotel and features a design that strives to create moments of connection.

It’s La Belle Époque at Sadelle’s New Outpost

Sadelle’s, a powerhouse in New York City’s brunch scene — often touted as having the Big Apple’s best bagel — opened a new location in Las Vegas at the Bellagio hotel.

Fisk & Co.: Inspired by the Mussel

Located in Kimpton Hotel Monaco Chicago, Fisk & Co. is a mussels-and-beer concept that combines a unique spin on nautical design with industrial elements inspired by a hat factory that occupied the space in the 1920s.

Champagne Bar Opens in Luxury Dallas Hotel

Hotel bars and restaurants want to draw in guests but increasingly work to tempt locals as well.

Vintage Chandeliers and 19th-Century Charm at Carter's in Nashville

Taking cues from its past, Union Station Hotel Nashville underwent a recent major renovation that transformed accommodations and included a new bar and restaurant concept, Carter’s, that blurs the lines between the restaurant and the lobby.

Ultra-Luxe Chinese Fine Dining Concept Debuts in The Bahamas

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.

Victor Restaurant Brings American Brasserie to Toronto Hotel

Victor Restaurant, nestled inside Toronto’s Le Germain Hotel, reopened after an extensive renovation. 

Hotel Restaurants Shine

Forget the tepid stereotypes; they’ve become lively local hot spots.

Eero’s Reflects St. Louis Culture On and Off the Menu

The trend of bringing local flavors to airport restaurants and creating destination restaurants at hotels converged at the Renaissance St. Louis Airport Hotel in July with the opening of Eero’s.

Ping Pang Pong Unveils Remodeling and Expansion

Ping Pang Pong, a Chinese restaurant inside the Gold Coast Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, unveiled a redesigned and expanded space.

Dunkin’ Donuts Opens First Hard Rock Hotel Location

Dunkin' Donuts opened a location inside the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas. This new restaurant marks the first Dunkin' Donuts to open inside a Hard Rock Hotel & Casino but is the brand’s 27th restaurant to open in Nevada.

Hershey Lodge Debuts New Concept

The 665-room Hershey Lodge is celebrating 50 years in 2017. And Lebbie Lebkicher’s, Hershey Lodge’s main lobby restaurant, is undergoing a concept overhaul. It will reopen in mid-May as contemporary American restaurant Fire & Grain.

Design Insights: Milwaukee’s Playful Rooftop Bar

Located in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward, The Outsider, which opened in June, is a 164-seat rooftop bar and lounge with open-air seating located on the ninth floor of The Kimpton Journeymanhotel.

Crafted Americana at The Ridge

A destination in the Midwest for golf vacations, weddings and more, The Ridge Hotel in Lake Geneva, Wis., revamped its dining spaces to go along with a new lobby, reception area, coffee bar and other upgrades as part of a $4.5 million renovation.

Cannon + Belle Brings Modern Twist to Texas Staples

Hilton Austin opened Cannon + Belle as part of a $23 million transformation initiative that included a full renovation of the hotel’s lobby, public areas and meeting spaces.

Acclaimed Chef Roy Yamaguchi Opens New Restaurant

James Beard Award-Winning, Hawaiian-fusion Chef Roy Yamaguchi has opened HUMBLE MARKET KITCHIN at the Marriott’s Wailea Beach Resortin Maui following a $100 million renovation and re-imagination.

Sea Level Restaurant Opens in California

Michael Zislis, owner of The Zislis Group, a restaurant and hospitality group, opened Sea Level Restaurant & Lounge in the new Shade Hotel Redondo Beach in Redondo Beach, Calif.

NRA Partners with AHLA for Education

The National Restaurant Association (NRA) has partnered with the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) to take joint ownership of the American Hotel & Lodging Association Educational Institute (AHLEI). Currently owned by AHLA, AHLEI is recognized as the training and certifying body for the hospitality industry.

Addison Hospitality Group to Open Restaurant and Lounge in NYC

Restaurateur Ric Addison of the Dream Hotel brand has announced the opening of two new Midtown Manhattan venues that will join the Addison Hospitality Group (AHG) portfolio. Magnolia Restaurant and Lovage Rooftop & Indoor Lounge, located at 350 West 40th Street, will open on December 5.

Development + Design Pros on the Go

Hiring and promotional news from across the restaurant development and design community includes new hires at Bombshells Restaurant & Bar, Smashburger and more.

Kimpton Launches Latest Restaurant in Alexandria, Va.

Ashlar Restaurant and Bar has opened at the renovated Kimpton Morrison House in Alexandria, Va. Designed by Los Angeles-based design studio DH Design, the neighborhood retreat gets its name from the “perfect ashlar”, a stone that represents an upstanding Freemason, a member of one of the oldest fraternal organizations in the world with deep roots in Alexandria.