Cutting-edge architecture and design meets mouthwatering cuisine in Restaurants by Design. Featuring exciting spaces from around the world, this fascinating guide explores the collaborate efforts between world-renowned chefs and some of today's most visionary architects and interior designers. This book examines the particular design approach used in each eatery, from the layout and structure of the physical space to designs for the dishes, linens, lighting, and furnishings, and how they all complement and highlight the food. These restaurants emphasize custom interiors to ensure their patrons are completely immersed in their dinning experience. With full-color illustrations throughout, Restaurants by Design is a must-have for those with an appetite for both good food and good design.

An integrated approach to restaurant design, incorporating front- and back-of-the-house operations Restaurant design plays a critical role in attracting and retaining customers. At the same time, design must facilitate food preparation and service. Successful Restaurant Design shows how to incorporate your understanding of the restaurant's front- and back-of-the-house operations into a design that meets the needs of the restaurant's owners, staff, and clientele. Moreover, it shows how an understanding of the restaurant's concept, market, and menu enables you to create a design that not only facilitates a seamless operation but also enhances the dining experience. This Third Edition has been thoroughly revised and updated with coverage of all the latest technological advances in restaurant operations. Specifically, the Third Edition offers: All new case solutions of restaurant design were completed within five years prior to this edition's publication. The examples illustrate a variety of architectural, decorative, and operational solutions for many restaurant types and styles of service. All in-depth interviews with restaurant design experts are new to this edition. To gain insights into how various members of the design team think, the authors interviewed a mix of designers, architects, restaurateurs, and kitchen designers. New information on sustainable restaurant design throughout the book for both front and back of the house. New insights throughout the book about how new technologies and new generations of diners are impacting both front- and back-of-the-house design. The book closes with the authors' forecast of how restaurants will change and evolve over the next decade, with tips on how designers and architects can best accommodate those changes in their designs.

This textbook on foodservice equipment, layout and design covers what a restaurateur or foodservice manager needs to know about the planning, purchasing and maintenance of foodservice facilities. This revision reflects the latest trends in design and the newest equipment technologies.

Contemporary food goes way beyond avocado and quinoa salads. Delicious Places presents the new wave of cafés, restaurants and entrepreneurs that are writing a fresh chapter on culinary culture.Food culture has come a long way. New restaurants, bars and cafés are born out of fresh ideas that, with a clever twist, lead to an ­unprecedented culinary experience that ­balances location and concept--and ultimately influences a new world of food.Delicious Places collects the examples that execute the business idea in the best possible way. Single-dish restaurants, traditional ­pasticcerias, fisherman cooperatives with the freshest produce or high-end restaurants in the mountains. They offer a unique experience that starts the moment you set foot in the door and spans from the interiors to the branding, and behind the scenes to the supply chains and sustainable procedures. Take a seat at the table and feast your senses one by one--the mind will follow.

This text shows the reader how to plan and develop a restaurant or foodservice space. Topics covered include concept design, equipment identification and procurement, design principles, space allocation, electricity and energy management, environmental concerns, safety and sanitation, and considerations for purchasing small equipment, tableware, and table linens. This book is comprehensive in nature and focuses on the whole facility—with more attention to the equipment—rather than emphasizing either front of the house or back of the house.

Good food could never be perfect without a savory design. A successful visual design is already a great appetizer before you step in a dinning place. Graphic designers could be legitimately acclaimed as chefs that make inedible delicacy.

A complete rundown on how successful restaurateurs, teaming up with architects and designers, ply their craft. Martin E. Dorf presents 18 in-depth case studies of such successful restaurants as Scoozi, Union Square Cafe, and Chinois, along with personal interviews with their owners, chefs, architects, designers, kitchen planners, and consultants. 168 illustrations.

The art of fine dining has evolved over the years. Restaurants that were once hailed for their grandiose banquets have taken a back seat to some of their smaller cousins. Boutique Restaurants is a collection of some of the most creative restaurant designs in the world, from edgy and modern to traditional and laid back. Including work from some of the industry's most exciting architects and designers, this book explores store fronts, wall décor, place settings, lighting, and furniture. With beautiful full-color photographs throughout, this compilation gives examples from all over the artistic spectrum of how to create or update a boutique restaurant to make it stand out from the rest. The use of extraordinary designers, architects, artisans and chefs have created the thirty-four boutique restaurants in this book that are shaping the evolution of the food industry as we know it, by limiting their seating, and raising the bar.

Excellent ideas to help create a corporate identity for hotels and restaurants.

"Interior designers and architects are creating unforgettable spaces and setting stunning new standards for restaurants, bars, and cafes. People love to go out and indulge their senses by trying new restaurants. Pastel colors, hyper-realistic murals, indoor jungles, curved and luxurious couches, golden accents, and soft light. Designers, architects, and restaurateurs transform a night out at a restaurant into a unique and memorable experience. An array of interiors creatively correspond with each particular menu's offerings; Appetizer visits fashionable bars, tasteful eateries, cozy cafes, mobile food trucks and everything in between. Exquisite room concepts are realized with unusual ideas and materials, and experts showcase how to create dream rooms in dining realms. Within Appetizer awaits a range of inspiration for all who wish to satisfy their visual hunger."--