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Design Idea of the Week: Modern Art for Dessert
You still can’t have your modern art and eat it too, but at least you can make it into dessert with Modern Art Desserts by Caitlin Freeman of Blue Bottle Coffee Company.
written by: Olivia Martin04.01.13 -
Restaurant We Love: Outerlands in San Francisco
The rustic wooden interior of Outerlands is as much of a draw to the celebrated Outer Sunset eatery as its famous loaves of bread, which are baked in-house, daily.
written by: Ivane Soyombo04.29.13 -
Black Hogg in Silver Lake
While diners can certainly feast on brioche boxes, Prince Edward Island mussels, and uni toast at Black Hogg, a sweet little eatery in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, it's...
written by: Eujin Rhee04.01.13 -
The Ramen Shop in Oakland
Nestled in the foodie-friendly neighborhood of North Oakland is a far cry from the ramen that you’ve come to know throughout your college years. The brainchild of three Chez Panisse alums, The...
written by: Victoria Nguyen05.13.13 -
Pinterest Board of the Day: Restaurant Design
Have your cake and eat it (in a well-designed space), too! From a mosaic tiled Brooklyn café to a treehouse eatery in New Zealand, these eight restaurants will have you booking a reservation faster...
written by: Eujin Rhee05.08.13 -
Restaurant Design by Roman and Williams
Established in 2009, Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch of Roman and Williams has been churning out tenacious restaurant designs in The Big Apple and beyond. Strong believers that architecture and...
written by: Eujin Rhee05.24.13 -
Modern Taste
Chef Grant Achatz treats his restaurant kitchens like scientific laboratories: They are places in which to invent wildly sculptural dishes that are seldom what they seem. Though he characterizes...
written by: Sarah Rich04.20.09 -
Mobile Eateries
With street food enjoying a renaissance across the United States, it may no longer be necessary to steer clear of trailer fare. From coast to coast, top chefs are trading frenzied restaurant...
written by: Sarah Rich04.20.09 -
Yellow Treehouse Restaurant
In my endless trawling for new projects that meld food and design, I came across the Yellow Treehouse Restaurant—an architect-designed eatery near Auckland, New Zealand, perched over 30 feet...
written by: Sarah Rich05.19.09 -
Hive Design
The recent disappearance of vast numbers of worker bees from their colonies sounded an unexpectedly resonant ecological alarm. It quickly became clear—to beekeepers, scientists, and the...
written by: Sarah Rich08.02.09 -
Slow Food Nation
When Carlo Petrini spoke out against the opening of a McDonald’s restaurant in his native Rome, he couldn’t have guessed that he’d be heard around the world.
written by: Sarah Richphotos by: Aya Brackett12.02.09 -
You Art What You Eat
Even in a place attuned to two-wheeled traffic, it was a rare sight one evening last fall to witness a bicycle convoy ferrying a 650-pound steer across San Francisco. The caravan stopped in front...
written by: Sarah Rich02.17.10 -
Chelsea Jackson's S'mores Tart
On the cover of our March 2010 Recipe for Success issue, Chelsea Jackson sits at the kitchen island while her husband, Arthur, plates their dinner. What steals the shot from the Chef's Table...
written by: Miyoko Ohtakephotos by: Matthew Williams03.15.10 -
Introducing Dwell Kitchen
The kitchen is the heart of the home and starting today, we're giving these hearty rooms their own home at dwell.com. We're excited to introduce Dwell Kitchen, a new food-focused section of the...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake08.07.10 -
Farmstead Restaurant
In 2009, Ted Hall was producing his own certified-organic wine, growing olives that he turned into extra-virgin olive oil, raising cattle for grass-fed beef, and harvesting heirloom fruits and...
written by: Miyoko Ohtakephotos by: Kristen Loken08.17.10 -
Serra Residence Renovation
When residents Gino and Paetra Serra decided to renovate their 1933 Italianate foursquare-plan home in Kansas City, Missouri, to accommodate their growing family, they made sure that in addition to...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake08.26.10 -
Restaurants of Cass Calder Smith
Architecture and food are both best when experienced first-hand, so what better way is there to celebrate the restaurant designs of CCS Architecture than by joining in on an eating tour with the...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake09.17.10 -
Gusto: A Guide to Restaurant Design
Just as the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, "the essence of restaurant design cannot be found in any one element but in the unity of all ingredients working together to create a...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake10.21.10 -
Salvaged Jungle Kitchen
In the jungles of Maui, artist and builder Tom Sewell has built his own oasis. Using discarded materials from the Hawaiian island's sugar mills, he's created his own home and outbuildings as well...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake12.06.10 -
Code Natural Kitchen by Snaidero
Kitchen systems are a lot like prefab housing: they're designed to be modular but they're endlessly customizable—not that that's a bad thing. The advantage of choosing a kitchen system or a...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake12.23.10 -
Réveille Coffee Company Truck
I confess it, friends, despite growing up in a small hill town in Northern California, my four plus years of living in San Francisco have taken their toll. And now, like every other member of this...
written by: Aaron Britt01.07.11 -
Pot + Pantry
Last week I stopped into Pot + Pantry, Donna Suh Wageman's new kitchenwares shop in San Francisco's Mission District. Not only was the tiny space utterly charming, an appealing melange of the...
written by: Aaron Britt01.11.11 -
Studiomama's Outdoor Kitchen
A weekend always cries for a DIY project. For those with dreams of the warmer days that are still several months away, Nina Tolstrup—aka Studiomama—has the perfect project to keep you...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake01.21.11 -
Design Week: Public Eateries
Last week, I attended "Public Eateries: A Conversation on Designing Restaurants in the Era of Food," an event with a slightly nonsensical name (who knew we were in "the era of...
written by: Jaime Gillin02.10.11 -
Conflict Kitchen Rises Again
If you're ever in Pittsburgh, you must swing by Conflict Kitchen for lunch—as I wrote in the December/January issue (and online here) it is an artist-run take-out window in Pittsburgh,...
written by: Jaime Gillin02.15.11
