Moving into Shirokuro, the brand new Japanese omakase restaurant in New York Metropolis, you’d be forgiven for considering you wandered right into a sketchpad or a black-and-white storyboard. Except for an eclectic array of globe lights, some colourful ceramic dishes, and the open kitchen, all the restaurant is rendered like a 2D drawing.
“Shirokuro” interprets to “white-black.” The New York Instances shares that proprietor James Lim was impressed by an immersive, 2D restaurant he visited ten years in the past in Korea, and he envisioned considered one of his personal, now open within the East Village. To make the inside pop, he invited his good friend, actual property agent and artist Mirim Yoo, to rework the area into an all-encompassing setting.
Vibrant dishes are complemented by hand-drawn flooring patterned like wood planks and Japanese icons on the partitions like bonsai, tea pots, cherry blossoms, and ukiyo-e compositions. “Our vision was to offer something unique: a place where art and food intersect in a living, breathing sketchbook,” the restaurant says.
You may also take pleasure in Mr. Doodle’s full home makeover or Anastasia Parmson’s hand-drawn installations.
