In accordance with Mansion Bar & Parlour's location in an old gentleman's club, Product Agency researched design elements that would have been true to the time period of the building's origins. As a result of their findings, the bar's menu's took on the form of newspapers, which arrive in the form of a morning edition for breakfast, a daily edition for afternoon meals—including alcoholic beverages—and an evening edition for drinks and bar food.

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Sailors Pub in Sao Palo, Brazil, is themed around classic sailing and sailor tattoo motifs, complete with vintage tattoo style portraits of sailors on the walls. Thiago Martins updated this classic theme to reflect modern trends in hip design, and extended the identity system and menus by working traditional sailing icons—knots, anchors, and harpoons—into the logo and design elements.

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The illustrations, branding and menus Estudio Yeyé created for Come Rico are fresh, fun, and inviting. They clearly put a lot of time and attention to detail into the design of these menus. It shows in the quality of execution in the 1960s style illustrations that appear throughout the menus.

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Fresh ingredients and farm-grown flavors translate into modern typography and witty headlines in the menus for Fred's Market. This youthful and raw offshoot of Fred's Southern Kitchen provides their own brand of southern comfort through a healthy amount of sass balanced with delicious sounding "farm-to-plate freshness."

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According to Piotr Kita, a magiel was a social gathering place where people would meet to iron their laundry and talk. Since coffee shops are also traditionally places where people meet and share ideas, the name seems like a natural evocation. Kita completes the connection by updating a retro style and conjuring a color palette, which remind us that coffee has been at the center of great conversations for a long time and it is not going anywhere any time soon.

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Malfatti is an Italian concept, which directly translated into English means "poorly made." However, in Italy malfatti is symbolic of an ideal simplicity found in straightforward dishes made from the higheset quality ingredients—remniscent of wabi-sabi in Japanese. Sotto, and the design that supports the restaurant's brand, seak to embody this concept, which is evident in the menu's purposefully rough and raw typography and handdrawn lines. BLDG's roughed-up take on classic Italian futurism brings the malfatti ideal into the world of communication design.

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For this boutique, antique-inspired coffee house in southwest Sydney, desgner Korolos Ibrahim wanted the menu and identity to represent the cafe's pride in quality and sense of tradition. Inspiration from the 1800s, vintage typography, and a hint of steampunk comes out in design decisions from the chosen type palette all the way to the lightbulbs in fixtures hanging from the ceiling.

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The goal with the redesign of Mr. Brown's menus was to reach beyond the traditional concept of a menu and turn these information delivery devices into a part of the restaurant's decoration. So, Jerome and Zimmerman attached the pages to boards with letters on the reverse side spelling out the name. These boards can be hung by pegs on the wall in a nifty storage and decoration solution.

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There is a well worn, middle-American industrial feel that starts with the name (Second Home) and permeates all aspects of this restaurant. Everything about it—from the menu designed using Mark Simonson's mid-twentieth century vernacular typeface (Refrigerator), to menu items like Mile High Meatloaf or Chicken and Waffles, to the interior photos—rests in the balance between modern sophistication and hospitable coziness. The website even claims the restaurant is, "Like a big hug at the end of a long day." Second Home looks like a great place to settle in for some modern American classics, a micro-brewed beer and some great conversation.

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Il Coyote serves Italian food blended with touches of northern Mexico cuisine, which are expressed with chili peppers and mesquite flavors. Estudio Yeyé captured these flavors visually by fuzing the retro, rustic characteristics of each culture's vernacular, expressed in a blend of classic Italian serifs with colloquial North American sign lettering, rough textures, and hand-stamped imagery straight out of the Chihuahua Desert's visual vocabulary.

Designed to feel international, function easily, and let the content do the talking, these menus and their updated International Style provide an escape from overwhelming modern living. The overall simplicity and clear communication allows fast-paced New Yorkers a healthy escape from formality and complication.

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Murray's Cheese Bar is the latest venture from Greenwich Village's Murray's Cheese, and in-house designer Rebecca Hoagland has created this layered list of lactose in keeping with their established, authentic, retro deli style. The stitched binding at the top is remniscent of classic cheese packaging, while the combination of different papers adds variety in texture, and the wax stamp in the upper left corner is a touch of old fashioned class.

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Steve Simpson's illustrations on the menu for Dublin's Fade Street Social encapsulate the unique Irish sense of humor, the celebration of Irish food and character, and the high standards at affordable prices in a relaxed setting behind gastro bar's concept. Every detail exudes a combination of of fun creativity with great quality resulting in undeniable charm.

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