EPICUREAN ARCHITECTURE

WALKING PAST AND SOMETIMES INSIDE RESTAURANTS AROUND THE WORLD

I'm starting out the New Year by introducing a new way of presenting some posts to our blog. Starting back in last year, a year I'd like to forget, we also began featuring our brand on Instagram, a format propelled more through the visual than the narrative. That, along with my iPhone becoming my camera of choice, will lead me to constructing, every so often, a post that will be more picture focused than story. Each of these posts will be thematic and since the vehicle will be our photography the Gallery tag will not appear. The by-line is Shave/Melahn, photographers, represented by Pleasant Living, LLC. We're hoping you don't think this is too pretentious but I'm sure you'll let us know. So to start out 2017 I went through my stored pictures and pulled out everything I liked tied to restaurant architecture mostly form the outside but some from within. Other than identifying locale that's about all you're going to hear from us. Here goes! Let us know what you think

The Extra Virgin at night

Doormen outside the St. Regis helping guests and diners out of their cars, cabs and limos

Trailer Park on 23rd

New York City's Russian Tea Room

The block line for ice cream at Morganstein's

A Bieber-esk car in front of Cafeteria on Seventh Avenue

The bar at the Campbell Apartment in Grand Central Terminal

A coffee shop down a Chicago alley

A restaurant in Delft, Holland

A vintage car outside in The Immigrant in the East Village

Inside Danny Meyer's pizza restaurant, Marta in the NoMad section of Manhattan

A bike outside a pub in Dublin

Stone Street Tavern, Financial District

A boar's head outside a restaurant in Orvietto, Italy

Gatsby's downtown

The outdoor café behind the Library at Bryant Parks

Prague's Fred and Ginger restaurant

An East Village café

Caffe Reggio on Macdougal Street, Greenwich Village

A neighborhood restaurant in Rome

Grove Street Village restaurant

Inside Freemans off of Bowery and hidden down Freeman Alley

Outdoor seating in Prague

Berghoff's in Chicago

Lunch or dinner in Bushwick

Babette in Barcelos, Portugal

The open kitchen at La Degustation in Prague

Little Prince on Prince Street in Soho

An Ethiopian restaurant at the end of Bleeker Street

Pershing Square Central Café under the Park Avenue underpass