Design

Walk-up kitchen, outdoor bar and new merchandise boutique put modern spin on 72-year-old Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant

These destination restaurants are designed to draw both travelers and locals

This year has brought a wave of bistros, brasseries and Franco-flavored mashups serving classic dishes in casual and high-end formats

What once was a bare wall in a soothing tone with maybe a sleek shelf of succulents is now covered in bawdy, frilly, gilded frames upon velvet wallpaper in a beguiling wood nymph design. Welcome to the new era of no-holding-back restaurant design

Wolfgang Puck’s triumphant return to West Hollywood, Chef Julian Medina’s Mexican memories come to life in Greenwich Village, an Instagrammable matcha-focused café in Chicago, Michael and Kwini Reed’s verdant greenhouse/restaurant in Anaheim and more