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![](http://www.urbanjunkies.com/lon/img-gen/132x1.gif) | ![](http://www.urbanjunkies.com/lon/img-gen/1x1.gif) | © Michael Haddad's menu design for narcbar at The Standard, East Village, NYC | ![](http://www.urbanjunkies.com/lon/img-gen/1x1.gif) | Menus Get Playful | ![](http://www.urbanjunkies.com/lon/img-gen/1x1.gif) | From surrealism to gold-leaf | ![](http://www.urbanjunkies.com/lon/img-gen/1x1.gif) | Look to lapel pins, matchboxes and pizza takeout. It’s all in the detail.
Restaurants are having fun with their branding, setting the scene with backstories and in-jokes. John Broadley’s wistful black and white illustrations have long made Quo Vadis’ menu one of the most recognisable in Soho – but it’s not just happening in London. We love Mike Paré’s distinctive hand drawing for James Murphy’s Brooklyn bar The Four Horsemen – it’s based on Picasso’s Don Quixote and you’ll find it stamped on lapel pins and stickers. Over in the East Village, the new narcbar for The Standard chose Michael Haddad’s push-pin inspired, psychedelic, surreal landscapes for their menu covers and matchbooks. And back in London, Jean Jullien’s ‘love of food’ illustrations add even more joie de vivre to Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s eclectic menu at The Connaught. It’s the first time the hotel’s food is available to takeaway (count us in for truffle and fontina pizza), and the gold leaf-emblazoned pizza boxes are a stroke of genius.
When everything is an opportunity to snap and share, why not make it gold-leafed too?
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The Weekend | ![](http://www.urbanjunkies.com/lon/img-gen/1x1.gif) | | Looking for plans for the weekend? We’ve got you sorted. Start things off with a visit to James Cochran’s new restaurant N1, spend Saturday dancing with Guy Gerber at the Roundhouse, and a chilled Sunday taking in the work of Cristobal Balenciaga at the V&A.
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| ![](http://www.urbanjunkies.com/lon/img-gen/1x1.gif) | What’s your favourite bar in London? It’s hard to pick one – but for a long time it was Sager + Wilde on Hackney Road.
What do you order? I’m a huge fan of putting myself in the venue’s hands – I say what I’m in the mood for and let the team pick.
Favourite international bar? Attaboy in NYC, Bar High Five in Tokyo and Big Poppa’s Sydney – but Bramble in Edinburgh is number one.
Where do you go for a night out? I tend to stick east – there’s always an endless list of new spots.
Hangover cure? I gravitate to a bacon and tattie scone roll, two cups of tea (builder’s and then a real tea) and a Corpse Reviver No.2 if needed.
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