Lisa Sakai Quinley

Restaurant Menu and Takeout Menu

Atlas Kitchen is a new contemporary Chinese restaurant on the Upper West Side. Atlas Kitchen is inspired by The Classics of Mountains and Seas, a Chinese classic text existing since as early as the 4th century B.C. that explores a compilation of mythical figures and geography by Qiu Anxiong. The book plots detailed descriptions of locations in the cardinal directions of the Mountains, Regions Beyond Seas, Regions Within Seas, and Wilderness.

In order to evoke the sophistication and beauty of Atlas Kitchen’s interior and cuisine, I designed the restaurant’s menu from beginning to end–choosing the materials and dimension for the leather cover, vellum and cream interior; creating a layout that appropriately represented its ambience through choice of fonts for both English and Mandarin; as well as producing the iconography for categories of items. In addition to designing the restaurant’s menu, I created a takeout version.

Below image of the restaurant menu, takeout menu, and created icons.