Graphic Restaurant Menus to Print

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elle A Designs also works on and off the internet. Does your company need promotional materials, brochures, business cards, and packaging ideas? Restaurant menus? It's one stop shopping at elle A Designs.
In tandam with your site design, we are able to put a whole package of print ready promotional products together for you, in a print ready state, with recommendations on pricing and printing companies to use.
Featured are three restaurant menus, print ready, demonstrating again, the diversity of our designer. The finished print size is 11 inches by 14, the menu favoured by most eat-in restaurants.

Click image for an enlargementMexican Menu Left Side   On this, the left side of the menu, is the logo that elle designed for Fernando's Hideaway, a cute little cactus made from halipino peppers, basking in the sun with his sombrero. This logo can be adapted to any of Fernando's promotional products and signage. We suggested creating blackboards with the logo, to announce activities and menu specials. Click on the image to see the logo, located at top right, next to the fold, which in the industry is called the gutter area.

Click image for an enlargementMexican Menu Right Side    We have scaled this Mexican and the other menus down, so that we can display them over the internet. These images will give you an idea of the quality that a menu or any other promotional materials, by elle A Designs will have. The theme of your restaurant and decor are carefully considered so that our menu rendering will coordinate. The Mexican menu uses a wonderful tomatoe red background colour, guaranteed to whet the appetite. It uses fun fonts and embellishments, that relate to the Mexican theme. Altogether a fantastic menu.

Click image for an enlargementGolden Taps Wine Bar and Pub Menu Left Side    This restaurant didn't need signage, but they did need someone to incorporate the signage into a new menu. Golden Taps had been expanding their repertoire of beers and wines as well, and felt that it was time. The left side of the menu shows the Golden Taps signage, while the right side of the menu (below) shows a stained glass panel that is repeated throughout the restaurant. The design challenge here was to incorporate these elements into the menu, plus all the wines and beers, plus! all the fine dishes that the Taps' chef had created to set off the flavours of the wines and beers. This, elle's solution, is much more dramatic than the original menu which featured street side photographs of these elements.

Click image for an enlargementGolden Taps Wine Bar and Pub Menu Right Side    The old Golden Taps menu, did not inspire the owner to list the very expensive wines that he carried. Sale of these wines became an after thought by the wait staff. Now, boldly presented, the more expensive wines are selling well. And the wonderful stained glass, now incorporated, is a conversation piece, with owner and wait staff fielding questions proudly. Needless to say, the stained glass orders have picked up, for the owner's brother. Amazing what a designer can do for your net worth.

Click image for an enlargementThe American Eatery Menu Left Side    One of elle's friends in New York City, challenged elle with an idea to design a concept for the American Eatery which, could inspire a restaurant chain, within North America and outside of the U.S.A. This restaurant would offer gourmet food cooked with American grown meats, fish, produce, and recipes. elle got stuck on the concept of the Hard Rock Cafe and came up with this concept. According to elle, "Why export American food, when America's greatest export product is television?!" Thus we have the American Eatery menu, which promises you the food of the stars. And the dishes sound delicious. If you haven't clicked yet, we invite you to check out the left side of the menu.

Click image for an enlargementThe American Eatery Menu Right Side    And of course, the menu is star studded. But elle, didn't go tacky, assigning bad names to the dishes based on actors names, no. That's not the point. These are well known Americans, stars, who would eat and enjoy a repast at the American eatery. No schlock here. Represented are re-run stars, that are seen world wide and that's the point. The global village really only knows America through television re-runs. That's a place to start. According to elle, "Let's present America the way the world knows it, then we can educate and broaden that concept. If we concentrate on stars, which are stereotypical, the global village, will soon see that Americans are not really that."