It is an optical illusion in which you can eat.
With New York Restaurants More and more high technologyAn entrepreneurial restaurant in Omakase is returning to the drawing table, allowing customers “dinner in 2D”.
Up is down and black is white in ShirokuroThe first “two -dimensional” restaurant of full service of the Great Apple in East Village, which evokes eating within an emerging graphic novel.
And they don’t need technology to achieve it. The interior of the name of the restaurant means “Black and White” in Japanese, it is meticulously illustrated by hand with several patterns, including grilled floritures on the floor, stylized wall portraits and representations of shelf, seat and table drawn to look.
On the contrary, the royal seats and tables are white with black moldings, which makes it difficult to know where the 2D and 3D worlds collide: if customers are not careful, they will enter a chair.
The designers also placed special made paper flowers inside real vases to improve the effect.
“[Shirokuro is] Where it can be immersed in art, “said co -owner James Lim, 49, to the post.
Art director Mirim Yoo, a veteran of the luxury makeup industry, which according to the reports, played three months to attract the space to existence, as demonstrated in existence, as the space is demonstrated, as demonstrated in Multiple videos In Shirokuro’s Tiktok account.
Yoo, what correct part -time real estate with compass, said he wanted to make customers feel as if “fall into a sketchbook.”
Lim opened Shirokuro in March with co -founder Alex Kim, both originally inspired by a trip to Asia.
“When I was 10 years ago in Korea, it was super popular,” said the restorer, who also directed the Korean restaurant and the NOFL Hall at the New York Koreatown.. “I saw that first concept and I thought” we need something like that in New York City. “
It is said that the madness 2D originated in Seoul in 2017 in the now eliminated Café Yeonnam-Dong 239-20-Wereuupon the Tok Asia phenomenon by assault.
Then, as every cultural fashion of the east end of Pokémon to K-Pop, this “incomplete” trend moved west with restaurants that opened in Paris, Dallas, Chicago and innumerable other cities, each with different reasons.
“Asia’s trends take time to get here,” Lim said.
Or by the course, it took months to open since everything is broom by hand, but lim said they opted for Illustrations personalized by a “personal touch.”
“We did it because it was like a wallpaper,” he said. “We wanted to have the artist’s hands in all aspects of the restaurant, from the walls to the floors to the tables and chairs. In that way it is not produced in mass.”
Another way in which Shirokuro hopes to stand out? The food, which is far from the monochrome.
Shirokuro sacrifices a kaleidoscopic matrix of sushi, which, when contrasts with the Spartan environment, makes 2D diners feel Dorothy turning the sepia tone to the technicolor in the “Wizard of Oz”.
Together with Nigiri’s standard classics such as Amberjack and fatty tuna“ Offers include remixes such as chopped tuna covered with caviar and chawanmushi (Japanese egg custard) and sea urchin that melts in the mouth like marine food for babies.
The menu and prices have been completed, but at this time, diners can choose between a 10 -plates omakase meal for $ 50 or a Option of 16 dishes currently at $ 80.
Letter options, meanwhile, include a solid three -roll offer for $ 25.
The hope of Lim is that the memory of the flavor persists long after the novelty of the environment disappears.
Shirokuro, open from 12 pm to 3:30 pm and 5 pm to 10 pm seven days a week. 103 2nd Ave, East Village; Shirokuronyc.com
