The Restaurant Interior Trend We’re Totally On Board With

Clean and airy whitewashed spaces (usually accented with fig trees) have dominated the restaurant scene recently, from Silver Lake to the Lower East Side. Beautiful? Yes. But doesn’t it all start to feel a bit boring? This year restaurants took a welcome break from neutral hues—and I could feel the positive energy bouncing off the (literal) walls. Deep blue was one motif, showing up at Dame in Portland, OR, and NYC’s Motel Morris. Of course there was plenty of that famed Millennial Pink, from the peachy-pink banquettes at Little Octopus in Nashville to floor-to-ceiling pink psychosis at Pietro Nolita in NYC. And best of all was Nixta in St. Louis (No. 9 on our Hot 10 list), where the walls are painted seafoam green (officially PPG San Juan Spritz), bold blue (Sherwin-Williams Jay Blue) and pink (PPG Smoked Salmon—I love it for the name alone). See below for even more examples.