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And speaking of papering restaurant windows…
In September 2012, we wrote about the various ways restaurants choose to paper their front windows during construction and the reasons for doing so.
Over this last holiday weekend, it was the curved bank of windows at 131 Carondelet Plaza in Clayton (the former ARAKA) that caught our eye enough to investigate. In several months, 801 Chophouse, a 20-year-old Iowa-based restaurant company, will open in that space, currently a gutted, wide-open maw (view below is from front door looking into the space).
(Relish announced the closure of ARAKA and the arrival of 801 Chophouse in this article from February 2013.)
In the interim, the exterior windows have been festooned with bits and pieces of 801’s menu (below), an appeteaser for what diners can expect from Clayton’s fourth steakhouse (the others being Morton’s, Ruth’s Chris, and Brazikat).
Along with the verbiage are line drawings showing perspectives of several different bulls (above), from a series by Pablo Picasso (below), thematic drawings that are repeated in the company’s four other chophouses.
Give the folks at 801 credit for generating some creative, pre-opening interest. We already know what we want to order but have to wait until November to get it!
