Top 5 Unique Restaurant Menu Card Ideas

If you are a distant cafe say, near a beach, you could highlight the main dishes or the day’s special on a chalkboard to make it interesting. Chalkboard menus can be revised any time of the day, chalking out the offers, discounts and more. Freddo’s ice-cream parlor in Curitiba, Brazil, has a well-executed chalkboard menu concept.

If you’re a themed cafe, build your menu card around that. This gives a complete experience of what your restaurant is all about. A cafe in Napa, Ninebark, has leaves attached on each page of their menu.

You could design a menu that revolves around the cuisine of your restaurant. For example, the menu of, Saray, a Middle Eastern Restaurant located in Boston, showcases the traditional patterns which were prominent in the architecture there.

Use captivating illustrations in your restaurant menu card. You’d want to make sure not to load the menu with too much imagery. Just enough to increase the overall appeal of it. The Lion’s Share, a restaurant in San Diego, uses distinct illustrations on each page of the menu. It’s based on various tales that have evolved from the idiomatic expression, “The Lion’s Share”.

There’s nothing more engaging than a quirky one line at the beginning of your menu. Another way of incorporating humor in your restaurant menu card is by naming your dishes in a witty manner. But make sure that you describe what it is otherwise your humor would go in vain. The bar menu of The Royal Mail, in Singapore, has very interesting cocktail names.