Tea rooms bring a taste of the English countryside.
Most people do not just gravitate toward theme restaurants for the food. These types of restaurants have made the atmosphere and decor so inviting that people want to spend time between their walls. Theme restaurants capitalize on the passions that people carry for certain eras or decorative motifs. If well thought out, these images can transport restaurant patrons back in time; send them to the European countryside, to visit Italian villas; or allow them to have a spot of afternoon tea, at an English manor.
English Tea Room
There is something special about sipping tea from fine cups and saucers and chatting over a lunch of cucumber sandwiches and fresh fruits. Tea rooms hearken back to lazy days spent on the English countryside. They encourage modern restaurant guests to slow down and remember what having an unhurried meal is all about. Set up an English countryside restaurant by placing, in the main room, round tables with long, ruffled table cloths; floral wingback chairs; antique tea sets; fresh flowers in vases, on the table; and large, printed flowers on the curtains. Hang antique shadow boxes or oil paintings of the countryside, on the walls. A restaurant featuring this motif would be ideally situated in an antique shop, where guests can wander, after lunch, to buy a few trinkets, before heading home.
Italian Garden
Bacchus, the god of wine, is the patron deity of this type of restaurant. Outdoor Italian gardens feature tall columns of grape leaves, reaching into the heavens. You can bring this sort of flair to your Italian restaurant, by adding features, like a Bacchus fountain, in the middle of the restaurant. Flank the fountain, with shelves full of tall wine glasses and vintage bottles of wine. Paint scenes of Tuscany on the walls. Bring in tables and chairs, with a distressed wood finish. Place white linen tablecloths and folded burgundy napkins, on the tables. Secure the napkins with napkin rings, featuring clusters of grapes. Place centerpieces---featuring wine bottles with interesting labels and colorful candles of red, gold, brown and cobalt blue---in the center of the tables. Remember to use terra cotta tiles in your floor design, as this is truly Italian, according to Decor Secrets.
Retro Theme
If you love stars like Elvis and Dean Martin and the era that is associated with them, create a retro-themed restaurant. Start this endeavor, by laying down black and white linoleum tiles on the floor. Scout out old juke boxes and chrome soda fountain chairs, at antique stores and flea markets. Hang old Coca Cola signs and neon clocks on the wall. Look for chrome napkin holders and ceramic salt and pepper shakers, from the 50’s, for the tables. Top it off, by having your female employees wear 50's-styled poodle skirts.
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