Four local restaurants blend great food and design

Eating out is not just about food. Music and service - above all - can ambience or break a meal.

These new smart restaurants prove that the little things mean a lot in creating an atmosphere that enhances the menu and makes the dining experience unforgettable.

Friends know that if Marc Karagiolo didn't design the restaurants, he'd be a movie set designer. Hollywood's loss is Sarasota's gain, and this is evident in its new founding, Shore, a modern American dinner that floats above a retail clothing store in St. Armands Circle. Shore is a tribute to the Sarasota School of Architecture and Peak American Design in the mid-century.

The most notable feature is the seamless integration of indoor and outdoor spaces. At night, the ceiling retracts to the main dining room and the floor-to-ceiling glass walls open to the natural breezes and the feeling that guests are quietly floating over the hustle and bustle of the circle below. Table chairs in recycled rice are creations from Hans Wegner. B Harryia chairs are located in low banquets. Notice the George Nelson bowl, the bubble pendants, the stacked stone on some walls, the concrete blocks on the others, and the linear polished wood planks on the rest.

The floor is a Caragiulo version of the terrazzo - concrete with small stones and stained glass shards. The restaurant slope is topped by the Caragiulo slope on atomic metal floor lamps in the 1950s, and Caragiulo said: "I designed it with Calder phones in mind and their architecture in Italy." "They float and match chandeliers in another really old room. The two lamps in the bar are also classic and their ridiculous price. But they're so good for the place that was worth it." Obsessed with making the restaurant owner seem right, but he skilfully avoided Kitch. "I never wanted this space to be valuable. The goal is to build on the true feeling of the place.

"It evokes the architectural heritage of Sarasota and has a lot in common with some of the remaining homes on Lido Shores from this era." The name Shore comes from the retail store downstairs and the owner of that organization, Tom Leonard, is Caragiulo's partner. The menu is friendly in Florida where the majority of ingredients are sourced locally. We are waiting for fried oyster sliders, fish sandwiches, shrimp taco and lobster, fried blue crab, local snapper, burgers, organic chicken, kona tuna, clams and pasta.

"When people leave here, I want them to clearly remember the food and preparation as a unified experience they want again," said Carragiolo.

Wander through Half Half Oyster House on the main street in downtown Sarasota, and this will appear in a state of mind in New Orleans, from Oysters Painville on the list (Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, founded Sieur de Bienville New Orleans in 1718) with oysters - a crust wall in the strip . Gas lanterns are installed on brick walls, and black wrought iron is used to define different seating areas, decorated with gilded mirrors and about twenty Belle Epoque chandeliers owned by interior designer Kurt Lucas purchased from antique stores and southern rescue yards.

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