Best 3 Food-themed Designs

This boutique-cum-café is too sweet to miss: Rows of black-and-white confectionery boxes line the wall under a ceiling oozing with faux chocolate. And with tables referencing giant slabs of the stuff, even the furniture looks melt-in-your-mouth. 

Chocolate Research Facility Two locations, Singapore, chocolateresearchfacility.com

Nearly 2,000 wooden rolling pins from a local Brooklyn supplier were used to clad the exterior of this former car repair garage, transforming the tired facade into an innovative rain screen for the new bagel bakery inside.

Long Island City Bagel Shop, 47-11 11th St., Queens, oda-architecture.com

The milkmaid meets Manhattan at Ronnybrook Milk Bar, where vintage wooden milk crates from the bar’s upstate farm line the walls. Sipping an apple pie à la mode ice cream shake at the circular counter is an udder delight.  

Ronnybrook Milk Bar, 75 9th Ave., Chelsea Market, New York, 212-741-6455, ronnybrookmilkbar.com

Art Imitates Breakfast

This artist uses everything but the kitchen sink.

Toronto artist David Trautrimas imagines household objects (think coffee pots and waffle irons) as modern buildings. His new work, using outdated appliances to depict fictional Cold War military bases, will be exhibited in February 2010 at Johansson Projects in Oakland, California, and in May at Toronto’s LE Gallery.

le-gallery.ca, johanssonprojects.com, trautrimas.ca

Photos by Fran Roberts (Ronnybrook Milk bar) & Dave Trautrimas (Coffee Pot Tower)