Not just the food, but even restaurant menus are getting creative. A menu card is a customer’s first interaction with a restaurant’s gamut of delicacies. An imaginative and creatively designed menu card can strike a remarkable first impression on customers and reflect positively on the restaurant and its business. What’s more?

Restaurant menus can be designed in any of these ways: elegant, modern, quirky, colorful, monochromatic, simple, elegant, vintage styled or contrasting. They must be attention-grabbing, organized, convenient and easy on the eye with their display of photographs, prices along with the details of the restaurant. Here are some of our favorite restaurant menus from around the world that we gush over. See, if you can add some more to this list, or better still, get your creative gloves on and design a masterpiece yourself!

• A chalkboard art approach to the menu card
• A newspaper-inspired design for an appealing black and white menu
• A modern menu design with emphasis on strong visual appeal
• A pop-up menu book with colorful visuals and interactive elements
• A fan-opening menu with multiple layers
• A transforming menu that customers can turn into an origami art piece
• A puzzle page menu that little kids might enjoy playing with and ordering from
• A Japanese folding fan which holds all the details of a menu

Restaurant menus are part of the entire package of the business that includes the decor, cutlery, brochures, websites and billboards of the company. A certain harmony between all these elements is essential. The ambiance and atmosphere of the restaurant should be reflected in the menu. In the limited space available in a restaurant menu and the little attention span that customers provide to these pages, restaurant menus must be distinctive and try to impress the viewer at the first glance itself. It must be made memorable and must remain etched in the minds of the reader.