Adventures in Architecture: North 6th and Berry

A fantastic blank canvas for grafitti tagging. Looks like there is cleanup already.

Posted by: guest at August 23, 2007 10:14 AM

You are aware that that is a japanese restaurant, right? It's pretty good. All the tables have natural roman shades that cut them off from the other tables, and you summon your waitress with a button. It's kind of like that Janet Jackson video from a hundred years ago.

Posted by: guest at August 23, 2007 10:15 AM

I like the restaurant entrance, an unattended, unmarked side door. You enter through a litle garden like area with pea gravel and stepping stones. Upstairs the tables are fairly close together but because of the way they are screened off, dining does feel very private. I think the restaurant did a great job with an unremarkable town house. At first I thought, what is this barn board stuff going on, but the unfortunately grafittied surface does help complete the aesthetic at a reasonable price point.

Posted by: guest at August 23, 2007 10:56 AM

In case people are wondering, the restaurant is called Zenkichi: http://www.zenkichi.com/

It's actually very good and the entrance and outside aesthetic works surprisingly well for the type of place it is.

Posted by: guest at August 23, 2007 11:00 AM

the restaurant is actually overpriced, even for williamsburg standards, and i would expect for the delicate nature of the food and the price tag, that i would actually be sitting in a self-contained, shoji-screened private room. external design is pretty cool.

Posted by: guest at August 23, 2007 11:13 AM

There is definitely a need for a transition from the wood to the concrete and should be extended further up...especially since it's a 2-floor establishment.

The food is great and I loved how private it is yet at the same time you had the feeling that there was a buzz of other parties really enjoying thier food/exerience.

Posted by: guest at August 23, 2007 11:46 AM

It looks unfinished at best, and more like a frontier prison.
Do they give lap dances with the call button?

Posted by: guest at August 23, 2007 11:48 AM

dad burn it, maw, where's the chickens? did that dang buzzard wilbur steal 'em again? i already dun tol him it ain't his'n to take. and what happened to my old tires, and mah rusty bob war? ama have a conniption fit if'n he took mah possum - dadburnALL, that icehole went an took him. NOW whar we going git sump'n teet?

Posted by: guest at August 23, 2007 11:55 AM

It is hideous of course, but it is perfectly in synch with things in Williamsburg at the moment. Hideous chic, or whatever.

Posted by: guest at August 23, 2007 12:01 PM

Just a memo.
Traditional Japanese architecture is graceful, balanced and exquisitely crafted.
This is graceless, ugly, and slapdash.

Posted by: guest at August 23, 2007 12:04 PM

12:01 - HIDEOUS CHIC! you rock.

Posted by: guest at August 23, 2007 12:22 PM