Creative Office of
JOSHUA GAJOWNIK
The two-story facade features clean white brick, an impressive scalloped awning with embroidered logo, and a four-color wave-shaped neon sign announcing the restaurant's calling.
The welcome area features large plaster pulled walls evoking a stormy sea painting of which chef Kelly has many.
Brittain Peck was commissioned to illustrate the storefront of this epic building for match books which also serve as business cards.
Inside original checkerboard floors meet brass table tops, driftwood lamps, navy banquettes, and slicker-yellow bar stools.
Chef Kelly's affinity for vintage oyster cans precipitated the remake of one of his favorites from the Virginia Canning Co. With respect, I redrew the can and extracted the oyster illustration to use as our own ‘obligatory oyster bar oyster illustration’ because how would you know you were at an oyster bar if there weren’t an oyster illustration to remind you of what oysters look like?
Upstairs hand-painted signage on the top stair riser signals an entrance into the Captain's Quarters where the interior departs from bright white, black, and navy to a more cozy feel, embracing the existing stucco and wood paneling.
