10 Creative Menu Designs Your Guests Will Eat Up

Luxury linen company Huddleson in Los Angeles designs custom napkins that are printed with event menus. The artwork is digitally printed on white, ivory, or color napkins. Pricing starts from $5.95 each, depending on the fabric selected (cotton, linen, or linen/cotton blend) and the complexity of the print.

To kick off Mint Julep Month, which runs through May 4, Garden & Gun partnered with Maker’s Mark and Bourbon Country to host a party on April 4 at Simon & the Whale at Freehand New York where bartenders crafted cocktails inspired by the traditional julep. Leather menus were embossed with the drink choices.

For a private wedding, held at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington in March 2018, Favored by Yodit Events & Design and By Dami Studios created golden menus with cherry blossom frames to mimic the event’s theme.

In November, for Dia de los Muertos, Patrón Tequila and chef Thomas Keller hosted a dinner at Per Se in New York. Guests dined on a special tequila-paired menu, which was engraved in silver on a Dia de los Muertos skull-shaped card created by TPD Design House.

Chicago-based caterer Blue Plate is putting a unique twist on the traditional bread service for seated dinners. At each setting, the evening's menu is printed on a bread sleeve containing an individual baguette. A trio of butters—including flavors like garlic and herbs, honey pecan, and goat’s milk—is placed on the table and served family style for everyone to share.

Laser-cut paper menus by TPD Design House featured mountain motifs at luxury-wedding business summit Engage!18 Canada, which was held in June 2018 at the Fairmont Banff Springs in Banff, Alberta, Canada.
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At the Bacon & Lox Society’s Full Circle Meal event in August 2017, blue cyanotype prints were incorporated onto the napkin menus, which were created by Gifts for the Good Life.
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At Dave’s Killer Bread’s prison-theme Club Fed in Toronto, which took place in January and February, clipboard menus were attached on the tables with metal chains. The organic bread brand based in Oregon opened the pop-up with the purpose of helping ex-offenders integrate back into society.
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In November 2017, Brooklyn-based Nibble & Squeak teamed up with Wolf & Friends, an online shop that specializes in items for children with developmental needs, to organize and host a sensory-friendly pre-Thanksgiving dining event at Ai Fiori in New York. A "visual menu" allowed the kids to follow along and cross out the dishes as they arrived.
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Austin-based Delysia Chocolatier creates personalized solid chocolate menus that can serve as replacements to traditional paper ones and can be used as guest favors. Pricing starts at $19.50 each for a minimum order of 25, with a setup fee of $200.