Chorney-Booth: Meet the local interior designers responsible for the look of Calgary’s hottest new restaurants

Calgary has a long history of celebrating beautiful design-forward restaurants. While restaurant design has definitely come a long way over the last decade or so on a global level, our city has long been home to visionaries like Sal Howell (River Cafe, Deane House) and the late Witold Twardowski (Mescalero, Divino, and many others), who have created restaurants with rooms as appetizing as the food coming out of the kitchens. More recently, new Calgary restaurants have developed a bit of a signature “look,” often spearheaded by the Concorde Entertainment Group and its regular partner in design Frank Architecture (Major Tom, Bridgette Bar, etc). Now there’s a new firm in town called Way of Normal looking to make its mark on how restaurants look and feel. Read More