SIXTEEN PLATES

Sixteen Plates is named after a birthday, so the logo is that number drawn as plates: sixteen circles piled on top of each other until they look like one shape.It stays loose.A tidy stack would have looked like a different restaurant.

The kitchen cooks Burmese, Thai, Chinese and European food, which is a lot for one name to cover.The type had to carry that.The letters are fat, round and a little cocky, and the Burmese lettering is just as round, so both languages can sit on the same bag.On the packaging the name breaks wherever the line runs out.

The color is orange, turned up as far as it goes.Cream gives the food somewhere to sit, and dark brown holds the rest down.It’s loud, and it reads from across a dark street.

Brunch and dinner are two separate menus built the same way.Orange pages, cream pages, the food cut out and placed wherever there’s room, and a different arrangement for each section.