As a follow-up to the Route 66-themed menu that ran through the Fall 2015 season, The Silk Road offered a bookend to the concept of travel, focusing on the historic trade routes that connected Asia and Europe and the vast areas in-between. Encompassing such a wide array of cultures and visual identities, and in the absence of a specific A to B geographical route, the menu endeavors to create an overall sense of the exotic (relative to a Mid-Century domestic perspective) through vibrant colors and illustrations based on iconic pattern design from some of the world's essential birthplaces of art and culture. In a nod to the liquid interpretations of the subject matter, each illustration subtly incorporates a piece of barware.