"Delicious Places - New Food Culture, Restaurants and Interiors" book

Dining culture has become so much more than just about the food on the plate. In fact, it's become a unique experience that begins the moment you step over the threshold, from how the interior makes you feel to the restaurant's branding and image to how the food in front of you was sourced.

Delicious Places - New Food Culture, Restaurants and Interiors is a great new "through the keyhole" publication that nails some of these key attributes allowing diners to dive into some of the most exciting and inviting places dining places riding this new wave of food culture.

The Gestalten publication explores 60 unique restaurants, cafés and entrepreneurs from imaginative concepts range like the food start-up incubator KitchenTown in San Francisco to celebrated musician Ryuichi Sakamoto and the playlist he created for a Japanese restaurant in New York City and touches on a new global food culture with sustainability at its core, a perfect example being Tokyo’s eatrip.

Here's an insider's look at some of the eclectic places included: