Red Cow Debuts Brighter Look from MP3 Design Team
Red Cow is back open and unveiling its new interior look, a collaboration between the restaurant owners and a design team from North Loop neighbor MartinPatrick 3.
Red Cow owners Luke and Tracy Shimp were having dinner at the restaurant with MP3 owners Dana Swindler and Greg Walsh, recalled Luke, “We were just chatting and I said, ‘I know you guys do home interior design, wondering if you’d help us do a refresh here?’ And they said, ‘Yeah, let’s do it!’ There’s a lot of other restaurant designers in town, but Martin Patrick, they do beautiful designs and being in the neighborhood, I just thought it was very symbiotic and there was a perfect relationship.”
Red Cow’s interior is bright in the dining area and transitions to a darker color palette in the bar area.
“It was all about making it light. We’ve been enhancing our food for the last two years since Chef Adam Lerner came on board, and everything we talk about is California cuisine. We were thinking, how do we bring that vibrant food scene into the design element?”
“They explained to us that when they started out they were really driven by wine and pairing wine with food,” explained MP3 designer Amber O’Brien. “We exchanged that really bright red for more of that burgundy wine color mixed throughout, layering in different textures and wall colorings, lots of different layers of lighting, to get warm and inviting and cozy.”
Red Cow’s new bar look includes a “Merlot and Cabernet” color scheme, along with bar stools that “look they could be an old saddle,” according to owner Luke Shimp.
Red Cow’s new interior now includes a private dining space that can be reserved for large groups.
“The evolution of Red Cow is really represented in how it looks and feels of where we want to go and where really the guest is telling us that we have to go,” said Shimp. “When you look at all the new restaurants, just in the last five years, there’s definitely a lightness of brightness, a softness to them.”
“We were really looking to keep up with the neighborhood vibe, elevate the interior, and still have it be inviting and welcoming,” said designer Arielle Slobotski of MP3. “It was really special, just having them two blocks away, it feels like you’re designing for your friends and neighbors.”
By Mary Binkley, NLNA Volunteer