CHICKENPIE.No Entry — The Menu
An ingredient-led menu magazine for No Entry Cocktail Club, pairing cream cocktail studies with vivid red food pages and removable papers for everyday service.
- Client
- No Entry Cocktail Club
- Year
- 2026
- Discipline
- Editorial & menu design
- Services
- Editorial design / Menu design / Art direction / AI-assisted imagery / Print artwork preparation
The brief
The menu needed to do two jobs: help someone choose a drink, and give them a reason to keep turning the pages. The challenge was to bring the cocktails, kitchen and practical lists into one publication, without making every page feel like a price list.
The approach
I designed the menu around ingredients, with quick-reference overviews followed by individual cocktail and food features. Warm cream pages give the drinks and their ingredients space; the kitchen section shifts to red, with full plated servings and white headlines. A shared typographic structure holds the sections together. Five removable A5 sheets separate the day-to-day service material from the main book.
The result
- A complete menu-magazine layout, with quick menus, individual features and supporting drinks lists.
- A consistent editorial system across cocktail studies, food pages and practical reference sections.
- Five removable A5 sheets: Wine & Beer, Food List, Specials, This Week’s Events and Guest Drinks.
- Print artwork exports in both bleed/crop-mark and finished-size versions.
A closer look
6 images / Click to enlargeBehind the work
Start with what’s in the glass
No Entry’s food-inspired cocktails gave the publication its organising idea. Ingredients sit alongside the drinks, making the connection between a familiar flavour and an unfamiliar cocktail visible. Short flavour notes and clear menu information support the images, rather than competing with them.
The quick menus offer a route for someone ready to order. The individual features give a more curious reader room to explore. Both belong in the same book.
Change the pace at the kitchen
The food chapter moves from cream to red. Full plated servings, hard shadows and white headlines give it a different energy, while the recurring type roles, rules and folios keep it part of the same publication.
Leave room for change
The five A5 papers carry wine and beer, a compact food list, specials, weekly events and guest drinks. The event and guest-drink sheets remain reusable templates, rather than committing the main publication to a particular date or programme.
Making the images
The menu combines supplied reference material with AI-assisted image production and editorial layout. The visual work was developed around the client’s dishes and drinks; item names, descriptions and prices were handled separately from image generation.
The physical mockups are AI-generated illustrations of the design in a bar setting, not photographs of No Entry’s venue or of a printed edition.
No Entry’s existing identity was supplied. Chickenpie’s role was editorial and menu design.
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