Just a little note to register my thoughts on the remodel of Zoe’s Pan-Asia. It’s an interesting change, and I think that everyone in the area should pop down and take a look at it. Just a note, this is a remodel, and most definitly not a redesign. The room itself has in no way changed in layout or architecture, but it does feel like a new space.

The “new” Zoe’s is done in an almost monochromatic chocolate brown. It’s dark where there was once blinding light, and there are actually decorations on the tables now. Centerpieces of green apples and tea candle trios throw a bit of light up from the tabletop, and exposed bulbs in the Edison style hang down from the ceiling. It’s nice, and it’s a style that has been popping up more and more in St Louis. In a word, this room is now demure. A vibrantly noisy room becoming hushed and intimate just by changing the paint is one of the marvels of interior decorating.

In complaints, the walls are missing a little something to break up the monotony, and the Edison installations should have been larger than life instead of just functional. Impress me. Please. Though this is hardly original design it’s nice to see someone bring the aesthetic to my neighborhood. Good job, Zoe.