Drinks Menu

I was going to do typefaces at my next post but i just did this and while its still fresh in the memory, ill do it now.

The drinks menu was an unusual one as i didnt want to take anything away from the sushi menu i created therefor this cant be a weird shape, i was thinking about just updating the current YO! Sushi drinks menu which is this..

This isnt much work on this. Couple of rounded rectangles, a visual of a cat with a speech bubble, a logo and URL, title with images and on "Fizz" theres bubbles. I dont like this its boring, plain however it does read well but i want mine to look amazing as this is Amsterdam and it needs more creativity.

This is my first try at a drinks menu, theres no text but it will be the same fonts used in the menu.

This is what was in my head... Not very good at all but i thought it would look good, i tried to put the waterfall in but it doesnt looks right, i then developed it more and got this..

Using the bottle as the title was an experiment and it didnt pay off, it doesnt look good, i put the city which is on the mural behind the boxes but its too hard to see and it will ruin it if it stays like that.

What am i doing its the same layout and still nothing better than the original...

Ok new idea!
Going with this a new world theme mixed with japanese and amsterdams nature side i decided to do a menu with life, the first idea i had was instead of having rounded rectangles why not have flowers and they come up on their stem and the go into a flower. Not being the best at drawing and not having much hope in this idea i played around in illustrator and got this...

They have a japanese style to them and fit with the current style of the mural. When i did this i thought where would the text go? it could go in the flower but may be hard to read when the flowers are next to each other, the other idea is to have the boxes on top of them but that would destroy my design... ill try another way.

I decided to make the menu a 3rd of a a4 sheet therefor it stands well with the menu.
The menu now smaller gave me a new idea, the idea is having a tree on a very small island in water, the tree goes all the way up and the boxes go in the tree. Its a different world in this YO! Sushi and this idea is much more creative and art-y.

This is what i came up with, its still unfinished but i think im going to stick with this...