No, this is not an optical illusion or that NYC now has the first 2nd restaurant

It is an optical illusion in which you can eat.

With NYC restaurants increasingly going to high tech, a Omakase entrepreneur restaurant is returning back to the drawing board-allowing customers to “dinner in 2D”.

UP is down and black is white in Shirokuro, the first Big Apple Restaurant “Two-dimensional” in East Village, which evokes eating inside a graphic pop-up novel.

And they don’t need technology to achieve it. The interior of the restaurant-its name means “€ œblack and Whiteâ in Japanese-is handwritten by hand with various models, including the floral-like blooms on the floor, stylized wall and shelf portraits, seats and tables drawn to look 3D.

In contrast, the current places and tables are white with black ornamentation, making it difficult to show where the 2D and 3D worlds collide – if customers are not careful, they will walk in a chair.

Designers even placed paper flowers specially created within real vases to improve the effect.

“[Shirokuro is] Where you are able to immerse yourself in art, ”said co -owner James Lim, 49, for The Post.

This illusion was made possible by art director Mirim Yoo, a veteran of the luxury composition industry who is reported to have taken three months to attract the space in existence, as shown in numerous videos in Shirokuro’s Tiktok account.

Yoo, who mediates part -time real estate with Compass, said she wanted to make customers feel “fell into a sketch”.

Lim opened Shirokuro in March with co -founder Alex Kim, both initially inspired by a trip to Asia.

“When I was in Korea 10 years ago, it was super popular,” said the restaurant, who also poisoned the Korean and Lounge Noflex restaurant in Koreatown,. “I saw that first concept and I was like” We need something like that in New York City. “

The 2D mania is said to have originated in Seoul in 2017 at Cafã © Yeonnam-Dong 239-20-For this, the phenomenon took Asia from the storm.

Then, like any cultural fad of the Far East from Pokã © Mon to K-Pop, this “sketch” trend moved west to restaurants opened in Paris, Dallas, Chicago and other innumerable cities, each with different motifs.

“Trends from Asia take a while to get here,” Lim said.

Of course, it took months to open as everything is handwritten, but Lim said they chose custom illustrations for a “personal touch”.

“We didn’t want it to be like a letter -Muri,” he said. “We wanted to have the artist’s hands in every aspect of the restaurant, from the walls to the floor to the tables and chairs. It is not mass produced.

Another way Shirokuro hopes to emerge? Food, which is far from a monochrome.

Shirokuro offers a kaleidoscopic group of sushi, who, when contrary to the Spartan suburbs, makes 2D dinners feel like Dorothy leaving the Tony of Technician to Technician in œWizard of oz.â €

Along with standard Nigiri classics like Amberjack and Tuna Fatty, Offers include remodeling as minced tone headed by caviar and chawanmushi (Japanese egg holder) and the sea urchin that melts in your mouth as children’s naval.

The menu and prices have not been completed, but now, dinners can choose between a 10-courses for $ 50 or a 16-current option currently listed at $ 80.

La Carte options, meanwhile, include a strong three -scroll arrangement for $ 25.

Limâ’s hope is that the scent memory remains long after the innovation of the environment is tired.

Shirokuro, opened 12 in the afternoon until 3:30 in the afternoon and 5 in the afternoon to 10 afternoon seven days a week. 103 Ave 2, East Village; shirokuronyc.com