Your Followers Will Be So Jealous
Written By: Marly Bergerud Most Instagrammable Restaurants in Palm Springs
We’ve all sat at brunch snapping pictures of our Insta-worthy dishes and drinks, but we rarely take a second glance at the decor around us. These eight restaurants in Greater Palm Springs are great for grabbing a bite, but they’re even better if you want to get the ‘gram. From wallpaper created by fashion designer Matthew Williamson to James Beard Award-winning digs, these restaurants are the place to go to spice up your feed.
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Dream Palm
Café Palmetto at the Riviera Palm Springs Resort
Cafe Palmetto guests will find an inviting, bright interior space with graphic palm wallpaper designed by Matthew Williamson, dotted with unique pieces of pop-art. The grassy greens and earth tones throughout generate a relaxing environment in which to enjoy a locally-inspired breakfast or lunch, either indoors or on the adjoining outdoor patio.
Café Palmetto at the Riviera Palm Springs Resort
1600 N Indian Canyon Dr
Palm Springs, CA 92262
760.327.8311
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Sleek and Concrete
Boasting modern architectural design, Workshop Kitchen + Bar, with its sleek, industrial interior, was retrofitted from a building constructed in 1926, which originally served as an art gallery before becoming Palm Springs’ first theater. Wood, concrete and blackened steel provide a contemporary edge, with cathedral-like, modern light fixtures over the bar and its main seating area, earning this spot the 2015 James Beard Award for best restaurant design.
Workshop Kitchen + Bar
800 N Palm Canyon Dr
Palm Springs, CA 92262
760.459.3451
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Style On a Bun
Tristan Gittens and his wife Candice Held opened Frankinbun, where classic hot dogs and contemporary sausages (including a vegan option) are served simply on freshly-baked buns or wrapped in waffles on sticks. The space is small, charming, and well known for its custom chinoiserie wallpaper, designed by Held, featuring their Frankinbun mascot, a hot dog in a bun. The design has become so popular that she’s created shirts to match.
Frankinbun
540 S Indian Canyon Dr
Palm Springs, CA 92264
760.318.4841
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Let’s Clink to Pink
The Pink Cabana at The Sands Hotel and Spa
Desert rose gives a fresh look to The Pink Cabana which is skillfully carried out in their booth cushions and napkins, and further set off by green leaf-patterned wallpaper, a vintage green and white floor tile and vintage green ceramic tile across the front of the long bar. The short-back bar stools are trimmed in brass as are the bar shelves which reflect against the bar-height-to-ceiling mirror, all creating an enjoyable retro ambiance reminiscent of a Palm Springs midcentury property.
The Pink Cabana at The Sands Hotel and Spa
44-985 Province Way
Indian Wells, CA 92210
760.321.3771
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Pretty in Purple
The Purple Palm at Colony Palms Hotel
The interior of The Purple Palm has recently been revamped and provides history-rich, striking Spanish-Moroccan décor that has a sophisticated feel with an atmosphere reminiscent of glamorous Hollywood in the 1930s. It offers guests multiple choices of dramatic settings to dine in, highlighting original Spanish colonial architecture with arched entryways, covered ceilings, rich woods and original mosaic floor tiles, as well as terraces, lush lawns, pool patios and intimate areas spread out over three acres.
The Purple Palm at Colony Palms Hotel
572 N Indian Canyon Dr
Palm Springs, CA 92262
760.969.1818
Old Hollywood Glam
Azucar is located inside the 1930s La Serena Villas hotel and provides multiple choices between dining in common spaces, in small, private villas on the property, by the poolside or up top on the rooftop patio, Sugar High—their special rooftop deck surrounded by the breathtaking San Jacinto mountains. The furnishings throughout the hotel and restaurant areas were hand-picked to be casual and comfortable and are positioned indoors and outdoors around fireplaces, the pool or within the private villas.
Azucar in La Serena Villas
339 S Belardo Rd
Palm Springs, CA 92262
844.932.8044
Grab a Table
Juniper Table in the Kimpton Rowan Palm Springs Hotel
As you enter the contemporary Kimpton, you will find one of Palm Springs’ newest restaurants, Juniper Table. It is set off from the lobby by multiple 12-foot panels of rectangular-shaped, white and clear panels of glass. Their excellent use of space creates a small, intimate environment, and its sunny indoor and contiguous outdoor seating is great for people watching.
Juniper Table in the Kimpton Rowan Palm Springs Hotel
100 W Tahquitz Canyon Way
Palm Springs, CA 92262
760.904.5032
Time to Dine
Previously Palm Springs’ first U.S. Post Office, this 1954 building has been transformed into an upscale, casual, eclectic dining space with a white interior, purposefully-positioned hot pink accents, recessed, mirror-backed shadow boxes and rooms with an occasional black accent wall. The seating varies from a white, tufted-button couch to Louis XIV ghost chairs, complemented by a unique assortment of fixtures arranged strategically in the center of the dining area.
Eight4Nine
849 N Palm Canyon Dr
Palm Springs, CA 92262
760.325.8490
