Made in the Shade
THE MURAL spans an entire two-story wall, making tables and white-oak banquett es look like dollhouse furniture against its billboard scale. When you round the corner into The Elm’s wide-open dining room, this rogue wave of turquoise and jade with patches of frothy white and captured light is stunningly disorienting. For a moment, you’re standing alone on a mist-shrouded beach … or maybe you’re floating. The reality—that you have found such a nice restaurant in the middle of a residential neighborhood in Bloomington—somehow feels equally mind-bending.
