Internationally acclaimed, Hong Kong-based design firm AB Concept recently completed its first London hospitality project, Mei Ume Restaurant at the Four Seasons Hotel on London’s Ten Trinity Square. This luxury Asian restaurant, located in the 1922 headquarters of the Port of London Authority, features a balance of Eastern and Western design styles, though its name is firmly Eastern, deriving from the Chinese and Japanese words for plum blossom.

At the entrance between two columns, plum blossoms grow up a panel of glass suspended from two metal screens of portholes seen throughout the restaurant interior design. In Mei Ume restaurant color scheme there’s red color – symbolizes luck in Chinese culture – that repeats as a bold accent in the main dining room, as well as space’s main focal point: a crimson lacquer frame that surrounds a three-layer gilded triptych telling the story of a feast in a garden.

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Ornate pillars running through the center of the room create a subtle division between the 10-seat bar and lounge area and the 48 cover dining room. suspended between the first two pillars as guests enter the restaurant dining area, is a panel featuring enamel paintwork on a glass, inspired by Chinese and Japanese plum flowers – fusing the two worlds into one as a common language.

Elsewhere, a black, white, and gray palette pervades, especially in the bar area: a line of black metal lanterns hang from a pavilion-inspired structure above the bar; the textured bar front is a modern impression of a traditional Chinese ink painting, and the floor is covered in an ebony timber and white marble grid pattern.

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That floor continues in the semiprivate dining room area, separated from the bar by a bamboo screen. Meanwhile, to add a sense of scale in the double-height Palladian Grade II-listed space, halo-shaped light fixtures suspend by metal from the original columns—topped with restored moldings and inlaid with a new leafy wallcovering set in a metal lining—creating intimate seating nooks below.

Mei Ume is an exciting new Asian dining restaurant, designed to complement and diversify the Hotel’s existing food and beverage offering. Introducing a menu of authentic dishes from China and Japan with a modern approach. Vibrant and fast-paced, the restaurant includes bar, lounge and table seating, as well as a private dining room for up to 14.

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