Here on inspiration, we have a thing for beautiful and inspiring places. Today we bring an inspirational (with a little bit of history too) restaurant John Anthony in Hong Kong with a decoration out of the box. The owner, John Antonhy, was the first Chinese man to become a British citizen in 1805.
Arriving in London’s Limehouse as an employee of the East India Company, he provided lodgings and food to Chinese sailors and eventually founded the quarter’s Chinatown. In naming its new dim sum restaurant in Hong Kong after Anthony, local restaurateurs Maximal Concepts have turned a neat sleight of hand by repatriating history.
The restaurant was constructed on a basement space in Causeway Bay into the bright and colorful dining room when you can see the colors of greens, pinks, and blues, whose concept is a British tea hall turned Chinese canteen.
The East and West touches are delicately done, particularly in the use of rattan screens, old-fashioned sliding security grilles, wicker furniture, terracotta tiles rescued from abandoned rural Chinese homes, and vaulted spaces that recall a dockland warehouse, alongside tiles of hand-painted poppies and capuchin monkeys, and bathrooms swathed in stylised renderings and shades that evoke the spice trade.
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