Sanderson Hotel, London

Located in the mid-century, modernist Arthur Sanderson & Sons Building, The Sanderson Hotel has been intertwined with the world of conceptual design since its original usage as a showroom for fine textiles, paints, and wallpaper. The original mid-Modernist steel and glass frame celebrates flexibility in room usage and configuration, while the most recent refurbishment by Philippe Starck and Denton Coker Marshall reimagined its usage as a hotel.

Premiere Enterprises consulted on a robust redesign of two venues within the hotel: a grand, 250-seat mid-century inspired Japanese steakhouse and Tokyo-cum-NYC inspired cocktail lounge. Food menus will be sprawling, offering myriad dishes and techniques from numerous locations, largely but not exclusively from East Asia. Edomai sushi, though frequently referred to as nigiri sushi, hales from the Edo era, and is ostensibly early street cart food. This will be artfully reimagined and arranged on small plateaus, mixed with other raw bar and chilled items. In the main dining room, guéridon service sports an inset robatayaki featuring an array of meats and cuts, grilled tableside in flamboyant fashion. Small sides of hirata buns banchan line the table, dotted by accents of yuzu kosho and togarashi. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Southeast Asian dishes all converse together in a glamorously Continental—albeit Eastern Continental—cuisine.