You already know this restaurant from ‘Loopy Wealthy Asians.’ Now, an outpost has landed in London

Rooftop Asian eating places in London are in the course of a constructing increase: this yr has already seen Shanghai Me and Gordon Ramsay’s Fortunate Cat take to the skies, with twinkling nighttime views that look extra like Tokyo or Taipei than the UK capital. Now comes Cé La Vi, the Singapore export famed for crowning Marina Bay Sands and stealing scenes in Loopy Wealthy Asians.

Wallpaper* dines at Cé La Vi, London

The temper: The sky’s the restrict

Paddington Basin won’t be constructed on fairly the identical scale as Marina Bay, however the setting continues to be placing. Cé La Vi occupies the highest two flooring of 1 Paddington Sq., the Renzo Piano Constructing Workshop’s big glass dice that towers over the station. Daytime enterprise lunches within the Seventeenth-floor restaurant and terrace segue into after-work cocktails, then, because the lights dim, sultry suppers; preserve the night going with DJs and late-night cocktails within the lounge bar one ground up.

‘We aimed to craft a multi-layered design that’s each refined and distinctive,’ says Fady Chams, the managing director of Prospect Design Worldwide, which was tasked with reproducing the model’s Singaporean DNA in a London context. ‘The panoramic skyline views, particularly at evening, impressed reflective ceiling therapies. These amplify the vibrancy of town lights and merge them with bespoke lighting options.’

Catch your reflection in mirror cladding, bathed in lighting made by PHOS.

However texture is as vital as illumination at Cé La Vi. There may be Rubelli leather-based, Pierre Frey textiles and wallpaper from Arte and Élitis. ‘Heat tonalities had been layered to create a way of authenticity and understated luxurious,’ Chams says. ‘The outcome ensures continuity with the model’s world properties whereas providing a recent London expression.’

The meals: daytime dim sum, night sharing plates

Singapore is among the world’s melting pots of worldwide delicacies, and the menu takes a pick-and-mix strategy to the best hits of east Asian cooking. Dim sum is on supply at lunchtime, or graze your manner via the line-up of brightly flavoured sharing plates: some shrimp tempura with mango mayo right here, some yellowtail carpaccio there, then wagyu rib-eye and white asparagus to share, with maybe a sushi platter on the facet.

To drink, there are Asian-inflected spins on traditional cocktails combined collectively within the eating room’s central bar, whereas sommelier Savvas Symeonis is a dab hand at pairing wine and saké to the meals of govt chef Monchai Ling.