Mansion Feast Restaurant Beijing, Dongcheng District hutong architecture, Chinese Interior Design Photos
Mansion Feast Restaurant in Beijing
9 May 2022
Interior: LDH Architectural Design
Location: Beijing, Northern China

Photos by As you see – Wang Ting
Mansion Feast Restaurant, Dongcheng District, Beijing
Beijing-based interior design practice LDH Design has completed Mansion Feast ? a 1,230-square-meter restaurant that specializes in Chinese aristocratic cuisine.

Tucked away near a temple in Beijing?s old town, in a hutong in Dongcheng District, the restaurant is set within a renovated, thirty-year-old, traditional, Beijing style, quadrangular, courtyard compound residence known as a siheyuan. Formerly a cultural venue called the Jinyang Hanlin Academy, the compound was transformed into an elegant dining destination that evokes the ceremonial splendor of Chinese imperial residences.
The establishment?s private, indoor dining rooms are available for private gatherings, while its central courtyard is open to the public for afternoon tea and dinner. If a guest books the entire Mansion, they can use the courtyards for musical performances, cocktail parties, exhibitions, press conferences or other events.

As is typical of siheyuans, the compound has three conjoined courtyards surrounded by a series of chambers with traditional, grey, pitch-tiled roofs. These chambers are connected by a corridor running through the middle of the compound.

From the entrance, one p...