Le Méridien Ra Beach Hotel & Spa is a beautiful former Sanatorium set along the Catalan coast south of Barcelona. After completing the design work for Bar Tempus we were asked to look at creating an internal version of the hotel’s external all day restaurant – La Terrassa del Mar. We were also asked to create a new wine room experience and reimagine the buffet for the hotel, within a series of under utilised spaces.
This would help extend the hotel season, and provide internal areas for dining outside of the heat in the summer season. We looked at repurposing a long linear flexible events space that is perpendicular to the entrance axis to the hotel, sitting between the courtyard garden and the seaside terrace.
Inspired by the local landscape and the beauty of the sea in front of the restaurant, we wanted to bring the colours of the sea and lush greens of the hotel gardens deep into the heart of the restaurant. Here we have used a palette from the land to sea with deep blues and greens of the garden blending into the aquamarine tones of the sea.
We opened up the visibility of the space with new arches in the wall, and a fluid and plant filled space for the feature wine room experience to draw guests into the restaurant. We have broken down the long linear space with a series of terracotta arches, and used a dramatic azure tiled ceiling to bring in the sense of dappled reflections from the sea across the dining room. Sea green tables in custom terrazzo and internal planting completes the journey between sea and landscape.
The all day restaurant and buffet offer the very best from the local sourced produce and provenance, complementing the space with an exceptional culinary journey, and the new wine room experience will be perfect to get to know a range of regional Spanish wines highlighting the local terroirs.
