LOONG Restaurant

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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LOONG Restaurant

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Firm

NUTRO studio

Type

Hospitality + Sport › Restaurant

STATUS

Concept

YEAR

2026

SIZE

3000 sqft - 5000 sqft

BUDGET

$1M - 5M

Completed in 2026, LOONG is a 400 m² Chinese restaurant in Dubai designed by NUTRO Studio for a clientele that treats the cuisine as a cultural ritual rather than simple gastronomy. The design stages the dining sequence as an almost meditative experience, letting material, form, and light carry the narrative rather than overt ornamentation.

The material palette stays deliberately compressed: wood, natural red marble, rattan, bamboo, leather, and woven cord form a warm, tactile base that reads as a single monolithic volume rather than a collection of separate finishes. Overhead, a lattice-cut wooden ceiling cassette inscribed with Chinese characters functions as an independent narrative layer, unifying the plan beneath it.

Lighting is treated as a material in its own right. Rather than flooding the room, NUTRO relies on soft, localized, directional sources that leave zones in shadow: stone is lit from within, fabric panels are traced along their edges, and tabletops collect discrete pools of warm light, a strategy built for contrast and depth rather than legibility.

The bar anchors the room: a solid block of red marble engraved with a dragon motif and lit from below, its legs carved from the same stone into sculptural dragon forms, with a wooden pagoda-form frame suspending stemware overhead. Entry is marked by a cylindrical red marble reception desk and tall banana plants in rattan planters, a compressed threshold before the room opens out. The main dining hall centers on a live-edge communal table lit by an alabaster pendant in a blackened metal frame, surrounded by oak two- and four-tops, leather-woven seating, and freestanding marble dragon sculptures that recur throughout as a sculptural motif.

Beyond the main hall, a series of niche and private tables forms a distinct spatial register, with carved wood dragon reliefs, latticed timber screens etched with Chinese script, and alabaster pendants mounted on bamboo posts, giving the architecture legibility at both the scale of the room and the scale of the individual table.

"The aesthetic of the East is read here as a contemporary interpretation of ancient tradition - restrained, dignified, and quietly intriguing," says Danylo Honcharenko, Creative Director and co-founder of NUTRO studio.

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