当总部位于香港的In Situ & Partners董事总经理Yacine Bensalem接到Clarence餐厅的设计任务时，他的愿景简单而有效：在香港打造一家以法国美食和葡萄酒为主题的现代都市餐厅。

When Hong Kong-based In Situ & Partners managing director Yacine Bensalem was given the brief for Clarence Restaurant , the vision was simple yet effective: to create a modern urban restaurant around French gastronomy and wine in Hong Kong.

该餐厅于2022年3月开业，位于中环的H Code，从25层的位置可以俯瞰前警察局和改造后的大官艺术中心。借鉴“风土”的概念，Bensalem使用了一种优雅的自然风格的色调，白色石膏与灰色、酒红色和红色色调。

The restaurant, which opened in March 2022, is located in Central’s H Code, and from its 25th-floor position overlooks the former police station and reinvented arts hub of Tai Kwun. Drawing on the concept of ‘terroir’, Bensalem used a refined nature-inspired colour palette of white plaster with grey, burgundy and red hues.

沿着电梯核心的木柱在入口处迎接食客，这一特征立即体现了空间的垂直性。在主餐厅，豪华的半圆形长椅靠在波浪形的后墙上，为入口提供了微妙的分隔。地板采用了陈年烟熏橡木，由比利时三米长的木板制成，白色带凹槽的石膏面板与深色木板形成对比。

Wooden columns along the lift core greet diners at the entrance, this feature immediately asserting the verticality of the space. In the main dining room, plush semicircular banquettes sit against wavy back walls that provide a subtle divider from the entrance. Floors are rendered in aged smoked oak, made from three-metre-long planks from Belgium, while the white fluted plaster panels contrast against the dark wood versions.

生鱼片和葡萄酒区以其独特的整体弧形柜台而闻名。这里的灯光更暗，更柔和，黑色橡木主题在通风的餐厅里很引人注目。室外休息室采用了带图案的砖砌地板和超哑光陶土装饰的墙壁和天花板。这些标志让人想起传统的乡村凉廊。

The raw fish and wine area is distinguished by its unique monolithic curved counter. Here the lighting is dimmer, more subdued, and the blackened oak theme is striking in the otherwise airy restaurant. An outdoor lounge is rendered in patterned brickwork flooring with ultra-matt terracotta accent walls and ceilings. These markers evoke a traditional country loggia.

在侍酒室里，是该餐厅与葡萄酒储藏公司Sensis合作开发的一个酒窖，储藏着4000瓶的优质葡萄酒，数量还在不断增加。额外的步入式空间由阶梯式砖墙和低矮的天花板定义，美丽的中央包裹着举行品酒会的金色纹理大理石桌子。

In the sommelier room is the restaurant’s collection of fine wines — 4,000 bottles and counting — stored a cellar realised in partnership with wine storage company Sensis. Designed to evoke a traditional vaulted wine cellar, the additional walk-in space is defined by its stepped brick walls and low ceiling, beautifully centred to envelope the gold-veined marble table where wine tastings take place.