Photo courtesy of Dyer Brown | Darrin Hunter photo

What: Zuma Boston
Where: 1 Dalton St., Boston
Owner: Fsbos LLC
Built: 2019  

Executive architect Dyer Brown of Boston collaborated with Tokyo-based designer Noriyoshi Muramatsu on the design of Zuma Boston, a new izakaya-style Japanese restaurant in Back Bay. 

After entering at street level, patrons follow a sweeping curved stair into a high-ceilinged space with granite walls, monkey pod wood sourced from Thailand and rice paper accent walls. The restaurant’s main dining room includes a sushi bar, robata charcoal grill and open kitchen. 

Located in the Four Seasons Hotel at One Dalton, the Boston location is the 12th worldwide for Zuma. 

Cambridge-based Carpenter & Co. developed the 61-story luxury condo and hotel before selling the hotel condo component of the property to a consortium of investors last month for $268 million.  

They Said It: 

“One of the biggest challenges was the ‘floating’ DJ booth. The booth is actually a massive 12-foot-long monkey pod tree trunk, from the same source in Thailand as the wood slabs and stone. Installing it so that it appears to float was the easy part – but to get the tree inside the building required actually cutting it in half and reassembling it once inside.”
— Deniz Ferendeci, director of asset design and support, Dyer Brown