Set inside Meridian Space, & Café provides a wonderful experience of excellent coffee and tasty cakes.

& Café stands as a subtle and enticing blend of East and West, taste and design, freedom and nature, people and good products. Such is the meaning of the ampersand & symbolising the spirit of this place.

& Café offers specially-selected, high-grade coffee and tea; a creative culinary blend of Western and Chinese cakes and other sweets, featuring seasonal specialties; and last but not least, wonderful wine and beer.

Our patio, complete with fountain and fish pond, is the perfect place to relax with some friends — and weather allowing, to launch new bike explorations across Beijing.

Meridian is partnering with the young, innovative and Beijing-based bicycle company 700Bike. While offering its space and walls to exhibitions and cross-cultural events, Meridian Space’s Art Lounge also acts as a breeding ground for Beijing’s modern bicycle culture.

700Bike is currently showcasing four state-of-the-art bikes designed specially for young urban dwellers: Houjie, Houjie MINI, Meishuguan, and Baihua. Products and spare parts from legendary providers such as Brooks or Chrome are also on offer, as well as funky bike-themed memorabilia.

Apart from bike-related events, Meridian’s favourite performances, exhibitions and cutting-edge screenings are still taking place in the Art Lounge – check out our events program to see what’s happening.

Meridian时差 is a creative, cross-cultural organisation, and an open-minded editorial body which aims at promoting and publishing within China original picture books from all over the world. An important goal of ours is to make Chinese readers more familiar with “adult/literary/non-fiction” picture books and graphic novels, and to become an important player in this field.

In 2011, we launched and carried forward the Fairy Tales of the World project, which gathered ten picture books, written and illustrated by artists from ten different countries of the world.

In 2013 began our collaboration with Chinese writer, painter and illustrator Xiong Liang, who became our first major partner in creating and publishing picture books for the adult readership. After the success of his book The Solar Terms, which garnered many prizes and was featured at several international book fairs, we recently published his new opus — Tales of Darkness.

Xiong Liang is a painter, illustrator, and a pioneering Chinese picture books author, whose works have garnered widespread attention and praise in China and the rest of the world. Born in 1975 in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, he is now based in Beijing.

Xiong Liang’s visual art emphasizes lines and darkness, and draws many of its essential qualities from traditional Chinese art. The characters and sceneries in his works are evocative, poetic, and full of life. His creative output is multidisciplinary, and includes adult graphic novels, children’s books, novels, plays, and contemporary ink paintings.

As part of our ongoing creative collaboration with him, Meridian时差 is managing the sales of Xiong Liang’s original paintings and illustration works.