Chinatown

  • Yiqi Pan Asian restaurant opens with bamboo tube rice and wagyu mousse in Chinatown

    Yiqi Pan Asian restaurant opens with bamboo tube rice and Wagyu mousse in Chinatown

    The latest restaurant to hit Chinatown is Yiqi, billed as a Pan-Asian restaurant with dishes from all over West and Southeast Asia. In charge of the kitchen is Chef Lum Wah Cheok who comes via Hakkasan and Yauatcha making this a potentially very interesting opening. 

    The menu looks intriguing too. A taste of it includes fried cordyceps flower salad,

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  • Eight Hundred Flavours will serve up dumplings and BBQ skewers in Chinatown

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    It's all change for the Barshu group who have been tinkering around with what restaurant to put in their Little Newport Street spot for a while. Having started life as Baiwei and then Dot Line Noodles, they've now gone into partnership with Chef Ming who used to run the Rocking Horse restaurant in Birmingham to open Eight Hundred Flavours.

    The menu is inspired by the chef's childhood growing up on a farm in the

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  • High Yaki is bringing staircase BBQs to Chinatown

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    6/6/23 - updated with the opening date

    London's Chinatown has a lot of hot pot and DIY barbecue restaurants, but the owners of incoming restaurant High Yaki are hoping that they're bringing something a little new to the table. It's a barbecue restaurant, where you grill your own food at your table, but the presentation is going to be a little different.

    The restaurant will offer a range of beef cuts -

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  • Pochawa Grill Korean BBQ hits up Chinatown

    Pochawa Grill, a new Korean BBQ outlet, to arrive in Chinatown 

    Updated 19/12/22 with imagery

    You might have your favourite restaurant in London’s Chinatown, or are even happily attempting to work your way through them all, but we have a new one for your list and it’s a Korean BBQ concept.

    Called Pochawa Grill, the name is inspired by ‘Pocha’, a shortened version of Pojangmacha, which is the term for street food

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  • Oita take their Japanese kitchen to Chinatown from Wood Green

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    For the past couple of years, chef Fan Yi's Japanese industrial chic kitchen concept Oita has been operating out of the Green Rooms hotel in Wood Green. The Chinese chef decided to go down the Japanese route with his first pop-up after spotting a gap in the market in the area, having lived there for over a decade. Clearly, he was on to something as what was originally planned as a pop-up is now the hotel's

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  • Chinatown's new popup space gets wheelcake vendors Dragon Cat Café as its first residents

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    It's hard taking your first step up the restaurant ladder, doubly so if you're looking to open anywhere in Zone 1. Which is why Chinatown has just launched a pop-up space that's all about giving fledgling food businesses a leg up.

    They've carved out a spot right in the heart of Chinatown on Little Newport Street which will be used to give emerging brands a chance to showcase their wares on a busy West End

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  • Sichuan restaurant ZhangLiang Malatang hits London

    Sichuan restaurant Zhang Liang Mala Tang is coming to London

    A Hot Dinners exclusive 

    It's all go in Chinatown with the latest new opening being one of China's big chain restaurants (there are over 5000 of them), ZhangLiang Malatang.

    It's a serve yourself Sichuan restaurant, with mala tang soup as the base.

    Just browse and select the ingredients which, overseas, range from options like crab legs, fish balls and

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  • Kung Fu Noodle serves up hand pulled noodles in Chinatown

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    There's been a new round of openings in Chinatown and it includes the first live hand-pulled noodle restaurant within the official Chinatown area (Lanzhou Lamian Noodle Bar is apparently just outside the boundary).

    Kung Fu Noodle specialises in dishes from China's Gansu province in the North West of the country. On the menu, you'll find a range of hot, cold and soup noodle dishes

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  • The Eight is Shaftesbury Avenue's new Hong Kong style tea restaurant

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    Just opened on Shaftesbury Avenue is Hong Kong-style tea restaurant, The Eight. It's apparently inspired by Hong Kong's 1950s-style tearooms - think greasy spoon meets diner. This new restaurant is serving up all manner of Hong Kong treats like:

    • Abalone wanton noodle
    • Rice wrapped in omelette with wagyu beef
    • Rickshaw noodles.

    “The tea rooms

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  • Chinatown's Joy King Lau calls it a day

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    After almost three decades of serving up some of London's best-loved dim sum dishes, Chinatown restaurant Joy King Lau is closing its doors.

    Announcing the news in an Instagram post this week, the restaurant revealed that it was closing on 3 July and that "the current team will all be

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  • TikTok favourite Bun House opens in Camden Market's Hawley Wharf

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    They're already a viral sensation for their Cantonese steamed buns, now Chinatown's Bun House are getting ready to bring those buns north to Camden.

    Opening today in the Hawley Wharf food hall, they'll be serving up their most famous creations alongside some brand new dishes including:

    • Sticky salt lime chicken nuggets
    • Crispy shiitake nuggets with house ranch
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  • Chop Chop by Four Seasons is opening underneath The Hippodrome at Leicester Square

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    They already have three restaurants in Chinatown but Four Seasons are adding a fourth, just around the corner, when they open a new contemporary Chinese restaurant underneath The Hippodrome casino.

    The new concept, Chop Chop by Four Seasons, is part of a slew of new openings at the casino in the coming months, including an unnamed cocktail bar. Chop Chop will be in the lower ground floor of the building

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  • The best restaurants, cafes and bakeries in Chinatown

    The best restaurants in Chinatown

    ​Find London’s Chinatown nestled between Soho and Leicester Square; in the past few years there have been lots of exciting additions - Newport Court has transformed into a sweet tooth heaven, while hot pot restaurants and bubble tea cafes are piling in to claim a piece of the territory. With Lunar New Year upon us, there’s no better time to explore Chinatown. London-based supper club host,

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  • Yatay is a new Japanese grill restaurant for Soho

    Yatay is a new Japanese grill restaurant for Soho

    Taking the place of Ichibuns in Chinatown, Yatay is a new Japanese robatayaki grill restaurant, inspired by the izakayas and street vendors of Tokyo (indeed, ‘Yatay’ is a reference to those very street vendors).

    In addition to the aforementioned grilling, pickling and fermenting will be a big thing on the menu by Head Chef Marco Ardemagni, who comes from Sushisamba. That

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  • New China rises from the ashes to reopen in Chinatown

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    Well before Covid decimated trade in London's Chinatown, longstanding New China restaurant on Gerrard Street suffered its own catastrophe. A fire ripped through the well known restaurant back in September 2019, leaving most of the restaurant seriously damaged.

    But now, like a phoenix rising from the ashes, the restasurant has finally reopened its doors. Over the last 20 months it's had a full refurb

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