Chinatown

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

  

  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

  

  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

   

  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

  

  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

  

  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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