Chinatown

• 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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• Sichuan restaurant ZhangLiang Malatang hits London

  

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  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  ​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

  

  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

  

  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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• Wing Wing brings their Korean chicken and beer to Chinatown

  

  The latest Wing Wing, its flagship restaurant, is coming to a big new space on the edge of Chinatown - with Korean fried chicken alongside draft beer (and eventually karaoke too). 

• Luke Selby and his brothers take over at Evelyn's Table

  

  14/10/20 - Updated with full opening details

  Over on the edges of Chinatown, Evelyn's Table is gearing up for a reopening with a changeover of chefs that sounds very promising indeed.

  The diminutive restaurant, tucked away in the basement of The Blue Posts won a slew of awards when it first opened two years ago (and we were ...

• Tokyo Diner's future rests on their new Fakey Cakey sushi cakes

  

  If you prefer savoury to sweet, then the next time you're searching for something special for your birthday, look no further than Chinatown's Fakey Cakey. This new venture, set up by Tokyo Diner during lockdown, is selling amazing looking cakes made entirely from sushi.

  There's the vegan asparagus garden option, a sashimi cake topped with sliced avocado and ikura-caviar and even a katsu cake (choose from meaty or veggie

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• Dine alfresco this autumn with Chinatown's new 'Take Put' boxes

  A new initiative in London's Chinatown this autumn is enticing foodie Londoners to take their take out to the streets. 

• Dumplings' Legend reopens for business delivering xiao long bao and more

  

  Well now, this is welcome news. Given how much Chinatown suffered in a drop off in trade the weeks before lockdown, any signs of revival there are doubly appreciated.

  So we're delighted to reveal that one of our favourite hangouts in London, Dumplings' Legend, is back up and running.

  The restaurant announced yesterday that it had moved to delivery, with "Stir-fry and Xiao long Bao and our

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