Chinatown

• Noodle & Beer pick Chinatown for their second spicy Sichuan noodle joint

  

  Noodle Inn may be the place everyone's currently queueing for, but it might soon have some competition coming its way. Noodle & Beer first opened in Spitalfields back in 2020 but it's been such a success that the owner is now opening a second restaurant, this time in the heart of Chinatown.

  If you haven't tried the original in East London, then the clue to what they offer is in the name. Their menu focuses on

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• Test Driving Long Chim - chef David Thompson returns to London with a casual Thai restaurant

  

  David Thompson, once best known for Nahm restaurant, is back in London with a more casual take on Thai food. We wend down to try out Long Chim.  

• SanHao sees Yiqi founders opening a noodle and soup restaurant in Chinatown

  

  Three restaurants in three years - restaurateurs Kevin Cheong and Keng Yew Leong have been busy building their Chinatown empire. In 2022 they opened The Eight - a Hong Kong-style cafe. At the beginning of this year, ...

• 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

  

  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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• Sichuan restaurant ZhangLiang Malatang hits 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

  

  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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