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Yauatcha brings in top filmmaker Wong Kar Wai as it closes for a year-long makeover
It's hard to imagine now, in a city where getting great dim sum is easy, but the arrival of Yauatcha in Soho back in 2004 was a BIG deal. Not only was this an egalitarian effort by Alan Yau of Michelin-starred Hakkasan to put great food on the table at a bargain price, but the place looked completely different to anything else out there. We can remember valiantly trying to find our way into the loos in the stygian dark of the dining room. It was a hit from day one.
Now, 22 years later, Yauatcha's owners are hoping to give the place a major facelift, and they've chosen an
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Test Driving Banquet 88, a riverside dim sum spot by Tower Bridge where it pays to dine with a group
London has plenty of restaurants that are great for dates, but we also need restaurants that are perfect for group dining. Step forward Banquet 88 a new high end dim sum spot on St Katharine Docks.
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St Katharine Docks is getting all the dim sum with Banquet 88
They already own two dim sum restaurants in Wimbledon and Ealing as well as Tao Tao Ju in Chinatown, but now the folks behind the Good Fortune Club are coming into the centre of town with a hot new prospect.
Banquet 88 is being described as "a premium Cantonese dining experience". What that means is that it'll be just as good a spot to host business clients as to have one of those epic family dim sum lunches on the weekend. Think big tables, big menus, and a whole load of dim sum to choose from.
They're promising Cantonese classics like whole Peking duck, roast suckling
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Fancy modern dim sum is on the menu at Dim Sum Library opening in Covent Garden
After so many Italian restaurant openings, it's refreshing to be talking about something different throwing open its doors in London next month. Dim Sum Library is a Hong Kong import by the Aqua Group and is going to be taking over what used to be the group's Luci restaurant in Covent Garden.
They're pitching it as a modern take on classic dim sum, and they've brought in chefs Jian Jia (who
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Dim Sum by China Tang opens at the Harrods Dining Hall
Almost two decades after it first opened its doors inside the Dorchester, the celebrity magnet China Tang has branched out. It's just opened a dim sum counter over at Harrods and if you're after some very beautiful dumplings, this looks like a place to try.
If you haven't been to the original restaurant, that made a name for itself by serving up high end versions of classic Cantonese dishes and was the
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Test Driving RedFarm London - Pac Man dumplings and so much more arrive from NYC
With their Pac Man dumplings, the New York Red Farm became a huge hit. But there's much more to the restaurant than that - and we went along to their new Covent Garden location to see what they can cook up.
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