Weekends are going to get a whole lot better thanks to Yauatcha City. They announced recently that they will open for the first time every Saturday and Sunday with a brand-new Weekend Yum Cha brunch menu, naturally we were one of the first to sign up for what sounds like the perfect way to while away a few hours as well as celebrate a friends belated birthday.
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If you're looking for a Sunday brunch a bit slicker than your standard boozy affair, head to Hakkasan Hanway Place. The luxe underground restaurant has a very well-priced Sunday brunch menu, centred around dim sum. For £62 per person, you get a bottle of Louis Roederer brut champagne, two cocktails and a seemingly-endless stream of food. If you want to step it up a gear, you can swap the brut for Cristal, but that will see the price per person almost double to £120 per person. For those who want to go lighter on the drinking front, you can swap out the champagne for tea, bringing the price...
Read more →Shikumen, has opened it's fourth location on the first floor of Dorsett City Hotel in Aldgate located within the contemporary Matrix building this month. This is the first central London location for the popular restaurant following opening in Ealing (2015), Shepherd’s Bush (2015) and Finchley Road (2016) and unusually for a Chinese restaurant it will be open from 6.30am (7am on Sunday) offering hotel residents, local professionals and locals a Chinese breakfast and weekend brunch menu.
Read more →Going for dinner at a department store might not sounds enticing. But Harrods isn't any old department store. Nestled on the 5th floor of the maze-like Knightsbridge shopping spot is Chai Wu, a Chinese restaurant serving up a range of fusion-style treats to fuel a hard day of spending. It was 7pm on a Friday night and I'd set a date there with an old school friend who I hadn't seen for a number of years. We'd had a hard day at work, not spending unfortunately, but we were in need of pepping up nonetheless. Walking into Chai Wu you're instantly transported away from the madness o...
Read more →To celebrate the year of the monkey, Yauatcha have put on a very special Chinese New Year menu - one which shows off some the established favourites (hello venison puffs...) as well as some extraordinary new creations. Teaming up with Monkey 47 Schwarzwald Gin the menu has been paired with a flight of gin cocktails as well as inspiring the botanicals flavouring a new range of macarons.
Read more →It's nearly time to reboot, rewind and relax! We must however get things straight first…before you start your strict health regimes and resolutions, pay an evening visit to Opium Cocktail and Dim Sum Parlour. Be seduction by their oriental- cocktails, Chinese Medicine Prescriptions and delicious dim sum platters to match! You will find this drinking den Sprawling over 3 floors of a historical townhouse on Gerrard Street! This venue is not hard to find as long as you keep your eyes sharp. After 3 flights of wooden interior, abundant swirling inscence and peeping heads around corners, i'm final...
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