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Address: 84 Queensway, London W2
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This restaurant is known for its duck, which is light, flavorful, and not at all fatty. The most popular method of presentation is barbecue, with its sensationally crispy skin. The set dinner allows folks to sample delicate spring rolls, sweet corn-and-crab soup, and sweet-and-sour pork. Filet of Dover sole with...
Address: 8 Hanway Pl, London W1T 1HD
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Located off Tottenham Court Road, this basement eatery offers a modern approach to classic Chinese dishes, a philosophy also reflected in the place's upscale decor. Decorative screens, sleek black furniture, and a bevy of fashionable regulars make the sophisticated setting all the more attractive. Of course, creative...
Address: 51 Pimlico Rd, London SW1
While other restaurants focus on milder styles of Chinese cooking, Hunan stands out by offering hot, spicy, authentic Western Chinese cuisine. If you can stand the heat, you'll be delighted by lettuce-wrapped chili chicken or stir-fried lamb with lotus root. Although they're hot, there's substance behind the spice,...
Address: 65 S Audley St, London W1
Kai is a top pick for first-class Chinese cuisine in an elegant environment. The Mayfair restaurant, with its muted colors, offers a number of regional cuisines but specializes in Szechwan delicacies. The descriptive menu includes exotic dishes like black pepper ostrich and the popular "Parcels of Prosperity," flaky,...
Address: 13 Queensway, London W2
A wide variety of Asian restaurants dot Queensway, but this one stands out for its sumptuous dim sum menu. Flavorful dumplings – stuffed with everything from vegetables to minced shrimp, pork, or beef – are delicate and perfectly cooked. The rest of the dishes also impress, from fried seafood favorites to exotic...
Address: Dockside Rd, London Regatta Centre, LONDON E16 2QT
As you'd expect from its Docklands location, this is a suave, contemporary-to-the-nth establishment. As good as the afternoon dim sum is, it's not quite in the exalted league of the dinner menu, which offers such temptations as garlic scallops and ginger squid. Yet this upscale venue knows how to relax: at weekends...
Address: 35-36 Greek St, LONDON W1D 5DL
Near to, but not quite in, Chinatown, this much-praised restaurant specializes in food from the northern provinces. There's an emphasis on seafood, which has to be a good thing when it results in the kind of prawn cakes and soft-shell crab you get here. But there's nothing fishy about the most talked about menu item,...
