[Food] Restaurant 2025

[dazzer6666]

Hutong up the Shard

Funny going to these kind of places isn't it. Everyone is dressed to impress and the service is great but do you want to be there? Not particularly.

Food was undeniably very good, though duck pancakes to start tasted the same as most other duck pancakes do and was a bit of a lazy choice, though the duck was very showy and carved at the table and that. There's not much to say about the rest of the meal aside from some really excellent wontons were had and the deep fried lobster and wagyu broth are well decent. Pudding was fine and the wine flight (three glasses for 50 quid) was fun.

Not cheap, watch out for the 15% service charge in top of an already very expensive meal (5 people, nearly a grand).

I liked it and am finding reasons not to if I'm honest, can't really recommend it unless you like showing off or it's a special occasion (which it was) and you think someone would like that kind of thing. Go somewhere in Chinatown and have fun instead.

7.2/10

Won’t set foot in that place again on principle. Had a one-night stay in the hotel (yes, it was ridiculously expensive and massively overpriced imo even by London standards), decided to go for a drink in the bar but got ‘sorry sir, you haven’t booked………’.