Belgravia, Chinese Restaurant Guide

“The dishes just keep coming and not one of them disappoints” at the Peng family’s Pimlico veteran – “an unusual Chinese restaurant that asks what you like and produces a banquet of what suits you until you say you’ve had enough”. “They’ve been doing it for a long time” (since 1982) “and they do it well” – it remains one of London’s better Chinese restaurants in a “rather agreeable retro way”. “The team try hard to make every visit special” and – though it is quite “pricey” – it’s excellent “for a treat”.

This luxurious international hotel chain (whose 300-room original is the oldest hotel in Hong Kong) opened just south of trafficky Hyde Park Corner in September 2023. Its “extravagantly decorated” ground-floor Cantonese dining room has received a mixed rep in the newspapers (in his January 2024 review, Giles Coren in The Times said it “didn’t pass muster”) but our reports suggest a fair performance by the standards of posh hotel chains. Its advocates say it’s “very expensive but faultless” with “amazing” and “perfectly served” cuisine (particularly classic dishes such as seafood dumplings, char sui and Peking Duck, which all receive a thumbs-up). And service is praised as “really helpful, accommodating and professional”. Those who are less convinced don’t damn it but say “it’s overpriced for food that’s only OK, and served in a windowless room”. (There’s also Brooklands at roof level, see also).