Park Chinois

Park Chinois in Mayfair, London, is a stunning restaurant serving the finest dim sum and Chinese cuisine and showcasing the best live entertainment. Enjoy private dining, opulent French Chinoiserie decor and world-class musicians & entertainers. An experience like no other. Book a table now.

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A MIND BLOWING Review of Park Chinois in Mayfair

Park Chinois has very quickly established itself in the same league as restaurants like Hakkasan, China Tang and my favourite, Hunan (in Pimlico).

People were smiling, the food looked and smelt divine and more than that, they were being tended to hand and foot by the Park Chinois team.

Of course, we can’t help but compare Park Chinois food to that of say China Tang, just like we can’t knock people who compare the food to that from restaurants in China.

Their wine list reminded me a bit of an article we wrote last year ‘So Long a Wine List-So Short a Food Menu!’

So few good restaurants take the chance of having a live band and for Park Chinois, this has and is still very much paying off.

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A Hot Club-style jazz band is vamping through "Fly Me to the Moon", while couples sway gently around the dance floor.

And it does feel like we've landed on a different planet: London's first – and I would hazard last – swanky Chinese restaurant inspired by the jazz clubs of 1930s Shanghai.

From the moment the red velvet curtain is pulled back to reveal a dining room so gloriously camp it makes Blackpool's Tower Ballroom look humdrum, it's clear that Park Chinois is different.

It's worth it for the theatre, though, as our waiter stirs through the vivid orange egg yolk and deftly spins it into individual portions.

The staff-to-diner ratio, the complexity of the dishes, and the huge scope of the menu leaves my guests – both in the restaurant business – gasping in awe.

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Experience SALON DE CHINE Fine dining at its finest within London’s most extraordinary dining room.

A dining room dedicated to a time forgotten; where ladies and gentlemen are served by ladies and gentlemen in London’s most dazzling dining room.

The menu is largely Chinese with a progressive approach whilst utilising the finest ingredients, resulting in outstanding food with global acclaim.

The diverse dim sum lunch menu is second to none, providing a great selection of dim sum classics as well as excellent express lunch options satisfying those who want to feast and those who want it fast.

Live music and entertainment is curated daily to accompany the dinner service.

Park Chinois, restaurant review: Indulgence and the return of the ...

A Hot Club-style jazz band is vamping through "Fly Me to the Moon", while couples sway gently around the dance floor.

And it does feel like we've landed on a different planet: London's first – and I would hazard last – swanky Chinese restaurant inspired by the jazz clubs of 1930s Shanghai.

From the moment the red velvet curtain is pulled back to reveal a dining room so gloriously camp it makes Blackpool's Tower Ballroom look humdrum, it's clear that Park Chinois is different.

It's worth it for the theatre, though, as our waiter stirs through the vivid orange egg yolk and deftly spins it into individual portions.

The staff-to-diner ratio, the complexity of the dishes, and the huge scope of the menu leaves my guests – both in the restaurant business – gasping in awe.

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What they say: Alan Yau – the man behind Michelin-starred Hakkasan and Yauatcha, Soho’s Duck and Rice and, yes, Wagamama – is bringing back the dinner-dance experience of the ‘30s, and Park Chinois prides itself on the elegance and glamour of the era, with service to match.

Club Chinois sits downstairs, and where upstairs has live jazz, downstairs has more of a laid-back, modern vibe, with DJs spinning into the dark of the night.

Cocktails-wise, from the pre-dinner aperitifs, the armagnac – a very decent 8-year-old VSOP, equivalent to an XO cognac – mixed with a little Cocchi Americano, a dash of bitters and tonic water, is fresh and drinks long.

There’s still space to showboat, though: the Vieux Carre and East India are needlessly expensive at around £30 a drink: sure, they’ve rare brandy in them, but this is a cocktail – subtle flavours are folded in and mixed away.

And though it’s not really the place for that, it’s nice to know it’s possible to rub shoulders for an evening with the kind of people who send water back because it’s not room temperature.

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Alan Yau has moved on from Soho, where he turned what was Berwick Street’s The Endurance into Duck & Rice, a pub with Cantonese cooking, to an astoundingly ambitious new venture in Mayfair.

Yau has intimated that it is his swansong — gilded taps in the ladies loo bear this out — but somehow from the enlightened chap who brought us Wagamama, Hakkasan, Yauatcha (all sold) Busaba Eathai, Princi and more I suspect he will not be bowing out with “not really a restaurant… more like an entertainment lifestyle project”.

Approaching through tall metal railings with sharp pointed finials, a hefty wooden door and a fall of red velvet curtain, I come across Yau sitting with his sister Linda and Italian chef Francesco Mazzei.

In 2004 Yau opened the Italian restaurant Anda in Baker Street with Mazzei, but it was short-lived.

The problem with the old-school values to which Yau says he is harking back is that Marlene Dietrich in Shanghai Express can be conjured in the mind’s eye or Gong Li in Raise the Red Lantern recollected mistily, but Ruth and I notice that there is enough injected collagen among the evening’s customers to fashion a whole new not entirely seductive person.