Eat Out London!The Duck and Rice
The Duck + Rice | Restaurants in Soho
Set within the beating heart of Berwick Street market, The Duck + Rice serves game changing Dim Sum and an eponymous dish that attracts connoisseurs from around the world.
With our unique blend of tradition and modernism, comfort and extroversion, The Duck + Rice embodies the eclectic rhythm of Soho’s most iconic street.
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The Duck & Rice, London W1, restaurant review - Telegraph
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I only hope said acquaintance has made it down to The Duck & Rice, superstar restaurateur Alan Yau ’ s new “Cantonese pub” in Soho.
With Hakkasan he convinced us that Anglo-Cantonese food had haute sex appeal; with Yauatcha he persuaded us to part with wincingly large sums for tiny, exquisite morsels of dim sum; with Busaba Eathai he brought a note of glamour to buckets of noodles; and with Wagamama – lest we forget – he became a very rich man .
A meat dish with orange slices at Duck and Rice (GEOFF PUGH) I didn’t know where their abalone was sourced – I’m guessing wild, brown-lipped – but it whispered at us from the confines of the “soup, noodle and rice” section.
He nitpicked: the skin not crisp enough, the binding of fat squidgy and cold, the sauce too salty, and with way too much soy.
Some of the dishes at Duck and Rice did not live up to expectations (GEOFF PUGH) And with a heavy heart, I regret to inform that a tofu stir-fry (£9.50), in the “Buddha’s delight” section, wasn’t particularly delightful (with all due respect to the Enlightened One).
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All this gonad-stabbing pain, combined with some expensive menu items such as £50 duck and lobster dishes, makes the management’s press statement that The Duck and Rice is ‘a pub – and not a posh restaurant’ seem either naively optimistic or deliberately deceptive.
Despite the lengthy menu, I had only intended to visit The Duck and Rice a handful of times but several late nights at the day job and its close proximity to one of my safe houses meant I found myself eating there repeatedly.
Some of the same deep-fried Dim Sum dishes are also available downstairs in the bar, along with several other dishes unique to the bar menu and I managed to try out a large swathe with the help of The Lensman and Single Malt Scot.
While the veggie version had crisp pastry tubes filled with a sweet tasting medley of vegetables that left a clean after taste, the duck version was a forgettable mediocrity from the limp pastry to the anonymous flakes of meat inside.
Both halves of Duck and Rice share the familiar pork and prawn version which paired salty pork with oddly crabstick-like prawn.
Duck & Rice Is a Fantasy Chinese Restaurant in London's Chinatown
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Restaurant Reviews Duck Rice Is a Fantasy Chinese Restaurant in London’s Chinatown Staples familiar to anyone who likes standard takeout Chinese are taken seriously here By August 12, 2015, 2:00 AM EDT Just when we’re all getting used to the idea that China has a range of distinct cuisines—eight is the magic number, as with so many things in the country—along comes a restaurant that adds a ninth cuisine: Disney Chinese.
The long menu hops in and out of bed with a bunch of culinary partners: Cantonese dim sum to Sichuan chili chicken; Fujian fried rice to Malaysian curry.
Photographer: Weng Wei/Courtesy of The Duck and Rice This new restaurant in Soho—home to London’s Chinatown—is the brainchild of Alan Yau, who created Hakkasan and Wagamama.
Photographer: Weng Wei/Courtesy of The Duck and Rice The nearest thing to a greeter at night was a bouncer: possibly necessary for Soho but not the most welcoming of sights.
Photographer: Weng Wei/Courtesy of The Duck and Rice There’s fine dim sum, particularly the har gau, the cheung fun, and the venison puff.
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This has been set up by Alan Yau, opening right next door to his old restaurant Yauatcha.
He's reinvented the space as a Chinese gastropub - so there's a more pubby environment downstairs with a Chinese restaurant upstairs.
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The duck, hanging from hooks in the window and looking very similar to the one above from The Duck and Rice, was chopped up with a massive cleaver and piled onto mounds of steaming rice.
The place I was invited to a few weeks ago, The Duck and Rice on Berwick Street, is an altogether more elegant affair, with stunning bespoke blue tiles and stained glass windows, warm fires and an ‘updated pub’ feel to it.
Who wouldn’t jump at the chance of a visit to check out the kitchen, learn about the unpasteurised Pilsner Urquell which is shipped over from the Czech Republic and then sits in state massive shiny copper tanks that greet you as you walk in and then to share a Chinese feast upstairs in the dining room.
Though I’d quite like a little bao bun on the side, especially if like the ones at Duck and Rice it came filled with Jasmine tea smoked ribs).
Next time I go back to Duck and Rice (and there will be a next time), I’ll be booking one of those window seats with a view out over Berwick street.
The Duck & Rice, London W1, restaurant review - Telegraph
food staff menu drinks
I only hope said acquaintance has made it down to The Duck & Rice, superstar restaurateur Alan Yau ’ s new “Cantonese pub” in Soho.
With Hakkasan he convinced us that Anglo-Cantonese food had haute sex appeal; with Yauatcha he persuaded us to part with wincingly large sums for tiny, exquisite morsels of dim sum; with Busaba Eathai he brought a note of glamour to buckets of noodles; and with Wagamama – lest we forget – he became a very rich man .
A meat dish with orange slices at Duck and Rice (GEOFF PUGH) I didn’t know where their abalone was sourced – I’m guessing wild, brown-lipped – but it whispered at us from the confines of the “soup, noodle and rice” section.
He nitpicked: the skin not crisp enough, the binding of fat squidgy and cold, the sauce too salty, and with way too much soy.
Some of the dishes at Duck and Rice did not live up to expectations (GEOFF PUGH) And with a heavy heart, I regret to inform that a tofu stir-fry (£9.50), in the “Buddha’s delight” section, wasn’t particularly delightful (with all due respect to the Enlightened One).
Duck & Rice | Restaurants in Soho, London
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Ground-floor pub with Chinese restaurant above from restaurateur Alan Yau in the heart of Soho's Berwick Street.
To go out and get tanked has been given a whole new meaning by Duck & Rice, Alan Yau’s new Soho pub and dining room that dispenses ‘tank beer’.
Much like at Yauatcha next door – an earlier Yau project that he sold along with Hakkasan in 2008 – Duck & Rice takes a typically progressive approach to Chinese food.
There’s Cantonese roast duck, moist and pleasingly fatty with crisp skin; modern Oriental dishes such as wasabi prawns; Malaysian char kway teoh; but also lots of jokey reinterpretations of Western-style Chinese takeaway staples.
This isn’t a Hakkasan or Yauatcha, but Duck & Rice still does decent dishes in a fun setting, and the mixture of Chinese restaurant and posh pub is inspired.