Yauatcha Soho

A contemporary dim sum tea house located in London, India, and soon to be the USA.

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Houston Restaurant Review: Yauatcha | Houston Press

Yauatcha executive chef Ho Chee Boon, along with Hakkasan Group executive head chef Tong Chee Hwee and his culinary team, has curated an exquisite menu of dim sum and signature dishes.

Although it’s known as a dim sum restaurant, the traditional dim sum items on the menu are not Yauatcha’s strong suit.

Steamed choices like har gau (a shrimp and bamboo bundled dumpling), shui mai (pork and prawn dumpling) and char siu bun (barbecue pork bao) are by any measure the go-to fan faves of Chinese dim sum.

Unlike the steamed dim sum, the three prawn dumplings were very large and the shrimp mixture tasted fresh, bright and very pleasing.

Hours: Sunday through Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Thursday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Hakka (cocktail) $15 Penicillin (cocktail) $11 Crispy foie gras salad $25 Crispy soft shell crab $15 Three mushrooms with hand-pulled noodles $12 Char siu bun $5 Har gau $8 Pork and prawn shui mai $6 Shanghai siew long bun $7 Roasted duck pumpkin puffs $7 Crispy prawn dumpling $6 Morel dumpling $12 Prawn and bean curd cheung fun $10 Tropical dome $12 Assorted macarons $2 each

Delicious Dim Sum at Yauatcha Soho - SilverSpoon London

One thing I love about blogging is telling people about my favourite places and I can’t believe it’s taken until now to write about my absolute favourite dim sum restaurant; Yauatcha Soho.

Yauatcha City is great for groups of friends, colleagues, working lunches or cocktails on the terrace but Yauatcha Soho is more intimate, perfect for a date night with that special someone.

Like the other restaurants in the Hakkasan group, Yauatcha really follows a formula for success and has kept a consistent level of excellence over all these years.

Working alongside Executive Head Chef Tong Chee Hwee who over sees all the restaurants in the Hakkasan group and who designed the menu at Yauatcha right at the beginning.

Overhearing that my companion and I were celebrating our birthdays, the lovely team at Yauatcha Soho iced our dessert with a special birthday message With its own in-house patisserie, desserts are a big deal at this restaurant and we absolutely loved the coffee cremeux served with hazelnuts in perfectly crisp macarons.

Yauatcha restaurant review 2013 March London | Chinese Cuisine ...

Upstairs used to be a tea bar where you can wait for your table and try an exotic Chinese tea, but these days this room seems to be set aside as an overflow dining area, so busy is the restaurant.

Gai lan was beautifully delicate (16/20), and wild prawns with chill sauce were carefully cooked and had an excellent sauce, though were a little tricky to eat as they were served in their shells (14/20).

It is every bit as good as at Hakkasan, with superb har gau featuring very tender prawns and feather-light steamed dumpling surrounding the prawns (15/20).

Prawns with chives were similarly excellent (14/20), as was a venison puff with lovely light pastry (15/20).

Also excellent are almond prawns, large prawns deep fried and very tender, with a batter with a hint of almonds (15/20).

Yauatcha Soho | London Bar Reviews | DesignMyNight

Yauatcha, Soho: Decadent dim sum in a Soho tea house | London ...

This Taipei-inspired tea house in the heart of Soho comes from a particularly impressive gastronomic stable - that of Alan Yau.

He’s the man who started both the Wagamama and Busaba Eathai chains as well as high-end Chinese restaurant group Hakkasan, with Turkish pizza restaurant Pide, Chinese gastropub The Duck & Rice, and decadent Chinese restaurant and bar Park Chinois among more recent openings.

Many reckon it’s the best in London, and they might be right.

The tea list is unrivalled, but sake, wines and cocktails are also on hand for those seeking something stronger.

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Yauatcha, W1 | Life and style | The Guardian

The food at the recently opened Yauatcha may be mouthwateringly spectacular, but even Jay Rayner can't give its dim sum menu the work out it deserves in just 90 minutes Yauatcha, 15-17 Broadwick Street, London W1 (020 7494 8888).

Meal for two, including wine and service, £80 I don't care how good the dim sum are.

I perform this job because I care way too much, and the opening of a dedicated dim sum restaurant from Alan Yau, the owner of Hakkasan, Britain's only Michelin-starred Chinese restaurant, is the kind of thing I am paid to care about.

Dim sum is casual food.

The Chinese chive dumplings possess a real oniony burst.

Yauatcha | Restaurants in Soho, London

Descend the stairs to the sensual basement of this self-styled tea house in Soho and graze on exquisite all-day dim sum - pricier than most, but wonderful.

So why do people still glide down the stairs of this self-styled Taipai tea house into its sensual basement?

The design helps: the long bar, spot-lit black tables and illuminated fish tank still have allure, and the nightclub vibe is boosted by beautiful staff and bass-heavy beats.

Day-and-night dim sum was a Yauatcha innovation, and a special of scallop and edamame crystal dumplings produced three delicate, pendulous sacs filled with a textural mix of resilient beans, crunchy carrot morsels, flavourful fragments of scallop and juicy sweetcorn.

Gai lan came with just enough salted fish sauce to pique the palate, and fragrant lotus leaf rice held moist treats of egg, chicken and dried shrimps.