Hutong

The Shard

33 St Thomas St

London

SE1 9RY 

BY NEAL MARTIN |

The Food: 

Iberico pork dumplings with Sichuan garlic sauce

Dim sum: cod and seaweed with tobiko; XO sauce crystal prawn; mushroom and spinach; Rosé champagne shrimp; Iberico pork xiao long bao

Calamari flowers (squid in Sichuan peppercorn and chilli oil)

Half roasted Peking duck

Ten-hour slow-braised aromatic beef rib with cinnamon, star anise and dark soy sauce served in lotus leaf

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The whole package makes Hutong one of those places you deserve to come to once and depart with a sense of having no desire to return unless somebody invites you. But one thing’s for sure: you will remember the view.