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Yauatcha

Michelle Grant / Time Out
Yauatcha

Michelle Grant / Time Out
Yauatcha

Michelle Grant / Time Out
Yauatcha

Michelle Grant / Time Out
Yauatcha

Michelle Grant / Time Out
Yauatcha

Michelle Grant / Time Out
Yauatcha

Michelle Grant / Time Out

Yauatcha

Michelle Grant / Time Out

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Tue Jun 26 2012

At first glance, Yauatcha may look like a swanky cocktail bar, and with its celebrity – or sometimes just attractive – guests, the place can often resemble a nightclub. Nevertheless, it also serves some of the capital’s best and most innovative Cantonese food. Slide into a booth in the edgy ground-floor dining room, chicly accented with bright coloured lights and Chinese ceramics, or lounge around a table in the cavernous sexy brown room below.

Here you can sample the delights that first made the venue famous when Alan Yau opened it in 2004: top-quality dim sum that’s served day and night. Yau has long since released control of the business, but standards remain high. Try the traditional har gau, the sea bass and lotus root congee, or experience the wonderful textural play in the three-mushroom cheung fun.

As with the East-meets-West decor, so with the food: there’s rhubarb tart for pud. Go for a cocktail if you like, or enjoy one of the long list of Chinese teas: traditionally brewed, iced or in smoothie form. The petits gateaux in the window are not just eye candy; they are French pastries with Chinese characteristics, and they are divine.

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Address:
Yauatcha London
W1F 0DL

Phone:
020 7494 8888
Website:
www.yauatcha.com
Opening hours:
Dim sum served noon-11.45pm Mon-Sat; noon-10.30pm Sun
Transport:
Tube: Leicester Square, Piccadilly Circus or Tottenham Court Road tube
Price:
Dim sum £4-£15. Set meal (3-6pm Mon-Fri) £14.44 per person (maximum 2)
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1. Yauatcha
  - London
    W1F 0DL
  - 020 7494 8888
  - www.yauatcha.com
  - 51.513695,-0.135152

Categories:
Food and drink
Facilities:
Eating and drinking facilities. Café. Restaurant. Restaurant and bar facilities. Reservations required. Lunch. Dinner. Sunday lunch. Accessible facilities
Occasions:
Meal times. Best for Sunday lunch. Best for lunch. Wow factor. Business. Going in a group. Hip factor. Late night. Eating out. Celebrated chefs. Creative cooking. Fine dining. People-watching. Romantic. Unique. Unique London

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(19 ratings)

Why are you advertised on Time Out as one of their favourite places for Sunday lunch when you are not open on Sunday, or Saturday for that matter?

andy plume 1 hour ago
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Fantastic place, great food and excellent service. Thanks for the good time yesterday!

Egle Fri Apr 19
Rated as: 5/5
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Excellent dim sum, yes its slightly above China Town prices but its also a notch above in terms of quality. I disagree with so many of the posts below, tap water is perfectly possible (and regularly replenished without asking). The duck rolls really are incredible and venison puffs a delight. The cocktail list is really good and not overpriced compared to similar level establishments. My bill was £140 for 3 including lots of dim sum, multiple cocktails and a couple of mains. Not cheap but Ive left PIng Pong with steeper bills before and not been so full of good food. At the end of the day Michelin don't give away stars for nothing, whether you like their style or not its just silly to say "its rubbish".

Sybaricious Mon Apr 8
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Amazing Interior Design, it was a great service and the food was delicious. I loved it.

Kinga Mon Feb 25
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Very poor service, would not return again. We'd been to yautcha several years back and both food and service were lovely, but this time it was appalling. The waiter had kept our wine of the same type in a cooler shared with a table of 12 people, then insisted we had drunk 5 (!) bottles when we'd only had a glass each and he'd been serving our wine to the other table. Hope they enjoyed £200 of our wine!

CR Thu Feb 7
Rated as: 1/5
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Very expensive. We chose the place based on this review. Set menu for two was £40 not £14.44 per person like this article suggests. Tap water was not possible and the famous crispy duck rolls were very dry. Atmosphere, service and other food was OK but it was so expensive we left hungry. You'll get just as good Dim Sum somewhere else for much less. On a side note, I noticed the house sound system when we were leaving was a large peppering of highly priced Genelic studio monitors. These are speakers I have wanted for years and cost as much as £1400 for a single pair. The place was literally covered in them. Perhaps that's where all your money goes.

Mark Mon Jan 14
Rated as: 2/5
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First time went to Yauatcha. Service and food rubbish.!!!!!! Can't believe they charged me almost £50 t eat some rubbish food! Best go to China Town for Proper real Dim Sum! We booked a table for 7pm and it was not ready until 7.20pm! Not the same without Alan Yau!

Jesus Christ Thu Nov 8 2012
Rated as: 1/5
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Absolutely love this restaurant. The service is great and the food amazing. A little bit expensive comparing Royal China for example. Although this last one has an awful service, I guess that is where the difference is. I totally recommend.

miriam Fri Nov 2 2012
Rated as: 5/5
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Seriously.... this place is not very good. The xiao long bao is okay (3/5) and the rest is very well sub-par. The ONLY thing I like about this place is the selection of tea. That said, their business practices destroy the experience!! I finished a pot of tea and asked for some water to be added. They said they will not do it and that I had to buy another pot. In short, the reason they gave was for quality assurance that the tea would be most delicious. What a bunch of nonsense! When I explained that I lived in Asia for many years, including Taiwan, and that good teas seldom even use the first watering because the flavor is not delicate enough, they could not reply and were stumped. It's purely a business decision. Honestly, will NOT go back here again. Go to Royal China or Imperial China instead for Dim Sum.

Mike Sun Sep 23 2012
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Good well-presented food and decent service, but it is without doubt overpriced and the very tight seating is particularly irritating given how expensive the food is.

Tinian Fri Aug 17 2012
Rated as: 3/5
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