Yauatcha

Fantastic place, great food and excellent service. Thanks for the good time yesterday!

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".

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

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

To those with negative reviews about bad service, noisy atmosphere etc - DONT BOTHER rather than just blah blah. Good for the rest of us trying to find seat there. This is still a great place, lively atmosphere and if you're after a great freshly made and brilliantly made dim sums - still hard to beat compared to ANY Chinatown places - then Yauatcha still does it for me since it's early days. I came here yesterday around 12.15pm (for lunch with my sister) - surprisingly great time to come as service just starting off and good discreet service. Costs more but not overly expensive by any means - and when comparing to some dross you get elsewhere and still pay anything for it - this is worth EVERY PENNY.