Review on Hakkasan

Hakkasan sets out its glamorous, Michelin-starred stall up a dodgy alley just off Tottenham Court Road: you might miss it altogether were it not for the taxis and the trendy types hovering about outside. Once through the blue glass door, descend a precipitous staircase to the chic, subterranean dining room with its lacquered black fretwork screens, red calligraphy, marble and slate floors. The whole place is seductively, but eerily twilit – so make the most of the light from the lamps dangling low over each table.

The kitchen takes Cantonese cuisine as its marker, but the menu is peppered with innovative and experimental ideas that can't be easily pigeonholed. An extended list of sensational dim sum earns Hakkasan its reputation at lunchtime (although many items are also available in the evening), and it pays to delve. Try the baked venison puffs, steamed scallop dumplings with tobiko caviar, jasmine tea-smoked organic pork ribs, and parcels of glutinous rice steamed in lotus leaves

Dinner brings other delights, including spectacular roast silver cod with Champagne and Chinese honey, stir-fried spicy prawns with bell peppers, lily bulbs and almonds, and a daring mixed marriage of Peking duck with Beluga caviar. Desserts are weird and wonderful creations like fennel crème brûlée with gin jelly. Fragrant teas, swanky cocktails and malt whiskies may distract you from the pricey pleasures on the impressive, global wine list.

Alan Yau sold Hakkasan early in 2008 although he still has a stake and continues to oversee the daily running of the restaurant. It's business as usual!

Hakkasan is also featured in: Michelin Guide, Good Food Guide, Hardens, AA Guide

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Cuisine

Chinese

Chef

Andrew Yeo

Restaurant Opening Times

Lunch: 12.00 – 3.00pm (12.00 - 11.00pm Sat & 12.00 - 10.30pm Sun)
Dinner: 5.30 - 10.30pm Mon-Wed (5.30pm - 11.00pm Thu & Fri)

Accepted credit cards

Visa, Master Card, American Express

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Facilities at Hakkasan

  • Disabled access
  • Private dining room
  • Private parties
  • Vegetarian menu
  • 200 covers

Address

Hakkasan
8 Hanway Place
Soho
West London
W1T 1HD

Nearest tube station: Tottenham Court Road

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Hakkasan Sample Menu

SAMPLE A LA CARTE

SALAD

Crispy duck salad
with pomelo, pine nut and shallot

Crispy bean curd peel and basil cress salad v
with mango and onion in yuzu dressing

SOUP

Royal sweetcorn soup
with lobster and gai lan

Hot and sour soup
with chicken, shiitake mushroom and pomelo

Vegetarian sweetcorn soup
Chinese wild mushroom soup
with Shanghai pak choi and goji berry

DIM SUM

Classic steamed dim sum
langoustine har gau with Prunier caviar, swordfish shumai with water chestnut, king crab dumpling with peppercorn sauce, wild mushroom dumpling v

Classic baked dim sum
pan-fry Rhug estate lamb dumpling, pan-fry wagyu beef dumpling with water chestnut, abalone puff with chicken and shitake, morel mushroom puff with mooli and spring onion

Supreme dim sum platter
gold leaf lychee and lobster dumpling, abalone and chicken shui mai with Prunier caviar, royal king crab jade dumpling, dover sole dumpling with black truffle

Vegan dim sum platter vg
gong choi and lily bulb dumpling, cordycep flower shui mai, Chinese chive jade dumpling, soy crumble bean curd dumpling

SMALL EAT

Hakkasan signature Peking duck
Whole duck, with 16 pancake, baby cucumber, spring onion and 30g of caviar. Second course with a choice of XO sauce, black bean sauce or ginger and spring onion. Available with Beluga caviar, with Prunier caviar

Stir-fry vegetable lettuce wrap v
Sesame prawn toast
with crispy seaweed and enoki mushroom

Salt and pepper squid
Golden fried soft shell crab
with red chilli

Crispy silken tofu vg
with Szechuan pepper

Morel mushroom and vegetable spring roll v
with edamame and gui hua

FISH

Roasted silver cod
with Champagne and honey

Grilled Chilean seabass in honey
Steamed spotted bass g
in soya sauce or black bean sauce

Wok-sear spotted bass
In superior ginger soya. Raised in a pristine lagoon in Mauritius, our spotted bass is sustainably farmed using organic methods that respect the life cycle of the fish. As accredited members of the 'Friend of the Sea' organisation, our farmers are actively involved in the conservation of marine habitat

SEAFOOD

Crispy fresh water prawn
with dried chilli and cashew nut

Spicy prawn g
with lily bulb and almond

Wok-fry Tristan lobster
With black truffle sauce and asparagus. Our MSC certified Tristan lobster is caught in the pristine waters around the remote island of Tristan da Cunha, one of the most remote inhabited islands on earth. Prized for its taste and texture, lobster fishing on the island has been thriving for over 60 years and provides the islands main economy

POULTRY

Roasted chicken in satay sauce
Sanpei chicken claypot
with sweet basil, chilli and spring onion

Black truffle roasted duck
with tea plant mushroom

MEAT

Sweet and sour Duke of Berkshire pork
with pomegranate

Grilled Australian wagyu rib eye beef g
with spring onion soya

Smoked beef ribs with jasmine tea

Stir-fry rib eye beef with lily bulb in black bean sauce g

Stir-fry black pepper rib eye beef with Merlot

Mongolian style lamb chop


TOFU AND VEGETABLE
Tofu, aubergine and Japanese mushroom claypot
with chilli and black bean sauce

Chinese vegetable v
Available in Pak choi, Gai lan

Stir-fry lotus root, asparagus and lily bulb v
in black pepper

Stir-fry baby broccoli and preserved olive v
with crispy seaweed and pine nut

Three style mushroom stir-fry v
with gai lan, lily bulb and macadamia nut

Stir-fry black pepper yellow bean v
with sugar snap

NOODLE AND RICE

Steamed jasmine rice v
Spring onion and egg fried rice
Vegetable fried rice with preserved olive leaf v
Singapore vermicelli
with prawn and squid
Hakka noodle
with shimeji mushroom, beansprout and katsuobushi

Restaurant menus often vary from day to day, so the above should be treated as examples of what to expect in terms of cuisine and price.

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