Forbidden City

Welcome to London’s Forbidden city where we aspire to bridge the worlds of the restaurant with the bar.

Legend has it that ‘anything entering the Forbidden city is not allowed to leave the Forbidden city’

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Forbidden CIty – Chinese Restaurant

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Moving on to the delicious little steamed pockets themselves, our first taste of the actual dim sum were shrimp dumplings with sweet chilli sauce and citrus foam.

The bon bon is a great example of how Andrew Wong takes traditional Chinese dishes and reworks them into something innovative and less conventional.

Though Andrew focussed on academia, cooking had always been in his blood with his parent’s running a Chinese restaurant for years on the site where A. Wong now stands.

My companion loved these perfect little round foie gras sticky sesame dumplings and pronounced the taste of liver not too strong…I’m not sure whether this is a good or bad thing but it depends how much you savour that rich buttery flavour.

That’s the thing about A. Wong, the food is clever, but not annoyingly clever…there’s great skill at work but never to the detriment of taste.

The best pre-and post-theatre restaurants in London

Why is it that, when you’re going to the theatre, the food is so often demoted to second fiddle?

Why, when London’s culinary scene has never been better, do we not choose our meals with as much thought as we choose our musical or play?

If you’re a food-loving theatregoer who often finds themselves eating a Pret sandwich in the interval, or a meal deal in some ubiquitous Italian chain on the way to the show - stop.

This spot is ideal for early diners, and even better for late ones, taking orders until 11.30pm and providing, in the form of the low-lit, sultry Bar American, a digestif spot a mere stumble away from the dinner table.

Post-theatre, order a bottle of house red and go for broke*

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The setting is “lively” (if “crowded”) too, and in the evening, there’s also the option of a small Chef’s Table, or eating in the “decadent” ‘Forbidden City’ basement bar.

There’s a wide range of eating options too, from “incredibly inventive dim sum”, to a “fabulous 10-course tasting menu”.

Forbidden City, Woking, Knaphill. Book now!

Forbidden City isn’t just a Chinese restaurant, it’s a restaurant where the finest flavours from all around Southeast Asia can be enjoyed in style.

You’ll find tastes from Beijing, Szechuan and Guangdong, sure, but you’ll also find distinctive Thai and Vietnamese dishes that make a meal here quite unique indeed.

You’ll find Forbidden City just west of the heart of Woking in Knaphill, nestled on Broadway and one of the most charming and stylish dining spaces around.

On top of all that, you’ve got the choice of an a la carte menu or an impressive all-you-can-eat buffet menu to get a little taste of everything.

Meet Feng Shang Princess, the (lousy) Chinese restaurant in a boat ...

The Feng Shang Princess is a floating Chinese restaurant on the Regent’s Canal in north London, which flows from Little Venice to the Guardian to Limehouse, and in which they quite often find corpses in shopping trolleys and vice versa.

The Regent’s Canal is an ugly stretch of water, which reeks of sexual violence and cheap alcohol and cyclists, and it is desolate; place it near London Zoo and you have a peculiar cognitive dissonance that could only happen in London: a tapir near a canal featuring a floating Chinese restaurant.

Its marketing tic is this: it is a Chinese restaurant on a boat.

The canal here turns north to Camden market and the tattoo parlour called ‘Evil from the Needle’; the Feng Shang Princess is therefore on a watery cul-de-sac, on which float algae and duckweed and Diet Coke cans.

Otherwise, because human stupidity is without end, the Feng Shang Princess won an OpenTable Diners’ Choice award last year: because, on a canal basin near Alan Bennett, it floats.

My 50 favourite UK restaurants: critic Marina O'Loughlin's choice ...

These are my favourite restaurants, not the UK’s best, or the country’s top, or any other such arbitrary listicle.

My favourite places are those where staff look genuinely pleased to see you, where there’s a buzz of contented customers, where the menu gives you a little thrill because there are so many things on it that you’d like to eat.

I’m particularly impressed with chef Ben Radford’s way with meat, taking fine Scottish produce and letting it sing, avoiding water baths and other culinary footerings.

11 Exchange Place, Glasgow G1, 0141-248 4055, roganoglasgow.com There was a period of my life when I basically lived in the Rogano, a walnut booth in its beautiful, art-deco interior pressed into service as office, living room and occasionally – after a martini or several – very nearly bedroom.

The snug, red walls have welcomed lots of stars over the years – I love the photos of the likes of Lionel Richie and Sex And The City’s Kim Cattrall on the website – but the restaurant quietly goes about the business of turning happy customers into regulars who’ll come back time and time again.