Hutong's signature Comfortably NumbThe 'Dragon Pearl' at HutongPhoto credit: Paul Winch-Furness

Feel better with our ‘Cocktail Cures’!

Chinese medicine is an ancient practice which employs herbs and plants to treat myriad conditions of the body and mind. For many centuries, the Chinese have chosen to use this traditional method in preference to ‘modern’ medicine, believing its natural, drug-free approach to be more beneficial to the human body than man-made medicaments.

Wishing to honour this long tradition respectfully but not without a little humour, the team in our Shanghai Bar developed our list of ‘Cocktail Cures’ –  recipes using just a few of the many hundreds of ingredients which practitioners of Chinese herbal medicine believe to be beneficial.
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Congratulations Richard – Hutong Employee Of the Month!

Hutong Employee Of The Month Richard Li

At Hutong, we naturally encourage all of our teams – from front-of-house and bar to the kitchen, management and maintenance – to strive to deliver the very highest standards in everything they do. Some however succeed in going even further than that, delivering a level of service to our guests and colleagues that merits special recognition.
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Hutong signs up to GREAT China Welcome Charter

We are delighted to announce that Hutong has become one of the first signatories of Visit Britain’s GREAT China Welcome Charter, which launched recently with a reception at Blenheim Palace.
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Our top tips for booking your table at Hutong

Pick your perfect table at Hutong

We’re all too aware – not to mention greatly flattered – that it can be very difficult to secure a reservation at Hutong, simply because of the very high demand that has sustained ever since we opened at The Shard in June 2013.

Such is the reputed difficulty in obtaining a table that esteemed restaurant critic Richard Vines included Hutong in an article for Bloomberg, sharing his expert tips on how to get one of ‘London’s best tables’. But it doesn’t have to be hard to book Hutong; allow us to share with you our own inside knowledge.
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Explore northern Chinese cuisine with Hutong’s Signature Menu

Chilled spiced razor clams steeped in Chinese rose wine

With such a wide array of tempting dishes on our menu, it can be difficult to choose what to enjoy at Hutong. To order the spicier, fiery dishes of Sichuan such as our Red Lantern soft-shell crab with dried chilli, or the more aromatic, tangy dishes of Shandong, like Boneless Dover sole in coriander-vinegar sauce?

Allow us to suggest the perfect solution – our Signature Menu, which for £68 per person presents eight of our most popular dishes, representing the many exciting facets of our cuisine, together with a selection of desserts.
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Hutong awarded top honour at Legacy Of Taste 2014

L-R: Alan Coxon, David Boyd, Tony Chan, Hugh Wright, Antony Edwards

A great honour was bestowed on Hutong on 1st March when, at an awards ceremony in London, it was announced that Hutong would receive one of the first ever Legacy Of Taste three-tiered Pagoda awards.
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Hutong’s Shanghai Bar is now open all day!

Hutong's 'Comfortably Numb' cocktails features a Sichuan pepper rim!

The Shanghai Bar at Hutong has always been a popular place for guests to enjoy a cocktail or glass of Champagne before or after dining with us. Also open to non-diners, the bar has indeed become a destination in its own right, thronged with a lively clientele of local business-people, international visitors and Londoners celebrating special occasions.

Now guests can enjoy the Shanghai Bar for longer, as it’s now open continuously from when the restaurant opens at midday until it closes at 11pm. The bar previously closed between lunch and dinner service but demand has been such that we are happy to now throw open its doors all day.
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Flexibility at a fixed price – our great new dim sum lunch menu!

A selection of Hutong's delicious dim sum

Delicious dim sum, freshly made-to-order by highly-skilled chefs, have formed part of our menu at Hutong since we opened. Our extensive selection of steamed, fried or baked dim sum includes such classic dumplings as Shanghai-style xiao long bao (pictured above, top left), Crispy shrimp rolls with thousand-year egg (centre left) and Baked Wagyu puffs.
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Pak Mei lion dance troupe danced through Hutong for Chinese New Year!Chinese New Year cocktails at HutongGuests were invited to treat themselves from a traditional candy boxLo Hei salad - a very special dish!Pak Mei lion dance at The View From The Shard - a world first!Hutong Operations Director Tony Geary handed staff red pockets containing a gift from the company.Hutong receiving its traditional cleaning.

Chinese New Year 2014 celebrations at Hutong


For our first Chinese New Year at Hutong our aim was to make it ‘the place to be to celebrate Chinese New Year in London’, and judging from the many happy faces we saw and kind comments we have received, we think we may have achieved it!

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Mix up our Lo Hei this Chinese New Year

As part of our Chinese New Year celebrations at Hutong we are delighted to bring to London the traditional Lo Hei (撈起) salad.

Lo Hei is a fortune- and prosperity-bringing dish at Chinese New Year. Its origins date back more than 750 years to the days of the Song Dynasty, when fishermen along the coast of China would celebrate the seventh day of Chinese New Year, known as Renri or ‘everyone’s birthday’, with this fresh fish and diced vegetable dish.
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