We couldn’t have been more pleased when, following their recent visit, top fashion and lifestyle title Grazia published this very positive review. With a gimlet eye on our décor, food and service, Grazia’s critic Alice Tate evaluated every aspect of her experience – and reached some very satisfying conclusions!
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Since opening we have been honoured to receive a number of awards for our cuisine and overall experience, but we were delighted to win an award for our design, specifically our lighting, at the prestigious Restaurant & Bar Design Awards recently.
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Guests who have visited Hutong at night will know how magical the experience can be, with mesmerising views of an illuminated London as a backdrop to the lively atmosphere and award-winning cuisine. Come at lunchtime however and you will discover an altogether different – but equally enjoyable – experience, offering something for everyone to enjoy!
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To accompany our Mid-Autumn Festival Menu, our bar team and sommeliers have worked together to create an optional drinks pairing, showcasing Chinese wines and spirits and taking the moon as its inspiration.
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Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important Chinese festivals, falling on the 15th day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar during a full moon – Monday, 8th September this year. Celebrating the legend of Chang’e, the moon goddess, and Houyi, the archer, Mid-Autumn Festival is a time for gathering, thanksgiving and praying.
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When our bars manager Myles Donneky launched our new cocktail list earlier this year, we were quietly confident that his innovative bing cha or ‘iced tea’ cocktails and Chinese-influenced classics and new creations would be popular with our guests – and that’s certainly proved to be the case!
Nonetheless we were still overwhelmed when the UK’s leading magazine for cocktail connoisseurs, The Cocktail Lovers, visited the Shanghai Bar to sample some of the list and it resulted in a glowing, not to mention very comprehensive, review.
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We are very pleased to introduce Simon Kirkham, who has joined Hutong as General Manager.
Simon has been part of the Aqua Restaurant Group family since 2008, joining as Restaurant Manager of aqua kyoto, and spent nine months pre-opening in Hong Kong managing another of aqua’s Japanese restaurants, Wasabisabi. He became Assistant General Manager of aqua london in June 2012 and most recently was Operations Manager.
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The arrival of summer heralds the start of the food festivals season, and we have recently had the excitement of ‘popping up’ at two London events. First on July 24th was London Bridge Open Kitchen, held at White Cube on Bermondsey Street and organised by Team London Bridge.
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Since we opened in June 2013, there have been very few changes to the a la carte menu at Hutong, a reflection of the enduring popularity of many dishes. But knowing our guests’ appetite for discovering the flavours of northern China, to mark our first anniversary of opening we have introduced eight new dishes which we are sure will quickly become as popular as those they join.
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Although we only introduced our new cocktails a few weeks ago, some of the new drinks are already establishing themselves as firm favourites both with our guests and press. Indeed, olive magazine were so taken with our Red Snapper that they even asked us for the recipe to share with their readers!
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