RestaurantsLondonCityEC4

survey result

Summary

£72
  £££
3
Good
2
Average
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

For a Chinese meal in the City, a number of reporters recommend this venue at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Blackfriars (fka the Crowne Plaza, reopened post-refurb in summer 2023). The unusual name marks the debut of the Chinese national cricket team in 2009, the year the restaurant opened. Classic dishes range from dim sum and Peking duck to xiao long bao.

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Crowne Plaza, 19 New Bridge St, London, EC4V 6DB

Restaurant details

Yes
Highchair
No dress code
65

What the Newspaper Critics are saying

The Times

Giles Coren clearly expected the worst when he found himself having to treat his family to a Chinese meal “without taking them to an actual proper regional Chinese restaurant serving real Chinese food for real Chinese people of the kind that I love but they hate (and most of you do too)”.

The Chinese Cricket Club is “a big, empty, overlit space” at the back of a hotel on the edge of the City, with little sign of cricket beyond “two bad black and white photographs of the Oval on the wall”.

The food was just as Giles had expected: “bland, generic, loveless and tasted to me as if it had been frozen”; indeed, some was so foul he was brought the edge of retching. His son, though, thought it “fabulous” (and the service was genuinely excellent).

Giles Coren - 2025-01-19
Crowne Plaza, 19 New Bridge St, London, EC4V 6DB
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Opening hours

Mon - Fri noon - 2.30 pm, 6 pm - 10 pm; Sat closed; Sun 6 pm - 10 pm
Last orders: Sun - Fri 10 pm; Sat closed

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