Chef Andrew Wong is shifting his celebrated Chinese restaurant A Wong to the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Mayfair for a six-week residency this summer, to allow for a through renovation of his Pimlico HQ.
A Wong is a regular in the upper reaches of the Harden’s 100 list of the UK’s best restaurants, offering a “thrilling adventure in dining” over 30 courses at a venue Andrew has transformed since taking over from his parents in 2012.
The evenings-only residency at the Mandarin Oriental on Hanover Square runs from Tuesday 18 August until Saturday 26 September, with A Wong reopening in Wilton Road, Pimlico shortly after.
Meanwhile, Andrew has another project in the works – a Chinese pub called Kong, which he is opening with Dishoom co-founder Amar Radia this autumn in Shoreditch’s Norton Folgate development.
A pub has been on the site since 1792 – around the time the first Chinese settlers arrived in east London – trading as the Pewter Platter, The Poet and the Water Poet until 2019. The all-day venture promises to offer ‘dumplings at dawn, noodles at lunch, grills with a cold pint at dusk’.
Andrew says:“Kong is a Chinese kitchen reflecting our personality, shaped by London, the East End, China and A.Wong. Untraditional, instinctive, fearless, all-day cooking.”
