The influential Chinese chef and restaurateur Bill Poon has died at the age of 81. His passing was announced this week by his daughter, fellow-restaurateur Amy Poon (pictured). Bill was a crucial figure in elevating the standards – and the standing – of Chinese cuisine in Britain, bringing new ambition and culinary knowhow to the scene in […]
Amy Poon will revive one of the most famous names in British Chinese cooking with the opening of her first permanent restaurant – called Poon’s – in Somerset House on Bonfire Night. Amy’s parents Bill and Cecilia opened the original Poon’s in Chinatown in 1973, which ran alongside a second venue in Covent Garden until they […]
Amy Poon’s Wontoneria opens on 7 February for a three-month residency at 23 Charlotte Street in Fitzrovia, the ‘incubator space’ run by revolving-chef restaurant Carousel, in a step towards reviving the family’s famous Poon’s restaurant at a permanent site. Her father Bill Poon, a seventh-generation Cantonese master chef, opened his first restaurant in London’s Chinatown […]
