Park Chinois

 Chinese banquet-style delight

Steamed king crab in aged rice wine and rice noodles

Back again at the wonderful fine dining Chinese restaurant Park Chinois in Mayfair, serving classy Chinese cuisine using the finest ingredients. I have eaten there a few times and worked my way to try most of the items on the menu, I really enjoy how the restaurant based its cooking in the traditional Chinese manner, but with a touch of modern twist ever so slightly to create something truly special. For my lucky 13th visit, I have given the kitchen the freedom to come up with an omakase treatment, serving a blind tasting Chinese banquet-style menu, mixing in the restaurant's signature dishes, as well as some off the menu goodies.

Steamed egg with truffle

Steamed red bream with ginger and fish bone sauce

Wagyu short-ribs in black bean

Steamed eggs in Cantonese style had a soft, jelly-like texture, almost like a savory version of panna cotta. It was topped off with black truffle, offered a rich earthly aroma and worked so well with the egg. One of the off-menu dishes was red shrimps rice which used Japanese pearl rice. The red shrimps were sweet and had a great depth of shellfish umami taste as expected, and the rice absorbed all the beautiful shellfish stock to create a lovely seafood rice dish that is truly sensational. The signature shortribs Scottish wagyu was as good as I recalled, the melting texture of the beef, along with the bold black bean aroma offered such a bold, deep flavour taste, with the use of dried orange peels to balance off the richness.

Red shrimps and egg rice

Salt baked chicken

Desserts selection

The long 10 courses feasting menu took almost 4 hours and what a feast it was, I sampled some classical Chinese dishes but in a really refined manner using outstanding ingredients, as well as some new creative dishes that the chef has specially arranged, which I am so thankful for. I found with Chinese food, the more people the better as you can sample more dishes, and the Chinese banquet concept is all about gathering people for a good time with great food, and Park Chinois is a great choice for such feasting format.

Food 4.5/5


Average cost without drinks and services:
£80

17 Berkeley St, Mayfair, London W1J 8EA

https://parkchinois.com/