Hakkasan Hanway Place

Fab meal! We went here for an early dinner between Parts 1 & 2 of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, it's about a 10 minute walk from the Palace Theatre. We arrived slightly early and were seated at the bar to order from their extensive cocktail menu. It's quite dark inside but it creates a dramatic and sexy atmosphere. Service was fabulous too, not too intrusive but we were never left waiting for courses. 10/10!
5 7 years ago (15-04-2018)

Went with my two 20 year old sons and the vegan girlfriend of one of them for a set deal. It turned out to be a magnificent experience. Excellent service, attentive staff. The cocktails included in the deal were delicious and of generous size. Food was beautifully presented and tasted great. We enjoyed the atmosphere - with an elegant and discret Chinese touch. Through starters and mains, the restaurant took great care of our vegan friend. As we knew the offer did not include any vegan dessert options, she was prepared to skip dessert. The restaurant, however, offered to make a vegan sorbet specially! What a nice thing to do - it crowned an already excellent experience. I can not praise this restaurant enough. Warmly recommended. Remember to book ahead - of course it is popular!
5 7 years ago (28-02-2018)

The traditional dim sum dishes were really excellent - possibly the best in London. Much as I wanted to hate the ‘nightclub’ style basement restaurant, I actually rather liked the intimate lighting. Again, I wanted to hate the uniformed staff, but I couldn’t as they were efficient and friendly. Finally, I wanted to write it off as over-priced, but I can’t as lunch for two with tea came to only £50, which is no more than you’d pay at Royal China (my dim sum benchmark). Many of the dishes do look contrived and over-priced, but if you stick to the traditional dim sum menu you can’t go wrong. I’m a Hakkasan convert!
4 7 years ago (15-04-2018)

The food was fine but the service was horrible. The waitress was looking around and not that focused when taking order. Then we pointed out that the order was wrong when food arrived, she argued that we made the mistake ourselves even though when we made the order we pointed at the menu to show her exactly what we wanted. She unhappily took the dish back for change. Later the other order was wrong as we ordered two portion instead of one and when her colleague told her she rolled her eyes thinking we couldn’t see that. At the end when we split the bill and did the card payment, the other waiter was waiting for me to take the card machine myself though I was on the other side of the table, he was obviously impatient. This is quite absurd if you notice that they charge you 13.5% service charge, while most of the high end restaurant will normally charge you 12.5% and offer you a much better service. This is my fourth time here and the service just dropped. There are many other good Chinese restaurant in London and I believe I’ll hardly coming back again.
2 7 years ago (11-02-2018)

I am a big fan of this restaurant and always have been. Superb Chinese food. You can always try on the food being spot on (albeit pricey) and I have therefore frequently booked it for special occasions. Disappointingly on my last occasion visiting, despite my table of four having spent a small fortune on cocktails and a three course meal we were extremely rushed throughout the meal and were asked whilst paying for the meal (!!)if we could leave the table to allow the next guests to sit down. It is a real shame that it has become the norm for it to be acceptable even in top restaurants to rush guests through (and state when arriving you can have the table for 1.5 hours). It put a real dampener on evening which is unfortunate. Meals on special occasions should be allowed to be drawn out so guests can enjoy drinks and just have a really good time.
3 7 years ago (05-03-2018)