Chinatown - The Glass Magazine

Xu launches private dining Mahjong games rooms

September 29, 2017

THE trio of Chinese restaurateurs and entrepreneurs who are responsible for the supremely popular restaurant chain BAO have launched a new Taiwanese restaurant Xu in the heart of Chinatown. In line with Shin...

Tea-infused cocktails available now at Opium, Chinatown

Becky Zanker

August 11, 2015

Dining, London, News

Opium, the dimly lit, speakeasy-like enclave that sits decadently atop the chatter of China Town has its own answer to Afternoon Tea Week this year. For the event, which is running all this week, it has teame...

Covert cocktails in Chinatown

Becky Zanker

February 17, 2015

Dining, Feature

A speakeasy within a speakeasy, Peony is a discreet, enchanting enclave hidden in the very depths of London’s Chinatown. It’s actually part of Opium – the stylish cocktail bar and dim sum restaurant on Gerr...

A speakeasy for the modern drinker

Becky Zanker

February 16, 2015

Dining, Feature

There is – seemingly – no secrecy in the very centre of Chinatown, in Soho, London. Restaurants display their menus, with bold, bright pictures, on huge entranceway panels, exotic vegetables are sliced to r...

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