Historical version 13 of Chuen Cheng Ku, W1D 6PN (view current version)
- 17 Wardour Street, W1D 6PN (streetmap) (osm) (gmap) (bingmap) (streetview)
- chuenchengku.co.uk
- 11am-11:45pm Mon-Sat; 11am-11:15pm Sun
Closed for refurb September 2007; now open again.
Chinese restaurant just off Shaftesbury Avenue. (Note that it has two entrances; one is on Wardour Street and the other is on Rupert Street - it's pretty big.)
Offers dim sum until 10:30pm (according to menu in window, May 2007); they have menus on the tables that you can order from, but (at lunchtime, at least) they also have the trollies that come around to let you choose from.
Four of us visited on a Friday lunchtime (April 2007). We were seated straight away and the trollies came round very quickly; we had a good selection of food on our table very soon after being ready to start choosing. The staff were careful to make sure our teacups and teapot were kept topped up at all times. We paid £63.30 (including the service charge, which they added automatically) for four hungry people, including tea but no alcohol. I think we'll be coming back here.
Another visit on a Thursday lunchtime, May 2007; a larger group, and slightly slower teapot-tending, but again we were happy. The stand-out dish was perhaps the pork and ginger dumplings; not at all an unusual item, just very well executed. The spicy sea snails are also worth a try, if only for the novelty of it. Fried sesame-coconut dessert dumplings were also good. £13 per head this time (including service charge and tea, no alcohol).
Quite busy on 20th March, 2008 (possibly because it was Maundy Thursday), but despite relegating the 6 of us to an 8 table "round the back" and up a ramp, the trolleys still continued to visit, and the teapot was well tended. £11 a head (including service charge and tea, no alcohol).
Leon visited with five others on 29th May 2008 and we were very disappointed: the quality of the food was much worse that previously and he's unlikely to return anytime soon.
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GPS data collected by Kake on a Garmin eTrex, 13 April 2007, and released into the public domain: OSGB 529750, 180781.
Last visited by Nick and other perlmongers, 20 March 2008. Opening hours taken from the Chuen Cheng Ku website, May 2007.