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Princess Garden Of Mayfair was an upscale Cantonese restaurant in [[Locale Mayfair|Mayfair]]. It has now closed. The information below is retained for historical purposes. <div class="old_info"> Upscale Cantonese restaurant in [[Locale Mayfair|Mayfair]]. Entry is into a bar area which the Time Out review linked below aptly describes as being reminiscent of an airport lounge (albeit a first-class one). From here, along a short corridor lined with Chinese art, is the dining area. This comprises a light, open, if somewhat boxy room, situated as it is on the corner of a block, with large tinted glass windows separating it from the street. Tables are widely-spaced and clothed in white linen <small>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/bellaphon/5837232859/ photo]</small>. [[Kake]], [http://eatlovenoodles.blogspot.com/ Sung], [http://bellaphon.blogspot.com/ Les], [http://www.chow.com/profile/10076 Limster], and [http://www.riceandpickle.com/ Sharmila] visited on a Wednesday evening in June 2011. We'd booked, which was probably a good idea. Cold starters of drunken chicken and five-spiced beef <small>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/bellaphon/5837783128/ photo]</small> were both pretty good. Steamed mashed pork with dried squid (土魷馬碲蒸肉餅/gān yóu mǎ tí zhēng ròu bǐng) <small>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/bellaphon/5837780172/ photo]</small>, while not obviously tasting of dried squid, was juicy and savoury. A whole steamed seabass with ginger and spring onions <small>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/bellaphon/5837230961/ photo]</small> was competently deboned and steamed perfectly, though Les noted that it tasted more farmed than wild (it was described as wild on the menu). E-fu noodles with crab meat <small>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/bellaphon/5837231537/ photo]</small> had a perfect texture and a generous quantity of crab meat. The only real disappointment of the meal was the pork casserole with preserved vegetables (梅菜扣肉煲) <small>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/kake_pugh/5919358332/ photo]</small>; the meat here was insufficiently tender. Quick fried egg white with chives (蛋白炒韭菜/dàn bái chǎo jiǔ cài) <small>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/kake_pugh/5920059618/ photo]</small> was also not as good as the rest of the dishes, being a little greasier than optimal. Overall, though, the quality of the food was rather good; we all agreed that we'd happily return (and in fact some of us have since, while others of us had already eaten there before). [[Kake]], who isn't usually a noodle fan, would come back just for the e-fu noodles. Accessibility: No step to get in, and step-free through to the dining area, but the toilets are down a flight of stairs with a couple of bends and a handrail most of the way. See also: * [http://www.timeout.com/london/restaurants/venue/2:2112/princess-garden Time Out review] * [https://www.andyhayler.com/restaurant/princess-garden Andy Hayler's review] * [http://www.tehbus.com/2011/06/mini-bites-princess-garden-mayfair.html A Rather Unusual Chinaman review] (dim sum) * [http://cheesenbiscuits.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/princess-garden-mayfair.html Cheese And Biscuits review] (dim sum) * [http://www.doshermanos.co.uk/2009/02/princess-garden-dim-sum-dowtown.html Dos Hermanos review] (dim sum) * [http://eatlovenoodles.blogspot.com/2011/06/princess-garden-going-cantonese-in.html Eat Noodles Love Noodles review] (dinner on the same occasion as in our writeup above, plus dim sum on another occasion) * [http://web.archive.org/web/20110117100937/http://www.london-insider.co.uk/2009/07/princess-gardens-of-mayfair-review/ London Insider review] (dim sum) * [http://marinaoloughlin.tumblr.com/post/17817541017/princess-garden-dim-sum-royalty-im-not-really Marina O'Loughlin's review] (dim sum) * [http://www.passportdelicious.com/2010/03/princess-garden-mayfair.html Passport Delicious review] (dim sum) * [http://web.archive.org/web/20130108053459/http://theskinnybib.com/2012/12/30/london-chinese-dim-sum-princess-garden-japanese-mitsukoshi-mango-tree-restaurants/ The Skinny Bib review] (dim sum) (scroll down) * [http://tamarindandthyme.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/dim-sum-at-princess-garden-of-mayfair/ Tamarind And Thyme review] (dim sum) <div class="last_verified">Last visited by [[Kake]] et al., June 2011.</div> </div>
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