5 Best Chinese Restaurants in London (2026)

Fatt Pundit serves Indo-Chinese Hakka cuisine from its Covent Garden site, a style born when Hakka Chinese migrants settled in Kolkata and blended Chinese cooking techniques with Indian spices. The menu runs to a la carte, vegan, gluten-free, halal and dairy-free sections, built around shareable, tapas-style plates like momos, sizzling brownies and noodle dishes. It is not a traditional Cantonese or Sichuan restaurant, and its own site describes the food as its own distinct cuisine rather than mainstream Chinese cooking.

Tattu London is a rooftop restaurant and cocktail bar at the Now Building in Denmark Street, designed around a modern take on a traditional Chinese courtyard house. Its own site markets it as a modern Asian dining experience rather than a strictly Chinese restaurant, with a la carte and sharing menus alongside an extensive cocktail list. It is part of a small UK chain with other branches in Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham and Edinburgh.

Joy King Lau is a Cantonese restaurant in Leicester Square that has served London's Chinatown since 1977, credited by its own site with introducing dim sum to the city. The menu covers dim sum, roast meats, seafood and vegetarian dishes, served across several floors in the heart of Chinatown. It is one of the longer-running names in the area, with a deep back catalogue of regular customers.

Din Tai Fung's Covent Garden branch is part of the international chain built around hand-folded xiao long bao, made with exactly 18 folds according to its own site. Beyond the signature soup dumplings, the menu covers fried rice, noodles and a range of small plates in a large, often busy dining room. It is a Taiwanese restaurant by classification on Google rather than mainland Chinese, reflecting the chain's Taipei origins.

YiQi Pan Asia sits on Lisle Street in the heart of Chinatown, serving a pan-Asian menu that spans Chinese, Malaysian and Thai dishes, including lobster with yuzu sauce, pork trotter claypot and Thai lemon tea. Google classifies it as a Chinese restaurant, though the menu itself reads broader than one national cuisine, with reviewers specifically praising Malaysian dishes. It runs a queue at busier times given its location and reputation.