With panoramic views over the London skyline from Europe’s tallest building and designed by David Yeo, founder of Hong Kong’s Aqua Restaurant Group, Hutong will be a restaurant serving the relatively unknown but fascinating and diverse cuisine of Northern China.
The 130 cover restaurant, situated on level 33 of London’s iconic Shard building takes it its inspiration specifically from the Lu School with its roots in the province of Shandong. This school spread throughout the north and was served in the Imperial palaces in Peking (old Beijing). Hutong’s cuisine captures the subtlety and surprises of Lu cuisine with a wide array of produce with an emphasis on seafood and occasionally influenced by the fiery spices of neighbouring Sichuan province. Based on the much-loved restaurant of the same name in Hong Kong, regarded as one of the world’s leading Chinese restaurants, London’s Hutong will be the first overseas location for the brand.
Amongst some of Hutong’s signature dishes in London will be: Crispy deboned Lamb for which the meat from the ribs of the lamb are thrice marinated over a 24 hour period and crisped in the wok; Red Lantern crispy soft shell crab with Sichuan dried peppers; 'Kung Po' wok fried prawns with cashew nuts and chilli; Chilli spiced bamboo clams steeped in Chinese rose wine and chilli sauce and Imperial Peking Duck hand-prepared and roasted in Hutong’s own duck oven.
