Imperial Treasure opened in December 2018, the creation of head chef Albert Leung. There is now a family of around twenty restaurants of this name around the world, such as this one in Shanghai. The London branch is just off Pall Mall, in a building that used to house a bank branch. We ordered the dim sum for lunch today, but there are plenty of menu options here. There was an extensive à la carte selection, and a tasting menu at £148.
Har gau was steamed prawn dumpling with bamboo shoots. This had a thin outer layer and nicely cooked prawns (15/20). Sui mai had a filling of pork and prawn, and a similarly delicate outer dumpling layer (15/20). Prawn cheung fun was unusual in that it with a crisp outer coating encasing the cheung fun, and being served in individual pieces (15/20).
Venison puff was superb, the pastry very delicate and the venison well-seasoned and having plenty of flavour (16/20). Chicken in lotus leaf rice was least good dish, the chicken not having much flavour, though the texture of the rice was fine (14/20). Barbecued pork bun was light and fluffy and used Berkshire pork, which had good flavour. This was in a quite different league to the versions of this dish that can be encountered in Chinatown, which can often have rather tasteless, gristly fillings. This was spot on (15/20).
Service was very good. I was taken here by two American friends, who kindly picked up the tab, so I am not sure what the bill was. To give an idea, the dim sum dishes were mostly around £11 or £12, each for four pieces in the case of the steamed dumplings.
Further reviews: 02nd Aug 2022 | 09th Jan 2019
Sanjeev Varma
My favourite restaurant in Singapore, where it is a lot cheaper! That prawn Cheung fun dish is a favourite of mine, there are a few other restaurants that do it with the crispy lining which I think is similar to youtiao.