Yiyuan Hu
Nice food, impressed especially with the dim sum dishes some of which excelled other high-end restaurants.
Staff were friendly and helpful. Had a perfect dinner here and would visit again in near future.
em
lovely setting with 3 small tables outside and delicious & extraordinary dim sum
just a little too pricy for a quick lunch break
Thomas Evans
Very tasty dim sum and interesting flavors. Not worth the price though.
Jérôme
Good cocktails and good value for money for the dumplings. A must do for dumplings in London.
Magnus Lonnroth
Excellent dim sum paired well with a semi dry Riesling. Stir fried cured beef paired equally well with a Beaujolais. Great service. The red wine was served too warm (20C instead of 15C) but otherwise a near-perfect meal. Finished with some sweets and plum sake, which was surprisingly pleasant.
Håkan Heed
Love this little restaurant. Located in South Kensington and it's small and cozy. Priced might be a little bit higher then standard but it's worth it. A must to try is the dumplings. And not to worry is you're vegetarian, all dishes can be made in to a vegetarian option as the cook everything fresh.
Claire Mcevoy
The dim sum here was incredible, and the Cocktails were fantastic.
The dim sum is definitely the freshest and tastiest dim sum I have come across in the UK. Everything is presented beautifully and the staff were really friendly.
Also the desserts were great - peppermint icecream that tasted like it was made from fresh peppermint leaves rather than mint syrup. Would highly recommend.
ahmed shamsi
OK let's get this straight. The place ain't cheap and portion are relatively small. But it tastes good and I mean real GOOOOOOOOOOOOD. highly recommend they assorted/mix/sample plate of the different dumplings. As they do give you a more diverse and broad range of flavors that all taste pretty good. The Chinese burgers are good as well.
Foivos
Nice Chinese food, good service, great atmosphere. Music choices were poor and kind of ruined the ambience. Up beat pop and house music is not appropriate for quiet dark fancy Chinese restaurant. Why not that ethereal Chinese music you see in movies, much more appropriate.
Alexander Neale
Great food throughout and very well looked after by all the staff. Ordered a large number of dishes to share between the two of us and they instinctively staggered the delivery so each dish was always hot and fresh! Definitely going back
Pakiza Guseynova
Bo Lang has the best dumplings I had in London! I always get them from Deliveroo. For the last month whenever I wanted to order the dumplings for lunch or dinner it was always sold out! Please prep more dumplings, I really miss it xxx
Andre Harry
Located in a quiet area od South Kensington, this Chinese restaurant is one of the best in London. The dimsum are delicious although porsion might be a bit too small (for me), but the main courses are big enough to share. My fav: the calamary (out of this world!)
Jennifer N
We enjoyed the food and cocktails were great. Dim sum menu was a bit limited, with some options not available on the day we visited.
Odo
A month ago we had a Dim Sum withdrawal and decided to try a new place here in West London. We ended in Bo Lang after some research. Wonderful place, great service, and amazing Dim Sum
Nour Naccache
Not as delicious as I thought it would be, sadly. I mean the har gau with blackberry reduction look beautiful, but it tasted like har gau without the blackberry reduction. <br/><br/>The chicken truffle was really lovely, I loved the combination and I don't eat meat. <br/><br/>The duck salad was my favourite, which is a shame because I went for Dim Sum. <br/><br/>The duck spring rolls look pretty, they taste like duck spring rolls.<br/><br/>The saffron scallop dumpling, I found quite tasty. <br/><br/>The black squid dumpling was overloaded with fish roe, which I cannot stand. <br/><br/>But the cocktails were delightful! Love the fortune cookie, it actually comes with a fortune cookie.
Lauren
Food was okay, but definitely not worth the price. Drinks were well balanced, different, delightful. Dark atmosphere, could use a different genre of music, and a little too hot for my comfort zone. Waiters were very nice, and helpful.
SilverSpoon London
Bo Lang is an intimate dim sum house with a menu featuring traditional and experimental dim sum. The restaurant is small but stylish with wooden screens giving a feel of the Orient.
Restaurantsandrants
The dim sum here is good overall, not as good as Yauatcha or a few of the dim sum at lunch only places but definitely pretty tasty. The nicest pieces were probably the saffron scallop and cod dumpling, which was very well made and, surprisingly, the black sesame prawn toast which was far from the greasy, tasteless form found in many a takeaway. On the other hand the chicken shui mai really did not need the black truffle, which made it too rich, and although it was not offensive the har gau did not need the fruit sauce. Bo Lang is also far from cheap but in this area very few places are.
HungryBee Maija
Bo Lang is a very stylish, modern Chinese dim sum restaurant and teahouse in South Kensington. They do traditional dim sum but the focus of the menu is on avant garde, unusual dim sum that most of the time is delicious and works very well. It is so interesting to see the dim sum you know modernized in Bo Lang. The dim sum is not cheap and an average plate for 4 pieces costs £6 (and many dim sums are more expensive) but if you want a luxurious dim sum experience, regardless of the price, this place truly delivers. I went to Bo Lang with a group of my friends and we had lunch here on a Sunday. The interior is dark and the room has grey leather sofas and charcoal velvet chairs and it has been designed by Shaun Clarkson. The interior did sort of reminded me of interior in Hakassan (although Bo Lang is much smaller) with Chinese dividing walls separa
L Wilkinson
It's a tea house style dim sum and Chinese restaurant with a great energetic, sexy evening atmosphere, thirst quenching cocktails and fabulous food. We were ushered towards to back of the rather cramped restaurant and sat at one of their tables with bench style seating, handed the menus and waited, and waited and waited until a charming waiter asked if we wanted to order. No question of drinks beforehand however, we did order some wine and a cocktail and waited some more before they took our food order. Our 'pre dinner' (which were now accompanying our starter) drinks arrived and the cocktail was worth the wait. Starters are fried or steamed dim sum, soup or salads. Mains are then jazzed up traditi
Lela London
Moonlighting as a Chinese tea house, Bo Lang is as stylish and intimate as a dumpling fanatic would hope. Though I imagine the thin slice of South Kensington could feel slightly claustrophobic for large parties, its wooden screens and charcoal chairs create intimate spaces for dates and one-on-ones.
The Picky Glutton
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Hungry Hoss
Bo Lang is a shiny, new, pricey dim sum restaurant and teahouse in South Ken. I wasn’t good enough to challenge Yauatcha and A Wong as my favourites but I would return.
Andy Hayler
Opening in September 2013, Bo Lang is an upmarket Chinese restaurant specialising in dim sum. Its head Chef is Kai Wang, who has over ten years experience as a dim sum chef at Novikov and Grand Imperial at Grosvenor House. In Draycott Avenue, a short walk from Bibendum and Daphne’s, the restaurant has a small terrace for drinks, and a long, narrow dining room. The décor is tasteful, the tables reasonably spaced, and slightly over-loud trance music fills the room. There was complimentary wi-fi for customers. - See more at: http://www.andyhayler.com/restaurant/bo-lang/07-10-2013#sthash.Ow8OncDL.dpuf
Peagleye
Interesting dinner, nice food, a bit overpriced I would say especially relative to other dim sum offerings in london. <br/>For a dim sum restaurant, the selection is quite small though! But that is one of the very few london places to serve its full dim sum menu in the evening!<br/>The restaurant is a bit too dark for my taste. <br/>Would I go back? Only if i really need dim sum at 9pm!
Portia Sade Prince
Called on a friday night and was welcomed with open arms. The lady that took the reservation made it her focus to make sure we were comfortable and happy! We were told we would only have an 1.5 slot which was fine because we were going to an exhibition. Food had a lot of flavour and was exactly what we wanted. <br/>I'd recommend the first red wine on the list, it was fantastic! Would definitely come again
SilverSpoon London
It was then on for dinner at Bo Lang just across the road. Although I love Valentine's day, I hate it when restaurants serve an over-priced set menu for the day, Bo Lang was our restaurant of choice because they were still serving the a la carte menu. Yay!<br/><br/>Bo Lang is an intimate dim sum house with a menu featuring traditional and experimental dim sum. The restaurant is small but stylish with wooden screens giving a feel of the Orient. <br/><br/>Naturally we started with some dim sum.<br/><br/>I absolutely love dim sum! The words mean 'touch your heart' and these certainly did. We chose the chef's selection and each was a heavenly pocket of loveliness. <br/><br/>Sichuan pepper tuna came next which was as perfectly light and fresh as it look!<br/><br/>Duck spring rolls. Well you can't really go wrong!<br/><br/>Soft shell crab, another one of my favourites!!<br/><br/>Sea bass with kow choi flower and Bo Lang sauce.<br/><br/>Bo Lang offer ice cream, sorbet or frozen yogurt for dessert. We virtuously chose the yogurt option but, by then quite tipsy, forgot to take a photo!<br/><br/>Bo Lang touched our hearts, the food was great and it's a lovely little place. A great alternative to the big hitters such as Hakkasan and Yauatcha. The intimate feel and the food that you share make it the perfect venue for a date night!
Denis Bomtempo
One of the best chinese in London! Excellent dim sum options. Very creative. Nice sake list.
Andy Hayler
Opening in September 2013, Bo Lang is an upmarket Chinese restaurant specialising in dim sum. Its head Chef is Kai Wang, who has over ten years experience as a dim sum chef at Novikov and Grand Imperial at Grosvenor House. In Draycott Avenue, a short walk from Bibendum and Daphne’s, the restaurant has a small terrace for drinks, and a long, narrow dining room. The décor is tasteful, the tables reasonably spaced, and slightly over-loud trance music fills the room. There was complimentary wi-fi for customers. <br/><br/>The short wine list, with just two dozen wines ranging in price from £39 (yep, the house wine is £39) to £300, bizarrely omits vintages for all except a couple of champagnes. If I am going to pay a lot of money for a bottle of wine I want to know the vintage, so I had beer and tea instead. Example wines were Kloof Street Chenin Blanc at £42 for a wine that you can find in the high street for £14, Predator Zinfandel at £55 for a wine that retails at around £16, and Thienot rosé champagne at £90 compared to a shop price of about £40. Dom Perignon 2005 was £300 for a wine that will set you back about £140 to buy at a local Chelsea off-licence. Mineral water was £4.50 a bottle, beer £4.<br/><br/>Har gau (£6) was, oddly, drizzled with a blackberry reduction. The dumpling had reasonable texture and the prawn inside was cooked fine, but the fruit just seemed a distraction (12/20). Char siu (£5.50) buns had light, fluffy buns, but the pork filling inside was rather bland, and for me needed more seasoning (12/20). Soft-shell crab (£13) with chilli and lime avoided greasiness in the batter, though the crab flavour was a little lost (13/20).<br/><br/>For the main course, a distinctly small piece of line-caught sea bass (£24) was cooked well enough, topped with kow choi (chive) flowers and a mildly spiced sauce (12/20). Bak choi (£9.50) were distinctly overcooked, but were exchanged for a correctly cooked version without demur (12/20). The best dish was Singapore noodles (£10), which had particularly good texture to the noodles (14/20). A small dish of egg-fried rice was £9. Let that number just sink in a moment. At Royal China £3.50 buys you a huge bowl of very good rice several times the size of this one, and even the wildly expensive China Tang manages rice at £5, with Kai charging £5.50. At £9 I would expect the rice to be hand picked from the foothills of the Himalayas and carried to the table on a palanquin, but no: this was just a small (did I already say small, because it really was quite titchy) bowl of rice. Lunacy.<br/><br/>The service was generally good, though the dishes took a long time to appear and one plate of dim sum never did make it. The bill for this with pre-dinner drinks and a beer apiece was £73 a head. This is a ridiculous price for food of this standard. It is one thing for Hakkasan to charge quite a lot of money for their consistently superb food, but the dishes we tried at this meal were merely pleasant, generally below the quality served at Royal China, where the bill would be about half that here. Sure, Chelsea is not Bayswater, but the pricing here just felt to me like gouging. The £9 bowl of rice is the main memory that sticks with me of this meal.
James Miller
My new favourite restaurant in London. The size and elegant decor make it perfect for a romantic mission. The food then sets the tone, your date will not forget your good tastes and insight into finding truly special food. The chef is a star - the food is beyond anything - just amazing! I don't care about the bill, it's that's good!
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