From August 18, A Wong diners will enjoy a change of scenery as they dig into signatures like Memories of Peking Duck and the Shaanxi pulled lamb “burger”. On August 1, chef-patron Andrew Wong’s inventive two Michelin-starred Pimlico restaurant will have its final service, reopening a couple of weeks later in the Mandarin Oriental Mayfair for a summer residency. During the pop-up, the Pimlico space – where Wong’s parents ran a Chinese restaurant for almost 30 years, until the chef took over in 2012 – will undergo a full-blown renovation.
During the residency, Wong and his team will continue to serve the restaurant’s Collections of China menus – both vegetarian and regular – which celebrate the vastness and diversity of the country’s cuisines through contemporary reinterpretations. Diners will be served in the Mandarin Oriental’s private dining spaces, which sit adjacent to the hotel’s Atrium Restaurant. The residency will be open at dinner only.
It’s a major move for the restaurant, which Wong has led to success since taking over in 2012. It’s been praised for its artistic, deeply researched approach to Chinese cuisine, and for spearheading a greater understanding of the enormous diversity and heritage of the country’s gastronomy. This also isn’t the only project Wong is working on right now: in autumn he will open Kong, a Chinese pub in Shoreditch that’s a collaboration with the co-founder of Dishoom, Amar Radia.
A Wong opens in the Mandarin Oriental, Mayfair, from August 18–September 26.
