The two-Michelin-starred Chinese restaurant will pop-up at the Mandarin Oriental on Hanover Square<\/p>\n
A month after announcing his new Chinese pub Kong<\/a>, Andrew Wong has announced he is leaving Pimlico (for the summer only!). A.Wong\u2019s two Michelin-starred site on Wilton Road serves its last lunch and dinner on Saturday 1st August, then shuts for a full refurbishment. From Tuesday 18 August, Wong will run a temporary residency inside Mandarin Oriental Mayfair on Hanover Square, in the private dining rooms next to what\u2019s now Atrium Restaurant.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not been the smoothest opening for the MO Mayfair, which originally launched with every restaurant and bar in partnership with Akira Back, a chef who wasn\u2019t especially well known in London before he arrived. Every one of those sites has since closed. Even the chef\u2019s table Korean concept, which was renamed and won its own Michelin star under Back\u2019s former prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Jihun Kim, shut just five weeks later when Kim left. Odder still, Back opened a second London restaurant at the Montcalm Mayfair while he was still operating inside the MO Mayfair.<\/p>\n Wong\u2019s residency runs on his Collections of China 31 course tasting menus, regular and vegetarian, for dinner only. Expect dishes like the chilled \u201csmacked\u201d cucumber with trout roe, chilli and garlic vinegar, the \u201cMemories of Peking Duck\u201d with foie gras and smoked duck dim sum, and \u201cWhy we don\u2019t need to eat shark\u2019s fin soup.\u201d Sadly his famous lunchtime dim sum, doesn\u2019t look like it\u2019s making the trip to Mayfair. The residency is due to close in late September, after which Wong moves back into Wilton Road once the refurbishment is done. With any luck, Kong<\/a> won\u2019t be far behind it\u2026<\/p>\n