4 dim sums and 1 dessert for £25 or 3 dim sums and 1 main course for £27. For more information please see the menu tab for the set lunch menu.
Expires: 30 Jul 2013
Booking in advance is essential. Please mention offer when booking.
Designer-punk Alvin Leung (aka ‘the demon chef’) has already wowed them in Hong Kong, and is currently showing off his fabled ‘X-treme Chinese’ cooking to a London audience. Complex, dazzlingly inventive tasting menus and X-rated prices are the main deal (the 14-dish version is tagged at a heart-stopping £128), although Leung has recently introduced a £60 carte for those who are happy to settle for just three courses. Look for startling seasonal blasts such as a three-way riff on tomatoes (including a marshmallow with green-onion oil), crispy sweetbread braised in oyster sauce with lotus root, sweet-and-sour shallots and artichoke purée or kumquat-cured salmon with star anise coleslaw and green apple. Also brace yourself for ‘sex on the beach’, an under-the-counter extra comprising a (clearly used) edible pink ‘condom’ on a ‘beach’ of biscuit-crumb. Alternatively, nibble on delicate dim sum and sip cocktails at the bar.
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Edesia Is Hungry - Food of the Gods :: Bo London
My brother and I visited Bo London, this is the new restaurant of Alvin Leung, a Hong Kong celebrity and Michelin starred chef that opened in December 2012. The prices of Bo London have been a focus of many a review but after some discussion with my brother we decided it was a risk worth taking, mainly due to Alvin Leungs reputation regarding Bo Innovation, his 2 star in Hong Kong which also has a place on S. Pellegrino's Worlds Best Restaurants list. Alvin is sort of a Chinese Heston Blumenthal, I know he has his own description of X-treme Chinese/Demon Chef, but he joins Heston as one of the few self taught modernist Michelin starred chefs with a TV show plying their trade at the moment, and its a fairly apt description, especially with some of the technical methods showcased by the meal. Chef Leung wasn't there that night, having flown back to Hong Kong at lunch but I believe he is splitting time between the 2 cities...
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The Picky Glutton :: Bo London review – ‘X-treme Chinese’ arrives in Mayfair from Hong Kong
Many of the new restaurants that have opened in London over the past year have inexpensive menus, but that’s definitely not the case with Bo London. This new restaurant, from Hong Kong chef Alvin Leung, serves only three different tasting menus at dinner time and is unashamedly expensive with the cheapest at £88. Leung, a self-described ‘demon chef’, has often been described as ‘the Chinese Heston Blumenthal‘ and Hong Kong’s ‘l’enfant terrible‘ in the same overexcited breath. I usually find this sort of hyperventilated praise off-putting, but his intriguingly eclectic style mixing Chinese and modern European ingredients and techniques piqued the interest of both myself and the Euro Hedgie...
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