Bar Shu
| Address: | 28 Frith Street W1D 5LF | |
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| Tel | 020 7287 6688 | |
| Website: | Visit Bar Shu website | |
Price:
£42.00 
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Wine: £14.00 |
Champagne: £33.00 |
| Opening Hours: | Mon-Sun 12N-11.30pm |
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Square Meal review of Bar Shu:
Just a few steps from Chinatown but a million miles away in spirit, Bar Shu offers Londoners a rare, full-bodied, no-holds barred taste of Szechuan cooking. The famously hot & spicy cuisine is characterised by its abundant use of red chillis & fragrant Szechuan peppercorns which, combined, have a curious mouth-numbing effect. The pictorial menu helps guide diners through the unfamiliar (& often offal-based) dishes, from ‘man & wife slices’ (tender slices of chilli-oil dressed offal), moving on to gung bao chicken (a homely dish of stir-fried chicken, peanuts & dried chillis), dry-braised sea bass or a ferociously fiery hotpot. The setting for this audacious cuisine is appropriately dramatic, adorned with huge opera masks & intricately carved screens. Staff are well trained & happy to give recommendations.
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