A new Chinese restaurant specialising in luxury Cantonese food is to open on Goodge Street in mid-February.
Called 3 Gorges, the 80-cover, three-floor restaurant comes from the restaurateur Lihua Zhang, the founder of the Sichuan-inspired group Sanxia Renjia, which has sites in Fitzrovia, Bromley and Kingston.
In charge of the kitchen at 3 Gorges will be Yipeng Qian, who was most recently head chef at Gouqi, one of the UK’s few Chinese restaurants to hold a Michelin star, and spent ten years at Hakkasan.
His menu will include the likes of three-coloured xiao long bao, braised seafood soup, crispy fried oysters, and wind snails with peach gum duck soup. Dim sum will play an important role, as will a list of luxury dishes such as Eight Treasure duck, “Premium Budda Jump Over the Wall,” abalone, lobster, and starfish.
“Cantonese food is having a well deserved resurgence after fiery Northern Chinese dishes became so popular here in the last decade,” Qian told the Standard.
“As a chef who has spent his career perfecting the skill of contemporary Hong Kong and Canton cuisine it’s a big moment for me with the launch of 3 Gorges".
3 Gorges will serve a number of menus at different price points. The luxury set will bring 12 courses for £388 per head.
Three Gorges will open in February at 36 Goodge Street, W1T 2QN, 3gorges.co.uk
