A. Wong to reopen in Pimlico with a new take on Chinese fine dining
Two-Michelin-starred A. Wong will reopen in Pimlico on 10 October following a major refurbishment, with chef Andrew Wong introducing a new menu inspired by contemporary Chinese cooking.
The restaurant has been closed since August while its kitchen and dining room have been redesigned. When it reopens, guests will find a new open kitchen, a 12-seat private dining room and a substantially revised version of Wong’s Collections of China menu.
It marks a significant new chapter for one of London’s most influential Chinese restaurants.
Read Wing’s original review for A. Wong here.
A new Collections of China
Wong took over his parents’ Pimlico restaurant 15 years ago, renaming it A.Wong after Annie and Albert. The restaurant earned its first Michelin star in 2017 before receiving a second in 2021, making it the first restaurant outside Asia to be awarded two Michelin stars for Chinese cuisine.
The new menu has been developed during the restaurant’s closure, drawing on Wong’s research in Beijing and Shanghai.
Rather than attempting to reproduce a particular regional style, Wong is looking at how traditional Chinese cooking is being interpreted in some of the country’s leading contemporary kitchens.
That means an increased focus on techniques and ingredients that can be difficult to find outside China, from long-simmered stocks and aged fermented ingredients to collagen-rich cuts, hand-pulled noodles and traditional pickling and braising techniques.
Among the dishes planned for the new menu are stuffed sea cucumber with prawns and Cantonese crispy pork skin, whole pickled chilli steamed turbot and a “milk less” white fish broth.
Other dishes include pineapple and beef candied floss, chilled sweet potato noodles with red sugar and jujube syrup, century egg with pickled ginger and chilli chutney, and whole shredded baby chicken salad with rehydrated bean curd sticks.
For diners who are attached to dishes from the restaurant’s existing Collections of China, there is good news: these will continue, but will now sit within a new Collections of A.Wong menu.
The restaurant’s à la carte dim sum lunch will also remain.
A new look for A. Wong
The refurbishment has also completely changed the way guests move through the restaurant.
A glass panel at reception now looks directly into Wong’s new show kitchen, giving diners a view of the chefs at work. Tables have been positioned to make the most of the sightline, while a new 12-seat private dining room sits to the opposite side.
The kitchen itself was designed with Gareth Sefton of SHW Design and has been planned around both professional functionality and the theatre of Chinese cooking. Plate-glass display windows allow diners to watch the action from the restaurant.
The wider interior was developed with London and New York-based architecture and design firm Michaelis Boyd.
The new scheme combines twilight-blue velvet banquettes with honey-gold Art Nouveau-inspired chairs, dark walnut-stained oak flooring and walnut and burr elm joinery. Light jade Kit Kat tiles and marble-veined worktops add another reference to Chinese materials and architecture.
Two commissioned artworks will also feature.
One is a circular stained-glass ceiling centrepiece created by John Reyntiens Studio, inspired by the Manzhou windows traditionally found in Guangzhou’s old dim sum houses. The 180cm piece has been designed to appear convex when illuminated.
The second is a five-panel mural by French artist Claire Basler, whose work focuses on landscapes and floral compositions. The mural runs along one wall of the restaurant and has been commissioned with support from the Lee Kum Kee Family.
Fifteen years of A. Wong
The reopening comes 15 years after Wong took over the family restaurant that became A.Wong.
Since then, the restaurant has developed into one of London’s best-known addresses for Chinese fine dining, with Wong’s cooking increasingly focused on the history, techniques and regional diversity of Chinese cuisine.
The refurbishment suggests that the next stage will go further still. Rather than simply refreshing a successful restaurant, Wong appears to be using the opportunity to examine what contemporary Chinese fine dining can look like when it is rooted in traditional techniques but developed through his own research and experience.
A. Wong will reopen on 10 October 2026 at 70 Wilton Road, Pimlico, London SW1V 1DE.
Reservations can be made by contacting the restaurant’s front-of-house team at info@awong.co.uk or 0207 828 8931.
A.Wong — At a glance
Cuisine: Chinese
Location: Pimlico, London
Style: Contemporary Chinese fine dining
Price: Not confirmed
Best for: Chinese fine dining, dim sum, tasting menus
Michelin status: Two Michelin stars
Foodoholism verdict: One of London’s most significant Chinese restaurants is reopening with a substantially reworked approach to its cooking, making this more than a straightforward refurbishment