No. 8 Portman Mews, Marylebone · Est. 1902
Cantonese fire-cooking and hand-folded dim sum, served daily from noon. Dine in, or take the whole table home.
Eight categories, one long table. Step through the plates — or turn a card over to read what lands in front of you.
Dim Sum
Signature · 24 hours' notice
Hung eight days, lacquered five times, then carved beside you in two services: pancakes and cucumber first, the legs returned to the wok with garlic. Serves four.
Book the whole Lantern Room for eighteen, or a stool at the brass bar for one.
The duck arrives whole, is carved beside you, and the room goes quiet for a moment.
Best dim sum north of the river, and the bar knows exactly what to pour with it.
We booked the Lantern Room for eighteen; the set menu was faultless from first basket to last.
Served daily, noon until late
Lunch from noon · dinner until 23:00
Pick a date, a party size and a table on the floor plan. Parties over eight are handled by our events team.
Since 1902
Two private rooms and a chef's counter. Set menus from £65 a head, wine pairing optional, whole-restaurant buyouts on Sundays.
In 1902 our great-grandmother sold rice rolls from a cart on Shamian Island. Her son opened a tea house; his daughter carried the recipe book to London in 1978 and cooked from a basement in Soho for thirty years. Dynasty 8 opened on Portman Mews in 2019 with the same book, the same duck oven, and eight lanterns hung down the corridor for luck.
