Yauatcha

Lobster

Hello everybody! Been a while I'm afraid due to writers block & general laziness but raring to go with some new foody items! First off is Yauatcha on Broadwick street, http://www.yauatcha.com/soho/. It's a contemporary Michelin starred Dim sum restaurant & pretty tasty I hasten to add. It's also one my brothers favourite restaurants so we go quite a lot!
Me & Tony (my bro) bowled up on the 2nd of January so fairly quiet. We were shown to a pretty lame table right by a column so we asked to be moved to which we were given 2 different tables to choose from. Not a problem you might think, but quite integral to the plot for later.

We started on a couple of alcoholic grape cocktails. Not much flavour but definitely one of those drinks that creeps up on you then ordered what I have to say was incredibly fine food.

We started with "Crab shuimai, Lobster spinach dumpling, Chilli fried squid & Chicken taro croquette". The croquette was lovely & crispy on the outside, just like a yam paste dumpling from other old school dim sum restaurants! The Lobster was juicy & tender & the fried squid tender & perfectly cooked. Wasn't sure about the crab dumpling, only in the sense I thought it tasted of mackerel & didn't even realise I was eating crab until the waiter said so! But I still ate it so couldn't of been that bad.

Mongolian Venison

Then we moved on to the main dishes which were "Mongolian venison" which was so tender & tasty, "Steamed Halibut" which was really spicy & invigorating! We had some "Pak choi with garlic" as a side & I had a "Yebisu" beer which is a lovely Japanese beer.
So far all very good & possibly one of the best meals that me & Tony have had there. For dessert I had a "Raspberry delice". Not only did it look beautiful but it tasted delice-ous. Chocolate & biscuit going on inside, one of my favourite desserts I've ate there. I think Tony had a "Milk chocolate praline", I can't remember because mine was so good but he said his was good.

Delice-ous

We followed these up with 2 Irish coffees which were very nice & seeing as we were having a nice time decided to order 2 more. It was then that we were told we had to move tables because a previous booking that had cancelled had now decided to turn up! Tony didn't take it to well which I thought was fair enough & said that if we were to move then they should take the service charge off the bill. A couple of minutes later a waiter said this was fine, so we moved to a different table & then basically Tony thought we should leave anyway. There was a bit of an heated debate about the whole of the moving issue with a Maitre'D & a couple of the waiters & I heard Tony saying it was a disgrace a few times seeing as we are regular customers. We then left & Tony popped back in to have a go again whilst I hid outside a column so I don't think we will be going back for a while. Overall though the food is amazing but they really do try & feed you & get you out as soon as possible which can be a little stressful when it's not that busy & you're spending money! Oh & I did notice they do a £28.88 tasting menu for 2 People with 8 dishes & tea, Mon-Thurs 2pm until 630pm!