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It may be nestled among the 'Chinese' restaurants of Chinatown but Bar Shu is no ordinary Chinese restaurant tempered to suit British tastes. Instead it specialises in spicy Sichuanese food as it's meant to be - with photos on the menu the only nod to non-Chinese speaking diners. When it first opened in 2006, the critics called it, "the most exciting restaurant to open in London in an age" (Jan Moir in the Saturday Telegraph) and Evening Standard writer Fay Maschler said that it had changed the face of Chinese restaurants in the capital. That same year Bar Shu won Time Out's best new restaurant and it has continued to impress in the intervening years. It's the authenticity that makes Bar Shu stand out with dishes like shredded chicken (bang bang jiding), bean curd with spring onion oil (foo jook), and spicey prawns appealing to the adventurous diner. Soup pots, kang pao chicken and mapo tofu with rice come highly recommended while the spicy noodles (tantanmien) offer a good smoky yet spicey flavour. One word of advice: look out for their spice ratings - which are given in the number of peppers next to a dish - Sichuan food takes its spicing seriously.
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35 Greek Street, Soho, London W1D | 1 minute from Bar Shu
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1 Gerrard Place Chinatown, Soho, London W1D | 1 minute from Bar Shu
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6 Gerrard Street, Soho, London W1D | 1 minute from Bar Shu
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27 Frith Street, Soho, London W1D | 1 minute from Bar Shu
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21 Romilly Street, Soho, London W1D | 1 minute from Bar Shu
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19-21 Old Compton Street, Soho, London W1D | 1 minute from Bar Shu
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London > Events > Theatre Dates: 31st March 2016 to 1st April 2018
Bar Shu, 218-223 Piccadilly, Piccadilly Circus, W1V | 4 minutes from Bar Shu
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Bar Shu, 2 Charing Cross Road, WC2H | 5 minutes from Bar Shu
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Bar Shu, 210 Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2H | 6 minutes from Bar Shu
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93-107 Shaftesbury Avenue, Soho, London W1D | 1 minute from Bar Shu
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47 Frith Street, Soho, London W1D | 1 minute from Bar Shu
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Old Compton Street, Soho, London W1D | 1 minute from Bar Shu
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Soho, London W1D | 1 minute from Bar Shu
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Soho, London W1D | 1 minute from Bar Shu
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19 Greek Street, Soho, London W1D | 2 minutes from Bar Shu
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28 Greek Street, Soho, London W1D | 1 minute from Bar Shu
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42-44 Gerrard Street, Soho, London W1D | 1 minute from Bar Shu
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24 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, WC2H | 5 minutes from Bar Shu
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London > Education > English Language Courses
10 Coptic Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1A | 7 minutes from Bar Shu
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London > Education > Cookery Courses
15B Little Portland Street, Fitzrovia, London W1W | 11 minutes from Bar Shu
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10 Wardour Street, Soho, London W1D | 3 minutes from Bar Shu
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21 Stacey Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H | 3 minutes from Bar Shu
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25 Shelton Street, 40 Earlham Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H | 4 minutes from Bar Shu
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142 Shaftesbury Avenue, Covent Garden, London WC2H | 2 minutes from Bar Shu
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29 Romilly Street, Soho, London W1D | 1 minute from Bar Shu
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68 Dean Street, Soho, London W1D | 2 minutes from Bar Shu
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24-26 Leicester Square, Soho, London WC2H | 3 minutes from Bar Shu
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