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Each year, big celebrations take place all over the world – including London, where a whole host of restaurants mark the event with special menus. We’ve pulled together some of the best Chinese New Year offerings to book in the capital for 2025. Where To Celebrate Lunar New Year In London. Hakkasan, Mayfair and Fitzrovia Best Chinese restaurants in London for the Lunar New Year, from JM Oriental to Min Jiang. Many Chinese restaurant menus offer a bewildering amount of choice; at Three Uncles, there are just Celebrate Chinese New Year with family and friends at Chinese Cricket Club with a sumptuous menu meticulously crafted by Head Chef Tony Truong. Priced at £78 per person, the menu features the restaurant's signature dish including the Smoked Peking Duck. Available for 28 January to 2 February 2025 only. Plum Valley 20 Gerrard Street, London, W1D 6JQ. For a new year meal perfect for sharing with friends and family, try Plum Valley’s Chinese New Year-inspired menu, from Rainbow salmon sashimi to Turnip cake with Chinese sausage and dry shrimps. Afterwards, enjoy their Coconut glutinous rice cake and Lucky custard buns. Speedboat Bar 30 Rupert When is Chinese New Year 2025 in London? This year, Chinese New Year falls on Wednesday 29 January 2025. It’s nearly always celebrated on the rising of the second new moon following the winter solstice, which makes it a movable feast, a bit like Easter in the Christian calendar. Because of this timing in the year, Chinese New Year typically With a menu of dim sum and noodles, to high quality pork, duck and chicken, for Lunar New Year the restaurant will also be gifting guests a traditional hongbao red envelope as a symbol for good fortune, prosperity, and blessings for the new year. Even better for those born under the snake Chinese Zodiac sign as they will also get a 20% discount From the 29th January to the 12th of February, the restaurant will be adorned with beautiful red lanterns and there will be a delicious Chinese New Year menu. Kick-start with a Venom & Virtue cocktail special, made with sloe gin, strawberry, Aperol, cranberry and lime, before digging into aromatic roast duck or plant-based chicken and black bean. London's pair of dim sum and Cantonese specialists, in Soho and the City, are offering an almost month-long celebration of the Year of the Dragon. The Chinese New Year menu features seven Chinese Peninsula London (Belgravia) - This new hotel will be having a special Lunar New Year Set Menu available at Canton Blue with dishes including steamed dumplings made with crab and scallops as well as drunken chicken with goji berries (7- 16th February, £168). They'll also have a lion and dragon dance in the hotel courtyard at 11am on 10 February. Internationally renowned Cantonese restaurant Hakkasan always goes big on its Chinese New Year offering; for 2024 it’s offering a special menu across both its London branches. Hakkasan Hanway Place and Hakkasan Mayfair are launching a limited-edition menu alongside a celebratory cocktail, The Red Dragon, in collaboration with Moët & Chandon London's Chinese New Year Parade and Trafalgar Square celebrations on 1 and 2 February 2025 Two Lunar New Year menus are available at branches of The Ivy Asia. SEAFOOD FEAST: Our limited-edition menu features auspicious ingredients and flavours inspired by the Chinese zodiac animal. As well as expertly crafted Hennessy cocktails, including the exclusive Xiǎo Lóng, The Snake featuring Hennessy VSOP and the signature X.O Old Fashioned, made with Hennessy X.O. With multiple locations in London, BAO is offering a Lunar New Year menu from January 20 to February 9, 2025. The menu includes prosperity tossing salad, honey-glazed pork, and longevity noodles, priced at £29 per person. Diners also receive red envelopes with snake-themed prizes. Lunar New Year is a special time for bringing families together, feasting, and to reflect on the the times ahead. While it is a public holiday in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, North Korea, South Korea, Singapore and Vietnam, it is also celebrated by people across other parts of Asia, such as Taiwan, Japan and India. London’s Indo-Chinese favourite is hopping on the Lunar New Year celebrations with a different kind of menu – two special edition matcha dishes will be added to celebrate the snake-like greenery of the new year. Find out how to celebrate Chinese Lunar New Year in London, including parades, set menus, walks and workshops. When is Chinese New Year celebrated in London in 2025? Dumplings are traditionally eaten on New Year’s Eve, particularly in Northern China, and symbolise wealth. Chinese dumplings are said to resemble Chinese gold or silver ingots, the currency of imperial China; not the rectangular gold bars familiar from heist movies, but boat-shaped, with turned-up ends. Whether you’re looking to enjoy dazzling parades, immerse yourself in captivating performances, or explore unique markets, London’s Chinese New Year celebration is the perfect way to ring in the new year with joy and excitement! Discover the official event programme and more exciting activities you can attend to celebrate Chinese New Year London's Lunar New Year Parade is undoubtedly one of the best ways to welcome the Chinese New Year. The celebrations are the biggest of their kind outside of Asia and will see thousands of people flock to the streets to watch as colourful performers in lion and dragon outfits and vibrant floats cruise through the city streets.
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