The Taiwanese restaurant group has chosen Crossrail Place to open the restaurant, its first in east London, which will have space for 112 covers plus a private dining room that seats 16.
At the heart of the restaurant will be a show kitchen where diners can see chefs make Din Tai Fung’s signature xiao long bao dumplings, a process that passes through six stations manned by different teams of chefs.
Menu items will include beef xiao long bao, house made noodles, pork chop and egg fried rice, and specialties like the salted egg yolk custard lava buns.
“We are thrilled to open our doors at Canary Wharf, our first location in east London,” says XueFeng Bai, UK managing director at Din Tai Fung.
“As we celebrate sixty-six years of culinary excellence, we look forward to sharing authentic flavours of Din Tai Fung with a new and diverse community.”
The new site joins Din Tai Fung’s UK venues in Covent Garden, which launched in 2018, and Selfridges and Centre Point, which opened in 2022.
It is part of the brand’s global growth, which includes recent openings in New York’s Times Square and Disneyland in California.
Din Tai Fung Canary Wharf is due to open in early 2025.
