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Dining from above | Hutong, The Shard

Ever since The Shard opened fully, I've been meaning to go to one of the restaurants and admire the surrounding views.  I mean it is such a majestic skyscraper standing up so beautifully at London Bridge.  The name Shard because the building looks like it is made up of a few shards of glass pieced together. In fact the top of the building looks "unfinished" to some.  Most of the restaurants and bar are on the 32nd and 33rd storey whereas guess what, Shangri-la hotel owns the top floors (202 rooms in total) so you can imagine waking up on top of the world.



I was secretly hoping the hubby to suggest a meal in the skies sometime, but alas the wait was ahem a bit longer than expected so I took things into my own hands ;)

I was "researching" the restaurants and saw that Hutong, the Chinese restaurant was doing a deal will early January.  In fact the 4 course deal was really reasonably priced and my heart skipped a beat.  I think it is time for us to dine at the Shard :)  I meant it as an early Christmas meal, just us two.  I had a spur of the moment idea to also specify a window seat under the 'special request' field.



The day arrived and we were blessed with good weather because the day before was really crappy - foggy, cold, gloomy, bleah.  But Sunday was clear blue skies and sunny.


The waiter told us we had the best table in the house for the view of Tower Bridge

Train tracks - we travel through these tracks everyday to work





We had a sample dim sum platter after a clear soup each

Our mains - fried squid with chilli, chicken in black bean sauce and choi sum vegetables, served with rice fried with pickles

What a spread


Mango pudding to end of the meal

Overall a very good meal, made very special with the wonderful views all round.  The food was not bad, although we prefer the dim sum more than the main dishes.  We will be back for dim sum.


Drinks with a view - this was the 32nd floor

The other view - of the city of London including the majestic St Paul's Cathedral
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