Dim T

I had the chicken gyoza noodle soup.
The good: There were lots of vegetables, the food was hot, and the flavours were decent (as long as you don’t come in expecting authentic Chinese food).
The bad: There were only about four gyoza dumplings, a minimal amount of noodles, and the soup stock tasted like a Knorr bouillon cube. It was only half as filling as I would have liked, so immediately after paying I walked down the street for a slice of pizza.

Japo malo en el centro de Londres
Si eres extranjero vigila la cuenta porque intentarán cobrarte de más. Hacen parecer que no te entienden por el mero hecho de ser español hablando inglés Afortunadamente conmigo no pudieron…
1 basket = 3 pieces of dim sum
2 basket = 6 pieces of dim sum
Regla de tres de Barrio Sésamo
P.D. No añado foto porque la comida en si dejaba bastante que desear…

I don’t even know where to start.
The service was terrible. After waiting for 15 minutes at our table, we were greeted by our waiter who hardly spoke any English and was not capable of answering any questions about the menu. What’s more, she also managed to mess up our beverage order twice and proceeded to include the beverages that we didn’t order on the bill. Even more absurd was when she asked me to read the last 4 digits of my new cc to her because she didn’t know how to read them herself when the charge machine requested that she enter it in the machine.
Also, the dim sum and other food we ordered was over steamed and tasted awful. Worst dim sum I have ever had hands down.
I sincerely regret dining at this restaurant. Such a waste of time. Not recommended for those looking to eat quality dim sum/​Asian fusion food.

Accueil agréable et service rapide. L’endroit est assez bruyant le soir car le quartier est réputé pour ses restaurants et souvent blindé.
On avait une furieuse envie de dimsum et nous voici installé à l’une des petites tables de la salle du fond. On tente bien entendu les fried pulled pork gyoza. A tomber. C’est chaud, tendre, croustillant et parfait avec la sauce soja.
On a continué par de super dimsum vapeurs (3,50£ le panier de 3) aux légumes, crevettes/​cacahuètes/​coriandre et poulet épicé. On a aussi tenté les dimsum crevettes/​porc émincé mais le mélange n’était vraiment pas fameux.
Même chose pour leur japanese fried Rice au poulet, pas fou comme mélange. Pas mauvais non plus mais manqué singulièrement de saveurs.
Bref venez au moins pour les gyoza, ça vaut le coup.

Good quality dim sum, so well worth the mission on a Sunday. Staff need more training on the service front, the waitresses seemed moody and unhappy to be there.
All in all though I would come back. Better or as good as your local ‘Ping Pong’ restaurant food.

The crispy duck is by far a must-​have. It’s lean, not greasy or gamey, and of course, perfectly crispy without being chewy or tough. The side of chicken gyoza and pork buns were not anything special, but are nice accompaniments for family-​style sharing. The service was very friendly, smiley, and accommodating. The restaurant itself is adorable – particularly because of the sakura blossom theme. A cute little place on Charlotte, great for a quick (or long lunch), business meeting, or friendly catch up.

The last time I was here I had started doing Weight Watchers to return to a more healthy weight. I ordered a phở style soup (which is a main, not a starter) and the waitress harassed me 3 times that that wasn’t enough food and that men don’t like women who don’t eat. I should have a starter and dessert according to her. I was speechless. The waitress then attempted to have my husband CONVINCE me to eat. Um, I wasn’t not eating, and who the hell doe stye waitress think she is judging my food consumption?
I left feedback on the company’s website, and to be fair to them, their head office called me 3 times to talk about it and seemed to take the feedback very seriously. They told me that when they approached the waitress I described, she knew exactly she had done wrong and that she was embarrassed. Good!

Me and my husband love this place and eat here about once a week — always can get a table and they always remember us. Wide selection of food and each dish as tasty as the next (and we have tried most). Good size portions and reasonably priced. Plus they offer mocktails which are amazing! Sometimes ill go at lunch just for the dim sum! Some dishes require you to order rice or noodles as well. They offer a gteat lunch menu as well which you can take away if your im a rush (and its a bit cheaper)
Also has some outside seating.

I would have gave DimT a 3.5, but I cannot.
Overall I think it is a nice place to have lunch or after work drink with colleagues. DimT’s staff is very nice and the atmosphere is always buzzing.
I think their choices in the menu are good, but not Earth shattering. People going to eat there must remember that it is an «Asian Fusion» restaurant. Consequently, the dishes will not be the most authentic you can find. That said, I really like their spicy prawns dim sum.

Popped in for a late dinner after a movie. It was a weekday night and the place was quite busy. We managed to get a cosy table by the sofas. Cute lamps and lanterns hung above the tables, though a bit low I nearly bumped into them a few times — and I’m already a pretty short/​petite person
We both ordered tea for drinks, which came served in individual teapots.
For starters we ordered the sharing platter, although not fantastic (and not served quite as hot as we would have liked it to be) was still pretty decent. The spring rolls, prawns and squid was tasty, but the ribs were too hard and dry. Edamame beans also quite cold.
For mains we both ordered the seafood laksa, mainly out of curiousity. As a laksa-​loving Asian, I’m always on the lookout for the best ones!
In terms of comparison to the laksa that I’ve tried in the past, this soup was much more diluted and not very creamy and rich. Plenty of squid and prawns, though could do with a bit more colour and better presentation.
As a laksa dish, I wouldn’t count it as anywhere close to authentic, but as a noodle soup dish and based on just flavour, it was pretty tasty.
A bit hit and miss but would try it again in future.

I liked this place for the buzz it has. As soon as you walk in you know you’re somewhere people want to come to, so immediately I begin over analysing the joint.
Friendly staff, slightly slow at taking our order but then we did not have a reservation and it would be fair to say they were run off their feet.
I ordered the Crispy Cod and I was not disappoint in the the slightest. In fact I let my self down by not finishing the dish before it got cold. Substantial amount of fish in a lovely sauce in which I think I could pick out a hint of tamarind.
Possibly the best battered cod I have in the last couple of years.
Will be returning soon.

The atmosphere seemed OK (if not slightly dull) and I’ve got no complaints about the service. However, I wasn’t impressed with the food at all — especially the dumplings. Or the duck.
Even the prawn crackers were substandard.

I went to Dim T with friends after work last week and I was really looking forward to it. I’d had a brief look at the menu and website before hand and thought I was going to be in for a real treat– to be honest I was surprised I could afford it! But I was spoilt for choice in terms of what I liked the look of on the menu, everything looked so tasty!
I went for the Sweet Coconut dish– noodles with prawns and veg in a coconut sauce and I have to admit, I was really disappointed. I’ve read the reviews here and I must have gone on a bad day, but my noodles were completely overcooked and slimy, with very few prawns on the plate and the vegetables were in short supply.
In addition, the meal started with extremely slow service, which I never mind when it’s busy, but the place was dead, it was only 6pm after all. But I had high expecations for my main which sounded amazing on the menu (as did virtually everything) — and with ingredients that I love I was surpised at how horrible the meal was. So much to the point, that I needed to order a dessert to get the taste out of my mouth. The dessert by the way was the iced berries and hot white chocolate sauce which was absolutely gorgeous, and so simple! But it took 30 minutes to get the dessert! Luckily my friends an I were not in a rush but we were hungry…
My friends on the other hand loved their meals and would go back in a heartbeat, as would I but only because I really want to like the place. The restaurants are all very attractive and the desserts are excellent, if only my main was up to scratch, but as I said perhaps it was just an off day.
Perhaps I’ll be able to give Dim T a more positive review in part two!

Cute little dim sum place in Charlotte Street, just perfect for meeting a friend from out of town. Now, I must admit, I’m not the biggest dim sum guru, in fact, I’m sure I’ve only ever eaten it a few times in my life.
This place left me pleasently surprised. The décor is bright and it seemed fairly busy, there was a multitude of plates on offer and service was swift.
The standout for me were pork buns — white, light, cloudy sweet buns of porky goodness. I also really enjoyed the prawn, crushed peanut and coriander goodies. dim sum is from £3.55 per dish, but other noodles, soups and mains are available too.
Great place for quick eats.

Great spicy chicken dim sum, jasmine flower tea and AWESOME Japanese fried rice. Like this place because it’s fairly affordable and they have outside seating. The service was also quick and they take AMEX which makes me happy when I’m traveling for business! :D

Once, I went here for lunch and had some nice laksa and perfectly edible edamame with a friend. We had tea afterwards.
Another time, I went here for lunch with the boy and had some nice laksa and some extremely over-​priced dim sum and THE TABLE COLLAPSED. The waiter did not notice. We had to hold the table up, re-​attach the legs, and try not to spill the soup.
No apology, not even acknowledgment — however inappropriate it might have been — that the situation was mildly hilarious. Instead, some flustering about. Very helpful.
So, on balance (or not, arf arf), 3 stars. Go to Chinatown for dim sum — the tables don’t collapse. Laksa’s good though.

The food here is pretty tasty and all the sauces that came with the dim sum were well seasoned. I tried pretty mcuh every shrimp dumpling and dim sum option. The spicy shrimp ones were my personal favorite.
The vegetable spring rolls were tasty and served very hot. Be careful not to scorch the tongue on these. Nice dining environment and seems like a good place to bring a group and try a ton of new items with. I went with just a friend and our table was covered.
Would normally be a solid 4 in my book but some dishes came out luke warm and hot food for dim sum is a must! Also the prices are pretty average and not a steal for anything on the meny. Try it if you’re in the area, but definitely no somewhere to venture away from chinatown for.

So Charlotte Street on a (probably the first) warm sunny Friday of the year. So many places we could have ended up but the Poker Shark was really feeling like dim sum so we ended up in Dim T.
It’s a small group with 8 locations, 6 of them in London, and it does have that chain feel to it. The staff are friendly, but not particularly knowledgeable and while I’d prefer to eat in a hygienic establishment, I’d rather not see bottles of cleaning product on the serving counter.
Similar in style, there are certainly no surprises if you’ve eaten in the now near ubiquitous Ping Pong. We settled in next to a party of local office workers and ordered a few mixed dishes from the smiling Scandinavian host.
Starting off with a plate of Crispy Duck to share, I wasn’t overly impressed with a flabby, overly fatty portion of meat and a sub MacDonald’s size portion of overly sweet hoisin.
The steamed dumplings were better thankfully. We went for the Prawn and Chive and the Mushroom steamed dim sum and a couple of portions of the Char Sui pork buns. The flavours all came through well (with the possible exception of the mushroom, slightly too Cream of Campbell Soup to be honest) but I’ve definitely had worse. The Char Sui buns were hot, fresh and a definite improvement on Ping Pong — though overall, the whole experience only served to make me crave a proper dim sum blow out.

(old opinion: I moved away in 2007. Compare to more recent ratings)
I have seen the chaos and noise of many a Dim Sum joint in North America, which consistently remind me why I adored Dim T.
I ate there at least 10 times. Even during peak times the place was quiet enough for a conversation. The dumpling cart is wheeled around slowly, giving you and your party enough time to re-​focus on the key decisions facing you in the next few seconds.
To have or not to have? Meat or seafood? These key issues are easily addressed by the wait staff, who are eager to explain the minutiae of what is about to become your dinner.
If dim sum isn’t your cuppa green tea, the possible combinations of their noodle selection are enough to guarantee a lifetime of tastings.
Did I mention the price? I was a student, and I loved it. Dim T is classy enough to bring a date /​parent /​girlfriend’s parents yet not pretentious enough to swallow a student loan.
I hope they haven’t changed.

Hand on my heart, I’d never had proper dim sum before! I had had the odd dumpling from a chinese takeaway, but never as a meal solely on its own. Even though my friend who isn’t really a fan of dim sum described it as ‘soggy little parcels of shit’ and ‘smelling of feet’, I was still interested in trying it!
On a Friday night we were struck with hunger, so we called Dim T to make a reservation. The guy asked when, and when we told him 15 or 20 minutes, he seriously laughed at first. For a moment I was confused because does that mean it’s not full at all, they have an overabundance of tables, or does that mean we had no hope in hell? Turns out it was bustling in there. Jokes on him though, as we did manage to score a table 20 minutes later!
We started with spicy edamame (which seemed to be flavoured with a General Tsao kinda sauce) which was DELICIOUS. I was positively groping those things. After an order of spring rolls (a little on the oily side, but pay no mind) I ordered spicy chicken and cashew chicken coriander, but I sampled spicy beef and chicken wasabi mushroom. OMG! Now granted I was in a semi-​drunk state (tipsy, if you will), I am now a huge fan! They were a little difficult to eat at first, but I ended up just stabbing them.
I popped to the loo (they passed inspection), and when I came back was presented with a weird looking sea urchin in the bottom of a glass mug. Okay really it was a jasmine flower! It came with a pot of honey which you stick a teaspoon or two into to sweet it up. Despite the odd petal in my mouth, it was a wonderful flavour.
Last but not least were our fortune cookies. They were friggin mini-​scrolls, how awesome! I learned you have to eat your cookie before you read your fortune. Mine had something to do with success, or something.
I had a great dim sum experience. It was a in a very fine establishment indeed as well! Lovely décor and atmosphere, along with good food.

Coming from San Francisco this place was a bit of a joke to me. The inside is attractive and has a trendy feel to it, but the menu is wacky…
Their thing is to take a few items from every Asian culture and do a mediocre/​bastardized job of preparing it. Sure if you’re not used to good Asian food, this could be your gateway drug. But if you’re a pro, best to stay away.
The dim sum was passable, but the crispy duck looked like it had exploded and was a poor attempt at Peking duck.
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Dim T on London’s trendy Charlotte Street is a fantastic place to go to for a catch up with your girlfriends.
Modern and comfortable the atmosphere is relaxed yet vibrant and the Dim Sums were some of the best I’ve ever tasted. However, they were considerably overpriced. A bow of four cost £6 so they are not a meal in themselves but more of a snack to accompany a drink and a chat.
Dim T also offers traditional Thai and Chinese dishes as well as allowing you to make up your own noodle dish at the noodle bar. The restaurant is always extremely busy so the best time to go down is in the late afternoon or before 7pm.