Bao in City of London, Westminster

Love it here - great for a quick work lunch too.

Excellent food. Loved the bao buns and the sweet potato chips!

The service of garlic paste is 100 points👍🏻

Tight quarters but quick service. Nice server in middle for conversation if you’re willing. Food came out very fast. Bao buns were delicious and the drink selection was great. Would come back

Fantastic Food, super friendly service - the restaurant is quite small but it’s comfy! We loved it!

Amazing food and great service, thanks!!!

Great quality food and good service. A bit overpriced for some things, and worth asking for the description in some cases when looking at the menu.

I went here with a friend, and we did the £15 lunch menu which gives you three different items with various options. The food is really flavorful, and is incredible value for the amount you get. Will definitely be coming back!

The food and service is absolutely lovely. Just ate there an hour ago! Unfortunately where we were seated, around the bar, the floor is extremely sticky. I’m not sure why, but I had placed my bag on the floor before noticing the hook under the counter, and my entire bag is covered in this sticky green/brown substance. If you have an idea how to clean my bag that would be greatly appreciated as I bought it this morning only!

As a Taiwanese, I heard that this restaurant has authentic Taiwanese food so I went here with my Peruvian friend. We tried a menu set of classic Bao, Taiwanese fried chicken and Guinea fowl rice and they’re so good! I was surprised at how good the fried chicken is since this is not a specialised fried chicken shop. The atmosphere is great and the food is so delicious despite a bit expensive. Overall I highly recommend!

We had delicious food at this tiny restaurant. The pig blood cake (black pudding!), guinea fowl and classic bap were exceptional, but everything was fantastic. There is a temptation to just keep shovelling small plates down but a little restraint served us well and the bill was more reasonable than last time (£140 including tips for 2 adults and 2 teenagers). Very much looking forward to the next visit!

The bathrooms were wonderful and the rest was good (except for the price of the drink, which in London is always hard)

We had a lovely couple lunch. It was excellent, thank you

The best place to get bao in London. The consistency, the favours, and satiety perfectly blended in. Definitely a must try!

Food, service, and atmosphere were excellent. Highly recommend!

The perfect place to escape to and have a delicious meal. Thank you.

Amazing restaurant! Everything from the food to the service was absolutely perfect. The Jiao Ma G Bao was a standout dish. I couldn’t recommend this place enough!

My favourite 😍 spot for a quick lunch. I like to do a lonely lunch session and Bao Soho is perfect for that. Great service as usual XOXO

Food was great and staff was really nice Would 100% recommend for lunch

Bao London is my go-to spot whenever I'm craving delicious Taiwanese cuisine with a modern twist. With locations scattered across the city, it’s the perfect place to enjoy a range of Taiwanese delights, whether you’re dining in or grabbing a quick bite to-go. The menu is a fantastic mix of traditional and modern flavors. I highly recommend trying the xiao chi (small bites) and noodles, but the real stars of the show are their signature BAOs. The classic bao and prawn bao are absolutely worth the wait—there are few things in life worth queueing for, but these definitely are! The pillowy buns and perfectly balanced fillings make each bite an explosion of flavor. If you’re a fan of bubble tea, their drink options are a great accompaniment to your meal. Bao London never disappoints. It’s a staple for me, and once you try it, it’ll likely be one for you too!

A wonderful experience. Very good service and quality!

The bao was really small but delicious. The texture of the bread is great, the meat is soft and there is a lot of it. It was very delicious with the chewy skin in the middle of the meat. Milk tea is also delicious But the sweet potato fries and fried chicken are not tasty. It's hard to not like sweet potato fries, but they were very soggy and mushy.

All very good! I couldn't choose my favorite dish

Friendly cute spot with excellent speedy service. The confit pork Bao was soft and not doughy and the pork tender but it needed more sauce and an extra ingredient to make it tastier. A bit plain and a bit pricey for such a small morsel.

Incredible food! And excellent service, staff super happy and accommodating 💜

Nice food, good service. The cocktails were great!

Lovely, cosy, Taiwanese place. The food was visually appealing and tasty. The service was quick and polite. Will definitely return. It's one of the best places I have been to recently.

Very busy, quality small plate food, great atmosphere Booking recommended!

Came here for a post-work dinner with a friend. I booked ahead knowing from the pictures how small this place was. We arrived at 17:30 in the evening and unfortunately there were no tables available so we sat at the counter facing the bar. As I learned later on, it wasn't ideal being right next to a sink as water from the sink often splashed up onto us. However, moving on from that we ordered our drinks both cocktails, I had the sake beer and my companion the sweet potato gin. Both were excellently prepared. Tap water was requested and provided as a bottle with two glasses for us to fill. As we were ordering before 6pm, we managed to take advantage of the £15 set menu which was a side, bao bun and rice bowl. The choices weren't great but what was there was enough for us to go for it. Bao wise we got a Classic and Fried Chicken, for the sides we got the mushroom and fried chicken and both rice bowls which were aubergine and guinea fowl. The bao's were excellent as you can expect, especially the buns themselves, they were fluffy warm and soft holding their fillings perfectly. The fillings themselves were great and went down very easily! I could've had many more. The sides were good, but nothing amazing. Fried chicken wasn't winning any awards and the mushrooms were made better with the small pieces of pickled shitake mushrooms which massively elevated the dish. The rice bowls were ok, the guinea fowl was probably lost on me as it just tasted like gamey rice with a hint of richness from the egg yolk. I personally preferred the aubergine rice more but again, nothing crazy and there were no particular flavours shouting out. I decided to order the weeping Sake which was smooth dry and delicious and we got a couple of more buns, one classic and one braised shortrib. No complaints on those, both delicious as you would expect from a place named 'Bao' Overall a good place to get tasty and authentic bao buns but not somewhere I'd visit again as all the other dishes seem a bit pointless to me. Just do more bao buns please!! Also due to the quick turnaround at this place it did feel quite rushed and the food was coming out too quickly would you believe! Yes, there is such a thing as food arriving at the table too quickly!

We came straight from the Eurostar with our luggage (3 suitcases) and were welcomed in despite the small interior. The place quickly filled, and surrounded us with a lovely buzzing atmosphere. The staff were so friendly and helpful. The food was incredible. Each dish flavourful and well executed. I’m not a fan of greasy food, so I was very happy that the fried components were done the way they should be so that the result is deliciously crisp texture without an oily mouthfeel. ☺️

Lovely stuff! Service, atmosphere and everything else... A++

The food was amazing. Not a single thing to say negative. Service was amazing aswell, super friendly etc. The Room is a little bit tiny for the many people that fit in here.

Really yummy, a bit on the precie side, but really good food and service

Really nice Bao and indeed all the food was very nice, unfortunately just felt it was overpriced for the in/out set up of the restaurant. Other bao/Taiwanese places are similar prices or less for a more special experience.

Such a good experience Want more !!!!

Fantastic food! Authentic Taiwanese cuisine!

Really gentle staff and food was good

One of the best restaurants I have tried

The best portions you can get! So much flavour. Feels like trying something for the first time. The beer pai so well and the Horlicks ice cream is the best!

Delicious, friendly staff, innovative drinks menu, cosy space

Great place, food and experience

Delicious meal, good service and excellent value for money, particularly if you get the Bao 15.

Walked in, got seated to a glorified primary school table. My partner and I ordered our food and drinks, (pointless, as close to half of it was totally missing; something I ended up being thankful for in the end). The portion sizes were minuscule and the food was offensively average. The £80 bill was the icing on the cake, especially when they tried to charge us for items they never served, even after telling them three times we didn’t receive them. The staff are friendly, but there seems to be little communication or coordination between them. Go somewhere else.

These are the best bao in London. Enjoy it!

I’ve been wanting to try this place for so long and finally did it during my trip. I really enjoyed the food here, not only everything I ordered tasted delicious, it also reminds me home. My fav was the beef soup, scallop, sliced beef and rice bowl.

Delicious food, great service, would recommend!

The food was incredibly delicious. However, we still couldn't really enjoy the evening. We were sitting right next to the toilet—1 meter away from the toilet bowl and just 10 cm from the door. Guests were constantly going to the bathroom. I think this spot shouldn’t be given out, or it should be offered to guests who walk in spontaneously and are asked if it’s okay. But not to guests who made a reservation a month in advance.

Cool restaurant, but the food is definitely not as good as what you can find in Chinatown nearby. That being said, for a lovely dining experience, BAO is great!

Food is amazing, service is even better and their prices are ok too. The reason for the 2 stars is the fake prices. What I mean by that is the 12.5% obligatory tip "gratuity". If it's obligatory then the menu prices are not accurate. Very scummy Just raise the prices by 12.5%

Great food, friendly staff, nice vibe.

spot on service. clinical, effective, efficient. made my partner feel all the more special on her birthday :) thank you to the saturday team for their service !!

Interior of this place never disappoints, small but very cute. It is pricey but the food is filling and delicious. Very surprised with the aubergine, thought it wouldn’t be that nice but absolutely loved the flavours. Service is quick and very helpful from when you come in and when you leave too. Beautiful staff

Our server Aarya was very mean to us and when we told her we didn’t like one of the many things we ordered she didn’t take it well at all and removed the food from our table while we were still eating!! Never going back!!

Good food. Good drinks. Good times

After several bad experience with other BAO branches. BAO Soho still the best in the town!! Highly recommended!!!

£15 lunch deal is fantastic value.. very filling! Service with a smile and delicious food. Can’t go wrong highly recommend

incredible. stunning. delicious. 10/0

Food was alrite, found the portions sizes very small felt a bit like a tapas,

Very cute place! Great staff that were friendly & attentive. Food was delicious we tried a number of items! The serving sizes are on the smaller side but perfect as this allows you to order a few things to share along side the baos.

Friendly, tasty and very efficient.

Lunch deal £15 for a Bao, Rice bowl and fried chicken. Was good value and tasty 👌😋

Very good baos, fast and friendly service, I recommend

Awesome spot! Fully deserve a Michelin bib!

Delicious Bao Buns with the chicken dish being the highlight

We came 8 years ago and it has not deceived us! The fried chicken bao was excellent and so was the angus beef…

Very kind and helpful staff. Very expensive food and some of the chicken a friend had was pink but I enjoyed everything I ate.

Had a nice little solo lunch and the staff were so sweet and accommodating. Highly recommend the solo set menu if you want a lovely light lunch alone! The hostess was so kind and helpful. I will definitely be back!

The Fried Chicken was Perfect. For suggestions listen to the waitresses!

The food is insanely delicious, especially the fried Horlicks bao and the mushrooms (not to be eaten together of course )

Delicious! Amazing service as well. The staff is so kind and friendly!

Very delicious! I had a take away 2 bao buns, fried chicken & pork belly. The lady who took my order was very kind. Will be back to dine in for sure. Thank you 😊

When evaluating a thing/site, I think the context in which it is located may have to be taken into consideration. For example, if the alley on Third Avenue in Midtown, New York is placed in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, it may be a mediocre existence, but if it is placed in midtown, New York There will be a valuable existence beside the avenue. I think BAO in London SOHO is similar. Do you want to say that BAO’s food is not delicious enough? The background and context must also be taken into consideration. After all, it may be an unrealistic fantasy to expect that the taste of a hanging bag in London can be similar to that of a famous/old shop in Taipei, and that such a taste can survive and continue in London. ? BAO's hanging bag lacks some strong impact and is quite satisfactory, but it still retains a taste that some people miss in London, which is a value in itself. The "Chicken Rice" in the set meal I ordered this time is probably a flavor I have never encountered in Asia so far in my life. I think whether it tastes good or not depends on the "perspective", but in terms of the £20 set meal from BAO , in many British restaurants there may only be one course, but in BAO, in addition to steamed buns and chicken rice, there is actually a cold drink, a fried chicken, and a pot of Baozhong tea (what!?), so you can enjoy it all. The shop owner also serves tea, which is not available in Europe. I don’t think it is available in Taiwan at the moment. This should once again show the intention of the person in charge. The dining environment has a small literary style, which is good. The meal itself may be ⭐️⭐️⭐️, but the value of its existence is ⭐️

Very good Baos and very friendly service ❤️

Best bao you are going to find in London, excellent service, fast and delicious

Great experience and the fried chicken is delicious!

Come here. Please. Just come here

It was very good I'm back again

INCREDIBLE!!! must go to in london

If it hadn’t been for the queue outside, we probably wouldn’t even have noticed the place. But we are so glad we did and we understand why people are queuing here! The fried chicken bao is Devine!! I could eat that every single day, accompanied by the eaqually delicious Korean fried chicken. It’s spicy from a European viewpoint but rather mild from an Asian viewpoint. In any case it’s delicious! Super crunchy, yet juicy inside - you can’t make fried chicken much better I think.

A must visit in Soho. Prepare to queue on peak hours.

Delicious food and great service! Big thanks to Lu for being awesome. Will definitely be back!

Great small restaurant! We went following a recommendation and we were so glad that we did

Delicious food and fast nice service. Order the long day menu to get a taste of everything!

Service was fast. Food was great. Atmosphere is hectic and cramped.

Otherwordly bao - seriously so good! We visited for lunch and opted for the 15p fixed menu to try as much as possible and I would definitely recommend doing that :) I am still thinking of the hot sauce that came with the fried chicken bao, it was one of the best I ever had, beside Texas Pete!

First visit - great friendly service and excellent bao! Thanks!

The most delicious whiskey cocktail and 3 plates of mouth watering food. Thank you.

Wonderful food and customer service, only issue is such a small space with loud voices - worth it for the quality of the food. Hopefully this restaurant progresses into a giant venue!

Great experience ! Don't hesitate to take a look around I definitely recommend this lovely place

Nice modern but still slightly rustic atmosphere with tasty food

I've made a number of recipes from the cookbook so had to stop by and try the real thing and it did not disappoint

Food was very delicious! The bad with ice cream was amazing, you definitely want to get that!! One thing that I recommend is to get more vegetarian bao option, maybe with fried tofu or something like that??

Food not quite as good as the Shoreditch branch but still great service as usual and had a great time

Food is actually insanely good. Best meal I’ve had in London.

Excellent Taiwanese restaurant 👌

Staff are great and attentive. The food was delicious

They were so lovely, it was my wife’s birthday and they presented a card and a sweet with candles. Service and food was really good! Felt happy! Thanks for making our day!

Amazing food, friendly staff. Great spot for a solo-date

Excellent...food epic...service first class...venue perfect!

YUM!!! Buns were super soft and all the dishes had so much flavor The pineapple float was heavenly!