Dragon Castle in Southwark - Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

I've been coming to Dragon Castle for nearly 20yrs. Fantastic dim sum. New specialties all the time. The pink crab and fish dim sum is amazing. I travel the world and know my dim sum. Dragon is a cut above everything in China town .... make the trip here ... its soooo worth it.

Decent Chinese restaurant option in Elephant & Castle area. Food was decent, quick service, wide variety of dishes from meat to fish to vegetarian and a range of beverages. Price is reasonable.

I had dinner in this place with my girlfriend a few days ago. Not a great experience to be honest with you. Although the atmosphere is nice and the service is efficient, the food was not that great. We had stir-fried rice ( which did not seem to be stir-fried and had a funny smell ). We also ordered a mixed grill with pork and duck. The pork was good but the duck was not at all. It was full of bones which made the edible part very small and it just did not taste good. I would not go there again. I should give 2 stars but want to give 3 only for the service and atmosphere. We also had another dish based on pork belly which was good. We didn't take anything to drink apart from tap water and we paid a total of 35ish each.

Portion sizes are TINY now. They give you enough for ONE small plate each and charge you up the nose. Cost £70 for 4 tiny dishes. Food was good but not good value anymore.

The taste is very authentic👍🏻The service is also really good! I even played a birthday song on my friend’s birthday, it was so thoughtful ❤️❤️❤️

Dragon Castle is a must-visit for anyone who loves authentic Chinese cuisine. The food is amazing, and the staff are attentive and friendly, ensuring your dining experience is nothing short of excellent. Will definitely be back!

Good Customer Service Served By Ahmed. A Friendly Person. Will visit again.

I stumbled upon this place by chance and had wonderful service, incredible dim sum and all at a very good price. This really feels like an undiscovered gem.

Local to work, it does have more choices of authentic dishes and would recommend the beef brisket with mooli, but portion size seemed to have shrinked overtime (sometimes saturated with too much oil!). Prices are above average, not the cheapest. Nice decoration, which i recalled it was closed for a long time for refurb. Sometimes you get staff are trained, and sometimes you get amateurs, but hey, gotta start somewhere. General vibes, this is the fancier higher end chinese restaurant compared to the others, but there's food/taste competition nearby.

Best Chinees I ever had the service is nice and fast

Me and my family came here for a dinner and straight away we were introduced with wonderful customer service and friendliness. The new team, Ming, Alex and Yee were great hosts, very attentive and the food was also excellent and so delicious. We’ll definitely be coming here again :)

Me and my family came here for a dinner and straight away we were introduced with wonderful customer service and friendliness. The new team, Ming, Alex and Yee were great hosts, very attentive and the food was also excellent and so delicious. We’ll definitely be coming here again :)

Last night, I dined with friends at Dragon Castle in London and had a wonderful experience. I want to particularly highlight the service provided by "Ming", who was exceptional throughout the evening. From the moment we arrived, Ming made us feel welcome and comfortable. His attention to detail and kindness made a difference. The food, as always, was excellent and served promptly. Everything was delicious, from the starters to the main courses. To top off the evening, Ming surprised us with some complimentary small desserts, a much-appreciated gesture and the perfect ending to a great dinner. I highly recommend Dragon Castle, not only for its excellent food but also for its first-class service. Thanks again to Ming for making our night so special. We will be back soon!

Edit: It's been a couple of visits now and progressively getting bad. This probably will be our last visit here. The double cooked pork was oily and tasteless. The egg fried rice was also not so nice. The braised beef claypot was very good. But if 2 out of 4 of our dishes were poor then I wouldn't want to be playing food roulette with the menu trying to guess what might be good. Very disappointed. Service is still amazing! ‐--------------------------------------------------------------------- Lovely lovely lovely is an understatement. Sizzling beef in black bean sauce Special fried rice Bbq pork in puff pastry Taro laced pork and shrimp. We chanced upon this place and it was an amazing surprise. Food was excellent. Service was lovely. Can't wait to come here more regularly. Sad that we don't live close by. Went there again. Other than the mix-up in menus, we had no issues. Beef in pepper sauce was yum. Scallops with asparagus were ok. They say XO sauce, but it really isn't. Mango pudding was so so so good!

Went for Dim Sum on Sunday. Well worth the visit

Sunday Dimsum. Such a lovely calm environment, peaceful music and very attentive service. Food came out very quickly as well.

Friendliest restaurant in Elephant & Castle! Very relaxing atmosphere; lovely spot for a family weekend lunch. Dim Sum was fantastic.

This is one of my go to places and best for tasty quality Chinese, but sadly the chef must have changed. The dim sum still tasted ok, but were very garish coloured (bright pink and bright green, using unnatural food colouring). The rest of what I ordered tasted bland. For example the egg fried rice was stodgy and stuck together. The bean curd mapo tofu lacked any flavour and I could have made it better using packet sauce. Really disappointing as I loved this place before. Fingers crossed it returns to it former glory.

I came here with my class (25 ppl) during my school trip, it was the worst school trip ever but the atmosphere in this restaurant was pretty chill and the owners were adorable I almost felt like I was at home. The food was extremely good tho !!! I advice y’all to go there 🫂🫂‼️

Loving the dim sum menu as always any opportunity to celebrate I'm there ordering dim sum... even if its just a day that ends in "Y" lol

We are visiting from the US and we chose this restaurant because it was near our Airbnb and had excellent reviews. We’re glad we did. Everything was outstanding. We got the ribs in mandarin sauce, hot and sour soup, shrimp wonton soup, sizzling prawns, and wok fried noodles with mixed seafood and meats and everything was delicious.

I have been going the Dragon Castle on and off over the past 8 years. The food just isn't good enough. In my opinion, the restaurant has all the ingredients to be super successful, but for the ingredients they use in the food. Chicken satay, its not complicated, but the texture of the meat had us query if it actually was chicken, and the peanut sauce...was just bitter. 1/2 a CRISPY aromatic duck (not cheap) was a bag of bones in wet fatty meat...and a dribble of hoisin sauce. They a 2 mins from my door but I will never go again unless they change suppliers and get back to real cooking, authentic dishes. This all seemed microwaved.

My 60th birthday was supposed to be memorable. My family had booked ahead and all came as a surprise for me and the restaurant set aside 2 big tables for us. However, the service was horrendous and ruined what should and could have been a great night. Waited over an hour for any food. It seems they had drafted in staff who had never set foot in the place before and knew nothing about the menu. This used to be a lovely Chinese restaurant with great food. However with all the Uber eats and other couriers in and out of there, it’s just a takeaway with some tables that will be served when they can be bothered.

My friends and I went there for lunch on 2024-04-21. We ordered 10 dishes and sadly none of them tasted good. It is unusual for me to leave food on the table at the end of a meal but the food generally tasted not fresh, the fried dim sums were oily and dry, everything just seemed they were cooked a long time ago. We felt rather thirsty all day after the lunch which is the tell tale sign of heavy handed MSG. The only good thing about the restaurant was that it was quiet so you wouldn’t need to shout to hear your friends talk. Overall I’d not recommend.

It used to be one of my go-to Dim sum places but I was disappointed with the quality of food (many things came cold/lukewarm, shaolongbao had holes already or broke easily which suggests frozen and served without vinegar/ginger etc etc) and the general experience wasn’t pleasant this time….perhaps the chef or the management changed?? I don’t know but I don’t think I will be back anytime soon 😑

Do not go here. Ate at this restaurant last night and got food poisoning. As soon as I got home I’ve spent the whole night throwing up. This is one of those restaurants where you taste the chicken and think - is it really chicken. Run…

Came in for lunch to get wok fried beef noodles, cheung fun, shanghai soup dumplings, and various others. The service was fast, but my bowl wasn't the cleanest (so I had to ask for a new one). Staff were very polite and quick on their feet, would highly recommend.

Visited with a group of friends for lunch after being recommended it by a colleague. I've never had dimsum before so it was a new experience for me and one of my other friends. We thoroughly enjoyed it and loved everything we ordered. The staff were really helpful in recommending us some dishes to try out too. Can't wait to be back again soon. Would recommend the fried custard buns, calamari and pan fried dumplings!

Visited with a group of friends for lunch after being recommended it by a colleague. I've never had dimsum before so it was a new experience for me and one of my other friends. We thoroughly enjoyed it and loved everything we ordered. The staff were really helpful in recommending us some dishes to try out too. Can't wait to be back again soon. Would recommend the fried custard buns, calamari and pan fried dumplings!

Don't Go! It was a dreadful experience Poor food, terrible service, one meal came 40 minutes after the other. They didn't give a real apology or offer a discount to compensate. It was chaos and when we complained to the manager he winged about lack of staff and expected us to feel sorry for him, without acknowledging our issues. The restaurant wasn't even busy, no wonder!

Service was really poor. Had to wait about 10mins for a bill and the waiters all looked confused

I’ve visited Dragon Castle perhaps a dozen times over the past 15 years and today was by far the most disappointing. Most dim sum dishes generally lacked freshness (the shui mai even tasted a bit off) with most of our order pretty average - the fried rice was almost devoid of flavour, tasted like a novice cook’s version. Nice service and relaxing atmosphere - although the latter is perhaps a function of the restaurant being less busy now due to a fall in standards maybe. Sadly a disappointing experience today and unlikely to be back for a while until standards improve

We have been going here for about 7 years and it has always been great and by far the best Chinese around. Sadly on our last visit things were very different. We ordered the crispy duck and the cucumber that came with it was clearly off. They went to replace it and said this one is from the fridge which shocked us as they should all be kept in the fridge. The other food was also really below standard. Something has changed here, maybe the chef but unfortunately we will not be going back again after this experience.

Food is overpriced now and the quality has gone downhill. We use to come here quite often in a few years. First time back was a dissapointment. The roast duck was dry and and hard. They also missed a few things that we ordered. Didn’t really feel satisfied with our meal despite paying £120 for our meal

I ordered take away during Chinese New Year, obviously the restaurant was very busy. I had to wait for my order but the staff was very caring and asked repeatedly if I needed anything, even offering refreshments while I waited. The food was also delicious. Thank you for a memorable CNY

Shocking service and appalling food! This visit was very, very poor, mainly because our expectations were higher perhaps? There wasn’t any welcome of any sort and the restaurant was cold. The older lady, who appeared to be in charge, was rude and non responsive as she marched through the trading areas. We paid £147 on the evening which was a waste of money and we will definitely not return. This was so disappointing as we are local people, enjoy Chinese food and this restaurant used to have a good reputation! Clearly I would not recommend this place! Disappointed to say the least!

I have been here before the place was renovated. Reserved a table for 4 @2pm for Sunday lunch. The drinks arrived but for 40mins nothing came to the table. at 2.45pm we inquired what was happening. Seems like there was no communication between the waitress and the kitchen. Several people came to inquire, nothing happened until the manager came at about 3.20pm to ask what was happening. We were just about to get up and walk out. Finally, the starters and the food etc all came together at about 3.45pm, at that time we were not hungry any more and the dumplings we were so looking forward to having were cold and left. While they can be busy, they have to look after all their customers, not a selected few. Awful experience and our Sunday was completely spoilt. Will not be going there again.

Your friendly neighbourhood Chinese restaurant. Good dim sum, good Cantonese food.

The shrimp fried rice is plentiful and delicious. I don't know the name of the menu, but the beef stir-fried noodles were also delicious. However, the wonton noodles were not tasty, so I only ate the wontons, and the dim sum basket I ordered instead was not very good, starting with the fluorescent green dumpling skin. If you want to eat it, just eat the shrimp fried rice.

The food was ok. The price you see on the Manu actually does not include VAT, the final bill will be added 20% on top of the price when you order. Further, the service charge will be applied as NOT an option. Be aware of this restaurant who play tricks.

good dim sum. Well frequented. Book at wends. Usual service and same vibe as most Chinese restaurants. Elephant And Castle local place avoids West End Chinatown which is good.

Lovely restaurant for group settings. Food is plentiful, tasty and made fresh. we were here for team Christmas meal and had a satisfying experience. The service was attentive and polite. Lots of options to choose from. Loved their dimsums.

Their food is excellent, particularly their hot soup, which is exceptionally tasty. They offer lobsters, but the price might come as a surprise since it's based on the current market price. I highly recommend trying their spicy fish pot; it has a rich gravy and robust flavors.

Legit Chinese restaurant. The decoration reminded me of traditional feast back home. Very good taste for most dishes.

The dim sum was really good. They offer a great variety of styles, and all of them are tasty. I highly recommend the cheese and prawn shrimp rolls and deep fried custard bun. Their dim sum offer stops at 5pm so make sure you go before!

The best Chinese food in Xiangbao! Great service and dishes, also very creative! Recommend stir fried Sanbao with soy sauce, stir fried scallops with asparagus, and stewed duck with plum sauce

sooo amazing food ！I 100% can introduce this restaurant for my friends！

Nice food with attractive discount

Very authentic Chinese food. Great taste and reasonable price!

Really enjoyed my time here !!! Good food with nice ambience

Lovely restaurant! Food was good and the fish was very tasty and moreish. I would like to recommend the prawn. It was so crispy and yummy. All the staff were very friendly and helpful. Will come back.

用餐环境绝了 像中国古代王府一样 冒菜非常好吃 量很大 你可以按你的喜好点任何菜 基本上每个菜都很好吃 我非常喜欢！

Very delicious！ The best Chinese restaurant in UK！

Golden Dragon Pot, a very nice restaurant, the hot pot is very good, the flavour is very good and the portion is very large, highly recommended!

Great food had banquet c for 4….sooo much food, ,great staff, highly recommend. Thx 4 looking after us and our friends, Gary

Very tasty and authentic! The service is exceptionally good Will definitely come back

Beef and fish tasted so good, Chinese food are so delicious, I will come again!!

A nice restaurant. Really good at dim sum and dry hot pot

Spacious restaurant, best maocai found in this area; perfect if you are into spicy food

Lovely food and really good portion for the price!! 💯 Some of the dishes look really spicy but they’re definitely manageable for someone like me whose spice tolerance isn’t super high 😆 Also the interior is super cool, there’s even a koi pond at the entrance

前几天去象堡的金龙堡吃饭，距离地铁步行5分钟，店面超级大，装修也很中式。就在kiki&miumiu中超对面，地理位置超棒。有两广地区的小伙伴来这里吃过早茶，说还不错，目前还有£1 小笼包一笼，吃到赚到。 . 看到他们的冒菜和麻辣香锅很诱人就冲了，而且人均：£15。冒菜，我们加了鱿鱼、豆腐、鸡胗，越吃越辣，越吃越香，很下饭！而且豆腐吸收了辣椒的香气，咬下去一口，香味在舌尖绽放！鱿鱼很细心的切了纹路，方便食材吸收配料的味道，很入味。 . 水煮牛肉，牛肉分量超级大，加上黄芽菜等装点，香中带辣，食材也很新鲜，很下饭！ . 胡椒猪肚鸡汤，超出我预想的一道菜，鸡肉非常嫩滑，猪肚处理的也很干净，白胡椒和红枣的味道浸入在汤汁内，喝一口都是温暖！两个人吃小份就可以，人多的可以点大份猪肚鸡。寒冷的冬日喝一杯暖暖的猪肚鸡汤才是真的暖心。 . 香焗黄金虾，采用咸蛋黄的做法，一端上来就是咸蛋黄的香味扑鼻而来，表层咸咸的口感加上新鲜的虾肉，超级好吃！两个人都没吃完这一盘大虾，太实在

What has happened to Dragon Castle? We've been coming here for years. This time the place was dirty and tired looking. The waiters were completely uninterested in serving us drinks. We ordered our usual starters. They came very quickly and were terrible. We didn't stay for main course. Very sad.

Ive been coming here for over 10 years. Its used to be very good but the service now is one star . Im sorry but i gotta let you know

Excellent dimsum and warm service! We found the dimsum to be of high quality with some subtle differences to most of the dimsum we’ve had in Chinatown which we thought perhaps that meant this was made by the restaurant kitchen themselves. All really tasty. The service was very warm and sweet, felt just like at home being fed and taken care of by nice aunties :). No issue with card payments. Would definitely come again! Contrary to another review, didn’t see any separation of ‘authentic’ and ‘foreigners’…!

Can only comment on the dim sum menu, but everything we tried was very good. Service was attentive but not overbearing and prices were fair considering the quality.

First time there, and everything was great lovely little gesture with a little cake for the birthday boy

Very good service but questionable value for money. 2 starters, 2 main, 2 desserts, 3 small beers for 84£ does not sound super interesting for a "normal" Chinese restaurant.

We waited 30 minutes for a table and the family behind us were seated before us and we asked for chilli oil 5 times and there was raw shrimp in the Hak Gao

Very fresh ingredients and a lovely waitress who said it was her third day but was super helpful. We had the dim sum basket and chilli prawns followed by pork belly and tofu, with jasmine rice and beers. Very nice.

We left with no service at all!A lot of the things ordered didn’t come, some forgotten others not taken. I felt like I was in a canteen. Food is ok. First time and most likely the last.

Great selection of Dim Sum for Sunday lunch and you can see they are home made vs Chinese restaurants in Soho.

The food was not at all to a T. Towards the end of our food and when it came to payment there was a huge issue with the fact that we wanted service charge to be taken off. The man who was serving us was practically forcing us to make us feel as though we had no right to take it off. On the receipt , it was said on the receipt that it was compulsory but made it seem like we didn’t have a choice. It was an awkward and anxious moment when it came to paying. There was flies circling around our food when we had not even started eating that food. Quite a bad experience overall .

Always enjoy and love the food and service

I've been coming to Dragon Castle since it opened many years ago. I now go mainly for dim sum and absolutely love it! It's also a place where it feels very comfortable to pop in on your own for a treat - the service is always great. I'm really pleased to see that they have succeeded in keeping afloat over Covid and I'm loving the new dim sum menu too.

没想到路过一个地方居然有一个这么大的中餐馆餐，（虽然外墙在施工）但是进去探一下，非常赞！我在广东生活了20年对于广式茶点非常熟悉。广式茶点一壶茶（香片）三件套，虾饺肠粉叉烧包。

I'm delighted with the service. They made me feel very comfortable and the food and soup a 100. I was feeling a little sick and they recommended this restaurant to me, I'm coming on Saturday! Thank you

Visited for a birthday meal for a friend the food was delishious staff friendly though the service was slow it didn't matter and we enjoyed our meals

Food is very nice, fresh, fast service, it is on the expensive side, with VAT included. Will definitely visit again.

Lovely place food was nice, service was slow they forgot to bring out my soup, all was forgotten when the yummy food arrived

Food tasteless Staff don't serve with a smile Poor attitude from staff Building antiquated, but inside was clean. I would not rerun

Food was lovely, but service wasn't upto scratch, such a shame as it spoilt the atmosphere

Absolutely delicious - perfect level of seasoning in each dish, all freshly prepared. Comfortable dining room and excellent service. Best Chinese cuisine I have had in a long time - looking forward to going back soon.

This is one of my go to places for dim-sum. I like the fact that there is a good variety of choices for dim-sum and most of them are delicious and fresh. I really love chicken feet, prawn dumplings and turnip paste from there. Chenfung is though not too nice here. The staffs are sometimes busy and in rush but the atmosphere is still better compared to those from China town. The price is also very reasonable. I recommend it.

Amazing dim sum. Great value, and always busy, especially on weekends which just proves how good this place is. Definitely a hidden gem in the area. Since menu has changed after COVID, some of my favourite dishes no longer available but still some of the best value and tasting dim sum I've had in London. Highly recommended for evening meals too. Please note dim sum only available at lunchtime

A lovely place for lunch with attentive, unfussy service. The selection of dim sum was large, the quality very good and the price reasonable. I thought it was great.

The sea bass and tofu are particularly delicious, the fried beef is average, and the lamb is a Cantonese style.

Good dimsum and Cantonese cuisine.

Great little Chinese if ever you're near the Elephant and Castle, big group of 10 when we went, food & service was excellent, only 1 criticism, was the the lighting was a bit bright, well, for me anyway, others didn't notice it...all good though..👍

very good quality dim sum at reasonable price, worth re-visiting.

Ok ish. The restates huge. Decor looks nice but tired. The guest were divided into authentic and foreigners! Through a wall. So you wonder if different food was served. The beef was nice and I had the driest char Sui pork ever. Being in London I think I had the privilege of having some of the best Chinese food and this wasn’t one of them.

We had a late booking for dinner which was accepted as they don't close until 11pm. We arrived shortly after 9 and had the most disgusting experience. There were only three tables occupied and when one of the tables were emptied the staff soon started cleaning the tables and sweeping the floors and mopping after, whilst we were still finishing our starters. We were entertaining friends from Sweden who looked rather dismayed and wondered if that could not wait until we finished our meals. So I did kindly ask them to stop their rude activities. It was only a quarter to ten for heavens sake. The manager was busy talking to a table which was still occupied with guests. Beer was spilt over our fried rice and a big puddle was left.We had to ask and waited for five mins before it got cleared up and beer replaced. Rice was taken away as it was soggy with spilled beer and we had to ask for a new dish to be replaced. We had to ask for bowls, cutlery and napkins. It was a most embarrassing evening especially as we had guest from abroad who wanted to try a Chinese cuisine. We are regulars and enjoyed coming there albeit not too often. When I approached the supervisor we had to hear his sob stories of staff problems but no genuine apologies. We were presented the bill and to our surprise there was even a service charge of 14 %.That really made me decide to write a review. We are appalled to have to pay the amount of close to £100.00 for a meal that was all served at once so that when we finished our starter of crispy duck the rest of the food was stone cold! I hope management will read this review and get back to us to try and reason with us, but I doubt very much they will. Our recommendations sure will not stretch to a five star service nor food and staff. We were there the evening of May 10 2023 and left the restaurant at 10.25 so well before their closing time!!! Johanna

Good old classic dim sums and Chinese food. Consistent and good service in elephant and castle.

Excellent and flavoursome food. Reasonable value. All choices had distinct taste. Will come again.

I had a great time with my wife

Had a birthday dinner with my friend great place to eat ..

Great decor excellent food i had the Mandarin sizzling steak so delicious. With noodles, rice and chicken in black bean sauce shared with my wife

Hi! Les plus... Cuisine fraîche. Service agréable. Les moins... Petite portion pour certains desserts, par rapport au coût. Et malgré le peu de monde, endroit bruyant.

Beautiful restaurant with excellent food and very friendly staff. The food was delicious with vegetarian and vegan options available for both savoury and sweet dishes.

Excellent selection of dim sum. The service is exceptionally friendly.

Customer Toilets : My thoughts are that the Customers Toilet ( women) needs a refurbishment work. I like to go to a restaurant where the whole experience matters,That’s my only disappointment ☹️ I will return when the women toilet has been refurbished. Apart from that the food is ⭐️⭐️⭐️great with lovely waitress who are helpful. Many Thanks