Shikumen Ealing

Shikumen at St James Court in Ealing W5 serves Chinese dim sum and Cantonese cuisine. Shikumen — the name for the distinctive Shanghai laneway houses, stone-gated entrance halls attached to rows of terraced housing — that was the dominant form of housing in Shanghai between the 1850s and 1950s. A restaurant named for shikumen brings a piece of Old Shanghai to Ealing. Ealing W5 is home to a significant Chinese community — many Chinese families have lived here since the post-war period — and Shikumen serves this community and a wider West London clientele with quality dim sum, Peking duck and Cantonese classics.

Available for dine-in at St James Court, Ealing W5. Phone 020 8799 9400.