Dragon Castle

114 Walworth Road, London, SE17 1JL - View on a map
Telephone: 0207 277 3388

Details
Overall 3.1
Food 3.3
Service 3.0
Atmosphere 2.7
Value 3.3
Based on 3 reviews

what the critics say

Guardian

Matthew Norman - 7/10

Saturday, November 08, 2008 - In its way, Dragon Castle's presence in so dispiritingly hideous a centre of urban deprivation is just as incongruous as finding Jim's sitcom crumpet on the bridge of the USS Enterprise. Certainly it's a shock to walk through a door on such a gruesome main road and be greeted by a gently splashing fountain, and to find an ocular feast of red paper dragons, tassel-strewn lanterns and golden chandeliers so luminescently vulgar, they'd be asked to leave a Las Vegas casino on grounds of taste.

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I have been to Dragon Castle many times for both lunch and dinner.

The food, especially the dim sum, is probably the best and most reasonably priced in London.

The service is average.

Never experienced problems with the heating - although they have mini heaters everywhere.

Would throughly recommend to anyone.
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SH
Overall rating 8 stars
Food 10 | Service 7 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 8
Wednesday, April 08, 2009

I went to the Dragon castle last night for a friends surprise birthday party in the function room. For a start the room was COLD! We all still had our coats on! Anyway They would not let us customise a menu for children and insisted that we could not share a set menu because we had the use of a function room, so had to pay per head. Children were charged £15 a head which is utterly ridiculous seeing as she could have eaten off my platter.The duck starter when it came was cold and there wasnt a lot of it considering 5 of us had ordered the same set menu. In fact I honestly thought the food was very very Expensive and not worth the money I paid. The bill for 20 people came to £719!! Come on get real, I looked around and there is no ways that food came to that amount. Needless to say that when 10:30 came the staff were eager to get us out, only to find when we left that there were still diners downstairs. Disgraceful! Had we known how utterly appalling the night turned out we would have possibly gone downstairs where the same menu was half the price! I am NOT IMPRESSED at all by the Dragon Castle and definitely wont be returning again and I certainly will advise my friends and family as Im sure the other guests will, never to go there for a meal. Such a waste of time.
Comment on this reader review

Shell
Overall rating 2 stars
Food 3 | Service 3 | Atmosphere 1 | Value for money 0
Sunday, March 29, 2009


what the bloggers say

Cheese and Biscuits

Cheese and Biscuits - 9/10

Monday, November 09, 2009 - Steamed prawn and chive dumplings, ethereally translucent and containing crunchy fresh veg; delicately steamed siu mai, meticulously uniform, with more fresh prawn flavour; char sui buns, impossibly fluffy and containing a heady filling of smokey pig; there is someone in the kitchens at Dragon Castle with years and years of experience studiously checking each and every dish and making sure they all arrive at the table piping hot. By the time the larger plates of roasted protein arrived, we were reaching capacity, but the sight of the perfectly browned duck and colourful stack of beef and black bean was too good to resist.

An American In London

An American In London

Sunday, November 08, 2009 - The Japanese tofu in the clay pot we ordered was so luscious and silky that it was more like a custard than any tofu I've had before. The salted fish and chicken were tender and enriched the sauce...I loved the way the veg choices are presented at Dragon Castle. You picked a green and then picked how you wanted it prepared. We played it straight by ordering gai lan with a classic garlic sauce. An enormous portion and beautifully done. Cooked so it wasn't raw but still retained crunch.

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