Bao to open noodle shop concept at Battersea Power Station

The Bao restaurant group will open a Taiwanese noodle shop in London’s Battersea Power Station on 17 July.

It will launch as a standalone 88-cover restaurant in Arcade Battersea, JKS Restaurants’ second food hall, overlooking Turbine Hall A.

The space will feature a U-shaped counter wrapped round the open kitchen and bar; and a private KTV room for karaoke parties for 10 diners.

The menu at Bao Battersea has taken inspiration from Bao Noodle Shop in London’s Shoreditch, which opened in July 2021. It will focus on beef noodle soup with two different versions of noodles, sourced and imported directly from Taiwan.

Typical dishes will include Taipei-style broth with slow-braised beef cheek, spiced beef butter and fermented greens and Tainan-style broth with 400 day-aged white soy and rare poached beef rump.

Bao Battersea will also serve exclusive dishes such as the sanbei tofu bao made with breadcrumbed tofu fried in sanbei sauce, sesame oil, soy sauce and vegan mayonnaise, as well as crispy cheese croquettes with pickled plum ketchup and hot sauce.

It will also feature the group's first kids' set menu, with dishes such as baby bao, boiled cull yaw dumplings and Taiwanese fried chicken with garlic mayonnaise.

Bao co-founder Erchen Chang said: “As we all have backgrounds in art and design, it feels very special to be opening Bao Battersea in such an iconic building. Our KTV room in particular feels like a glimpse into an imagined future from the 1960s, with references to the Power Station’s industrial past as well as one of our favourite films, Playtime.

“The menu reflects the comforting soup bowls that we grew up with in Taiwan, along with some exciting new dishes that we’ve been working on behind the scenes.”

It comes after the group launched of dumpling house restaurant Bao Mary in London’s Marylebone in May.