Din Tai Fung’s Next London Restaurant Is at Centre Point | Eater London

"After years of planning and changing sites, a famed xiao long bao restaurant is opening a 16,000-square-foot flagship at Centre Point (near Tottenham Court Road station), taking over the cavernous former Vivi space and scheduled to launch on 22 September 2022 during Centre Point’s 60th anniversary. The sprawling site — once set up for roughly 290 covers — will accommodate the open dumpling-preparation area that is a hallmark of its Henrietta Street outpost, where meticulously pleated xiao long bao are produced. Its London popularity, exemplified by four-to-five hour queues outside the Covent Garden restaurant in late 2018 and a later concession at Selfridges, stems from its translucent, broth-brimming dumplings and the way the food has felt simultaneously new and like a taste of home for many locals. The new flagship, aided by the buzz from the Arcade Food Hall below, aims to capitalize on that reputation and hit the ground running." - James Hansen