Chino Latino Park Plaza London: New menu review

Chino Latino is located in the Park Plaza Riverbank hotel and is a stylish venue serving Asian food and South American Latin-style cocktails.

Overlooking 180-degree panoramic views of the River Thames and Houses of Parliament, it has a new menu which blends Peruvian and Asian flavours with sushi, dim sum, taquitos and skewers.

The menu is created by executive chef Ederson Bonasso and it celebrates a concoction of exotic flavours.

There are some theatrical dishes such as the flaming sushi, black cod and wagyu beef, but that isn’t why I had the other tables in the restaurants staring.

In reality, it’s because I couldn’t resist but to order SO. MUCH. FOOD.

The new menu is incredible, and there’s so much on it that it’s hard to say no when ordering on a hungry stomach.

Our round table which could have seated four but was just for two of us was filled with food by the time we’d finished ordering, and it was safe to say it was filled only with empty plates by the time we were done.

It’s probably embarrassing to list every single thing we ordered, and demolished, but I do want to highlight some of my favourites.

The sashimi platter came with four generous pieces each of seabass, tuna and salmon – all of which were fresh, thick and melt-in-the-mouth.

The tenkasu roll was similar and had all my favourites in with seabass, tuna, salmon and avocado, so I loved that, and the blowtorch salmon nigiri was up there as well with its potent torched taste.

I paired it with the seared tuna nigiri, and some miso broccoli and a sesame seaweed salad.

All of them were filled with flavour, differing ones, but complimentary to each other, and you could tell that each dish had been carefully put together to get the best out of every ingredient.

The vegetable taquitos came in an extravagant spiralled tower, and were a vegetable spring roll-type of dish filled with avocado at the bottom of each cone.

The black cod dim sum wrapped in a spinach and yuzu soya was an explosion of flavours, and my boyfriend had no problem finishing the surf and turf roll which comes with prawn, sirloin, cucumber, avocado and chive.

Despite the dessert list being mouth-wateringly tempting, I think I would have exploded, so we went for a healthy fruit platter instead which came with a generous portion of all sorts of different fruits.

The presentation of all the dishes was top notch, and the restaurant feels like a really cool, vibey, up-market place to sit and enjoy the food.

It works for lunch, dinner, post-work drinks, or as a snack while staying at the hotel.

For those looking to try the best of Pan-Asian cuisine, Chino Latino’s new Tasting Menu priced at £48 per person offers the opportunity to sample its signature best-selling dishes.