Barshu

The sweet & sour sea bass was terrific! Fast service, no frills. Big portions, decent casual style food quality, A little too pricey for the quality of the food.

Very fragrant food and nice staff! We will come back for more.

If you like hot spicy food, this is the place

Our first time at Bar Shu but we’ve often wanted to go. It’s quite small but in a good location with a very good menu. It helps that there’s photos of most dishes, particularly if you’re not familiar with the cuisine. Three dishes and rice was enough for us because the portions are quite big. All we had were really nice with just the right a amount of heat and spice. The house wine by the glass was just about OK. Service was fine and it’s not expensive for Soho. We’d go back.

Food full is scheswan peppers. Never going back again.

Best Sichuan in London no question! A truly great restaurant. Memorable every time.

Oddly happened to catch a Gok Wan programme on the Food Network about London Chinese restaurants, said that Bar Shu was co-founded by the excellent Fuchsia Dunlop, so booked a table and absolutely loved it. Hard to imagine the food being bettered. Only slight minus was very rackety acoustics, but would not hesitate to recommend.

My first experience of Sichuan, the staff were friendly and helpful I went for the dumplings, the hot and numbing pork and the pork marked old woman’s bean curd all excellent.
When I go again I’d go with a large group so we can try a wider variety the seafood looked great

Came here as it has great reviews- perhaps it is very authentic schezuan

We had a soup and then the fish with chilli - both portions were ENORMOUS which is great but not so great for 2

The fish was literally swimming about in oil. Very tasty and moist but not at all healthy- perhaps some help or advice when ordering might have helped us from wasting so much food

It was very expensive for what it was

amazing food!

I think their quality of food has dropped significantly from past years.

Food was unappealing expensive and did not generally taste good.

The food was amazing!!! Perfect spot before a show to indulge in spicy yummy noodles, dumplings ...etc. highly recommend this place.

No complexity of flavour in dishes. Just masses of dried chillies and Chinese pepper on every dish. No variation and not enjoyable.

Great Sichuanese. Good vibe and choice of dishes. Service quite slapdash but didn’t take away from experience.

The best Chinese food in London in my opinion.

I have eaten Sichuan food before and love the hottest and spiciest dishes, but this cannot be right. I asked for advice to choose three of the most typical smaller dishes. The rice was ok. The beef was small lukewarm overcooked pieces. But the chicken dish was inedible on several counts. First, the huge quantity of *salt*. To ingest so much salt in one dish is unbearable and dangerous to health. Second, the dish was swimming in *oil*. Third, the spices totally dominated any taste of chicken. I use Sichuan peppers and those large dried chillies myself in home cooking. But the point about spices is that they must be *cooked* to blend with the dish and add flavour to it - not added dry at the last moment. This restaurant surely should not be marked 4 for food in Harden's. (copied from my TripAdvisor report)

Very authentic Sichuan food. And the service is fantastic!

Excellent food. A bit on the pricey side though. Would go again.

We've been 4 or 5 times now & the food is always excellent, & so different to chinese restaurants in China town Etc.

Great place. Liked everything - food, service, overall value, etc. Ambience was a bit dark though. Could do with better lighting. Also, toilet area was smelly. Other than those fab experience!

Food quality was very good. Service adequate but nit great.

Amazing pungent and flavourful unique food with spicey and peppery flavours

Fantastic, authentic cuisine. Absolutely love this place!

A great place to go for authentic Sichuan cookery. Also great to share lots of dishes and sample as much as possible! I recommend the soft shell crab and many of the vegetable dishes like the green beans.
A good restaurant for couples and also groups.

Early booking means the place was very quite but service was quick, attentive and appreciated.
Food was good - we had beef, scallops and inside out sea bass (yummy). Only downside was the limited choice of wine by the glass.

Unfortunately their interpretation of hot Szechuan food is to pile on loads of red chillier, so much it’s difficult to find the main ingredient of the dish (the main ingredient is chill) and very expensive for what you get. Not a patch on Szechuan Folk , better food and so much better value.

Food was delicious, room was amazing and was disappointed three people in my group dropped out as the restaurant made a lot of effort creating a lovely environment for us

Really authentic Sichuan cuisine! Loved it

Service was a bit abrupt and had to move table halve way through. Food was good in places, but one dish was so heavily acidic it ruined the experience and tastebuds. Disappointing

Brilliant as always. Delicious spicy food and very friendly staff.

Amazing food. We got a round table at the corner which is perfect for friends gathering

Chinese New year

Visited with wife for Chinese NY lunch disappointed by how quiet it was compared to some other similar Restaurant’s in area.
Service was ok but considering it was lunch & all we had was tea to accompany our meal the price was a little high food portions were however generous enough & the Ma La Sichuan flavour was very evident in most of our dishes albeit being honest the flavour is a bit samey & can be a little overpowering just our personal taste.
Maybe not a lunch time establishment possibly better choice for dinner.

Horrible greeting on arrival vreated bad vibe straight away. When the waitress arrived with sticky menus and laminated pictures of the food, we knew it was time to leave. Draw your own conclusions

Great food as always! Would go back again and again

Delicious food with great spicing. Only downside is we ordered the Meat Dry Wok and there was very little meat in it - mainly vegetables. What we got was excellent but not what we expected.

Went there about 8 years ago and didn't enjoy it then, came to try again as I kept hearing people talking about it. Disappointed again as before, will not come back again. Food is ordinary (I'm Chinese), was told only had the table for 1.5 hours, bit checked email confirmation it was for 2 hours. We had the table for 2 hours at the end but didn't enjoy the evening as it was rushed.

Amazing food, great service and good value! The staff are always lovely and every dish is delicious. Service is really fast so it's the perfect place to go if you need a quick bite.

If you want authentic Sichuan in London then this is the place. English is a second language for the staff and many customers.