Kai Mayfair Menu
Welcome to Kai Mayfair, an exquisite Chinese dining experience located in the heart of London at 65 South Audley Street. Here, culinary artistry meets elegance, making it the perfect spot for both intimate dining and vibrant group gatherings.
Kai Mayfair takes pride in offering reservations, delivery, and takeout options, ensuring convenience without compromising on quality. The ambiance strikes a balance between classiness and moderate noise, making it suitable for families and events alike.
- Outdoor Seating: Enjoy al fresco dining while savoring authentic flavors.
- Full Bar: Delight in a curated selection of drinks that perfectly complement your meal.
- Catering: Hosting an event? Kai Mayfair offers excellent catering services.
With a menu that showcases traditional and contemporary Chinese dishes, each visit promises not just a meal but a culinary adventure that delights the senses.
Lunch Menu
Ritas Garden Of Spicy Whispers
Calamansi frozen posset, jasmine tea sorbet, citrus meringue candied pistachio with Szechuan peppercorn biscuit and rose water infused petals. Remembering evenings in my aunts garden where citrus trees and scented flowers entwine with spicy gossip over cups of rose tea.
Cake Cream
Coconut cremeux custard, malt sponge, cinnamon pecan, orange zest, white chocolate snow, rice sorbet, and umami caramel
Pandan Creme Brulee With Stolen Milo Powder
Caramelised coconut blossom nectar, Malaysian Liberica coffee ice cream, Milo chocolate powder and tuile. Pandan is South East Asias vanilla fragrant, aromatic and used as the principal flavouring in the majority of desserts. The components of this dessert were inspired by the textures, flavours and habits of South East Asian cakes desserts Pandan flavours, South East Asian coffee using butter burnt liberica beans and the generous sprinkling of Milo as a topping
Durian Vanilla Souffle, Salted Caramel
Durian vanilla souffle, durian tuile, salted caramel sauce. Native to SouthEast Asia and regarded as the King of Fruits, its unique bitter sweet taste comes for the soft layer surrounding the seeds within a hard, thorny exterior weighing around 2kg.
Chocolate Does Grow On Trees
Valrhona chocolate fondant, sesame macaroon caps, hazelnuts, praline icecream, chestnut paste. From a dream one night of a mythical forest where chocolate grows from the ground and where vegetables, fruit and all things healthy grow no larger than the tiniest sprigs.
Vegan Scallops
Seared trumpet mushrooms, shallots, leeks, babycorn, sugar snap, dressing of lemongrass, yellow bean, peanut chilli.
Vegetarian Heritage Yee Sang
From the traditional Yee Sang salad with beancrd sheets, shredded carrot radish, plum sauce onion dressing and the crunch of peanut pastry.
Cold Lai Mien Noodle With Enoki Mushrooms
Crispy Enoki mushrooms, chopped coriander, spring onion, garlice, sesame, chilli, soy vinaigrette
Chai Lettuce Wrap, Plum Lime Dressing
Served with chopped cashews, sliced shallots, cos lettuce
Wasabi Chai
Beancurd rolls with a mild wasabi infused mayonnaise alongside little cubes of sweet mango basil seed. Sounds like a overcomplicated mix of flavours? Fortunately, the result is actually simply, delicious and one of our clear customer favourites.
Aromatic Crispy Beancurd
For too long have vegetarians been excluded from the experience of enjoying the iconic Crispy Duck. This dish is made with layered paper thin beancurd sheets served with soft pancakes.
Vegetarian Hot Sour Soup
Shredded carrot, sugar snaps
Salt Pepper Beancurd
Japanese silk beancurd with a thin crispy salt, pepper garlic crust.
A Nest Of Imperial Jewels
Chopped vegetables panfried with mustard greens and served on butterhead lettuce wraps.
Lip Tingling Abalone, Shiitake Enoki Mushrooms In Warming Hot Pots
A home style cold weather dish served with slices of Chinese cabbage, coriander, rich spicy soy broth and a mild hit of lip tingling Szechuan peppercorn paste.
Puffed Tofu, Dark Soy, Cashew Nuts
Deep frying soft tofu transforms it to an airy springy texture, perfect for soaking up a sauce of dark soy, dried chillies, spring onions, cashew nuts, garlic flakes seaweed crisps,.
Chai With Black Pepper, Garlic Flakes And Sliced Chinese Croissant
Chai With StirFried Vegetables
Lotus root, asparagus, mangetouts, baby corn, wolfberries and cashews
The Spice Route Chai
Chai scented with crisp Curry Leaves served with a dressing of lemon and Chilli. This dish incorporates the Indian and Chinese flavours experienced during the great journey along the spice route
MaPo Spicy Aubergines HomeMade Tofu
Our interpretation of the Legendary creation of Chef Chen handed down from the 19th. century. A spicy Szechuan dish of homemade beancurd aubergines.
Long Life Noodles With Crispy Beancurd
Served with morels, crispy beancurd, aircured shiitake and coriander cress granish. The tradition of serving long, uncut, noodles symbolises the blessing of longevity and good health.
Steamed Rice
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Lip Tingling Sea Bass In Warming Hot Pots
A home style cold weather dish served with slices of Chinese cabbage, coriander, rich spicy soy broth and a mild hit of lip tingling Szechuan peppercorn paste.
Roasted Chilean Seabass
Caramelised marinade of fullbodied Chinkiang black vinegar syrup, mustard, soy. Chickpeas, shallots ginger
Whole Dover Sole Goujons
In light batter with fragrant crumbs and sauce from curry leaf chili
Steam Sea Bass Fillet With Ginger Spring Onions
The benchmark for preparing fish in Chinese cooking. An inherent lightness from steaming, with a fragrant, savoury mix of soya sauce and shallot infused oil.
Tiger Prawns, Crisp Curry Leaves
Dressing of lemon, chilli, Indian and Chinese flavours experienced during the great journey along the spice route.
Lobster Lobster
Our interpretation of the London Chinese restaurant classic luxurious lobster oil drizzled over poached noodles, shallots coriander cress and served with lobster cooked in the familiar Cantonese flavours of ginger spring onions.
Nanyang Chilli Lobster
Lobster, king prawns, scallops crabmeat. Served with crispy Bao. The Nanyang region describes the regions within the South China Seas where many trading Chinese communities settled utilising the local ingredients and influences to incorporate spicier flavours into the cuisine.
18 Hour SlowCooked Pork Belly
Marinated for 8 hour with five spice garlic and slow cooked for 10 hours. Caramelised with soy, black vinegar red wine and served with a light cucumber foam.
Soy Honey Marinated Roast Lamb
Lighty spiced with red chillies, shallots, garlic and coriander, root vegetable chip, Nanyang cucumber carrot achar pickle.
Black Pepper Beef
Crushed black pepper, garlic flakes and sliced Chinese croissant
Sweet Sour Pork
Undoubtedly the best known comfortfood in a Chinese Menu which varies in style from one Chinese Community to the next. Our version is inspired by the original Nanyang Chinese version Served with pickled chillies, pomegranate seeds tuile.
Thinly Sliced Gunma Wagyu
100g Served with 7spice salt OR cooked on Himalayan salt with a Soy, Garlic, Coriander and Chilli sauce. Both options served with Rice infused with Wagyu juices.
Gunma A5 Grade Japanese Wagyu
Soft Egg, Soy, Golden Needle mushrooms Vermicelli noodles in a spicy Ginger stock.
Nanyang Chicken Cashew Nuts
Cornfed chicken, dried chillies, spring onions, cashew nuts, seaweed, dark soya sauce.
Spring Chicken Szechuan Spicy Crumble
Crumble mix of finely chopped shallots, garlic, soy, chili, spring onions, sesame, pickled chillies.
King Trumpet Mushrooms
King Trumpet Mushrooms, morels, broccolini florets.
Taiwanese Purple Charm Aubergines
A light purple variety chosen for its lack of bitterness with red green chillies and black bean sauce.
Asparagus
Minced Garlic Birds Eye Chilli
Broccolini
Chopped garlic, shallot lightly salted radish
Poached Noodles With Lobster Essence
Heritage Yee Sang With Salmon Carpaccio
The starting point of staying close to traditional Yee Sang with salmon, shredded carrot radish, dried fig, plum sauce onion dressing and the crunch of peanut pastry.
Sea Bass, Sweet Plum Ginger Vinaigrette
Sea Bass carpaccio, Yee Sang vegetables of shredded carrot, mango, lotus root, enoki mushroom, kaffir leaf, soy caviar, soy, plum ginger vinaigrette, cashews.
Yellow Tail Spicy Lime Kerabu Dressing
Yellow tail, crispy carrot ribbons, courgette,apple, red onion, chili shrimp kerabu dressing, crushed peanut, kaffir lime, dried cuttlefish. Kerabu is a dressing born from Nanyang seafood flavours savoury airdried shrimp with sweet, sour spicy flavours using lime chili.
Salmon, Yellow Tail, Nasturtium Garden, Honey, Soy Sesame
Nasturtium leaves, cubes of salmon, yellow tail, honey, soy chilli, parsley, cucumber archar pickle sesame oil, Chinese rice wine.
Wasabi Prawns
Mild wasabi mayonnaise, mango basil seeds
Lightly Seared Beef Fillet
Soy vinaigrette, shallot oil chopped coriander
Canapes Of Prawns On Toast
With black white sesame seeds
SoftShelled Crab
Chilli shallots spiced batter, green mango.
Pork Belly Open Bao
Roasted Duke of Berkshire pork belly, charsiew BBQ glaze, crispy Bao, pickled cucumber.
Braised Abalone
Abalone Broccolini, Jus Reduction, Winter Perigord Truffles.
Hot Sour Soup
We are particularly proud of our Hot Sour soup recipe which has the added luxury of fresh scallops, king prawns and chicken. Please let us know if you have tasted a better version elsewhere.
Chilean Sea Bass Spicy Miso
The wonderfully luscious Chilean sea bass in a light misotype broad bean broth with an added Szechuan spiciness just enough create a tingle in your taste buds.
Cake Cream
Coconut cremeux custard, malt sponge, cinnamon pecan, orange zest, white chocolate snow, rice sorbet, and umami caramel
Ritas Garden Of Spicy Whispers
Calamansi frozen posset, jasmine tea sorbet, citrus meringue candied pistachio with Szechuan peppercorn biscuit and rose water infused petals. Remembering evenings in my aunts garden where citrus trees and scented flowers entwine with spicy gossip over cups of rose tea.
Pandan Creme Brulee With Stolen Milo Powder
Caramelised coconut blossom nectar, Malaysian Liberica coffee ice cream, Milo chocolate powder and tuile. Pandan is South East Asias vanilla fragrant, aromatic and used as the principal flavouring in the majority of desserts. The components of this dessert were inspired by the textures, flavours and habits of South East Asian cakes desserts Pandan flavours, South East Asian coffee using butter burnt liberica beans and the generous sprinkling of Milo as a topping.
Durian Vanilla Souffle, Salted Caramel
Durian vanilla souffle, durian tuile, salted caramel sauce. Native to SouthEast Asia and regarded as the King of Fruits, its unique bitter sweet taste comes for the soft layer surrounding the seeds within a hard, thorny exterior weighing around 2kg
Chocolate Does Grow On Trees
Valrhona chocolate fondant, sesame macaroon caps, hazelnuts, praline icecream, chestnut paste. From a dream one night of a mythical forest where chocolate grows from the ground and where vegetables, fruit and all things healthy grow no larger than the tiniest sprigs.
Dessert
Dinner menu
Ritas Garden Of Spicy Whispers
Calamansi frozen posset, jasmine tea sorbet, citrus meringue candied pistachio with Szechuan peppercorn biscuit and rose water infused petals. Remembering evenings in my aunts garden where citrus trees and scented flowers entwine with spicy gossip over cups of rose tea.
Cake Cream
Coconut cremeux custard, malt sponge, cinnamon pecan, orange zest, white chocolate snow, rice sorbet, and umami caramel
Pandan Creme Brulee With Stolen Milo Powder
Caramelised coconut blossom nectar, Malaysian Liberica coffee ice cream, Milo chocolate powder and tuile. Pandan is South East Asias vanilla fragrant, aromatic and used as the principal flavouring in the majority of desserts. The components of this dessert were inspired by the textures, flavours and habits of South East Asian cakes desserts Pandan flavours, South East Asian coffee using butter burnt liberica beans and the generous sprinkling of Milo as a topping
Durian Vanilla Souffle, Salted Caramel
Durian vanilla souffle, durian tuile, salted caramel sauce. Native to SouthEast Asia and regarded as the King of Fruits, its unique bitter sweet taste comes for the soft layer surrounding the seeds within a hard, thorny exterior weighing around 2kg.
Chocolate Does Grow On Trees
Valrhona chocolate fondant, sesame macaroon caps, hazelnuts, praline icecream, chestnut paste. From a dream one night of a mythical forest where chocolate grows from the ground and where vegetables, fruit and all things healthy grow no larger than the tiniest sprigs.
Vegan Scallops
Seared trumpet mushrooms, shallots, leeks, babycorn, sugar snap, dressing of lemongrass, yellow bean, peanut chilli.
Vegetarian Heritage Yee Sang
From the traditional Yee Sang salad with beancrd sheets, shredded carrot radish, plum sauce onion dressing and the crunch of peanut pastry.
Cold Lai Mien Noodle With Enoki Mushrooms
Crispy Enoki mushrooms, chopped coriander, spring onion, garlice, sesame, chilli, soy vinaigrette
Chai Lettuce Wrap, Plum Lime Dressing
Served with chopped cashews, sliced shallots, cos lettuce
Wasabi Chai
Beancurd rolls with a mild wasabi infused mayonnaise alongside little cubes of sweet mango basil seed. Sounds like a overcomplicated mix of flavours? Fortunately, the result is actually simply, delicious and one of our clear customer favourites.
Aromatic Crispy Beancurd
For too long have vegetarians been excluded from the experience of enjoying the iconic Crispy Duck. This dish is made with layered paper thin beancurd sheets served with soft pancakes.
Vegetarian Hot Sour Soup
Shredded carrot, sugar snaps
Salt Pepper Beancurd
Japanese silk beancurd with a thin crispy salt, pepper garlic crust.
A Nest Of Imperial Jewels
Chopped vegetables panfried with mustard greens and served on butterhead lettuce wraps.
Lip Tingling Abalone, Shiitake Enoki Mushrooms In Warming Hot Pots
A home style cold weather dish served with slices of Chinese cabbage, coriander, rich spicy soy broth and a mild hit of lip tingling Szechuan peppercorn paste.
Puffed Tofu, Dark Soy, Cashew Nuts
Deep frying soft tofu transforms it to an airy springy texture, perfect for soaking up a sauce of dark soy, dried chillies, spring onions, cashew nuts, garlic flakes seaweed crisps,.
Chai With Black Pepper, Garlic Flakes And Sliced Chinese Croissant
Chai With StirFried Vegetables
Lotus root, asparagus, mangetouts, baby corn, wolfberries and cashews
The Spice Route Chai
Chai scented with crisp Curry Leaves served with a dressing of lemon and Chilli. This dish incorporates the Indian and Chinese flavours experienced during the great journey along the spice route
MaPo Spicy Aubergines HomeMade Tofu
Our interpretation of the Legendary creation of Chef Chen handed down from the 19th. century. A spicy Szechuan dish of homemade beancurd aubergines.
King Trumpet Mushrooms
King Trumpet Mushrooms, morels, broccolini florets.
Asparagus
Minced Garlic Birds Eye Chilli
Broccolini
Chopped garlic, shallot lightly salted radish
Long Life Noodles With Crispy Beancurd
Served with morels, crispy beancurd, aircured shiitake and coriander cress granish. The tradition of serving long, uncut, noodles symbolises the blessing of longevity and good health.
Steamed Rice
person
Lip Tingling Sea Bass In Warming Hot Pots
A home style cold weather dish served with slices of Chinese cabbage, coriander, rich spicy soy broth and a mild hit of lip tingling Szechuan peppercorn paste.
Roasted Chilean Seabass
Caramelised marinade of fullbodied Chinkiang black vinegar syrup, mustard, soy. Chickpeas, shallots ginger
Whole Dover Sole Goujons
In light batter with fragrant crumbs and sauce from curry leaf chili
Steam Sea Bass Fillet With Ginger Spring Onions
The benchmark for preparing fish in Chinese cooking. An inherent lightness from steaming, with a fragrant, savoury mix of soya sauce and shallot infused oil.
Tiger Prawns, Crisp Curry Leaves
Dressing of lemon, chilli, Indian and Chinese flavours experienced during the great journey along the spice route.
Lobster Lobster
Our interpretation of the London Chinese restaurant classic luxurious lobster oil drizzled over poached noodles, shallots coriander cress and served with lobster cooked in the familiar Cantonese flavours of ginger spring onions.
Nanyang Chilli Lobster
Lobster, king prawns, scallops crabmeat. Served with crispy Bao. The Nanyang region describes the regions within the South China Seas where many trading Chinese communities settled utilising the local ingredients and influences to incorporate spicier flavours into the cuisine.
18 Hour SlowCooked Pork Belly
Marinated for 8 hour with five spice garlic and slow cooked for 10 hours. Caramelised with soy, black vinegar red wine and served with a light cucumber foam.
Soy Honey Marinated Roast Lamb
Lighty spiced with red chillies, shallots, garlic and coriander, root vegetable chip, Nanyang cucumber carrot achar pickle.
Black Pepper Beef
Crushed black pepper, garlic flakes and sliced Chinese croissant
Sweet Sour Pork
Undoubtedly the best known comfortfood in a Chinese Menu which varies in style from one Chinese Community to the next. Our version is inspired by the original Nanyang Chinese version Served with pickled chillies, pomegranate seeds tuile.
Thinly Sliced Gunma Wagyu
100g Served with 7spice salt OR cooked on Himalayan salt with a Soy, Garlic, Coriander and Chilli sauce. Both options served with Rice infused with Wagyu juices.
Gunma A5 Grade Japanese Wagyu
Soft Egg, Soy, Golden Needle mushrooms Vermicelli noodles in a spicy Ginger stock.
Nanyang Chicken Cashew Nuts
Cornfed chicken, dried chillies, spring onions, cashew nuts, seaweed, dark soya sauce.
Spring Chicken Szechuan Spicy Crumble
Crumble mix of finely chopped shallots, garlic, soy, chili, spring onions, sesame, pickled chillies.
Taiwanese Purple Charm Aubergines
A light purple variety chosen for its lack of bitterness with red green chillies and black bean sauce.
Poached Noodles With Lobster Essence
Heritage Yee Sang With Salmon Carpaccio
The starting point of staying close to traditional Yee Sang with salmon, shredded carrot radish, dried fig, plum sauce onion dressing and the crunch of peanut pastry.
Sea Bass, Sweet Plum Ginger Vinaigrette
Sea Bass carpaccio, Yee Sang vegetables of shredded carrot, mango, lotus root, enoki mushroom, kaffir leaf, soy caviar, soy, plum ginger vinaigrette, cashews.
Yellow Tail Kerabu
Yellow tail, crispy carrot ribbons, courgette,apple, red onion, chili shrimp kerabu dressing, crushed peanut, kaffir lime, dried cuttlefish. Kerabu is a dressing born from Nanyang seafood flavours savoury airdried shrimp with sweet, sour spicy flavours using lime chili.
Salmon, Yellow Tail, Nasturtium Garden, Honey, Soy Sesame
Nasturtium leaves, cubes of salmon, yellow tail, honey, soy chilli, parsley, cucumber archar pickle sesame oil, Chinese rice wine.
Wasabi Prawns
Mild wasabi mayonnaise, mango basil seeds
Lightly Seared Beef Fillet
Soy vinaigrette, shallot oil chopped coriander
Canapes Of Prawns On Toast
With black white sesame seeds
SoftShelled Crab
Chilli shallots spiced batter, green mango.
Pork Belly Open Bao
Roasted Duke of Berkshire pork belly, charsiew BBQ glaze, crispy Bao, pickled cucumber.
Braised Abalone
Abalone Broccolini, Jus Reduction, Winter Perigord Truffles.
Hot Sour Soup
We are particularly proud of our Hot Sour soup recipe which has the added luxury of fresh scallops, king prawns and chicken. Please let us know if you have tasted a better version elsewhere.
Chilean Sea Bass Spicy Miso
The wonderfully luscious Chilean sea bass in a light misotype broad bean broth with an added Szechuan spiciness just enough create a tingle in your taste buds.
Willy Wongs Apothecary Macarons With Clotted Cream
A playful recollection of memories from visiting traditional Chinese medicine shops filled with vials of mysterious fragrant powders, guarded by the masters who blended them together to create remedies. Blue and White China Macaron shells, clotted cream, fruit essences powders, toppings condiments for the creation of your own secret combination of flavour. We recommend a Fruit and Nut combination with very generous amounts of cream..
Chai Bao Sliders
with Nanyang chilli sauce
Bao Chopped Vegetables
with shavings of Summer Truffles.
Bao With Crispy Duck
Prawns On Toast
Chinese Tea Egg
Soft egg, soy broth, tea caviar
Potion Of Eternal Youth
Inspired by the Chinese essence tonics with antiaging properties