Voted 'Best Chinese in London' in 2009. "Stunning" and "beautifully-presented" food, backed up by a "premium" wine list, inspires the highest acclaim for this "top-quality" Mayfair Chinese; it's equally suited "to business or romance".
 

Critic's Choice Restaurants by Charles Campion
"Kai is distinguished by extremely good cooing and all those famous, obscure, king's-ransom ingredients. A grand adventure."

Mayfair's "high-class Chinese never fails to impress", not least because its "inventive" albeit "extraordinarily priced", cuisine is "spectacularly served "with dry ice and special effects"; the "gracious service service makes on feel like a regular within a visit or two", and the "settings lovely".

'This very swanky Chinese, its two dark & modern dining rooms filled with dramatic stone Buddha heads, feels right at home amid the ornate interior shops of South Audley Steet, where ‘more is more’ is the design philosophy. Kai’s philosophy is to serve food that departs from the standard Chinese' .......'With a notable private dining room & elegantly dressed staff, Kai fits the (very large) bill for high-end business dining.'

This is modern Chinese dining at its best. Top-notch service and luxurious dishes such as Buddha Jumps Over The Wall soup (£108, it takes five days to make) have come to define this much-lauded restaurant. Chef Alex Chow has taken Beijing food and rewritten the rule book. Dining like an emperor doesn't come cheap, but this is gold medal stuff.
 

London-Eating Say......This Friday we’re in Mayfair though and I wouldn’t even say it was a ‘Chinese’. That’s far too simplistic a label for Chef Alex Chow’s fusion of Far Eastern cuisine matched with the presentation expected of a Michelin starred fine dining restaurant. Forget a menu with hundreds of dishes on it, this one is clean, simple and short but the one thing you will notice is the prices. Oooh la la, or whatever they say in Cantonese.

Customers Say April 08' Kai is no ordinary Chinese restaurant. Unlike many restaurants that serve the same menu for the past 30 years, Kai enjoys introducing new ideas to their menu. Many restaurants have tried and failed as they don't know how to balance the taste to suit most customers but instead go for a trial and error, which usually goes very wrong. Kai, however, knows very well what they are doing.

December 07' It's terribly expensive but the best Chinese food in London - possibly the world?

TopTable Say, If you’re fed up of the same old Chinese food book yourself a table at Mayfair’s Kai. With a raft of awards to its name, Kai is the last word in inventive Oriental cooking. Behind an interior which owes more than a little to the world of designer boutique you’ll find understatedly gorgeous rooms, oozing style yet as welcoming as a favourite friend’s dining room.

Customers Say August 08' Kai Mayfair offer an interesting set lunch which according to the menu changes every fortnight. For both the starters and the main course there are three choices and so as three of us were lunching together we could order one of each and share the dishes. The food was excellent and well presented.