This September Tea Room, the Cantonese cocktail den inspired by 1960’s Hong Kong, set beneath the streets of Soho is celebrating the Mid-Autumn festival with mooncakes.

Symbolic of the season’s first full moon, the sweet cakes take up a month-long residency on the menu in the lead up to the festival itself to be marked with a party on 4th October. Mooncakes are an indispensable staple of any Chinese household during the Mid-Autumn festival.

Upstairs Bun House are offering two types, a traditional white lotus seed paste recipe alongside their own take on the mooncake which is filled with custard and encased in golden brown soft outer pastry and embossed with a traditional design featuring the symbols for longevity and prosperity. Downstairs in the neon-lit surroundings of the Tea Room, a mooncake flight is available throughout September which includes matcha, purple yam and candied winter melon flavours served alongside Tea Room’s signature Baijiu cocktails.

As the sun goes down on 4th October, Tea Room celebrates the festival as it hosts London’s first ever mooncake party. Sound tracked to vintage LPs playing from a restored Jukebox, the bar will be serving up two special cocktails to mark the occasion and an accompanying food menu of snacks and signature coal skewers. Tickets are available for £11.74 and includes a Taro & Sesame or Pu’er Tea cocktail and a mooncake flight.

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