Great place for a few cocktails and dim sum after work or as a meeting point at the weekend as they have a happy hour from 5-7. I have only had dim sum and cocktails at the bar so can't comment on the table service but i have always had fun in here and the food drinks are delicious!

My fave place ever the best food and cocktails ever 100% xx

I’ve eaten here may times and always enjoyed the food, although some of the waitresses have been a bit on the grumpy side. We recently took a couple of friends to the restaurant to share our experience and were utterly disappointed. The po faced waitress that took our order decided to question every item that we ordered, saying, no, perhaps you should have this instead!? And, two of us were driving so wanted to make sure the cocktail we ordered only had a single measure in, again, she contradicted our decision saying, no, you should have two shots, it will be ok!? So, after the difficult process of ordering the food, she then proceeded to tell us that we had to leave our card behind the bar in case we run off without paying! I have never been asked to do this in Drunken Monkey or any restaurant ever! I told the waitress it will be fine to swipe my card and open a tab but that I wasn’t happy about letting her keep my card for the duration of the meal. She said it’s company policy and we have to, that was that. We asked to see the manager who came over to us begrudgingly, and shrugged his shoulders, reiterating this fact. He said you have to leave your card behind the bar or you can pay up front before they serve our food. Unbelievable, his attitude was appalling and he was rude. If the restaurant was heaving and they had little control over the restaurant I may have understood his concern about people ‘doing a runner’ without paying. But, it was a Monday night and there were only 3 other tables occupied with a huddle of staff drinking at the bar! To top it off, the waitress missed off one or our orders so we flagged this up with her. The dish was brought out along with a bill for £4 that was shoved under our nose expecting to be paid before we ate it! And they had added service charge to this! Unbelievable, we felt totally offended, and have never heard anything like it. As much as I liked the food at Drunken Monkey, I will never eat here again.

Really yum food and this is the best dim sum restaurant we've visited. The chilli salted squid was delicious! Shame the menu didn't have a little more choice and we couldn't really get a dessert but the main course more than made up for it! Prices are reasonable. Decor was very nice and it's a friendly atmosphere would definitely go back!

Just awful. The food was disgusting - very greasy, very watery, not at all flavoursome.
The service was terrible - we were a table of four and they couldn't get our orders right. You are likely to have to remind the staff of your order, send stuff away, ask again, and challenge the bill when the unserved items appear there but not on your table. And then they'll be rude.
We ordered the cheapest bottle of white wine for £15 - standard - but the bottle they brought out couldn't more obviously have come from the newsagents across the street "3 Italy wine for £5". It's stench filled our noses as soon as the top came off.
The place itself has no atmosphere - unless you count five-year-old, cobwebbed, stale paper lanterns as atmosphere. Or perhaps the smoking incense in the toilets is atmosphere? I wouldn't have minded but for the fact that they sat us in a hole somewhere at the back where the staff themselves could barely reach us - they put the plates in our hands through two different doorways at random times.
Just an absurdly awful place. I cannot imagine where all the positive reviews have come from.

My wife and I meandered up to the Drunken Monkey for a late Sunday Lunch. We had a hankering for some dim sum. I am in a wheelchair, so accessibility was a concern. The entrance is a little tricky, with a lip and a hump, and both doors need to be opened, but it was reasonably doable, and once inside the venue is spacious and comfortable. The tables were a little low for me to be able to get my knees underneath, but there was plenty of room behind me, so i didn't mind.The drinks were served promptly, and our waitress helped us navigate through the menu. I think we were encouraged to over-order, but that's understandable.

The food? The food was REMARKABY GOOD. The rice dishes (my wife had chicken fried rice, I had bbq pork fried rice) were so good that i would have been very happy with those alone.The chicken potstickers were excellent (with a very hot, and I mean VERY hot, delicious dipping sauce), as were the crabmeat and pork dumplings.with one small dish and the main rice dish, you can get a very good and filling meal for less than a tenner.The service was a little slow, but not enough to stop us from going back. We'll be back.

I didn't expect the atmosphere that hit me last night I would have been happy just to get some decent Dim Sum but the music was great as was the mojitos.
The bar was cool and not stuck up as are so many other bars nowadays, the staff were all quite friendly and the crowd was surprisingly mixed, I guess that is down to the location between the City and trendy Shoreditch.
My only disappointment was that there was not enough of us in our group to try all of the Dim Sum dishes but we all agreed to rectify this on our next visit.
I will definitely be coming back, thanks for a great night.

Chris.

A great place for groups. I took 18 friends there on Saturday night. The food was fantastic and only £15 per head for the set menu which had plenty of choices.

The veggies in the group were more than happy with the alternatives. The waiters and waitresses were quick clearing empty plates and topping up the jugs of lager.

The manager, Chris, was very helpful. Give it a go.

Its not a fancy place but the food and the atmosphere are awesome for groups of friends.