Lynn Shanghai Cuisine @ The Castlereagh Club

Really good food doesn't make you feel sick afterwards like most places of this cuisine. Had the Mongolian lamb, dumplings and spring rolls. Wine menu...

We went to a celebratory re-opening dinner at Lynn Shanghai restaurant in the Castlereagh club in the heart of Sydney city. The restaurant has plenty of...

I came here for lunch on Wednesday afternoon. The place was completely empty except for us. We ordered the crispy spicy chicken, spicy wontons, pan fried...

Seven years ago, at my first visit to shanghai, I exhibited in a restaurant called lynn modern shanghai cuisine, the contemporary shanghainese and cantonese eating in a large, stylish room with high ceilings. it was an unforgettable introduction to the Shanghai cuisine, so I returned to sydney and spied a restaurant with almost the same name – lynn shanghai cuisine – I would always pay a visit to see if there was a connection. the opportunity was born last week; when I went up the swinging stairs into the inconspicuous restaurant, at the top of the castlereagh club, I was informed that the restaurants were actually not connected. during recently renovated, lynn shanghai cuisine has overcrowded, over overcrowded, harsh as atmosphere together for so many great club eating processes. they have certainly tried to create a gentleman club type look with jäger green and tan decor, but the large space needed definitiw a few more curves and more to deliver on the intimacy that try to create the curved stands. Instead, there are all ordered rows of tables and brownsetts that are too straight and down are particularly comfortable, plus a few large round tables for groups, complete with traditional glass lazy susan funnel. While I was happy not to complete the usual laborious club signs, they are not moved by drinks on the bar affair, although they offer table service for eating. from a fairly average selection of eight white wines scrubbing the tim gramp riesling $9/glass) best. While I didn't think much about the melon notes in the catnook greender block chardonnay $9/glass, it's hard to complain too much when they eat in a city restaurant with crying as cheap as six dollars a glass and twenty dollars a bottle. if, as I am, they are a little snobbier about drinking good wine, there is always spiritual and a kitchen suitable tsingtao bier $8) chaser. in the tiny beat of terrible mainstream pop pumped by set speakers in the darkened models over head, we are stuck in our opening spinach salad $10.80) lightly burned leaf greens are with a well balanced single and vinegar sauce that makes them great to prepare their palate for the richer dishes that follow. despite our waitress to ask extra chili heat, the kung po chicken $19.80) we got too sweet. a bit of aside from getting from my companion, clearly we think a terrible mistake made, was made by the realization of the more attractive decorated chili heavy dish, which I saw on the table of our neighbour, was actually the seuan style fried chilli chicken $24.80) my F.O.M.O. to put on a side, the kung po chook actually good handle special fried rice $15.80) is freshly prepared – the omelette it contains is particularly good and sufficiently neutral to not overdo their other dishes. with the spying of my ess mate drown it in the table chili sauce, our waitress makes a clever correction on the way of our meal. starting with a compelling pot from mapo tofu with minced chicken $16.80), the remaining dishes come with the heat that we originally requested, along with a beautiful, “now I understand” excuse. made in house, the tofu in this dish has a beautiful texture firma enough to pick up with the chiffeln, but soft enough to make a beautiful contrast to the hand chopped huhn minze that it is served. it is spicy and as it is cooked in piping hot, cast iron pot, it creates a tasty socarrate style kraut from chicken mint and tofu, which is well worth scraping off. we end up on xinjiang style wagyu beef with cumin and pfeffer $29.80) this dry, Nordic Chinese dish is the perfect opposite to our juicy maple tofu, which brings delicate cubes of Wagyu beef together with the fiber bands of cuddly dusted bevel and green soot. at less than a hundred mice for the food came, this was a surprisingly good club meal, which was saved by attentive servants of a manager who had no fear of having made a mistake.

I used to go to lynn when it was in the ground floor of the castlereagh club and found the food excellent. I visited sydney, visited the club on a Saturday lunch time and looked over almost the restaurant as it is now in the first floor of the club that is not visible from the street. we and another person were the only diner and we were the happy ones. we shared a special tonpot slow cook won tonne and chicken soup, which was sensational along with shaken **** and steamed rice. the serviettes were generous. with wine and beer at club prices, this was the most reasonable and tasty lunch. service was friendly and efficient, with our water refilled. I was not disappointed by any aspekt of my return trip and highly recommend this restaurant.