With the Mid-Autumn Festival just around the corner, get your hands on some of the best mooncakes that London has to offer.
Chinese culture celebrates the Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Mooncake Festival, every autumn. The festival’s date varies each year because it follows China’s lunar calendar. It always takes place on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. This year, it falls on Tuesday, September 17th.
People traditionally eat mooncakes, round Chinese pastries symbolizing togetherness and unity, during the week around the festival. People often gift them to friends or family. Mooncakes come in various flavors—savoury, sweet, or both—and feature diverse designs and patterns.
If you’re in London during the Mid-Autumn Festival, be sure to visit these places for the best mooncakes in the city. If you’re looking for Mid-Autumn Festival events to join in with, then read this article for ones in London or this article for events elsewhere in the UK.
1. Shanghai Supper Club
Shanghai Supper Club offers a chance to get unique home-cooked Shanghainese mooncakes in London. Shanghainese mooncakes are well known for their flaky, crumbly, crust and minced pork filling. As well as pork, a red bean option is also available. Orders need to be booked in advance.
Price Range: From £28 for six.
Address: 13 Montagu Place, W1H 2ET
Website: Mooncakes & wontons takeaway — Shanghai Supper Club
2. Noodle and Beer
Noodle and Beer mooncakes come in four different flavours: lotus seed paste with salted egg yolk, dry-cured jamon, char siu pork and five kernel mooncakes. Apart from their delicious mooncakes, each set is packaged with a bespoke box which you can choose and customize yourself on their website.
Price Range: From £59 for four.
Address: 31 Bell Lane, E1 7LA
Website: Mooncake | noodleandbeer
3. Yauatcha City
With locations in Soho and the City, Yauatcha boasts both traditional and contemporary flavours of mooncakes for you to try during the Mid-Autumn Festival. If you prefer to keep it simple, try the baked egg custard mooncake. Or if you’d like to spice it up, go for their limited-edition flavours: Snowskin Earl Grey with white chocolate and mango cream, or Snowskin Musang King Durian.
Price Range: £5.50 for one, £42 for nine.
Address: Broadgate Circle, EC2M 2QS
Website: Yauatcha City | A Cantonese Dim Sum Teahouse in London (taogroup.com)
4. Patisserie Mille
If you’re looking for variety, Patisserie Mille is the place to go to for your mooncake cravings. Its unique flavours include Lava Custard, Lava Matcha, Lychee & Black Tea and Pork & Pickle. Wrapped in stylish boxes, these mooncakes are ideal for gifting to friends or family.
Price Range: From £4.50, prices vary depending on flavour.
Address: 8A Spring Street, W2 3RA
Website: The Shop – Patisserie Mille
5. Mimi Mei Fair
Mimi Mei Fair hand-gilds each mooncake and covers it with edible gold paint. Their grande White Lotus Double Egg Yolk mooncake is perfect for cutting up and sharing with family and friends, while their mini Rose & Jasmine mooncakes make ideal gifts for loved ones. They package their mooncakes in a gold-embossed box, hand-wrapped with a chic ribbon.
Price Range: £16 for the grande mooncake, £30 for six mini mooncakes.
Address: 55 Curzon Street, W1J 8PG
Website: Empress MiMi’s Gilded Grande Mooncakes at MiMi Mei Fair
6. Tian Tian Market
Looking to buy quality mooncakes on-the-go, without pre-ordering? Tian Tian Market has the solution. This Asian supermarket chain are stocking 25 varieties of mooncakes multiple mooncakes from big brands such as Taipan Snowy Mooncakes, Wing Wah and Maxim Mooncakes.
Flavours include Mango, Pomelo, Mung Bean, White Lotus Seed Paste, Red Bean Paste and Mixed Nuts. With the wide range that Tian Tian Market has to offer and their multiple stores scattered through London, buying mooncakes has never been easier!
Price Range: Prices vary depending on the brand.
Address: Multuple locations across London.
Website: Mid-Autumn Festival | Tian Tian Market
7, Chinatown Bakery
In Chinatown, there are plenty of choices for mooncakes. Bakeries such as Wonderful Patisserie and Golden Gate Cake Shop are good choices. However, for us Chinatown Bakery takes the top spot. Possibly the most famous in Chinatown with queues of people lining up outside their store every day. Their sweet mooncakes are freshly made in their bakery and are perfect for those wanting a traditional mooncake experience.
Price Range: Varies, pastries are typically from £1-10
Address: 7-9 Newport Pl, WC2H 7JR
Website: They don’t have a website of their own, but you can find them on the London Chinatown website.
If you liked this article, why not read: All the Mid-Autumn Festival Events in London
