This place is a lovely venue for a date/family meal/night out with friends or simply a refuel mid-shopping. I ate here for the first time after completing a gruelling 10k run in the pouring rain. I was tired, cold, aching and absolutely ravenous.

Ping Pong was a good choice. The interior is pretty and comfortable, the Jasmine flowering tea was just what I needed to rejuvenate me (I won a race with my friends to see which flower would open fully first), and the food was perfectly satisfying.

Lacking the energy to decide what I wanted from the plentiful selection on offer, I opted for a set menu (about £12), and was pleased with the result. The spring rolls in particular were fantastic. The service was functional but we were given our various dishes at precisely the correct moments. The mango dessert was a little disappointing - basically a small blancmange with coconut sauce - and you could actually read the serial number from the plastic cup that it came from!

However, the whole menu is just slightly on the greasy/salty side to make this one of my favourite places.

Ping Pong is a chain without the chain atmosphere. All branches are intimate, the food is well priced and tasty and the decor is smart. Good value although not very child friendly - hard wooden tables where i have seen some accidents happen ...

The first time I went here was on a first date. I was very impressed with my beau's creative choice, and I loved it. It had such a great impact on me for it's delicious, different, involved dining and upstairs bar that I decided to take my own group of friends there for a fun girly night. And I was impressed once again. Fabulous! I sat outside under the heaters both nights, as inside was so packed, so if you intend to go, I would definately book. But you can sit on a traditionally low table and enjoy your own creative mixed menue with a big group of you, or join in with other diners. You order by ticking off a list with as many different little parcel meals as you like - and don't forget your wine! Ping Pong has a great atmosphere and decore, a handy and stylish bar upstairs, lovely big bathrooms and an outside area. Perfect for a great meal out. I love this place despite giggling at it's name every time!

We were all sat in the Nelly Dean pub on a Friday night, on roughly our fourth and fifth drink, all wondering where we could take our Mancunian visitors for some good food where it wouldn't be ludicrously expensive or stuffy and not too crowded.

We were completely stuck, even ringing around places for non-existent reservations...until someone suggested Ping Pong.

This place used to be a pub called The Cambridge. they served burgers, chips, ham, egg and beans and showed the football on a big screen. So it was quite a surprise for me to walk past one day and see it turned into a slightly trendy dim sum place.

Ping Pong has a daft name and they are becoming a little ubiquitous across London (someone mentioned there were 12 of them in the capital now?!) but I can forgive them because the concept is just great.

We strolled in there on a Friday night, six of us all starving and half-cut and we were immediately shown to a huge round table in the middle of the restaurant, and for th enext two hours we managed to demolish their (excellent) cocktail list (mmm Mojitos!), and sample pretty much everything on the menu.

Delicious parcels of loveliness (I think) is their tagline and that's right. Everything was ultra-tasty, well presented and well-cooked and the amounts were just right for us all to have slight trouble standing up at the end fo the night but no 'curry house bloated' feeling at all.

And the jasmine tea with the flowering seed... worth the visit alone!

I don't like dim sum. So imagine my surprise at loving Ping Pong, and now Dim Sum.

Ping Pong doesn't look like a run down cheap tatty Chinese. It looks modern and slick, slathered with oodles of black dark wood. It's really cool and funky and I could see as easily going on a date as with a group of mates.

The cocktail list is superb, the green teas have flowers than unfold as they heat up and the food is stunning. Really really tasty and I always order too much but finish it.

Oh the chilli dips rock too.

Service at this branch can be a little cold, but it's more a Wagamamas style environment than a normal restaurant so this doesn't bother me.