4th September 2024
London operator Bao, founded by Shing Tat Chung, Erchen Chang and Wai Ting Chung, is to launch a new restaurant and flagship KTV (Taiwanese “karaoke TV”) in the City of London.
Opening on the former Ekte Nordic Kitchen in Bloomberg Arcade, the new restaurant’s dining room is flanked by two private KTV rooms. One room offers a setting for up to ten people while the other can host a group of up to 22.
Visitors can take their pick from a catalogue of more than 300,000 songs.
Each room is designed with banquette seating, complete with tables for cocktails and snacks, including mini bao platters.
“We’re really excited to open Bao City, where we can realise our dream of recreating a Taiwanese karaoke bar right in the centre of the city’s financial district,” said Chang. “The space feels very different to our other Bao restaurants, inspired by the neon-lit Taiwan of the 1980s and 1990s that I grew up in.” The first permanent Bao restaurant opened in Soho in April 2015, following a successful stall at Netil Market in Hackney. Further sites have since been launched in Borough Market, King’s Cross, Shoreditch, Marylebone and Battersea.