Banquet 88 opens at St Katharine Docks in Tower of London, a 140-seat Chinese restaurant from the Good Fortune Club group. The menu features sake cherry foie gras, egg tofu with spicy pork floss, black truffle abalone siu mai, Wagyu beef thousand-layer pastry, XO turnip cake and deep-fried taro croquettes with caviar. The wine list includes bottles from Ningxia. The restaurant has a second dining room upstairs and a 50-person private dining room suited to parties of six or more. Guardian restaurant critic Grace Dent describes the decor as sparse and functional, with staff attentive even to solo diners. The location sits between a Zizzi, Côte and Slug & Lettuce chain restaurant near the Royal Mint site, which China bought in 2024 for £255 million.