Little Dumpling King

Little Dumpling King Heavy scran. Loud music. Natural w**e.

My POV for about 50 hours of the week. We’re now closed till the 29th September friends xCod cheeks with warm tartare sa...
20/09/2026

My POV for about 50 hours of the week. We’re now closed till the 29th September friends x

Cod cheeks with warm tartare sauce

The best fried quail in town

Tuna tartare milk roll.

Green peppercorn ‘Cacio’ with topokki

Haggis kofta. This is so good

Sake steamed mussels

Annual end of summer break. Big relax before Christmas. No messages or emails will be responded to during this time.If t...
17/09/2026

Annual end of summer break. Big relax before Christmas. No messages or emails will be responded to during this time.

If that s**t you up get yourselves organised and fill the rest of the year up, fast.

These last couple of weeks have been a blur.Thanks for coming, please keep us busy, book in if you can or just rock up w...
06/09/2026

These last couple of weeks have been a blur.
Thanks for coming, please keep us busy, book in if you can or just rock up when you’re peckish
Couple of Piccadilly cult heroes flying out.

Haggis dumplings

Topokki ‘Carbonara’. This is a really fun, but really tasty bit of scran.

Squad

Last of the summer w**e

Class

Squad

Gaff

Oyster

Gaff

Quail, banger.

Pork and octopus skewers

The gaff.Fill us up squad x
04/09/2026

The gaff.
Fill us up squad x

Ok this post is gonna have a lot going on.Strap yourselves in.On the 3rd September ‘Nights out in the kitchen’ the lates...
30/08/2026

Ok this post is gonna have a lot going on.
Strap yourselves in.
On the 3rd September ‘Nights out in the kitchen’ the latest book from arguably this countries most celebrated food critic Mr Jay Rayner is released. I’ve read most of it, it’s a triumph. Oh yeah, we’re also in it (!!!).
I wasn’t sure how to go about this, but then I started getting a lot of messages from people who watched Saturday kitchen yesterday, two recipes inspired by our restaurant, Little Dumpling King feature, there’s also a couple of pages about us and when Jay visited the restaurant a couple of years ago AND a beautiful image of the gaff that I can’t stop looking at.
NOW! If you want to buy a copy, we happen to have a brilliant independent bookshop Drop City Books located literally on the same street as us, they’ll sort you out, more on this to come next week I’m sure.
This is all very surreal, but this one’s for us Town, you might think I’m a prick, hate the food, but be fair, me and my team give absolutely everything, we care so much and I think I speak for all of them, past and present that we are all so proud and can’t wait for you to read it.
Get behind us, I promise I will push on till I physically no longer can.
Raise a glass to LDK, raise a glass to youse, the customers, raise a glass to bookshops, raise a glass to Mr Jay Rayner.
FILL UP MY BOOKINGS FOREVER PLEASE TOWN X

Lots of cancellations. Bit warm aswell. Best bit of advice I could give anyone who wants to lead any team, if you feel u...
13/08/2026

Lots of cancellations. Bit warm aswell. Best bit of advice I could give anyone who wants to lead any team, if you feel uncomfortable with something (working in conditions where the outside temp is 32+ degrees never mind the kitchen) don’t ask your staff to do it either. They’ll hate you eventually

Good that. Solid. Proper week.First photo is a picture of various different dumplings flying out. Two for one every Tues...
09/08/2026

Good that. Solid. Proper week.
First photo is a picture of various different dumplings flying out. Two for one every Tuesday remember.
Second photo are some lamb skewers just after plating.
Fill up next week, as some of you know we’ve got something proper cool to share soon, so keep us busy till then please x

Few bits from the last week or so.1) Every Tuesday we do 2 for 1 dumplings, few going out here, cracking value and I nea...
02/08/2026

Few bits from the last week or so.
1) Every Tuesday we do 2 for 1 dumplings, few going out here, cracking value and I nearly go under every week.
2) Lamb croquettes were flying out this week, until 6pm Saturday when they just started exploding during cooking which was nice.
3) Beef short rib ‘tortellini’ proper good helping of Parmesan.
4) Our chicken bao, iconic.
5) Chicken croquettes and our buffalo fried quail, order the quail, it’s gonna taste like the sexiest chicken wing you’ve ever had, looks good on your Instagram aswell, apparently.
6) Didn’t even look at the price when ordering this, just told Joe ‘pay it, I’ll make it work’ tastes banging.
7) I hate the internet, hate it, I get the irony saying that on the internet but still.

Thanks for a good week, if you haven’t been to us before, August is a good one to get that fixed, please book us up, always room for walk ins and I recommend lunch time for coming if you’re out with the kids for summer hols.

Thank you for reading this foul mouthed rant and have a really fu***ng good Sunday squad x

Not a post I thought I would ever get to write, especially after the last month.My restaurant turns 4 years old next wee...
26/07/2026

Not a post I thought I would ever get to write, especially after the last month.
My restaurant turns 4 years old next week. Won’t bang on, but in extremely proud, it’s nice to see the 70+ hour weeks I’ve been doing since day 1 mean something.

To celebrate, I would like a full restaurant all week, buy vouchers, buy w**e. That’s all. If you like having LDK on your doorstep, share this post, get your mates together and book in. Tell people about us.
Last thing, as always every birthday we have I like to shout out the fu***ng weapons who populate local newspaper comment sections saying ‘won’t last 6 months’. I’m still here wankers and so are plenty of my peers.
Thank you to everyone who’s ever dined with us x

Some of my favourite photos of dishes we’ve pushed out so far this year.Come get at us this week, for those who don’t kn...
13/07/2026

Some of my favourite photos of dishes we’ve pushed out so far this year.

Come get at us this week, for those who don’t know, LDK is a small independent restaurant, we cook food we like, we serve natural w**es, decent craft b**r (plenty of l***r aswell), interesting non alcoholic options and play music slightly louder than maybe other places do, but it’s one hell of a playlist.
We open Tuesday-Saturday, we take bookings online, always room for walk ins, you just might have to wait a minute.
We’re not reinventing the wheel, but we try and keep it interesting, if you like having us in the neighbourhood, tell your pals, book a table. Come see us x

Address

50 Piccadilly
Stoke-on-Trent
ST11EG

Opening Hours

Tuesday 5pm - 10pm
Wednesday 5pm - 10pm
Thursday 12pm - 10pm
Friday 12pm - 10pm
Saturday 12pm - 3pm
5pm - 10pm

Telephone

+441782286113

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