Alisan Restaurant

As pitches come you cannot do much better than this. Exciting new venues demand a supporting cast of similar status, and bang opposite the front door of the new Wembley Stadium is as good a place as any.

So much for the location, what about the restaurant? Everything you would expect and more seems to be the best answer. All glass, steel and gleaming surfaces, Alisan, named after a mountain in Taiwan, offers a cuisine that is both ageless and yet so very contemporary, with wonderful dim sum and Cantonese influences that bring the appetite to life. Dim sum is served throughout the day until 5pm and a split level restaurant on the ground floor has space for 180 covers.

The beauty of dim sum of course is that you can go on in easy stages over as long as you want, just the same as tapas, and the choices are incredibly wide. On the fried dim sum alone there are over 14 choices and that's before you even consider the steamed, bakes, grilled and Cheung fun varieties.

And talking of fun, I've always felt that was what dim sum is all about - sociability, easy, healthy eating, and a mind-blowing range of dishes. Set menus are there to take the pain out of ordering, and they are unbelievably good, as well as generous. Pre-event menus cater for those who want to set themselves before going on to enjoy a game or concert in the massive new Stadium, finished at last and well worth waiting for.