Japanese
- Indulge yourself at Ginza St James with 50% off their a la carte menu
Enjoy bold Japanese flavours and amazing sushi and steaks at Ginza St James and save 50% on your food bill when dining with the Hot Dinners offer.
Offer: 50% off the à la carte menu
Where: 15 Bury Street, St. James’s, London SW1Y 6AL
When: 20 February to 29 March 2025 (excluding Mother's Day)
- London's best restaurants with omakase menus
Japanese omakase restaurants (which roughly translates as "leaving the menu up to the chef") are a big thing in London. Long tasting menus, often sushi-led, are delivered in some of London's most beautiful dining rooms. Here's our pick of the best in the city, along with a guide to the restaurants where you can get the experience on a (slightly) smaller budget.
- Test Driving Sushi Kyu, a much-needed affordable addition to London's great omakase scene
The arrival of an affordable omakase experience in Soho is to be celebrated. We grabbed a seat at the counter to see what Sushi Kyu is serving up.
- Roji chefs to launch new Japanese izakaya Himi in Carnaby
10/1/24 - Updated with the opening date
For the last two years, chefs Tamas Naszai and Tomoko Hasegawa have been running omakase restaurant Roji in Mayfair (which we thought was excellent). Now Roji is (temporarily) shut while the chefs launch a brand new restaurant in Carnaby.
Taking
... - Happy Sky Bakery arrive in the West End with a new bakery off Oxford Street
Arriving with impeccable timing to cater to the crush that is going to be Oxford Street over the coming weeks, Japanese baking folk Happy Sky Bakery unveiled their brand new bakery over the weekend. This, their second place, is on Hanway Street which is, as they handily explain "a quiet little street tucked just behind the big Primark near Tottenham Court Road station."
"I can’t promise everything will be
... - Osteria Angelina sees the Dalston restaurant opening a grill and pasta restaurant in the City
Angelina has been a big success in Dalston and while their other restaurant Dai Chi didn't last the distance in Soho, they're sticking to what they do best in the City by opening a second Angelina.
Called Osteria Angelina, it'll be opening in the Nolton Folgate development by Shoreditch station that's seen ...
- Amélie, cocktail bar Luum and a reborn Sachi are coming to the Pantechnicon building
The Pantechnicon building fairly recently started out as a Nordic-Japanese dining and shopping hot spot that opened in late 2020 but for the last few months it's been undergoing a major refurbishment. Brace yourselves
... - Holborn's the spot for a new yakitori 'beak to tail' restaurant Hotori
Lawyers and other city folk working in and around Holborn are about to have an interesting new place landing on their doorstep. Hotori is a slick-looking yakitori restaurant on New Fetter Lane that's going to be all about the 'beak to tail' experience. Owners Mike Zheng and Kuangyi Wei have loved their trips to yakitori spots in Japan, but couldn't understand why there weren't more options here in London, particularly
... - Japan House is putting on Looks Delicious! a food replica exhibition
If you've ever been to Japan and seen the superb food replica dishes they have in front of restaurants there, you'll know just how amazingly realistic they can be. Now Londoners are going to get a chance to see this kind of artistry up close in a new exhibition opening at Japan House in Kensington.
Looks Delicious! features 47 specially commissioned food replicas, one from each of Japan's
... - Celebrate Nikka whisky's 90th anniversary with 90 Days of Nikka in London
To celebrate their 90th anniversary, Nikka whisky are holding a series of events and experiences in London. Here's our guide to 90 Days of Nikka.
- Test Driving Ukiyo - hand rolls, sushi and sake on tap in Covent Garden
Covent Garden gets a very useful little sushi spot with the opening of Japanese hand roll bar Ukiyo in The Yards.
- Urchin, Dorian's follow-up restaurant, is popping up in Greece for the summer
There's no question that Dorian is one of London's hottest restaurants - getting a table at a decent time in the dining room is a near-impossible task if you don't plan your dinners months ahead. Now the owner behind that, Chris D'Sylva, is getting ready to open a second restaurant in nearby Holland Park.
Urchin is going to be a Japanese bistro. As D'Sylva explained in an interview with trade title Caterer it
... - Test Driving Los Mochis City - sushi and tacos against a high rise backdrop
It's already one of the buzziest new openings in the City. We took the lift up to the rooftop at Los Mochis City to check out the scene for ourselves.
- Ukiyo are serving up Japanese hand rolls in Covent Garden
It's been three years since London's first dedicated Japanese hand roll restaurant (Temaki, in case you're wondering) opened in Brixton. Now we've got a new one to try, this time in Covent Garden. Ukiyo is a counter dining spot in The Yards development in Covent Garden that's serving up temaki and sashmi. The chef behind it definitely knows what he's doing - Konstantin Tskhay used to be head chef at
... - Test Driving Kioku by Endo - the sushi master takes over the rooftop of The OWO with a spectacular restaurant
Kioku by Endo has opened at the top of the spectacular building that's The OWO in Whitehall. We went up to the rooftop to see if Endo Kazutoshi is the one to open the hit that The OWO really needs.