Japanese
- Fat Baby is Night Tales new permanent restaurant in Hackney
Over in Hackney Night Tales are getting ready to launch their first permanent restaurant. Fat Baby opened earlier in the summer with a street food menu. Since then they've installed a roof (complete with Northern Lights inspired illumination) and now have a full menu planned for the 42 seat spot.
In charge of things is Head Chef Greg Round (ex Umu, Bonhams and Quality Chop House). He'll be focusing his menu on the five main cooking techniques found in Japanese
... - The Joy of Sake hits London with unlimited sake and food by Zuma, Dinings, Adam Handling and more
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If you're a fan of Japanese food and drink, then we can't think of a better event to put in your diary than The Joy of Sake. For one evening only, London's Barbican Centre becomes a focus for beginners and enthusiasts alike to try a whopping 478 sakes from 192 breweries across Japan. And if that on its own isn't enough to get you booking, 14 top London restaurants are going to be there too, putting
... - Sticks’n’Sushi's huge new King's Road place will feature The Kings Room restaurant within a restaurant
Taking over three storeys on the King's Road, the Danish company's new sushi and yakitori sticks spot will feature a private dining room with a difference - you get your own chef, staff, music and even lift!
- ZELA London opening at the ME London hotel in Aldwych has backers like Ronaldo and Nadal behind it
Backed by A-list sports people and entertainers, this new restaurant opening at the ME London hotel in Aldwych fuses Mediterranean and Japanese influences.
- Flesh and Buns new Fitzrovia restaurant will have a Press for Pisco button - updated
Covent Garden's Flesh & Buns is opening a second restaurant just north of Oxford Street and this one's going to be huge with more of a Peruvian Nikkei vibe going on as well as the old izakaya favourites.
- Sushi master Endo Kazutoshi is holding an intimate eight-seat pop-up at The Berkeley this summer
Ahead of the opening of his upcoming restaurant at White City, sushi master Endo Kazutoshi is going to be popping up at the Berkeley in Knightsbridge this summer. Kazutoshi - who used to run all things sushi at the Zuma group, and whose White City restaurant will seat just 15 - is going even more exclusive with his Berkeley popup.
... - Huge Ichiba Japanese food hall opens in Westfield London
There’ll be space for 200 to dine in at Ichiba, the enormous new Japanese food hall that’s springing up as part of Westfield’s regeneration. It’ll be providing hefty amounts of traditional Japanese cuisine, plus sakes, baked foods, ingredients to take home and cooking demos.
- Nanban Express serves up katsu sandos and salads on Brixton's Electric Lane
If you've been craving the amazing katsu sandwiches chef Tim Anderson has been posting on Instagram, then the good news is he's now opened a place where you can get them.
Nanban have just opened Nanban Express, a hatch on Brixton's Electric Lane, serving up what they're calling "a grab-and-go menu of Japanese sandwiches and salads". The hatch, which opened
... - Test Driving Inko Nito - Zuma bring their Los Angeles robatayaki to Soho
The Zuma group have opened their latest spot, a robatayaki, in Soho - we went along for lunch
- Akira robatayaki and sushi will be the main restaurant at Japan House on Kensington High Street
Engawa chef Akira Shimizu is opening his own robatayaki and sushi restaurant in Japan's new cultural centre, Japan House on Kensington High Street.
- The original Mayfair Chisou is moving to a bigger spot just down the road
After 16 years of business, Japanese restaurant Chisou is on the move - but they're not moving far. They're leaving their former base on Princes Street and opening up a bigger place on Woodstock Street (the same street that Neo Bistro is on).
The new restaurant adds a chef's table at the sushi bar, and they'll be serving "by the piece" sushi omakase there as a new addition. And they're also adding two new basement private rooms for up to 20
... - Inko Nito on Soho's Broadwick Street will be the latest robatayaki restaurant from the Zuma stable
London is getting a new robata grill restaurant from the team at Zuma. Inko Nito on Soho's Broadwick Street will feature Japanese charcoal grilled cooking with a Korean influence.
- Chicken and Gochu take over the Friday night residency at Walthamstow's Ye Olde Rose and Crown
We don't know about you, but the idea of a Friday night pub menu devoted to Korean and Japanese style 'anju', or bar bites sounds EXACTLY what we'd want to stave off a Saturday morning hangover.
And if you live in Walthamstow, that's just what you've got as Chicken and Gochu become the latest folk to take over the Friday night slot at Ye Olde Rose and Crown. This is the first time the Highams Park-based husband and wife team have popped up anywhere. Korean
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Sushi in the City
- Test Driving Jidori in Covent Garden - yakitori and much more besides
We head to Covent Garden to see what's new at the second Jidori.