Japanese

• Win a meal for two at the new SticksʹnʹSushi Battersea

  

  Celebrate the opening of the latest Sticks'n'Sushi restaurant, at Battersea Power Station by winning a meal for two worth £150.

• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

• Roji chefs to launch new Japanese izakaya Himi in Carnaby

   

  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 about to (temporarily) shut while the chefs launch a brand new restaurant in Carnaby.

• 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

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• 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

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• 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.  

• Test Driving Nijū - a pivot to sushi and homecooked dishes for Endo and his team in Mayfair

  

  Chef Endo Kazutoshi is behind the new Japanese home cooked dishes at this Mayfair restaurant. We went to see how the change of direction is working for Nijū. 

• Endo Kazutoshi opens Kioku by Endo restaurant and bar at The OWO

  

  24/4/24 - updated with opening details

  The (nearly) last piece of the puzzle that is The OWO is coming into place. The prime spot in the refurbished Old War Office, the rooftop, is being taken up by top chef Endo Kazutoshi, who will be opening Kioku by Endo there. 

  Kioku, is the Japanese word for memory. The restaurant, Endo says, "will combine

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• Los Mochis London City is their new rooftop restaurant in Broadgate

  

  12/3/24  - updated with the opening date

  Following the success of their Notting Hill restaurant, and their recent ...

• RAI omakase restaurant returns, this time in Bloomsbury

  

  RAI, from the same people behind Islington's Hot Stone, originally launched in Fitzrovia before closing last year. But now the restaurant is back again in a different location, just up the road in Bloomsbury. 

  The food is once again led by Executive Chef Padam Raj Rai (previously at Nobu, Sake no Hana and Tsukiji) and it'll be an omakase-only restaurant, with dishes in the

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