It’s the highest omakase restaurant in London
Los Mochis in Notting Hill has Juno Omakase, and now Los Mochis in the City has Luna Omakase. Where its sister in W8 only has six seats and serves a Mexican-Japanese fusion omakase menu, Luna Omakase has 12 seats set around a wooden counter (with the City skyline forming the backdrop), and offers Sosaku-style Edomae omakase, a modern take on traditional Edomae sushi.
Eat This
Whereas Juno is more experimental thanks to its use of Mexican flavours, Luna leans more towards traditional Japanese cuisine with just a sprinkling of different chillies cropping up across some of the dishes. Omakase means ‘I leave it up to you’, so Executive Head Chef Leonard Tanyag bases the 12-course menu around the best sustainable seafood available to him at the time, which is presented and explained to you before the chefs get to work.
We were lucky enough to eat at Luna at the preview dinner before the restaurant officially opened and it was a pretty knockout meal, starting with thin slices of amberjack in ponzu and Spanish bluefin tuna tartare with aged wasabi, caviar, and a sushi rice cracker, presented in a bowl that looked like a smoking piece of moon rock. As the name Luna suggests, the moon is a big reference point and you see that throughout the experience, from the plates to the custom artwork on the walls.
The other highlights were bream nigiri lightly torched with a glowing piece of binchotan charcoal; a delicate round of onigiri with hamachi tartare, serrano chilli and fresh truffle; a hard taco shell made of sweet potato and loaded with caviar; a seared Hokkaido scallop on a sesame truffle sauce; and a buttery A5 wagyu sando with wasabi leaves.
The dessert, a miso caramel soufflé with wasabi ice cream, was as much of a showstopper as the savoury courses. Hot, cold, sweet, savoury, spectacular.
Drink This
You can order drinks as you like but the pairings – there’s an alcohol-free one, a sake one and a wine one – are really well curated, so it’s worth pushing the boat out and going for one of these.
Why Go
A meal at Luna will set you back at least £230 (and more if you add on a drinks pairing) so it’s not somewhere you causally drop in to, however, it really is an experience. Chef Leonard and his team are extremely knowledgeable and passionate about their craft, the setting is beautiful and you get to eat the best of the best seafood, so if you want something special, this is it.
Key Information
Address | 9th Floor, 100 Liverpool Street, London EC2M 2AT
For more information | luna-omakase.com