Japanese

GINZA ST JAMES

15 Bury Street, St. James's, London SW1Y 6AL
OPENING HOURS
  • Monday: 12:00 – 10:30 PM
  • Tuesday: 12:00 – 10:30 PM
  • Wednesday: 12:00 – 10:30 PM
  • Thursday: 12:00 – 10:30 PM
  • Friday: 12:00 – 10:30 PM
  • Saturday: 12:00 – 10:30 PM
  • Sunday: 12:00 – 10:30 PM

It’s very Japanese at Ginza St James with some private sushi rooms hidden behind wooden sliding doors and a big open kitchen with counter seats, and a robata grill and teppanyaki counter on display. The menu also leaves you spoilt for choice with dishes like spicy tuna tartare, lobster tempura, Chilean seabass with mustard miso, lamb chops with yuzu miso and aubergine, king prawns with ume and a range of sashimi and sushi rolls. If you’re feeling indecisive in the face of all those options, go for one of the set menus, which range from £60 – £125 per person, and come with optional wine and sake pairings.

MACHIYA

5 Panton Street Soho London SW1Y 4DL

Machiya is run by the same people behind Kanada-Ya although there’s not a bowl of ramen in sight. Order the tsukune, grilled chicken skewers, to snack on before you get stuck into their grilled eel, which is one of the best in London, and their huge tonkatsu. Add a glass of Dassai sake and you are good to go.

SUSHI ATELIER

114 Great Portland St, Fitzrovia, London W1W 6PA

Sushi is very much the focus here – the clue’s in the name – with the most of the action centred around the long wooden sushi bar on the ground floor where you can see the chefs slicing, blowtorching and plating the fresh fish. The modern flavour combos like BBQ tuna with parmesan, razor clam ceviche with ginger and whisky jelly, and butterfish with a thin sliver of foie gras on each slice is what sets this place apart.

MONOHON RAMEN

102 Old St, London EC1V 9AY

Located on the Clerkenwell side of Old Street, Monohon serves just six types of ramen, including three soup-less ones, one of which is served chilled. The Spicy Tonkotsu – creamy pork bone broth with thin noodles, bean sprouts, spring onions, slow cooked pork belly and spicy miso pork mince – is a winner and you can customise it to your liking, choosing level of spice, how hard you want your noodles and how big you want the bowl to be. Slurping = essential.

CUBE

4 Blenheim Street, Mayfair, London W1S 1LB

Cubé does things a little differently, with a mix of very traditional Japanese dishes plus some European influences – the bulk of the menu is arranged into Hot and Cold tapas sections, with one dish mixing Udon noodles with black olive and truffle pesto for instance. The fatty tuna and eel sushi were two of our faves and defo go for the small cubes of pork belly, really soft and tender and seasoned with a great big whack of rosemary – we’d go back for this alone.

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