Kokoro Durham in County Durham

Realising we wouldn't have time for a sit down meal before catching the train home from Durham we found this great place on the way back to the station. Good vegetarian hot options katsu pumpkin, tofu or cauliflower or spicy tofu served with either rice or noodles. We went for the large pumpkin katsu to share. We also grabbed some premade vegetarian sushi rolls ( tofu cucumber and red pepper) as well aa cucumber maki from the fridge. These both came with sachets of soy sauce, pickled ginger, wasabi and 3 edamame pods as well as a small plastic pot for the soy sauce. A delicious takeaway dinner to complete our day in Durham. You definitely need to highlight on trip advisor that you offer good vegetarian and vegan choices.

Decided to come here after struggling to find somewhere for a quick bite while visiting Durham. Greeted by very pleasant smiley staff, who were also working hard and cooking through the back. Excellent range of hot and cold/sushi food, and reasonably priced. Portion sizes are surprisingly filling, and delicious and served fresh and hot. Only minor criticisms would be they could give more gyoza than 3 in a meal, and no large/ramen spoons available. Would definitely return and recommend to anyone passing by!

The staff was very sweet and helpful. The food portion looks small, but it's a lot. The flavour of the food was great, me and my friend had Cauliflower and pumpkin katsu curry (with Noodles instead of rice).

Really enjoyable and filling lunch. Though I couldn’t finish the large sized salmon noodles. They had only half a portion of salmon left but offered half prawn which I thought was very helpful. The lady serving also suggested a lovely bubble tea place down the road. A very nice lunch on a very nice sunny day.

Kokoro is a little gem for fab food in Durham. I ordered Mix and Match with noodles with Katsu Chicken and Sweet Chilli Chicken. The curry sauce that came with it was divine. The portion size as large and there was enough for lunch the next day!

Great portion sizes! I recommend the chicken katsu curry and the sweet and chilli chicken - they were both delicious. We also tried the sushi which was very high quality.

Large really is large here; that's good when the food is so tasty! Staff are friendly and helpful and I'm glad that Kokoro finally opened locally, having been many times in the South.

The deluxe sushi box is very good, fresh salmon, nice pickled ginger and seaweed salad, wasabi is very hot!! Ordered a prawn katsu curry and rice which was about the same price (around £8-9) only got 3 prawns! Mainly rice and not much curry. So disappointed with that but recommend the sushi. Think portions needs to be re thought.