WOW Simply Japanese in Haringey

A really lovely local family run Japanese restaurant which deserves to be busier than it is! Food is consistently good and reasonably priced. Lovely owners too. The facade does make it look like a restaurant from the 70's but don't let that put you off! It's a reliably good option for simple Japanese food done well.

My son’s favourite Japanese restaurant and he’s a real connoisseur. The agedashidofu is incredible,

I tried beef sushi for the first time (the beef was a bit tough). I think I'll stick to fish sushi. I also had the salmon sushi which was okay. I really want to come back to try the more traditional sushi and the other dishes too.

Amazing Japanese food! We really enjoyed the grilled black cod and the poppy crusted tuna, would definitely recommend. Staff were also really friendly and kind:)

My girlfriend and I went to 'Wow Simply Japanese' tonight. It was simply incredible. Such a loverly hostess and amazing food! Honestly, the best supirse was the value for money with exceptional quality, and the range of options available was amazing! Will definitely be bringing friends and family here in future! Also, definitely get the Banana Katsu desert!!!

Great food and service, I wish they had more gluten free options though!

Really friendly staff, excellent food and highly affordable. The sushi and gyozas were excellent and arrived quickly.

The food was incredible and very tasty

I have been visiting Wow for a number of years now - every time I visit my friend who lives nearby. It remains my favourite Japanese restaurant in the UK. Fantastic food, friendly staff, great menu and always a few nice specials on the board. The sake is excellent!! I can’t recommend it highly enough :-)

No frills, Japanese Restaurant with delicious food. Love coming here for lunch. Staff are always very friendly, food is affordable and very tasty. One of the best in Crouch End IMO :)

It’s been several years since I last visited Wow and very little has changed. The owner was very welcoming and friendly . The food is still delicious ,outstanding sushi as fresh as can be. Lovely returning here and they will always adjust your choices if you are gluten free.

I've been to this restaurant several times, I always love going there.

Small, laid back, friendly place for a quick bite without compromising quality.

The best sushi I've had in a great location and affordable. Service is great, a family run restaurant that cares for the customer. Always attentive, kind and warming. I've coming here for 4 years now and as a sushi passionate I've tried many around London, but none of them gets even closer to this one. Highly recommend ☺️👍

First time back here for a couple of years. This is still a fantastic place to eat. We had varied sushi presentation, seafood and seabass, miso soup. It was very high quality for a reasonable price. I would highly recommend Wow to everyone for fresh, delicious Japanese food at a very good price.

Excellent rolls, as usual, and a stand-out special dish on the day we visited: seabass with stem broccoli in a miso sauce. All at prices unheard of in central London.

Delicious ist class service and food...

Food is always delicious and fresh, but the atmosphere really let's the restaurant down, too many hard surfaces, bright lights and white walls. If they fixed that I would go every day!

Really lovely Japanese restaurant with Japanese staff. The food was great tasting and freshly made, the staff were friendly and attentive and the atmosphere was welcoming and comfortable. Would thoroughly recommend!

It was so damn good I love the sushi. This is a family favourite, great food, great customer service. Honestly, the waitresses are so nice!!! ❤️❤️❤️

Amazing atmosphere ,friendly team member and and amazing food. This place all time make me happy... All time we will come back. Many thanks for chef 😊😊😊

It was a good experience. There is great food and service. It’s a nice place to chill and relax. In a nutshell, it’s a good place to make family memories.

We like the food here. Tempura is good quality, as are the donburis. Great choice for lunch or dinner.

Really delicious food and friendly staff. Background music would have added to the atmosphere :) Definitely will come back !

delicious 1st class experience 😋

So so delicious. My first time ordering and cannot explain the change in my takeaway game thanks to all the delicious dishes they have!

Extreamly accommodating and delicious food. 10/10

Came here with my partner for a quick lunch and I was so impressed with the quality of the food! Food was delicious and prices were really good for what you get the portions were big! Went to The Ivy Asia last week and the food wasn't as good as it is here! Service was lovely aswell, thank you!

Best sushi in the area and very lovely service :-)

These guys are super nice and treat you so well. Very polite and considerate - always a great meal with hot sake!!

Absolutely Delicious 1st Class. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Really good food, affordable and wonderful service. Just tried the lunch menu and highly recommend it.

First visit to this place yesterday. It’s a cute restaurant, the waitress was very friendly and the food was well presented. However, the tempura lacked flavour and was slightly undercooked, the rice in the bento was stale, the miso soup was lukewarm, the chicken teriyaki was cold and bone dry and the salad was covered in overly strong dressing making it inedible. Such a shame! Fried tofu was great though. Unfortunately we won’t be returning.

So delicious and at much more affordable prices than most places. I absolutely love their miso soup which comes with the main meal. Super lovely staff too, 10/10 recommend 😊

Decent neighborhood Japanese. Would return.

My favourite sushi place. The crazy roll is the absolute best

Food was sublime, attention to service and great atmosphere

Always amazing food and service. Great place and recommended.

Food not delicious. It was fine previously. Greasy and unattractive presentation.

Holy moly this has to be the best sushi I have ever had! Reasonably priced, great service and gosh I just can't get over the quality. The Zen Maki and teriyaki rolls were crazy good. The miso soup is delicious too. Perfect little low key date spot. Will definitely be back for more!

Friendly staff,decent prices,great food. Frequented a lot over the years

Great authentic Japanese restaurant with the best chicken katsu! I’ve been eating and ordering in from WOW for years now.

The food was really tasty and the menu was a rich one. The service was really good and quick. The staff was quite friendly and welcoming. Definitely a ‘must go’ if you are visiting the area.

Excellent service at this local sushi place. The venue was very clean and the staff super nice. Food was perfectly cooked, presented and the flavours and quality of produces were excellent. We ordered the Octopus salad that was a complete new experience of flavour, textures and flavour combinations. We got the Wow roll, Dragon Roll and the Crazy roll. All of them were delicious. We also got the pickles and the chicken Udon noodles. For dessert, the banana tempura which was supposed to come with vanilla Icecream but I asked if it could be with salted caramel and the lovely lady prepared it with salted caramel Icecream which made me even happier about the whole experience. The moshi Icecream was crazily delicious. I recommend this place a lot. The prices an quality are excellent. Well done WOW guys!

Food and staff excellent, have been going there for years. The toilet is tiny and the white painted door on the inside is so dirty especially where most people touch so even if you washed your hand you would be sure to get dirt on them. Also their front doors aren't closing so we often sit in jackets and get up multiple times to close the doors.

Lovely little restaurant. Staff are always very friendly and accommodating. Good selection of sushi and cooked dishes

This is an authentic Japanese sushi restaurant run by a lovely Japanese family. It is very good value also. I would definitely recommend this to any sushi lovers.

We dined here last week. The staff were nice but the food was really very disappointing. Not authentic Japanese food at all. We won't be returning.

If you know a specific dish and within the boundaries that the restaurant can provide, the chef may be able to accommodate.

Not glamorous but fantastic sushi and friendly service

Pretty affordable Japanese food compared to several other locations, and they don't skimp on portions either.

A lovely local Japanese restaurant. The food is always fresh, and cooked beautifully. They take so much care in what they do, and it shows.

See my review below. What a terrible customer experience. I am now requesting a chargeback through my credit card company to get my refund. What a faff, and totally unnecessary

the food is amazing and worth the price and the staff are very friendly and nice :D, i love coming into wow it’s one of my fav restaurant:>

A lovely little gem. The service was impeccable, the food worthy of praise. The presentation, taste and value exceeded my expectations. Definitely a returning happy customer. I have to have more from thier menu and can hardly wait to try

Was surprised that it was so quiet in the restaurant as the food was really top notch. The two waitresses were lovely friendly and polite. Everything we had was totally delicious from the starters to desserts. A major shout out to the tempura banana which were a truly scrumptious delight. Washed down with copious amounts of sake, thoroughly enjoyed this meal and look forward to going back soon.

Beautifully presented and delicious food in friendly local restaurant. First time but definitely not the last. Food was perfect as was the service. We had tempura, sushi, shashimi, teriyaki to share, and drinks and dessert. Can honestly recommend everything.

We have been customers for many, many years, as a treat for family celebrations. Just spent nearly £100 for my daughter's birthday and unfortunately had one dish with very little sauce and after asking for extra pickled ginger, we got none:( Something has changed as the quality of the order was not the same as we have known. Such a shame but I am not sure I shall be ordering again, very disappointing

Very fresh and tasty sushi, good portion sizes for the noodles we ordered, and excellent friendly service! We came out very full and satisfied :)

One of the best Japanese food I've ever eaten. The wow bento box was delicious, and with a good amount of food. The person who received us is really friendly. Definitely recommend!!

This is my favourite place in London

Family dinner with older teens - why go to Wagamama with the real deal here in N8. Excellent service and a wide Japanese menu catering to all tastes.

Went yesterday. Overall it’s OK, and the service is excellent However, value/price is not great. We had two sashimi Bentos & two starters. Some of the fish was good, another not so much. Complimentary miso soup was ok, perhaps too much water and very little tofu. It felt those you get from the sachet.

This is one of our regular neighbourhood stops. The sushi rolls are delicious and there’s a great variety of rotating specials. The owners are friendly and have great hospitality.

Outstanding... the food is amazing. I highly recommend 👌

Very nice and cosy place. Decent selection of sushi and other Japanese cousine like katsu curries. A tiny bit on the plus on prices but overall very decent.

Excellent take away menu, tasted delicious.

Great small eatery in crouch end. Food was really tasty and the waitress was lovely. I specially loved the Godzilla rolls :).

I do love Wow and order from there often, but this time I was a little disappointed. I don’t usually order tempura but would have expected about double the quantity for the price. Likewise- the pickles were a little on the light side compared to the usual. It was pricey for what I had.

Food arrived 45 mins after the latest estimate, and was lukewarm. What a shame.

So, so good. Not cheap but absolutely worth the money. And it arrived early! One of my go-tos.

It was great and such good value!

The delivery driver got lost and was late. I was willing to brush it off but then he started telling me off. to be clear, I gave my accurate address and postcode and have never had a problem receiving any delivery here. He was incredibly rude to me, the food was obviously cold and now I'm quite upset. Don't order from here

EXCELLENT QUALITY AND SERVICE....

Fresh, delicious, exactly what I wanted. One of the only places where the crispy salmon skin is actually crispy… mmmmm

Had to chase the restaurant as the food Updates never came in. They had to phone the driver by my third call as still late. Mochi was broken and melted, whilst the 'hot' food was all cold and quite disappointing. Such a shame after the wait!

How how how ahahahahahahahaha! The atmosphere is cold and heartless. Food is average. Staff arent very friendly. Minimal things done to assist your needs and experience.

Fresh, delicious and early. what more can I say?

We used to love WOW, but this time we got the wrong order, and when ours arrived it was soggy, cold and tasted bad. We didn't eat it.

Really tasty delivered quickly.

I ordered food for myself (I am vegetarian) and someone else. It came late, and all the sushi was packed in the same container. Several of the tubs had exploded and everything was all over each other. When we called the restaurant they said it was our fault and that we had to call them prior to tell them not to put meat in the advertised vegetarian sushi. The man was very rude about it. In my many years of being a vegetarian, I have never had this issue with any take out, as this is common sense. I cannot eat any of the over £30 worth of food I’ve ordered, because not only did they get meat in the vegetarian sushi, they didn’t even label the curries to show which one was vegetarian. So not only were they rude, but they won’t help. Never ordering from here again.

Sushi is so fresh. The sashimi salad is now my favourite. Delivery was so quick. Love the garlic n egg rice. My partner loved his octopus salad and godzilla rolls. So yummy. This is now our favourite sushi place.

Delivery was late as he couldn't find address but that was fine. The food was delish. The sashimi bento was my favourite. Everything was just superb. Fresh n yummy. Definitely would order again

Ordered several times before and always enjoyed the food and quality was good. Perhaps tonight was an off night.

Very delicious and nice. We had sashimi bento. Amazing x

Excellent, tasty Japanese food in North London. Highly recommended.

Wow rolls were partially cooked and inedible. Bento box excellent.

Quick and tasty, becoming one of my favourites

i am upset that the resturant uses plastic tubs for the food, it could use tin foil which is easier to recycle...

Lovely local restaurant with a fresh and tasty takeaway option 🍜

Amazing special sushi and squid

One of the takeaway Katsu curries I've had, unfortunately the noodles lacked a little flavour but overall a very good meal

We are delighted with this meal, the service, the speed and it was absolutely delicious 10 out of 10.

The best takeaway Chicken Katsu curry I’ve found in London: really delicious

When the restaurant realized they had made a mistake they collected the food and then redelivered fresh food at the right time. Great service.

Pretty good sushi, was really surprised! They were carefully made and everything was well packed. Order was a bit late but right now I suppose it’s normal. Will definitely order again!

Rolls horribly stodgy, really awful. I picked off so much rice, and the fish inside didn't taste the freshest. Agedashi tofu dip tasted of nothing but water. If you can't get avocado that tastes of anything, don't offer it. Tuna tartare superb however. Which was bizarre.

Ordered a delivery from Wow during the Coronavirus lockdown. As a regular customer in Wow’s restaurant, we were not sure how the food would travel. However, the experience was excellent. The order was taken efficiently, the delivery arrived when they said it would, and the food was just about as good as it gets in the restaurant (which is excellent). Perhaps the tempura coating on the prawns and the gyoza were just slightly less crispy than in the restaurant, but it was marginal difference. Otherwise the meal was perfect, and the donburi was served in a takeaway pot that almost looked like authentic Japanese tableware. In these times, this meal made us both very happy. Well done Wow. I really hope other regular customers will try Wow for a Lockdown treat!

I've been eating to Wow every so often over the last 10years. Recently the very powerful smell of mothballs has over ridden our experience dining in the restaurant. You can't eat fish with that strong smell in the air. When mentioning it to the staff they tried to say it was the hot saki brewing, which was definitely not the case. Customers at the table opposite confirmed it as a mothball smell as well. ---- This is a real shame because we were looking forward to enjoying Wow's good food, but couldn't stay because of the smell.

Very polite staff who served us well. Good value for money without sacrificing quality. Small intemate restaurant in Crouch End good for family and couples.