The best restaurants in United Kingdom serving Japanese food

The food here is amazing and the staff (particularly Megha) were warm, friendly, knowledgeable and courteous. We will come again, next time we fly out from here.

Fresh sashimi, with very attentive staff and good knowledge of the food and sake. Would recommend. Seating time is limited during busy season, it is advise to arrive on time

Love it in here, we’re local and come quite often. It’s so peaceful and we’re always left full without feeling like we’ve overindulged. The sushi is excellent, but salmon heavy- some tuna would be great. Service is gentle and largely good, although they don’t tend to accommodate even small requests like bringing the food at the same time, giving us some sirracha sauce and bringing crockery/cutlery when food is delivered to table. The space is a little cold, both in temperature and decor- the clumsiness of the partition curtain only detracts from the space. That being said, we keep going back! Bring cash if you want to tip as they don’t do it on their card machine.

地下鉄、Swiss Cottageの駅から歩いて6、7分くらいでしょうか。日本の方がやっているケーキ屋さんです。 見た目もきれいで美味しく、甘さもちょうど良い、日本で食べるケーキと同じものが食べられます。日本のデザートが恋しくなったら是非行ってみてください。 今回購入したのはタルトとフルーツケーキ。 フルーツケーキはドライフルーツがぎっしり！

This restaurant moved across the street and down a little bit. They now serve ramen, which my wife said was outstanding, in addition to other fare. My server was able to immediately understand my need for gluten free sushi and told me exactly what I could and could not have. The pickled ginger on my sushi plate was some of the best I’ve had in a long time, not the dyed red garbage from a jar. I would absolutely go back in the future.

I was with a group of friends celebrating a birthday, the super nice place there is DJ all night, the attention of the staff spectacular as well as what we tried; sweet potato tempura with yuzu shichimi yasai and the MAKI ROLLS was very delicious. The acceptable price according to the place. I'll definitely come back

We live here and eat out a lot. Every time I’ve been to either Nagomi or Pyesta I’ve had an asking night. Portia is just unbelievably amazing. The food is great and the experience is fabulous. You’ll love it.

Buenas opciones veganas y tan sabrosas! Lo recomendaría a cualquiera que visite y sin duda volveremos! Buen servicio también! Tenía el curry tailandés verde vegano y rollos de yasai con gyozas - tan bueno

Not sure how this place has such a good rating. Good ramen starts w good broth and the broth at this place is quite mediocre. The only good thing about the restaurant was the service. The servers were very nice and professional. The food was- nah.

We have ordered sushi from here a number of times, and we have yet to be disappointed! The rolls, hand rolls etc are so big and delicious, you are definitely full after eating here! Don’t be discouraged by the prices, ALL the food here is worth every penny!

Review written on 7 October 2021: I have been a customer of AtariYa in Kingston for many years ever since the shop originally opened, but my visit yesterday with a friend was most disappointing. In fact, we were so disgusted that we walked out. My friend and I were both wearing masks. I have a Japanese family and I have lived, worked and travelled widely in Japan for over 45 years and have friends who run top quality sushi restaurants in Tokyo and Narita so I do know proper Japanese food. My first disappointment was the lack of sushi Bento boxes. Previously, there has always been a really good selection of excellent quality all freshly made but on this visit there was very little on display and all looking rather dull. Apart from the lack of stock, possibly caused by the present worldwide delivery problems, I was disappointed to see items which appeared to be Japanese but were not actually made in Japan. That is extremely misleading. Inspection of some of the nori seaweed packets showed that they were produced in China, similarly, some items in the freezer which were made in Vietnam. I asked the male fishmonger (not Japanese) behind the sashimi counter about this but got no answer. Of course it is not impossible to produce good quality food which is not made in its original country but I go to a Japanese food shop to buy genuine Japanese food, not food produced somewhere else. I do not eat anything from China because I do not trust their production methods due to at least one scandal in Japan involving the use of pesticides on imported Chinese products. At the sashimi fish counter at the rear of the shop there seemed to be a much smaller selection than there used to be. I ask the male fishmonger, in Japanese, for a particular fish but he didn't understand me so I repeated just the name of the fish (shime saba) and he did point to the correct fish. However, although he was wearing a mask, it was pulled down, thus exposing his nostrils. A female staff member then appeared, also wearing a mask but also not covering her nose. I asked both of them why their masks were not correctly positioned but they just smiled (I don't know why) and pulled the masks up to cover their noses but it was too late. I told them that it was disgusting to be breathing all over raw fish while the Covid pandemic is still continuing but there was no proper reply from either. These two staff members were not Japanese and the very nice Japanese gentleman who has always previously run the fish counter was not present. Two English men then came in and looked at the sushi bento items but neither was wearing a mask even while leaning over the products. The products were in plastic boxes but that is not the point. It is absolutely unimaginable that any Japanese person, either customer or staff, would lean over any food, particularly raw food, in a virus pandemic without wearing a proper mask. In Japan, staff who are preparing food in public view normally wear masks, gloves, hats and a proper uniform but, of course, this is England. I absolutely cannot imagine what Japanese people think of such low standards. I complained once before about the poor attitude of an English staff member in this shop and received an apology from AtariYa. Obviously, poor hygiene is even more important so I will be writing again to the AtariYa management. It is very important that shops purporting to be Japanese do actually give a proper good impression of their products. Very few non-Japanese people have any idea what real Japanese food is and what I saw in the shop yesterday was simply not acceptable. Other reviewers on this site have made similar criticisms. I will never go to this shop again. Nor will my friends.

Took one of my employees for lunch and the food was delicious. There weren't too many people so the service was slick and our waiter was extremely helpful. Will definitely be going back to try out the dinner menu