The best restaurants serving Japanese food in East of England

Had a great lunch here today. Both of us tried the bento box, my sister the vegetable tempura, which came with chicken gyoza, myself the katsu, which came with prawn and vegetable tempura. The boxes came with rice, seaweed salad on spinach, mayo, and katsu sauce on the rice with mine. We shared some edamame beans to start. Tempura was so light and crisp, and all delicious. Service warm and professional, want to go back and try their tasting menu one evening. Lots of different flavours and dishes. À welcome addition to the dining options in Epping. I've been back several times now for lunch and dinner. Always faultless, delicious and good value for money.

Amazing food that brought back memories from trip to Japan. After January 2025 takeover by chief food is still great but there are first signs of trouble. Adding sushi to the menu means there is no more time for 8hr pork broth for ramen base, tempura I got today was soggy and fatty. Also there is no decent dessert menu, only rather simple ice-cream. Let's hope it's just temporary and maybe new staff hires will allow for an extended menu to keep quality up.

This is my sixth visit to Wakusei and again I was impressed with the food. We all had the All You Can Eat buffet and everything we ordered was delicious. Looking forward to our next visit!

Stopped here for dinner on a stop over in Colchester, great atmos, great service and superb food … very pleased with our choice to stop here 👍🏻

Ate in had a lovely experience and had a takeaway the following weekend all excellent stuff.

What a great experience and the wagyu beef is definitely worth it

Great food and service , I do recommend Chicken teriyaki bowl with rice was amazing , my fiancé had a huge sushi bowl which she did enjoy

Myself and my partner visit Zero Sushi very regularly. The vegan katsu curry is always top notch and often there is a lot of salad included! The other vegan dishes are nice, but doesn't compare to the curry sauce! They have inari as a takeaway option on deliveroo. Portion sizes are a bit bigger when dining in, due to the size of the boxes and of course deliveroo takes a cut so the price is a bit higher as take away...paying for convenience after all! The owners and staff are very lovely and accommodating. 10/10

Gonna miss this great little sushi takeaway when I move away from Cambridge, the food is always delicious and the staff are so friendly. Def recommend for your sushi fix!

Booked a table at 8.15 on valentines night with my wife. Didn't get off to the best start when the waiter told us as it was valentines they would need the table back at 9.30pm After ordering drinks we seriously consider leaving as that would only give just over 1hour. So I clarified with the waiter and it seemed he got his times mixed up and we should be fine to stay now. Our food was delivered by a waitresses who dump our plates down and walked off, wasnt impressed, the food was actually very good but expensive for what it was and you had to order sides separately. Meal and bottle of wine we paid £99. But the worst thing was music was loud so much so we couldn't have a conversation. Decided to skip dessert as we couldn't talk (was night club loud) I wouldn't recommend for a romantic meal and won't be returning shame as the food wasn't bad.

The finest food, of the finest quality. Nit to be missed. Owners and staff are fantastic! Tonight we held our works Christmas meal which was outstanding. A must try! Quality is never comprised! A true 5 star! Staff superb, chef outstanding

Great website for ordering, but very slow to be served when picking up.

Visiting a local event and my daughter wanted sushi , we opted to try VIP sushi and we are not disappointed the sushi is exceptionally good , we collected from a house which I was a little unsure about but communications form vip sushi were great 100% recommend you trying VIP sushi

Delicious experience at Sticks'n'Sushi. From the minute you enter the staff make you feel very welcome and got us a table easily despite being a walk-in. The food itself various greatly in price but their is food to suit everyones budget and love the ability to pick'n'mix certain items.

A very mixed experience having takeaway hot food and sushi. The place itself seems clean, inviting, and friendly enough service when it's quiet. Our food however really did disappointment, we have had a lot of sushi and this was not worth the cost. After ordering the omakase we realised we should have asked for no cephalopods (more on a moral basis) but in reality the squid and octopus were inedible. The rest of the fish was OK, definitely not as fresh as it should be. All other food portions were quite small, mid flavour, no seasoning. Would like to try the food once more to give them another chance, but won't be doing so in a hurry.