The best restaurants serving Japanese food in London

Tipico ristorante giapponese nel centro di Londra, Ottimi piatti della cucina giapponese di Osaka, ben presentati, personale gentile e veloce. Lo consiglio

This spot is useless for online ordering. I have placed an order for the family dinner for delivery and received nicely designed system showing my order number, its acceptance, cooking in a kitchen and on a way with a driver status with delivery at 19:47. At about 20:00 iI called to restaurant to check whereabouts of my order and then I realised that no one sent my order to the kitchen for preparation. All information showing on restaurant’s online portal such as a timing, status, etc. is a lie. It is huge disappointment because I’m returning customer for this restaurant for the years and have been there it with my family and friends for a dozen of times. After having seen faces of my children and grandson who came to London to spent a day for family event and after spending more than an hour waiting for a food which was not even started preparation I decided to stop going to Nippon Izakaya and will do all my best to divert all my friends, business partners and family members from visiting and/or ordering food from this restaurant from now and onwards. Needless to say that I have cancelled the order and family event end up with KFC chicken… The good thing is that people in Local KFC branch were honest, quick and professional.

Fuimos para un almuerzo entre semana con una reserva en su lugar. Este es de 3 pisos con sólo 2 camareras. No mucha gente, pero muchos conductores deliveroo viniendo las camareras eran hasta cierto punto ocupado con llevar los pedidos. El servicio era lento, pero la comida era buena. Generosas porciones. Bueno y variado menú. La comida estaba bien preparada, excepto que era Yakitori quemados. Claramente este restaurante podría ser fácilmente 5 estrellas pero necesitamos más personal y más rápido servicio. Un grupo de 5 trabajadores de oficina y no nos sirve vino en el tiempo y a la izquierda antes de comer. Debería haber sido posible para servir a ellos como no muy concurrida. Los precios aquí son razonables. Los propietarios deben emplear más gente para hacer de este un muy buen restaurante. Otro punto más importante es la señoras loo. Bastante nefasto y no limpio. Esto no debería ocurrir.

Introduced to this place earlier in the week and loved it. Really delicious food and love that you can choose your size of rice, spice and a side too. Really tasty and great value. Second visit and had the thinly sliced beef curry. Delicious. Not a place for a long meal but a perfect refuelling before heading off to theatre or something!

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

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

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！

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.

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.

Delicious food, great recommendations, great service. We had the salmon avocado roll, and it was just splendid. One of my family members had a pepper allergy and the staff was very mindful and attentive.

Had a delicious lunch. Was too busy eating to take good pics. Loved the whole experience of the food being cooked at the table. The beef was delicious as was everything we had. Especially loved the prawns, chicken wings and bbq veggies. 50% off on most dishes until next week. Definitely worth a visit. Very good service.

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

Came here with partner for Valentine's Lunch. Delicious Korean BBQ. Now don't have to go to New Malden. OK for standard sized wheelchair access as well.