The best restaurants serving Japanese food in North East

Absolutely wonderful food. Sushi is top quality, beautifully hand crafted and presented and the flavour combinations are superb. We enjoyed our dinner so much we went back for lunch the following day!

Probably the best sushi I have had outside of Japan. An unassuming little place with no alcohol license but with customers packed in tightly because they know this place is a gem. So many places these days over-do the sushi with garnishes, sauces etc. knowing that they’re destined for instagram. Instead this place serves sushi as it should be; simply fish and rice with the flavours and quality of ingredients doing the talking. The menu is great with a selection of fish rarely seen in other sushi restaurants. We will definitely be back!

Absolutely superb little restaurant, there is a fantastic range of small plates, each and every one delicious and individual. Staff are wonderful too. Can't recommend highly enough.

Exceptional. As someone who loves a good quality sushi experience this place was great with good service. I also had the ramen which was excellent! Well done

Fun atmosphere with photo wallpapers of Japanese market streets at night. Great, funny and courteous waitresses. The food is really, really good. We felt comfortable, had an excellent meal and overall had a very nice evening at TAO. Today we're going there again and trying out more delicious dishes - even though we're only spending five days in Darlington and actually wanted to visit other restaurants. Sorry about the half-eaten pictures. We were hungry and when we realized how delicious the food was, we quickly took some pictures. So the portions are much larger. :-) EDIT: At this point I would like to apologize to all the other restaurant operators in Darlington, but this is our third evening here. When we come home and someone asks us what Darlington was like, we reply: "Yummy!".

This is a very serene environment, family friendly. The food is delicious, I didn’t quite enjoy my Sushi but the other meals I ate was tasty. I will definitely go back

Today, around 7:30 pm I went to this shop to get my dinner on the way back and there was this guy, blonde and short hair, who ask us to wear masks which unfortunately we didn't have with us because my girlfriend, my brother and I we were out for a walking with no plans to go in any shops. So it was a last-minute thing. Anyway he raccomend us to bring mask next time and so far nothing bad but we noticed how his voice has changed and how much annoyed he was, we noticed his body language was so bad to let feel us uncomfortable. When my girlfriend accidentally put a box back in a wrong place he came out straight away just to show her that she made a mistake. I understand it's hard time for all, maybe we wronged about not bring us with us our masks but It wasn't intentionally but this is not the right way to treat your customers. Best regards

My first experience of this style of restaurant and I wasn't disappointed! Plenty of food across the course of the evening, and a very fun engaging server! Set menu 1 was a good choice and mix of meats!

Visiting friends and they organised lunch at Fuego’s. Had the tortilla and it was delicious. Spent hours after in the shop spending far too much money (but managed to get a fair bit of Christmas shopping done). Loads of choice and the staff were really helpful and friendly

Great food and reasonably priced

Food was great and staff were amazing it was just freezing inside the shop and i even had 3 layers on. Some heating and it would be 5 star!

Absolutely terrible service had to ask for cutlery after waiting 40 minutes for food which was bland soggy and Luke warm staff just didn't seem as if they knew what they had to do the restaurant is actually in a bouncing bar with music blasting I couldn't here the waitress or even have a conversation with my wife it was that loud I have never experienced anything like it in my life I would definitely not go back and would definitely not recommend to my worst enemy it was that bad there is much better places to eat but if you like sitting in a night club and dining go for it!

Delicious yakisoba and beef curry as our mains. Excellent tempura and spring rolls for sides. Loved that rice came with the curry at no extra cost. Friendly, efficient staff. Good range of drinks. Central location and nice ambience.

Good variety of food. Can’t expect too much for a takeaway standard. Overall fresh and delicious. Would come back again.

We had our Valentine's lunch here and chose the hot plate set meal. It was absolutely amazing. The chef was full of fun and frolics and the food was delicious. It was great to watch your food being made in front of you. He was full of chat and the waitress was lovely to. We will definitely be returning soon.