The best restaurants serving Japanese food in South East

My kids love it! Our favourite take away! Super friendly service Always fresh and yummy. Best in the area!

Today I visited Yo Sushi School in Ashford. It was incredible, interesting and exciting. Christopher, who kindly shared the secrets of cooking different types of sushi, was incredibly friendly, kind and experienced. Thanks to his recommendation, I, together with my son, who also attended a sushi school, made a lot of my favorite sushi.

My daughter and I visited on Saturday, we waited for a table and then was sat down. Immediately I could tell the place was absolutely filthy. The floors were sticky, the sides of the table was sticky, the menus filthy. We ordered drinks and a couple of dishes off the menu to get us started. The dishes arrived and no drinks still. Whilst sat watching the kitchen I noticed the sides were unclean and the staff were using the same clothes across all stations with no cleaning spray or even rinsing. The kitchen equipment was filthy and the staff didn’t wash their hands once. They have absolutely no pride in their work what so ever and I would go as far to say they just did not care at all. They were also massively understaffed and the service was poor. I will never return to this restaurant.

The food is not good; the meat had a weird taste, not fresh for sure. The seaweed sheets from sushi were not crunchie but rubbery.The bathroom doors were large opened. Such a waste of money. Worst sushi place in my life.

When we ordered from the app, we didn’t add the 160£ thing but when we check out, it just went on and added us £160 for 6 ppl like what the heck???? And we also ordered a take away of a udon and after we check out the udon, we went to check out for our meal that we ate here, they said we need to pay for the take away too. Like what the freak? Are they blind or sth??? Also a lot of things are not in stock like if ur things are not in stock then add a not in stock label bruh what the heck!!!

We arrived 30 mins before they closed & they did not make us feel even remotely unwelcome. They were so attentive, went the extra mile. Food was unreal, my little girl got to try some new foods she hasn’t tried before & we just loved our visit so much. Chipo was our server and she is a DIAMOND. We are so grateful for your kindness. Thank you the world needs more people like you xxx

My son loves sushi so we bought him the Yo! Sushi School experience at Yo! Southampton. He absolutely loved it, Dave and his team made sure that he was made very welcome, and in a small group of 8, taught him how to create various sushi dishes. For anyone that loves sushi, this is a great experience, no matter how competent you are in the kitchen. The Yo! team are brilliant teachers, and you take home all the food that you make (which is a lot!) Thanks Dave and well done Yo!

Avoid at all costs! I ate the vegetarian noodles and prawn katsu) which were heated up in a microwave. Massive red flag, I should have known better. felt sick within minutes, had diarrhoea within 2 hours. Should be reported for healthy and safety

Unfortunately had a really poor experience here. Staff weren’t friendly whatsoever, you get charged more by approximately £1 per item for eating in?? Despite not being given any different service whatsoever than if you were to take it away? School dinner type trays, take-away unnecessary plastic packing. You have to pay extra for soy sauce and wasabi…dirty tables, seats all stained with soy sauce, toilets dirty. Certainly won’t be returning here nor any other Wasabi for that matter.

The new cafe round the corner was fully booked (Saturday lunchtime) so we tried here - but wish we hadn't. Ordered two Welsh rarebits, paid and sat a table. After a while someone came over and said they only had one left so we changed the second to a cheese and ham toastie. After an eternity they finally came - the rarebit was flat and just tasted of melted cheese with a bit of ham - no flavour. You would think at Waitrose they would use decent ham but no, the ham in the toastie was just the thin, processed type. We left distinctly underwhelmed and won't go again.

Went in to pick up some desserts for a few days time as noticed before they have a long shelf life. Hardly any doryaki left but I took the last two. Went to pay to find they only take card payments, but they couldn't their card machines to work! Spent nearly 15 minutes waiting for them totry re-booting, trying contactless and pin options. Eventually looked at taking cash but they had no change. I didn't have the exact money so they tried asking me to buy less or more to fit to a note value! Eventually they found some change. Got my desserts home quickly as I couldn't after being out of the fridge longer than planned, only to find these were previously frozen and have to be used within 4 days of being defrosted. No indication of when defrosted so I cannot use them in a few days as planned. Use by date is only for their use if the item remaina frozen - not sure it is ok to sell pre-packaged food to customers without a use by date? Wasted my time and money; today was enough to put me off going back.

Came here for supper after church with the other young adults from church. It would be helpful if the staff were more knowledgeable about allergies because while I can eat anything, one of the others is gluten free and for a moment it looked like there wouldn’t be anything suitable (but eventually something was identified on the menu that she could eat ). Their lack of knowledge of the constituents of particular items was also unhelpful to me when I was trying to choose from the available customisations for what I wanted to order for myself.

We ordered the breakfast with freshly poached eggs leek and spinach based on an attractive photograph outside. What we got looked like a bowl of dishwasher water with leaves floating in it. The freshly poached eggs were like last nights hard boiled eggs and we didn’t find any leeks. It was edible but dreadful and nothing resembling the photograph. The place was empty and I now know why.

We were going to have a Leon's but having seen Chozen Noodle we ordered from them. I had the Red Thai curry with noodles which was very nice. Daughter had the chicken katsu curry which she said was ok.

Random visit in Oxford .Average ramen