Japanese

• Sushi master Endo Kazutoshi is holding an intimate eight-seat pop-up at The Berkeley this summer

  

  Ahead of the opening of his upcoming restaurant at White City, sushi master Endo Kazutoshi is going to be popping up at the Berkeley in Knightsbridge this summer. Kazutoshi - who used to run all things sushi at the Zuma group, and whose White City restaurant will seat just 15 - is going even more exclusive with his Berkeley popup.

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• Huge Ichiba Japanese food hall opens in Westfield London

  There’ll be space for 200 to dine in at Ichiba, the enormous new Japanese food hall that’s springing up as part of Westfield’s regeneration. It’ll be providing hefty amounts of traditional Japanese cuisine, plus sakes, baked foods, ingredients to take home and cooking demos.

• Nanban Express serves up katsu sandos and salads on Brixton's Electric Lane

  

  If you've been craving the amazing katsu sandwiches chef Tim Anderson has been posting on Instagram, then the good news is he's now opened a place where you can get them.

  Nanban have just opened Nanban Express, a hatch on Brixton's Electric Lane, serving up what they're calling "a grab-and-go menu of Japanese sandwiches and salads". The hatch, which opened

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• Test Driving Inko Nito - Zuma bring their Los Angeles robatayaki to Soho

  The Zuma group have opened their latest spot, a robatayaki, in Soho - we went along for lunch

• Akira robatayaki and sushi will be the main restaurant at Japan House on Kensington High Street

  Engawa chef Akira Shimizu is opening his own robatayaki and sushi restaurant in Japan's new cultural centre, Japan House on Kensington High Street.

• The original Mayfair Chisou is moving to a bigger spot just down the road

  

  After 16 years of business, Japanese restaurant Chisou is on the move - but they're not moving far. They're leaving their former base on Princes Street and opening up a bigger place on Woodstock Street (the same street that Neo Bistro is on). 

  The new restaurant adds a chef's table at the sushi bar, and they'll be serving "by the piece" sushi omakase there as a new addition. And they're also adding two new basement private rooms for up to 20

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• Inko Nito on Soho's Broadwick Street will be the latest robatayaki restaurant from the Zuma stable

  London is getting a new robata grill restaurant from the team at Zuma. Inko Nito on Soho's Broadwick Street will feature Japanese charcoal grilled cooking with a Korean influence.

• Chicken and Gochu take over the Friday night residency at Walthamstow's Ye Olde Rose and Crown

  

  We don't know about you, but the idea of a Friday night pub menu devoted to Korean and Japanese style 'anju', or bar bites sounds EXACTLY what we'd want to stave off a Saturday morning hangover.

  And if you live in Walthamstow, that's just what you've got as Chicken and Gochu become the latest folk to take over the Friday night slot at Ye Olde Rose and Crown. This is the first time the Highams Park-based husband and wife team have popped up anywhere. Korean

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  Sushi in the City

• Test Driving Jidori in Covent Garden - yakitori and much more besides

  We head to Covent Garden to see what's new at the second Jidori. 

• Yamagoya is bringing out a cherry blossom raindrop cake for Spring

  

  Honestly, Spring is on the way - we promise.

  And with Spring comes the cherry-blossom and that's something that Yamagoya in Waterloo is taking full advantage of. They're already well known for their raindrop cake - the mizu shingen mochi- and now they're about to go one better - adding cherry blossom to the centre. It comes with molasses syrup (Kuromitsu) and kinako (roasted

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• Kanada-Ya is bringing their legendary ramen to Islington's Upper Street

  Fans of Kanada-Ya will already know the deal: big, soupy bowls of rich broth, served with springy noodles cooked to your preferred level of firmness, likely preceded by a lengthy, but worthwhile session spent queueing outside.

• Jidori comes to Covent Garden for your fill of sake, yakitori and karaoke

  Sake and karaoke is a winning combination, but if you’re not feeling quite brave enough to head to Jidori’s basement karaoke booth, there’ll be plenty of yakitori and other Japanese treats to keep you entertained.

• Test Driving Koya City: udon bar expands its repertoire for the City

  Soho's perenially popular udon noodle bar Koya has expanded to the City. We went along to see how the newer, bigger restaurant was doing.

• Modernist soba and sushi in Temple - we Test Drive Yen

  London's legal district has a modernist temple to Japanese cuisine in Yen