Japanese

• Japanese tapas and sushi - we Test Drive Cubé

  Try this new Japanese spot just off Oxford Street, but don't expect the traditional menu...

• Cubé Restaurant and Kakurega Bar opens on Blenheim Street in Mayfair

  The new spot serves sushi upstairs and has a downstairs hideaway bar serving Japanese cocktails

• The City is getting a Nikkei restaurant as Waka prepares to open on Eastcheap

  The City gets a new lunchspot as Waka brings Nikkei Peruvian/Japanese cuisine to the takeaway market

• The sushi tardis - we Test Drive Nobu Shoreditch

  Nobu Hotel is now open in Shoreditch but what's the restaurant like? We went to check it out.

• Test Driving Bang Bang Oriental - we check out Colindale's huge food court

  The huge Bang Bang Oriental food hall has come to Colindale - but what's it really like? We find out...

• Flesh & Buns prepares to relaunch with a new party menu and bigger bar

  Covent Garden has got a hot new party venue as Flesh & Buns prepares to relaunch with a new look and menu

• YO! Sushi pops up in Boxpark Croydon with street food and sushi

  

  Since it opened back in October, Boxpark Croydon has been going from strength to strength. Now it’s set to be the home to YO! Sushi’s newest experiment: reinventing themselves as a pop-up serving up Japanese dishes reimagined with a takeaway twist.

  The conveyer-belt sushi chain, calling itself just YO!, will open with a newly expanded menu, including dishes like panko chicken thigh sandwiches, crispy fried

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• A new Japan Centre with a huge food court is coming to London

  

  Good news for fans of Japan Centre on Shaftesbury Avenue as they have a big new flagship store planned for Haymarket. Here's what we know about the place so far:

  They'll have a Japanese food hall with a 100 seater courtyard. This will be evoking the feel of Japanese basement food halls - we've been to a couple in Tokyo and they are amazing - with lots of specialist food rooms as a part of

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• Dinings SW3 is coming to Knightsbridge

  The original Dinings has been around for a decade and this sees them open a second restaurant in Knightsbridge. Expect sushi, sashimi, sake and new grilled dishes too.

• Machiya from Kaneda-ya brings homely Japanese food to Soho

  

  What: Machiya

  In a nutshell: Homely Japanese cooking from Kanada Ya

  Summing it all up: Pick from little kobachi plates for breakfast, or finish cooking your panko-crusted steak over your person charcoal grill at the this new Japanese restaurant from the people behind Kanada-Ya.

• Nanashi Japanese kitchen opens on Rivington Street

  

  Slipping almost under the radar (and frankly, only spotted because we went past it last night) is new Shoreditch sushi spot Nanashi. It's appeared on Rivington Street in a room with a pared-back modernist look.

  As for the menu, it's pretty much what you expect, split into the usual mix of sushi, sashimi, gyoza, udon and tempura. A few things caught our eye, namely:

  • sushi burger - fried rice buns with fresh veg, salmon or tuna in a spicy sauce vegetable
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• Dotori in Finsbury Park is reopening

  

  There are waves of excitement are rippling over north London this week following news that the Korean restaurant Dotori is about to reopen.

  The beloved Finsbury Park restaurant, which was always notoriously busy throughout its eight year run, shut unexpectedly in summer last year. The closure was made even more mysterious by the fact it followed a lengthy period of refurbishment, including refitting the basement to accommodate more diners, which were never in short

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• Traditional Japanese dining in Shoreditch with Sanjugo London

  

  What: Sanjugo London

  In a nutshell: Traditional Japanese food in in Shoreditch

  Summing it all up: Shoreditch's newest Japanese restaurant has plenty of familiar favourites, from sushi to tempura, and includes some more exotic items, like baby octopus and sparkling sake.

• Teppanyaki specialists Matsuri St James to reopen as Onodera

  

  It’s all change for Matsuri St James as it finally shuts up shop for the last time after 23 years, reopening its doors several months and £2.5m later with a brand new name and menu.

  The new restaurant, called Onodera, will branch off from its predecessor’s signature teppanyaki dish of meat and veg, cooked on a flat iron grill Japanese style. The new menu will offer a much broader range of Japanese delicacies, with a modern twist. There’ll be a considerable sake list,

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• Anzu is coming to St James' Market from the people behind Tonkotsu

  

  2/11/2016 - updated with extended soft launch info.

  There's always a lot of excitement when a new Tonkotsu opens, but now the people behind it, Emma Reynolds and Kensuke Yamada, are coming up with something brand new. They're opening Anzu in the new St James development and they're describing it as a Japanese brasserie - "good food and amazing service in fine but relaxed surroundings" .

  It's definitely a bit of a change from Tonkotsu - that's an

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