Japanese

• Test Driving Humble Chicken 2.0 - an upgrade from yakitori to omakase for this Soho spot

  

  Angelo Sato's yakitori chicken spot in Soho has morphed into an ambitious omakase style restaurant. We went to see its latest incarnation.

• Oita take their Japanese kitchen to Chinatown from Wood Green

  

  For the past couple of years, chef Fan Yi's Japanese industrial chic kitchen concept Oita has been operating out of the Green Rooms hotel in Wood Green. The Chinese chef decided to go down the Japanese route with his first pop-up after spotting a gap in the market in the area, having lived there for over a decade. Clearly, he was on to something as what was originally planned as a pop-up is now the hotel's

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• Yakiniku Like comes to London, bringing their tabletop grills

  

  Yakiniku Like has been a big hit across China, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore and Indonesia - and now they're coming to London with their first European restaurant landing in Soho (coming from the same group behind Kintan). 

  Yakiniku is all about grilled meat and that's the primary focus here. You'll be doing all that grilling yourselves with smokeless grills on the

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• Michelin-starred chef Takuya Watanabe opens Taku Mayfair, a new Omakase restaurant

  

  We don’t often get to say Paris’ loss is London’s gain, but with the news that Taku Mayfair has opened, we can. Chef Takuya Watanabe, the man behind Jin, the first sushi Omakase restaurant in Paris to receive a Michelin star, has brought his talents to town.

  Omakase, whereby all dining decisions are delegated to the chef, is more than just a trust exercise. At Taku

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• Edo Izakaya comes to Old Street from the people behind Soho's Robata

  

  The team behind Soho's Robata is expanding - they're coming to Old Street with Edo Izakaya (taking over the space that used to be Flamboree, next to Officina 00)

  The name comes from the inspiration for the menu, the Edo period of Japan (1603-1867), in which izakayas began to become prominent. Food-wise traditional-style and new-style sushi rolls, hand rolls and nigiri

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