Japanese

• Iné is a new Japanese (and omakase) restaurant in Hampstead from the Taku team

  

  14/12/23 - Updated with the opening date

  Can London have too many omakase restaurants? It appears not, as the people behind Taku in Mayfair are getting ready to open a restaurant with its own omakase counter in Hampstead (taking over what used to be Goldfish).

  Iné will have an eight-seater omakase counter alongside booth seating if you want to pop in for

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• Tokyo's Kobe beef specialists Aragawa are heading to London

  

  Updated 17/10/23 with opening date

  London's carnivores with big pockets have a new treat coming their way this summer. One of Tokyo's most prestigious restaurants is opening its first restaurant outside Japan, in Mayfair.

  They're taking over the old Miyama site on Clarges Street bringing their legendary - and pricey - steaks to the West End.

  Billed as one of the world's most expensive

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• London sake brewery Kanpai are moving their taproom and kitchen to Bermondsey

  

  27/9/23 - updated with details of the launch

  Seven years after they opened their taproom and kitchen in Peckham, London sake brewery Kanpai are on the move. Over the past few years, the self-taught brewers Tom and Lucy Wilson built up a loyal audience for their small-batch craft sake, opening first their taproom followed by a kitchen opposite where they ran a series of residencies serving up Japanese

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• Test Driving Hiden - the Japanese curry lab expands its size and menu in Finsbury Park

  

  Japanese curry specialists Hiden have expanded to Finsbury Park and the menu's grown too. We went along to pay them a visit.

• Okonomiheads sees the SushiHeads team open in Haggerston

  

  The folk behind SushiHeads in Tottenham have now got a new venture to pour their energies into. Having closed their Tottenham restaurant just weeks ago they're now open as Okonomiheads in Haggerston.

  The talent behind the business is Naomi Simpson. Her decision to open an okonomiyaki restaurant has its roots in her family history - her parents ran an okonomiyaki bar in Osaka. They retired this year and, as Naomi

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