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Small Japanese restaurant a hundred yards or so along from the Holborn Viaduct entrance to City Thameslink Station. The ground floor is narrow and small, with banquette seating around the edges flanked by a number of small square tables. The basement is more restaurant-like, though we only got a short glimpse of this on the way to the loo.

Kake, Leon, and other Perlmongers visited for lunch at 1pm on a Thursday in June 2008. There was only a very small kerfuffle as we asked for a table for eight; the entire staff rallied round to push a number of small tables together and we were seated very quickly.

We were all provided with cups of green tea directly after sitting down, and our food came fairly quickly after ordering; though for some reason there was confusion over what DaveH had ordered, and he was kept waiting while everyone else's food had already arrived. It was fairly universally agreed that Martin and Leon, who'd ordered the daily lunch special (£10 - in this case, grilled eel served with Japanese stew, rice, miso soup, and fruit) were the winners.

They do takeaway too, and at least at lunchtimes they have a fridge out the front with pre-packed sushi boxes to speed your lunch run.

Accessibility: Ladies' and gents' are both in the basement, down a twisty narrow staircase.

Kake's verdict: Will come back; it's high up on my list for lunch if I happen to be in the area, and I'm interested to see how they perform in the evening.

See also:

• London Eating comments

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