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| Japanese restaurant just off [[Locale Piccadilly|Piccadilly]], down a side alley (Piccadilly Place) a little to the west of Le Meridean Hotel. |
Japanese restaurant just off [[Locale Piccadilly|Piccadilly]], down a side alley (Piccadilly Place) a little to the west of Le Meridean Hotel. It's only small, so it's worth booking at weekends. It's very traditional and formal, and the sushi is wonderful quality. It's also a bit expensive, even for sushi in London. |
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It's quite small, with just ten seats at the ground-floor sushi bar and another 35 or so upstairs, so it's worth booking at weekends. The ground floor also houses a takeaway counter, with pre-prepared clingwrapped polystyrene trays of sushi and sashimi. (They have another takeaway-only site, Delicatessen Yoshino, at 59 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 6LF). |
The first time [[Flick]] visited, the menus were terrifying. I'm not sure if it's a traditional way of doing it, but rather than a list of food items they have a series of diagrams showing a plate with (say) three sections on it, then a list of items that you can have in each of those three sections. The fish is wonderful, though, as is the sake (huge range). |
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The interweb seems torn between labelling this place "good value" and labelling it "expensive". It's sort of both; the prices aren't cheap, but the quality is high. The Yoshino zen yuki set menu is perhaps the best bargain, priced at less than a tenner as of March 2010 for a main dish (e.g. fried mackerel) plus tuna carpaccio, tuna roll, seaweed salad, sesame green beans, carrot and potato salad, and pickles. [[Kake]] visited on a Wednesday lunchtime in March 2010. When I arrived around 1:30pm, there were three customers already sitting at the sushi bar, and the upstairs sounded quite busy. I was offered a choice of where to sit, and chose the sushi bar for a bit more peace and quiet. I was tempted by the yuki set menu but decided to splash out on the Yoshino chirashi (£19.80) <small>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/kake_pugh/4462631873/ photo]</small>. This wasn't what I would normally expect of chirashi (a bowl of rice with raw fish etc arranged on top), but rather a nicely presented three-tier bento box containing two starters along with a portion of rice scattered with finely-shredded nori, snow peas, and some kind of leaf vegetable, and finally a selection of seven types of sashimi on a bed of ice. The starters were both interesting and tasty; one consisted of edamame beans tossed with shreds of lightly cooked white fish and goji berries, while the other was based on sweet-and-sour marinated sardines topped with shredded daikon and spring onion. The rice was well-seasoned, and there was obvious care and skill in the shredded vegetables on top. The sashimi was all fresh and well-cut. [[Flick]] has also tried out Yoshino, in Autumn 2006. The menus were terrifying; I'm not sure if it's a traditional way of doing it, but rather than a list of food items they had a series of diagrams showing a plate with (say) three sections on it, then a list of items you could have in each of those three sections. The fish was wonderful, though, as was the sake (huge range). |
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[[Kake]]'s verdict: Liked it a lot. I'm going to come back and try the cheaper set menu. |
They also have a takeaway site, Delicatessen Yoshino, at 59 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 6LF (this used to be in the basement of the [[Japan Centre, W1J 9HX|Japan Centre]]). |
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Accessibility: Toilets and most of the seating are on the first floor, up a flight of stairs with two bends and a handrail most of the way. |
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* [http://www.timeout.com/london/restaurants/venue/2:15429/yoshino Time Out review] * [http://www.squaremeal.co.uk/restaurants/london/view/89778/Yoshino Square Meal entry] * [http://www.london-eating.co.uk/35887.htm London Eating comments] * [http://www.qype.co.uk/place/38476#PlaceReviews Qype comments] |
* [http://www.qype.co.uk/place/38476 Qype comments] |
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<div class="last_verified">Last visited by [[Kake]], March 2010. Opening hours taken from the Yoshino website, March 2010.</div> |
<div class="last_verified">Last visited by [[Flick]], Autumn 2006.</div> |
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Japanese restaurant just off Piccadilly, down a side alley (Piccadilly Place) a little to the west of Le Meridean Hotel. It's only small, so it's worth booking at weekends. It's very traditional and formal, and the sushi is wonderful quality. It's also a bit expensive, even for sushi in London.
The first time Flick visited, the menus were terrifying. I'm not sure if it's a traditional way of doing it, but rather than a list of food items they have a series of diagrams showing a plate with (say) three sections on it, then a list of items that you can have in each of those three sections. The fish is wonderful, though, as is the sake (huge range).
If you fancy a Japanese overdose, try Minamoto Kitchoan for pudding.
They also have a takeaway site, Delicatessen Yoshino, at 59 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 6LF (this used to be in the basement of the Japan Centre).
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Last visited by Flick, Autumn 2006.
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