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  • Telephone: 020 7430 1888
  • Address: 50 Kingsway, WC2B 6EP (streetmap) (osm) (gmap) (bingmap) (streetview)
  • Opening Hours: noon-3pm, 6pm-11pm Mon-Fri; 5pm-11pm Sat; 5pm-10pm Sun

Conveyor belt sushi place on Kingsway in Holborn. It's actually Korean-run, rather than Japanese.

Kake and doop visited on a Thursday evening in April 2008. The food wasn't precisely awful, but on the strength of this visit Kake at least wouldn't hurry back.

The tobiko gunkanmaki (flying fish eggs in battleship-style sushi) was the only thing that actually tasted wrong; the tobiko was rather acrid-tasting, and definitely unpleasant. I ate one piece and left the other - and note that the staff didn't bother asking if there was anything wrong with it when they came to clear our dishes. Everything else was just a bit "meh". The pieces of fish on the nigiri and particularly the sashimi were too big to eat comfortably. Nothing was delicious. The soju (Korean sake, £12/350ml bottle) was pretty rough too. We ended up paying £18/head exclusive of alcohol, for a total of 12 plates.

On the positive side, a couple of the reviews linked below are quite keen on the "al bap" dish, which is something like Korean bibimbap, and sounds worth a try - you order it from the menu, don't expect to see it on the conveyor belt. Plus, they were quite happy to bring us tap water.

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Last visited by Kake and doop, 24 April 2008. Opening hours taken from the Sushi Hiroba website, April 2008.

Comment added by Dave Hodgkinson: I went a couple of years ago and it was excellent. I hope it was an off night you had.

OS X co-ord: 530605 OS Y co-ord: 181363 (Latitude: 51.515591 Longitude: -0.117530)
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