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After eight years in Long Row West has moved into larger new city centre premises in Enfield Chambers, down an alleyway off Low Pavement.

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Summary

£57
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4
Very Good
4
Very Good
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

This “buzzy” darling of the Nottingham food scene has built up a huge army of fans since its 2018 opening thanks to its “exceptional” and “reasonably priced small plates with a Japanese influence”. The one bugbear was getting a table at this previously compact 33-seater, but in September 2024, they decamped from Cannon Court to a new location ten minutes away on Low Pavement, with Yokocho, the restaurant’s sister cocktail bar, also joining the party; here’s “hoping that they can maintain the standard” in the new premises! Top Menu Tips – “brilliant sushi” and “out-of-this world Prawn Toast!”

Summary

£57
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5
Exceptional
3
Good
3
Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“Everything is exquisitely conceived and executed… not to mention supremely tasty!” at this “unique and creative” Japanese-inspired destination (which received a boost in October 2022 when Jay Rayner of The Observer declared it his ‘restaurant of the year’). “Hidden down a backstreet”, “the compact (hard to get a booking) cool dining room is a surprise discovery after the unprepossessing external building” but “while it may be small it produces the best food”: “delicious tapas-style Japanese dishes, each one tastier than the last” (“we get everything on the menu because it’s too hard to choose!)”. It was the most commented-on venue in the city this year in our annual diners’ poll.

Summary

£39
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5
Exceptional
3
Good
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Good
* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“Amazing Japanese tapas, packed full of flavour” are served at this “unique and creative” five-year-old which started out as a supper club. These days it “rivals places charging twice the amount” – and it’s “where all the top chefs go on their day off”. Jay Rayner of The Observer visited in October 2022 after a tip-off from a Nottingham-based pal, and declared it his “restaurant of the year”.

For 33 years we've been curating reviews of the UK's most notable restaurant. In a typical year, diners submit over 50,000 reviews to create the most authoritative restaurant guide in the UK. Each year, the guide is re-written from scratch based on this survey (although for the 2021 edition, reviews are little changed from 2020 as no survey could run for that year).

Have you eaten at Kushi-ya?

1A Cannon Court, Long Row West, Nottingham, NG1 6JE

What the Newspaper Critics are saying

The Daily Telegraph

William Sitwell painted an apocalyptically bleak picture of a city centre all-but deserted save for a smattering of vape shops and nail bars, redeemed dramatically by a Japanese izakaya run by Brits.

Every mouthful he ate was good, but the joint’s real greatness was shown in two dishes: prawn katsu sando was “a lavish mix of flavour-bomb and wit” – “a creation that would sweep the board, year after year, at the global Fish Finger Sandwich of the Year Awards”. Almost its equal for both flavour and wit was a pud, “tira-miso, which, honestly, knocks any Italian number out of the park. Rich and fluffy, it has everything a great tiramisu might but with the miso giving it the subtlest hint of saltiness”. 

Forget Robin Hood: for William, “Kushi-Ya is nothing less than the saviour of Nottingham.”

William Sitwell - 2024-11-10

Prices

Starter Main Veggies Pudding
£5.50 £12.50 £8.80 £0.00
Drinks  
Wine per bottle £30.00
Filter Coffee £3.00
Extras  
Bread £6.00
Service 12.50%
1A Cannon Court, Long Row West, Nottingham, NG1 6JE
Opening hours
MondayCLOSED
TuesdayCLOSED
Wednesday12 pm‑2 pm, 5 pm‑10 pm
Thursday12 pm‑2 pm, 5 pm‑10 pm
Friday12 pm‑2 pm, 5 pm‑10 pm
Saturday12 pm‑3 pm, 5 pm‑10 pm
SundayCLOSED

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