Brixton, Japanese Restaurant Guide

2022 Review: “Sink your teeth in and savour!” the “bold flavours” of former MasterChef winner Tim Anderson’s take on Japanese cooking using foreign or ‘barbarian’ (Nanban) ingredients, showcased in his “fast and furious” 10-year-old pop-up-gone-permanent on the edge of Brixton Market. “Their noodle dishes became a lockdown delivery staple, packed with flavour, a wonderful smoky depth to the tea eggs, heart-warming broths”. A new Covent Garden offshoot opened in September 2021 at Kerb’s Seven Dials Market, focused on ramen dishes.

This “really impressive” two-year-old from Aidan Bryan & Tom Blackshaw in Brixton’s former Bon Marché department store is a “catch-all Japanese restaurant delivering high-quality, tasty dishes” that are “quirky, in a good way”: “while not the most authentic sushi for the purists” – the clue is in the name – “it’s definitely worth a visit”.