Asakusa

Asakusa restaurant is widely recognised for serving best Japanese dishes. High quality meat, tastes lovely, friendly staff, quick service and nice ambience.

Asakusa London

Asakusa (a name of a district in Taitō, Tokyo) restaurant is widely recognised for serving up best Japanese food in Camden Town, London.

The restaurant offers a wide selection of sushi, sashimi and set meals.

High quality meat, tastes lovely  friendly staff, quick service and nice ambience.

The restaurant is smallish and cosy form inside separated into two levels with lovely Japanese touches in the decor.

You will find the place welcoming and warm as the staff are friendly and happy to help…

http://asakusa.co.uk

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Thirdly, my experiences of Japanese food in London, and sushi in particular, has veered between "not bad" and "pretty awful", and there's only so many overhyped, overpriced and overcrowded sushi joints you can visit without eventually coming to the conclusion that London just can't do this stuff very well.

A fan of superbly-timed and tender beef fillet came with a selection of toppings (ginger, garlic, tomato) and a sharp dipping sauce, and a scallop sashimi was attractively presented in a half-shell and was very fresh.

And as if all that food wasn't enough, a large plate of more standard sushi arrived, including some shiitake mushroom rolls and nigiri which we struggled to finish.

Here at Asakusa, our bill, including a large sake and bottomless green tea, came to just under £60 - an absolute steal, and although the surroundings and atmosphere leave a little to be desired in relation to places like Roka, the cheeriness of the staff and the level of service never faltered.

Asakusa is a gem of a restaurant, and I promise never to write off Japanese food in London ever again.

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Similarly, the tongue failed to lift the senses, it was tough, rubbery, overcooked, bovine but boring Aside from the visual splendour, a little arresting at first, the squid was a yawn, underseasoned, dry and overcooked.

A spike of wasabi nestled between fish and rice, I noted the beauty of the filleted salmon, of how it cuddled the dollop of rice it came it – the mark of a skilled Itamae.

In the end, I felt ambivalent about Asakusa, the better half felt worse, she vowed never to return to this restaurant again.

Despite the reservations, I think Asakusa has a homey feel about it, food feels like it had been prepared by a kitchen run by an army of housewives, imbuing every dish with a dollop of love as it flies out of the kitchen.

You know, I used to love going to Sakura (ruder, cleaner and central) and I think Asakusa falls in the same genre of affordable, simple, well-cooked, comforting Japanese food, but with a trump card: Perhaps the best Oyakodon, £6.50 can buy in London.

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Zuma is a high end Japanese sushi restaurant and grill that is decked out in a natural and yet modern design on the interior.

This Japanese restaurant features fancy Japanese food in a very formal setting.

Roka is another expensive Japanese restaurant though it is not as expensive as Zuma the prices still are up there.

Though this restaurant offers many of the same kinds of foods as the other Japanese restaurants in the local, Jin Kichi is known for putting their twist on traditional dishes.

Kiraku is a very interesting and you guessed it— traditional authentic Japanese restaurant that has a set menu of both lunches and evening meals which is one of the main things that sets this restaurant apart.

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Asakusa Restaurant, 265 Eversholt Street, Camden, London, NW1 ...

Our neighbours ordered their food, and ten minutes later it began to arrive for them.

By this point we had recieved our beer and our miso soup, so nothing that requires more than removing from a fridge or a vat.Forty five minutes after we had initially ordered, we finally gave in and asked where our food was.

The waitress said she didn't know, and ten minutes later it turned up at our table.

Neither dish was very complicated, so this wait was by no means reasonable.We had to wolf down our food as we had been told that we had to be out of the restaurant by 9.30, and it was 9.10 by now.

My tonkatsu was adequate, but it's a very hard dish to get wrong, as was my partner's beef shogayaki.The big sting came when the bill arrived (about 20 minutes after asking for it).

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The menu runs the gamut of skewers, homely stews (nabe), tempura and all manner of other dishes, on top of the raw fish and rice combo.

For saké novices, there’s also a three-cup tasting menu to ease you in.

A dish of simmered bamboo shoots was redolent of earthy katsuobushi (smoked, dried bonito flakes), while the cold udon noodles with tempura and a soy-based dipping sauce had just the right amount of bite.

From the list of specials, the raw shredded squid with kimchi was slightly disappointing – tasting under-fermented and a little bitter.

Asakusa may not be the best Japanese restaurant in town, but the range is good and the service friendly, so an evening spent here will never be wasted.