Machiya

Machiya

Named after the eponymous townhouses that once defined the Kyoto cityscape, Machiya is an all day restaurant and bar serving simple home style cooking alongside unique patisserie inspired by great food halls of Japan.

Open for lunch, afternoon tea and dinner seven days a week, the kitchen serves traditional dishes such as tonkatsu, Japanese curry and teriyaki – all available as a teishoku set meal with homemade miso soup, pickles and premium steamed rice.

Our in house pastry team offer customers an authentic taste of Japanese patisserie, with a focus on premium Uji matcha and seasonal ingredients such as cherry blossom and Yuzu.

http://machi-ya.co.uk

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Tonkatsu, Japanese curry and yakitori are often ignored or done in a horrifically slipshod manner by most Japanese restaurants in the West.

Despite its ostensible focus on cheap and cheerful Japanese comfort food, Machi-ya couldn’t help but offer a far pricier and much smaller version of the pork tonkatsu with wagyu beef in place of pig.

Gyudon is one of those dishes that’s ubiquitous in Japan, to the point that it’s become cheap ¥300-ish fast food in many cities, but is uncommon in London.

Although the latter is an integral part of the dish in Japan, I felt its strident zing detracted from the comforting combo of beef and rice.

Grilled eel with rice, or unagi don, is one of the most expensive dishes on Machi-ya’s menu, alongside the wagyu tonkatsu.

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The menu covers a broad swathe of Japanese styles, including fried panko-crumbed pork with tonkatsu curry; some Gyudon (thinly sliced beef with onsen egg, red ginger, onions, and rice); and Zaru soba, which involves chilled buckwheat noodles with dashi dipping sauce.

The menu is short-but-sweet, with but half a dozen Japanese house cocktails, including the Jigglypuff (which blends Portobello gin, Campari, lemon  vermouth); the umeshi-aided Smokey Negroni; and the tequila-laced Yuzu-Kosho Sour.

And then of course, there’s a long list of Japanese sakes and whiskeys.

NOTE: Machiya is open now.

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Machiya is a Japanese restaurant and bar that's open from lunch to dinner seven days a week.

They take their inspiration from the food halls of Japan and serve authentic dishes, such as tonkatsu, teriyaki and yaitori.

Machiya serves traditional Japanese dishes alongside unique patisserie inspired by great food halls of Japan.

Their kitchen serves dishes such as tonkatsu, Japanese curry, Wagyu Katsu, teriyaki and much more.

Their bar also serves up a selection of Japan’s favourite bar snacks including a wagyu slider, a pop-katsu skewer and a bowl of fiery Machiya hot wings.

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It's the place to try dishes like unajyu, grilled eel with unagi sauce, and omu rice, rice braised in chicken stock and served on a thin omelette – made with Burford Brown eggs.

Head to the downstairs bar for a pre- (or post-) prandial tipple, where you can watch the barman magically sculpt you a perfectly spherical ice cube from a giant block of ice.

Oh, and don't forget to come back after dinner for a excellent selection of Japanese whiskies.

Having acquainted ourselves with the cocktails pretty early on, we kicked things off with a selection of izakaya, small plates designed for grazing while you drink.

As for dessert, the matcha soft-serve ice cream proved irresistible – but fans can opt for everything from matcha roll cake to fondant, all in that brilliant jade hue.

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Ambience: Bright and light, Machiya is a small restaurant with a café-like feel and a busy open kitchen at the back, surrounded by high stools.

Machiya is really excelling at offering just a handful of well-made Japanese dishes that are rarely found in London so we made a point to order these.

The ‘tonkatsu’ is excellent value at £9; the large breaded pork cutlet is served with a little shredded cabbage, a slice of lemon, mustard and brown sauce, and comes with rice.

Machiya needs to stick to a short menu of well-prepared dishes that are rare to find in London.

Prices: Machiya offers a short, affordable menu with the most expensive dishes being the unajyu at £17 and wagyu at £19.

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Little sister of legendary ramen palace Kanada-Ya, newly opened Machiya brings home-style Japanese cooking to Soho.

Taking its name from the traditional wooden townhouses of Kyoto, the 23-cover restaurant offers simple wooden furnishings and is surprisingly bright and airy considering its tiny size.

The Zaru Soba, though elevated by a tasty dashi dipping sauce aren’t big on flavour and, coiled together in an impossible buckwheat tangle, are perhaps more trouble than they’re worth  – try the omurice instead.

The immense disappointment of missing out on Machiya’s star attraction – the gyukatsu, (rare panko-crusted wagyu steak, finished off at the table on a tiny charcoal grill ) – left a sour taste in our mouths that even the plump and juicy breadcrumbed pork tonkatsu, which was undoubtedly delicious, could not erase.

Be sure to try the Salvatore’s Gimlet, a fresh and summery tipple made with Gin, cucumber, lime, yellow chartreuse and scorched rosemary and the Kawaii Ne a zingy little sour with sake, lychee peach liqueur, yuzu juice and yuzu foam.

Machiya | Restaurants in Soho, London

‘Machiya’ is the Japanese word for a traditional wooden townhouse – which sums things up rather nicely.

A restaurant from the people behind award-winning tonkotsu specialist Kanada-Ya, the remit here is Japanese home-cooking; the kind you imagine might be served in a traditional wooden Japanese townhouse.

First up was a transparent tofu custard, that looked like jelly but tasted sweet and creamy.

A side of baked sweet potato drizzled with lime butter was a less successful taste adventure (so wet and so sharp!)

But it’s the noodles and the tofu custard that have stuck in my mind.