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Jidori, Dalston, restaurant review - View-a skewer - East End Review

Walking by on Kingsland Road, I couldn’t discern the cuisine, but the warm, soft lighting beckoned, and through the glass pane I could see the tables were full, with pairs of casual diners chatting at the wooden bar, the whole dining space framed by blue-grey walls lined with crockery and plants.

Redman has opened several popular places in London, of which I’ve only been to the Pavilion café in Victoria Park, a very different type of venue but again, one that knows its market very well.

Whereas the Pavilion serves free-range breakfasts and craft beer, the vision for Jidori is yakitori – a casual type of Japanese cuisine centred on chicken skewers, cooked on a charcoal grill and washed down with copious amounts of booze.

Although there are nice vegetarian highlights, I wouldn’t recommend eating at Jidori if chicken isn’t your thing.

Chicken thigh and spring onion; aubergine and miso butter; chicken hearts and bacon; king oyster mushroom; and tsukune: minced chicken on skewer (think the consistency of kofte), dipped in raw egg yolk.

Jidori review – Dalston yakitori | The Picky Glutton

Somewhat ironically for a yakitori joint, the highlight of my first meal at Jidori wasn’t a skewer of meat but the dessert.

Minced chicken and egg yolk sounds like an abattoir mishap, but these meaty chicken mini-koftes were one of the best yakitori at Jidori.

The singular dessert of ginger ice cream, miso caramel, sweet potato crisps and black sesame seeds was just as startlingly brilliant as it was before.

In a better, more flexible version of London’s dining scene, you could start off your evening at Jidori with some minced chicken and egg yolk, some hearts and bacon and the ginger ice cream before moving on elsewhere tapas-style.

What to order: Hearts and bacon; Minced chicken and yolk; Aubergine and miso butter; Udon; Chicken broth; Onsen egg; Ginger ice cream Average cost for one person including soft drinks and service charge: £30-40 approx.

Jidori Covent Garden | London Restaurant Reviews | DesignMyNight

Popular East London spot Jidori is opening a second restaurant on Catherine Street in Covent Garden.

The Japanese restaurant is known for their yakitori dishes, a type of meat skewer that is cooked over a charcoal grill for a smokey taste.

To create an authentic flavour, the restaurant has paired with Kama-Asa Shoten, grill makers from Tokyo with more than 100 years experience.

As well as old favourites, the second venue will have a range of new small plates and larger dishes made from free-range and seasonal ingredients where possible.

Expect dishes such as katsu curry scotch egg, ginger ice cream and pumpkin tempura.

Jidori | East London | Restaurant Reviews | Hot Dinners

Chef Brett Redman (from Elliot's and The Richmond) is set to open a new Japanese yakitori restaurant in Dalston.

The restaurant draws upon the rich tradition of Tokyo yakitori joints, bringing this hugely popular variety of Japanese street food to east London.

Restaurant details Address: 89 Kingsland High Street, London E8 2PB Telephone number: 0207 686 5634 Nearest station: Dalston Junction station Opening times: Monday - Thursday 6pm - 11pm Friday - Saturday 6pm - 12am   More info View restaurant website   DrivingBicyclingTransitWalking   Critic reviews - total score 6 out of 10 Fay Maschler Evening Standard Reviewed on December 16, 2015 "...I am controversially announcing right now as My Dessert of the Year — ginger ice cream with miso caramel, sweet potato crisps and black sesame" READ REVIEW

Fay Maschler reviews Jidori: I've found My Dessert of the Year ...

After the Vietnamese restaurants run out, located demurely and stylishly in what was previously a bridal wear shop is now Brett Redman and Natalie Lee-Joe’s yakitori restaurant Jidori.

For London, the menu notes, it is specifically Goosnargh chicken bought directly from Swainson House Farm in Lancashire.

Practically all the bits and pieces are either skewered and cooked on a grill imported from Kama-Asa in Tokyo over charcoal similar to binchotan, used in broth, or minced to make tsukune to dip into a sauce of egg yolk, soy and the coating for katsu curry scotch egg.

Having particularly appreciated mackerel tartare wrapped in lettuce lined with a shiso leaf served with young ginger and mandarin ponzu; thigh pieces with spring onion; wing with shiso and grilled lemon; spinach ohitashi (blanched leaves steeped in dashi); aubergine and miso butter and what I am controversially announcing right now as My Dessert of the Year — ginger ice cream with miso caramel, sweet potato crisps and black sesame — I am more than willing to believe that Jidori is as fine as some of the Memory Lane yakitori joints in Shinjuku, as the publicity claims.

In London we have a lot to thank Australian chefs for.

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We’ve all done it: had two too many beers and found ourselves wiping the chicken grease from our lips, regretting the wings even as we stuff them in.

Jidori, the new yakitori restaurant from Brett Redman has taken izakaya cooking and put it front and centre.

‘Yakitori’ literally translates as ‘fry chicken’ but there’s nothing Dixie about it.

Each skewer is very different; the wing with shiso and lemon was crisp, pleasantly sweet and a little sharp.

There’s also a nice twist on English pub grub with a katsu curry scotch egg – the yolk runny, the coating crisp, the meat juicy: it was great.