Sexy Fish

Sexy Fish is an Asian seafood and sushi restaurant with a late night bar and Private Dining Room located on Berkeley Square, Mayfair, London.

Sexy Fish | Asian Restaurant, London Mayfair

Sexy Fish is an Asian restaurant and bar located on the corner of Berkeley Square, Mayfair serving Japanese-inspired sushi, sashimi, seafood, fish and meat cooked on a Robata grill.

The restaurant and bar are open seven days a week, with a resident DJ from Wednesday through Saturday.

A private dining space, The Coral Reef Room, is located on the lower ground floor and houses two of the largest live coral reef tanks in the world.

The bar, which is open until late, holds one of the world’s biggest Japanese whisky collections, as well as offering a drinks menu featuring both classic and inventive cocktails.

https://www.sexyfish.com

Sexy Fish Restaurant Review - The Bon Vivant Journal

Not content with already having some of London’s best restaurants as part of the family, (The Ivy, Scott’s, 34…) Caprice Holdings has recently launched London’s latest hotspot on Berkeley Square: Sexy Fish.

Sexy Fish is a pan-Asian restaurant that specialises in Fish and Seafood, both on and off the menu.

Frank Gehry fish lamps hover over the bar; Damien Hirst designed bronze-cast mermaids with blue patina sit on either corner of the bar; and a Frank Gehry designed 13 ft crocodile dominates the back wall of the restaurant.

Due to an unfortunate accident in the kitchen, some of the items were off menu (kudos to the fabulous staff for dealing with what must have been a nightmare so efficiently and professionally), but I’ll be back to try the rock lobster and prawn tempura dishes.

Sexy Fish won’t be to everyone’s taste – the extravagant interior is a real feast for the senses – but for those wanting a fun night out in glamorous surroundings enjoying excellent pan-Asian cuisine, there’s nowhere better than Sexy Fish right now.

Sexy Fish restaurant review: Richard Caring's seafood menu in ...

Damien Hirst has created some sexy fish especially for Sexy Fish in the form of a rather revolting bronze relief of a mermaid swimming with a shark.

I, on the other hand, was led into this flamboyant Willy Wonka’s fish restaurant, offered a drink at the semi-aquatic bar before being led into the gloom of the dining room.

You might assume that Sexy Fish’s raison d’être would be convincing people to take pictures of their dinner to stick on Instagram, but you’d be wrong.

The unwieldy menu is split into various sections: oysters, small dishes, caviar, tempura, cold dishes, hot dishes, skewers (“don’t forget the skewers,” advised the waiter), market fish, robata (a Japanese charcoal grill) and vegetable dishes.

Two divine maple-glazed pork-belly skewers with a yuzu-ranch dip – an unexpected highlight, substantial enough to qualify as a “small dish” but only costing £4.50, which is a rare bargain.

Sexy Fish Restaurant Review - Decanter

Obviously we couldn’t resist the Sexy Fish Rolls, a fresh-tasting assembly of raw tuna and crunchy vegetables reminiscent of Vietnamese summer rolls.

On the debit side miso-glazed Chilean seabass (at a hefty £30) was carelessly filleted with lethally large bones lurking in every bite which might give rise to a few expensive court cases, the duck in the crisp duck salad was a bit stringy and tempura is definitely better applied to other vegetables than sprouts.

A couple of glasses of sake (a Akashi-Tai’s Honjozo, £9 each) in my case, a glass of Meulenhof’s Devon-Schiefer Riesling 2013 (£12.50) and Bodega Colomé’s Torrontés 2014 (£9.50) in my friend’s.

There’s 10 fine wines served by Coravin (from Château-Grillet 2007 at £37 for 125ml) to and a list of first growths climaxing in a 1982 Latour (£5,800) – a wine you feel wouldn’t be remotely flattered by the food.

The length of time allotted for lunch – a generous three hours if you book at two – gave us plenty of time to get to know our neighbours.

Sexy Fish: 'I've found my perfect plaice' | London Evening Standard

No one, it stands to reason, forgets a baby called Bang, Buzz or Thump, in the same way no one has overlooked the news that Caprice Holdings (owner of The Ivy, Le Caprice, J Sheekey) has given birth to a cavernous, opulent, 190-cover, Damien Hirst-titivated, aquatic-themed robata and raw fish Berkeley Square restaurant and called it Sexy Fish.

And the more discombobulated I’ve watched London foodies become at the raffishness of Sexy Fish, the more I’ve admired Richard Caring of Caprice Holdings for his clear intention to pee all over Chiltern’s Firehouse’s flames.

In fact, by the time I popped by Sexy Fish last week for Brussels sprouts tempura and smoked Japanese sausages, everyone I knew had an opinion on this restaurant without so much as clapping eyes on its handsome, beret-clad doormen.

I couldn’t stay for pudding, which upset the staff so they sent me home with some raspberry-scented chocolate fake fishtank pebbles on a bed of sugar sand in a fish-shaped box.

I am all about OTT London nightlife and in Sexy Fish I’ve found my perfect plaice.

Sexy Fish, London W1: 'The food? It's entirely forgettable ...

When I tell the pal we’re going to Sexy Fish, she says, “Funny, nobody talks about getting crabs any more.”

The nearest comparison I can dredge up is dodgy-new-money magnet Macau, where my hotel looked like a giant illuminated pineapple and an emerald of untold value languished in the lobby.

Like the practice of double-wristing watches that each cost as much as a suburban semi, Sexy Fish is designed to shriek: “Look at me!

We’re told Sexy Fish cost £20m.

• Sexy Fish Berkeley Square House, Berkeley Square, London W1, 020-3764 2000.