UNI Restaurant

UNI restaurant brings vibrant flavours and colourful food from Peruvian and Japanese cuisine, with a breadth of expertise in their expert team.

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With a breadth of expertise and knowledge, our team is here to enrich your Nikkei experience.

Our stylish open kitchen and restaurant design means that you can interact with the chef and team – discover how to roll the ultimate Maki or about the intricacies of sake pairing.

http://www.restaurantuni.com

Bitten&Written | Restaurant Review | UNI, Ebury St, Knightsbridge

These little swines bring uni, rice and seaweed into a one bite morsel that will please fans of this faintly bizarre, spiky shelled sea creature.

Very good.MISO BLACK COD (�22) � Almost a naff clich� in itself to order black cod anywhere, since it has been Nobu-fied to buggery, and chowed to oblivion by the A listers in Park Lane and Berkeley Square, by Posh and Becks, by TOWIE and friends, and probably the knee jerk choice of every Russian oligarch looking to impress his stick insect of a hooker.

So I'm told...A cute, short, fascist wine list that is a personal selection from bar manager Rafael, not trying to cover bases or categories, just listing wines he likes.

Salmon tacos, UNI maki, tempura, Dragon roll, Verdejo...Let's consider the evidence....1) The bling upstairs2) The Marbella/Marrakech loaded hotel owners3) The genius 'tacos'4) The 'dick swinging' wagyu items5) The sharp, taut, well chosen wine list6) The caviar martini7) The compulsory black cod entry8) The option to translate the website into Russian9) The effervescent bar manager, Rafael S�nchez S�nchez,so good they named him twice.Yes, it feels a bit Euro Chic ('Smooth Operator' chimes away), yes it's a bit Miami Vice upstairs (roll up those sleeves), but somehow I'm charmed and keep returning.

Those salmon tacos...What kind of a restaurant concept lives in a house like this?

Uni Restaurant, Elegant Setting for Nikkei Cuisine on Ebury Street

I dropped by for a Friday night graze of ex-Nobu Chef Rolando Ongcoy’s menu a few weeks back and was pleased to have done so.

Spread over two attractive floors with marble and leather design elements, the restaurant exuded an upscale elegance with the causal air of a beloved neighbourhood haunt, ideal for sampling the range of Ongcoy’s Pacific inspired creations.

My favourite dish?

Hmm … tough call but I loved the salmon tacos (salmon tartare, cucumber, tomato, masago and creamy miso, £2.90 each).

Rock shrimp tempura (with creamy spicy mayo and ponzu dressing, £12.50) and miso black cod (anticucho sauce, £22) were key highlights from an array of dishes, none of which failed to please.

Michael Deacon on Uni, London: 'the prawn gyoza dumplings tasted ...

Muzak (I prefer the term that I think my wife coined, 'generica’) was burbling continually in the background at this week’s restaurant, Uni in London.

Personally, I’m not that bothered by it, at least in shops – but I do wonder about its use in restaurants.

'This is  a restaurant,’ it implies, 'for people who are hopelessly inadequate conversationalists.

'Uni’, pronounced 'ooh-nee’, is the Japanese word for sea urchin, and the food served is called Nikkei, a fusion of Japanese and Peruvian.

(There’s been a large Japanese community in Peru since the 19th century; about 160,000 Peruvians are of Japanese descent.)

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With a breadth of expertise and knowledge, our team is here to enrich your Nikkei experience.

Our stylish open kitchen and restaurant design means that you can interact with the chef and team – discover how to roll the ultimate Maki or about the intricacies of sake pairing.

A Japanese-Peruvian Fusion at UNI Belgravia, Restaurant Review

Last weekend I scored major brownie points by treating my friend to a slap up meal at Belgravia’s new Japanese Peruvian Fusion restaurant; UNI.

The layout of the restaurant is very cool with a sushi bar on the top floor (great for a quick lunch or solo diners) and a restaurant area downstairs (ideal for intimate dinners).

He also explained that he had prepared a tasting menu for us with all of the restaurants most popular dishes.

This dish is a hallmark in any Japanese restaurant, and UNI didn’t disappoint.

Disclaimer: this meal was provided complimentary by UNI Restaurant and arranged by Sadler & Co PR in exchange for a review post.

Michael Deacon on Uni, London: 'the prawn gyoza dumplings tasted ...

Muzak (I prefer the term that I think my wife coined, 'generica’) was burbling continually in the background at this week’s restaurant, Uni in London.

Personally, I’m not that bothered by it, at least in shops – but I do wonder about its use in restaurants.

'This is  a restaurant,’ it implies, 'for people who are hopelessly inadequate conversationalists.

'Uni’, pronounced 'ooh-nee’, is the Japanese word for sea urchin, and the food served is called Nikkei, a fusion of Japanese and Peruvian.

(There’s been a large Japanese community in Peru since the 19th century; about 160,000 Peruvians are of Japanese descent.)

Uni | Restaurants in Belgravia, London

A uni isn’t just somewhere you take a course in medieval literature and/or get drunk on a Monday afternoon – this uni (pronounced ‘oo-ni’) is Japanese for ‘sea urchin’.

But before you start brushing up on your Nihongo, take note: Uni serves nikkei (a fusion cuisine named after the large community of Peruvians with Japanese heritage) and the staff all speak Español.

An exquisite seabass ceviche saw morsels of translucent fish, flecks of coriander and spot-on kick from the amarillo (a common Peruvian yellow chilli), all served over wafer-thin slivers of lime.

Dainty salmon ‘tacos’ (served in crispy wonton shells) and a bowl of rock shrimp tempura scattered with strands of dried red aji (another Peruvian pepper), were equally polished.

You can play it safe with traditional and modern sushi, or try the signature sea urchin roe, scooped and served raw.