Ginza Japanese Restaurant

We have been going to this restaurant regularly since my daughter was a baby (she's now 4). It is a real unexpected gem, located in a very ordinary looking street.

The staff are very kind and friendly, and the food is really good (my husband lived in Tokyo for 10 years and me for 2). The sushi is fresh, the gyoza are the best I've had in London, and it is a really nice alternative to the chain restaurants.

Oh, and they have my favourite, hard to track down drink from my Tokyo days - plum wine!

We like to go on Sundays especially for the buffet.
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9 Overall rating
Food 9 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 8
Sunday, September 30, 2012

i was quite a regular customer in ginza till recently, i found the quantity of food has decreased yet the prices still rises. the food there is still quite good but what gets me is that everytime i go there the food just keeps getting smaller and smaller. the buffet which is on sunday is pricey for the area about £20perhead. in london you can probably get a better deal with more variety. buffet consist of sashimi:salmon , nigri: egg, salmon,squid, crab stick, prawn, prawn tempura and a little bit more variety. and what was the green tea ice cream in a cup has now become a single SCOOP of green tea ice cream in a martini glass with a bit of whip cream which they are trying to charge £4 i mean seriously im not very impressed!. this place has really been cutting back but come on this is just daft. it can be pricey and for someone like me that can eat alot my bill can come to £45 per head if im pigging out. and way too many people go there and it can get VERY LOUD, i dont want to be bumping into people i try to avoid nor do i want to over hear someones conversation.
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6 Overall rating
Food 7 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 5
Saturday, June 18, 2011

I have been visiting this restaurant twice last summer for the Sunday buffet dinner and it offered a real alternative to the conveyer belt sushi restaurant and not bad value with a good selection with semi authentic Japanese food.

Went yesterday and it seems like entering another restaurant altogether, the staff was no longer responsive (need to ask for a green tea top up), not serving with a smile, the Hong Kong owner was no longer there, we booked the table specifying two adults + baby and got bench-seat table which was next to useless, having to harness my 18 month old all the time as the high chair broken. The food quality was much worse than before, especially the sushi and sashimi - did not taste fresh at all, the fried oyster was cold. Worst thing is that they stop replenishing the sashimi after 8 pm, that was the final straw for me.

It seems the place changed hands some time last year and the cost cutting mentality clearly shine through yesterday, which is a shame. Don't think I'll go there again in a hurry.
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2 Overall rating
Food 2 | Service 2 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 2
Monday, April 25, 2011