Kumo

Excellent night out at Kumo Knightsbridge, with Groupon voucher. Friendly & helpful staff who welcomed us at the bar. Kumo is a loungebar type of place. We had some great cocktails, well done to the bartender !!! Food is exquisite; small fingerfood portions ideal for sharing. The squid was dilightful. We had a great time, thank you.
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Henk Verhoek
9 Overall rating
Food 9 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 7
Saturday, January 28, 2012

visited kumo on a recomendation from a friend, didnt know what to expect of it but i must say i was pleased to have made the trip down, the atmosphere was great, staff were nice and helpfull food was excellent ans fresh specially the fried soft shell crab and Californian roll, i must say i am fussy of what i east and drink and i was very pleased with kumo, cocktails were amazing the persian kiss is one the best cocktails i have tasted, over all 10/10
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sean
10 Overall rating
Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 9
Monday, January 09, 2012

Start to finish Kumo failed to provide the experience that I was expecting. After arriving promptly for our booking at 8pm we were assured that our table was being prepared and would be seated in the next 5 minutes....40 minutes later still perched at the bar watching the staff laugh and joke amongst themselves. At 8:45 we were seated and our order was taken, no surprise here but the set sushi platter arrived at 9:15...we had come to expect a wait by this point! The sushi was very good but the platter was more suitable for a couple than 4, after questioning the portion size we were met with hostility and denial that there was anything wrong with the food and the night as a whole.

I would not be paid to go back to Kumo, that is 2 hours of my life I am not getting back.
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3 Overall rating
Food 6 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 1
Thursday, November 10, 2011

Bought a Groupon for 2.

Total rip off.

The sushi plate was tiny, max for 1 person.

The drinks were very expensive.

Totally not worth the value.

Would never go back.
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Ana
2 Overall rating
Food 2 | Service 2 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 0
Thursday, September 15, 2011

We bought the offer for 4ppl from Groupon to eat at Kumo. Its for sushi platter and desert for 4ppl. This place is more like a bar than restaurant. Its very small and don't look like a japanese place. We booked a table and still have to wait 15 mins. We got our table but infact it's a small coffee table. This apply to all people there. No wonder Kumo don't show any pic of their eat-in area. Service was slow. We had the sushi platter arrive and it's clearly for 3ppl instead of 4. Everything are 3 lots. Food just an average. The desert is not from the menu. Fixed and tiny. Certainly the whole lot doesn't worth £64 they charge, if no special offer from elsewhere. The drink is a rip off and again taste avg. A lot of us go there with the same offer and can clearly see that none of them enjoyed. Be noted the 15% SC on everything. Not recommended and would not go there again.
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Will-T
1 Overall rating
Food 1 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 1 | Value for money 0
Saturday, September 03, 2011

im very fussy to where to eat and where to drink, but i have to mentioned, this place is awesome, very delicious cocktail, amazing sushi, and friendly staff, the design inside the was very eye catching, I will visit there very soon,
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jackey
9 Overall rating
Food 8 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Saturday, September 03, 2011

If I wanted to eat off my lap then I would have stayed at home in front of the tele.

This place is a complete joke - we had a booking at 8pm but as the entire restaurant (and I say that in the loosest sense of the word) were sharing 1 menu, we had to wait until three other groups had finished reading it before the red wine and food stained article was passed down to us.

In terms of atmosphere - there is none and the knee height stools and coffee tables ensures you have an uncomfortable evening. The toilets are an after thought with a plastic partition at the end of the alcove. Luckily they are incredibly dark to ensure you can not be seen through the shoody partition.

When the food did come out, it was ok. If it were bar snacks, which is how it felt, it would have been excellent. The fact that they position themselves as a restaurant and are clearly not, unfortunately taints the quality of the food.

The drinks are obviously how this bar survives. A bottle of beer costs £5 and cocktails are £10+.

Regardless to say, we wouldn't go back.
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2 Overall rating
Food 6 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 0 | Value for money 0
Friday, August 19, 2011

Lets make this clear, this is a bar, not a restaurant. Its a bar with a side area tacked on with "tables". If your looking for a trendy place for (expenive) drinks you've come to the right place. There's a large selection of cocktails costing roughly £8 - £10 each.

If you are looking for a comfortable dinning experience, go elsewhere. The tables are small tea/coffee tables at knee height, and the seats are padded stools on one side with padded benches on the other side. As the tables are low, this means you have to hunch over to eat your food, hardly enjoyable. You also have to be careful to not spill your drink, knock dishes over since the table is so small.

Quality of food wise its pretty good. The soft shell crab and salad beef dishes are well prepared, full of flavour and memorable. Problem is, the portions are way too small. Unless you are a smurf, the portions are tiny. We ordered 5 dishes between the 2 of us, but the quantity was actually just for one. I would class these "main" dishes as starter size. At roughly £10 a dish, we decided to finish up and go elsewhere for desert.

To sum up, come here to drink only.
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food lover
5 Overall rating
Food 7 | Service 7 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 1
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

In a snapshot: more of a cocktail bar than a restaurant. Don't come here if you like or are expecting decent Japanese cuisine or a reasonable amount of table space.

The fact that, on first impressions, the tables in Kumo are roughly the size of a thumb, does signal ominously of things to come..

Me and my friend booked a dinner reservation using a £20-for £50 voucher. We were immediately asked to produce it and treated as such (i.e as non full price paying customers). We ordered scallops, king prawns in miso sauce, as well as the skewered monkfish. Cocktails were about £12 each so we chose not to go for them. The place is known for cocktails so I can only presume they must be excellent to make up for the incredibly lacklustre food. We were also struggling a bit with the tiny table. The functionality of such tables in general is dubious, let alone for an eating establishment- it is plain bewildering why they would choose such furniture.

The king prawns were miniscule, the monkfish was full of bones and rather chewy and underwhelming. Even the rice we ordered as accompaniment was a tad overcooked and too wet. The only highlight was the scallops, which were rather delicious.

The service was a tad snobbish but passable. I would not recommend eating here as, if we had to pay full price we would have been both severely dissatisfied as well as puzzled by the poor quality of food for such a price range. You are better off having a more "authentic" Japanese dining experience with Tesco sushi.

The bill took ages to come, despite the fact that there weren't that many tables filled. They weren't serving dessert on the day either. A final note- they don't even serve green tea here. Enough said.
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1 Overall rating
Food 1 | Service 3 | Atmosphere 0 | Value for money 0
Thursday, June 09, 2011

Tables too small and uncomforatble seating. The food was not bad but way too small for a meal. More like mini starter portions. Not a restaurant but a cocktail bar - Identity should be changed to avoid confusion to customers.
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foodie
4 Overall rating
Food 6 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 0
Thursday, June 02, 2011