Wagamama (Bank St)

This particular Wagagama at Canary Wharf has food quality issues. I have been there a couple of times on the weekends and the food has not been as good as Wagamama's other branches. (Another reviewer said the same sort of thing). The food has got better since my last visit but it is still not perfect....

The service is good and can't fault it....
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R. - View all reviews by this user
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Food 6 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 7
Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Unlike the last commentor, I have seenJapanese people eating at this restaurant. I know that oriental people only eat here for the convenience, and let us not patronise the "Westerners" who eat here regularly - people around Canary Wharf know their food (on the whole)!

Wagamama is slightly overpriced for what it is, agreed, and my regular 42 from the menu can be a little temperamental, depending on how much pickled ginger the chef feels like piling on top, but I have to say it's good canteen food. The portions are also very good.

If you like, it's Japanacised canteen food, and for what it is, it's very reasonable compared to the other food you get within the Canary Wharf centres.

The service is hectic but invariably good and friendly - even when we had to order our green tea twice last time we were there (but then it came twice too!!)

It's always noisy in there, but the acoustics are good enough for you not to have to shout to hear your conversation.

And the chocolate fudge cake with wasabi, well... don't start me craving for that!
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<>< - View all reviews by this user
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Food 7 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 6
Thursday, July 05, 2007

The food in Wagamama is ok and quite filling. But it is definetly not Japanese. Like YO Susshi and Wasabi it is run by Koreans. Japanese people would never eat at these places.

As I said, the service is usually prompt & polite, the food never poor and always filling, but they charge too much for 'canteen food'. You're much better off in Brewer Street.
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laowai - View all reviews by this user
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Food 7 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 6
Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Have eaten at Wagamama's a few times at at least 4 other locations. The last three times have been at the Canary Wharf branch.

The service in all various but one thing I have recently found that seem consistent very time for the past year is that 'Wagamama' must be Japanese slang for 'dull'. No matter what you order I have noticed that by the end of the dish you feel as thought there is the same generic taste though out the whole dish. The times when I have ordered the udon noodles they have been over cooked to the point that it's all gooey, not good considering all you have to do is boil them. What you get for your money too makes you enjoy your food less. There are many other places that you can go to for noodles and such other than here.

I doubt whether or not I would come here or to any of the other branches for Japanese food again
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hp5al - View all reviews by this user
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Food 3 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 1 | Value for money 1
Friday, November 17, 2006

This is the first time I have a dinner in Wagamama, and it was disappointed!

I ordered a char siu ramen, dumpling and a coke. The food quality is bad, the whole bowl of ramen turn into red colour within 2 mins, it's came from the char siu. The dumpling was cold and hard! The service is bad, when I told one of the waiter that there is some dirt on my glass, and he was not willing to get me another glass and give me face!

I told myself and my friends, I will NEVER EVER go back to wagamama in the future.
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Adele
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Food 1 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 1 | Value for money 0
Tuesday, February 07, 2006

i love this wagamama....i work in canary wharf and am a regular diner at this branch as well as others in the city. everytime i go its soooo busy and its buzzing! the food always tastes great and it still amazes me how it is delivered so quickly when there is so many people to serve! there was a mix up once but i just told my server and it was fixed, with a smile!
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ruby benson
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Food 9 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 7
Sunday, January 01, 2006

Had lunch on Sunday her with a friend.

Our juice order was mixed up, the dumplings were cold and the waiter rude. Why is this branch so different from the rest?
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Lena - View all reviews by this user
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Food 3 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 5
Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Very poor

Ordered the Prawns in coconut soup noodles for £7.50 -

It consisted of three prawns (slit up the middle to look like more than they were) on a bed of the most stodgy, overcooked packet noodles in a bland soupbase that tasted like it had sawdust added.

Three prawns for £7.50? And the rest was virtually inedible

I never normally complain, it takes a lot, but I felt I had to because it really was that bad.

When I told the manager I was unhappy with my meal she said (no word of a lie) - 'oh that's just your opinion'

So a customer's opinion means nothing to them, which I take to mean they couldn't care less about their customers as long as they get their money.

Wagamamas serves cheap, tastless, stodge - dressed up as good, trendy food but it's not.

The whole point of them selling Ramen is that they get to flog you a bowl of water and noodles which cost next to nothing with the tiniest amount of meat or vegetables for £7.50 a go.

Properly made ramen is delicious but it contains wholesome ingredients.

How this restaurant won an award I don't know, my only guess is bribery - and the worst thing is they seem to be springing up everywhere.

If you're the sort of person who goes to a restaurant because it looks fashionable and the food is served on trendy plates but you don't actually give a damn about what you're eating, consider Wagamamas

But if you want a good meal avoid it like the plague
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Foodie
Tuesday, September 13, 2005