My boys were intrigued by the unique seats inside the restaurant, so we gave it a try. However,…read more there was very slow service even when the restaurant was quiet, the waitress was unfriendly, and they did not pour our water or tea for us. The food was tasty, but I was not happy with all the other aspects of the restaurant.

I plan to return soon and have already recommended to many friends…read more This is the definition of a diamond in the rough! Hidden within Liverpool station, Moshi Moshi is shockingly beautiful upon entering and escaping the hustle of the station. With it's unique seating and layout, it would be the perfect date night location. I brought a large group to Moshi Moshi, and the team was fantastically supportive and flexible to our needs and reservation process. They weren't phased when our numbers continually changed (even night of) and they worked with our limited budget. We were able to get a meal (not just 1 sushi roll) for £14 or less per person. I'm excited to go back without the budget limitation to try some other items.

Recommended by yelp & we felt like a fast & healthy sushi dinner. Sushi was ready made, we picked…read moreup packages, brought them to the register, paid & selected cutlery. It was fast, and inexpensive, but our sushi fell apart when we tried to pick it up with chopsticks. This was not the freshest sushi we've eaten & wont go back.

Many restaurants were closing early for New Year's Eve, so we were happy to discover this place…read moreopen. This is more like a fast food Japanese restaurant here in London. The cold items were in a self-serve refrigerated section and the hot ordered at the register. The typical London weather made me a little snotty, so I had the detox miso soup. Delish! Full of ginger and noodles. So good! The service was friendly and they offered a mild spicy sauce, which we were happy to see since spicy food was nil in England!

Got my Japanese food & culture fix here! Very authentic with small tight tables, timely service,…read moreand great food. We arrived early at 5:30p and didn't have to wait for a table.The Salmon Don was simple but perfectly done, tender and very tasty. Bento Boxes are huge sized meal.s The Chicken Katsu is the best my son has ever tried! We recommend and would go again!

Small cozy spot right in the center of Chinatown near all the action of nearby soho and covent…read moregardens as well Quite a long wait outside on the street for a table but thought the service was pretty quick Overall nothing about the experience stood out as great. The chicken was good as well as the other featured items in the bento box but nothing overly appealed to me or is pushing me to go there again.

With the popularity of sushi there's a lot of choice out there and this is a solid choice!…read more Don't let the name fool you, it may sound like a british insult, but it's actually named after a breed of japanese fighting dog. It's not on the menu! (that would be Korean food), but there's a large menu of deilcious dishes to choose from. Although the interior is modestly decorated and laid out in a simplistic wooden and tiled style, you're spoilt for choice with the food as you can sit at the bar and watch the chef cook the hot dishes Teppanyaki style in front of you or sit at the back at one of the small tables for a more intimate feel; perfect for date night! Special mention for the yakitori skewers which are particularly tasty and something I always have to order when coming here! The price is very reasonable and whilst the staff are mostly not Japanese, they know their stuff and everything I've tried here tastes great and full of flavour. They lose a star only for the fact that on a few occasions when I came for dinner there were a few things on the menu that I always get that were no longer available to order which shouldn't be the case with a busy restaurant. This is a time when you do want to be a Tosa and check out this great restaurant!

Came here for lunch on a Sunday and it was only moderately busy. My companion recommended the £12…read morelunch special so I was looking forward to the bento-style meal. (Not actually served in a bento box.) We waited a long time for our food to arrive. I am talking close to 20 minutes without explanation because we never saw wait staff. Then when it arrived there was not a complete meal. My companion's meal came several minutes before my main dish. It was very disorganized as another table's dishes were served and they arrived after us. Aside from the wait, food was good. We had the grilled spiced pork (bulgogi) and tempura. It comes with rice, salad, pickles and miso soup. There were three prawns and four vegetables in the tempura. Pork serve was a good amount. Overall a good value. They seriously need to work on customer service, not friendly at all. Otherwise you can order take away and enjoy a tasty meal.

Thanks to Katie B for stepping in as interim Yelp Ramen Club organiser in Josy A's absence…read more Ramen Club 8.0 took place at Ribon and Katie went to great lengths to make our booking and also to make sure that they had ramen available - for large parties, it's best to warn them as they only make a limited amount of broth each day When you get to the restaurant, don't be put off by the fact that the ground floor looks shut because it is shut! Descend the stairs to the subterranean dining room. Our party of 15 took over most of the main dining area though there are private rooms, which also offer karaoke The starters were my favourite part of the meal with the black cod and chicken karaage being top of my list even though the portion size was tiny for the cost. As far as ridiculous prices go though, I think my glass of orange juice from a carton for £3.30 was criminal - I can get 2 litres of Tropicana for less. Other starters like the pork and kimchi were rather bland The ramen was a disappointment. The broth was rather bland and the chashu was dry. Perhaps in keeping with the rather mean attitude to the volume of food served, there was no egg. In an age when Bone Daddies and other ramen joints in London have raised the bar, bowls like this won't cut it any longer It was a really fun evening but the food wasn't up to scratch, especially the ramen. Roll on, Ramen Club 9.0!

Thank you Katie B for being a star and getting such a huge crowd of us involved in ramen club!!…read moreRibon was a strange ramen experience...ramen is only listed as a side note on the specials menu, but after seeing a photo of their ramen in the magazine "zoom Japan", I was keen to try it. Ramen: The miso soup was really good; hot and delicious... BUT my noodles seemed like over-cooked, squidgy cup-ramen noodles. I liked the toppings, but I was sad not to have an egg, and the cha siu was forgettable. So all in all the ramen isn't as good as many of the other ramen-joy-lands in London. Plus they took aaaaages to make, even though Katie had told them in advance that we would order lots of noodles. Izakaya menu: We also tried the agedashi dofu (really nice, but without much dashi!), the karaage and the gyoza. They were all lovely, and the general izakaya menu sounded full of tasty dishes. I'd be up for trying more of them. Other: A group of my friends from Japan have been here several times, and they all really liked it... so I know this place could be amazing. I'll have to come back to try non-noodle items, and to have a sing in their karaoke booth.

really good awesome taste so good should be a 5 star restaurant not 4.8 love their teryakiread more

'Asta' (as I like to simply call it) - I have no idea of the '3' moniker, or indeed where the first…read moretwo went - is as genuine a Japanese canteen as you'll find in London. I was lucky enough to, along with a colleague, be taken here on several occasions for a quick lunch by a client (indicative of how welcoming the Japanese are!) By 'genuine' I mean no dumbed-down menus, no super-slick interiors to detract from potentially average food, and no gimmicks of any kind. The place is staffed and run by Japanese nationals as any self-respecting Japanese restaurant should be - and perhaps more importantly, frequented by them regularly, too. Service is smiling and attentive and no more that it needs to be. The food is inexpensive (~£6-8 for a bento, £7-11 for ramen, udon or donburi) and so tasty. On my most recent trip I had beef ramen with tan tan (sesame paste) soup base, and my brother had salmon teriyaki on brown rice. Both dishes had generous proportions of meat/fish, and the donburi came with a side salad and pickles. The unagi (eel) is also lovely, and the place does an extensive line in pick-your-soup base noodle bowl dishes where you have the option of shoyu, miso, and sesame as mentioned above, among others. I can't speak for the takeaway bento, but they looked pretty solid and of a decent quality. Drinks come in the familiar (Coke etc) and the more, um, 'traditional' - aloe vera juice, Pocari, cold bottled green and black teas and others. This place is rather hidden away on the fringes of the City, behind Aldgate station on the Petticoat Lane side. In many ways it's a great location as it's very much a local haunt, and in others a little frustrating as even if you're working in the City it can be a fair walk to get there and back! My advice would also be to get there early (between midday and half-past) to ensure a seat, as well as before some of the more popular items on the menu disappear. In brief summary, I couldn't really recommend this place enough if you're in the area. You'll get multi-kudos from any friends Nippon friends (or appreciators of their incredible cuisine) and have a lunch to beat the hell out of an uninspired sandwich / soft-drink combo whilst spending a similarly scant amount of your hard-earned cash. As your fellow diners would say: "itedakimas!"

As we look for places to eat amongst coworkers, we decided to go to a Japanese place. Not being…read morefamiliar with places to eat here in London, I looked to Yelp, and of course someone from our hotel recommended this place too. So I can say it wasn't bad at all, but it wasn't the beat Sushi I have had. I would go back for sure as the service was good, minus my coworkers chicken dish took forever to come out, as we kept having to check on it. The Uni was definitely not a bad batch as it had a sweetness and creamy texture that I would expect. Amaebi was not the larger shrimp with the fried heads, so not what I was expecting. As for the Natto Rolls, I could tell you that our young waitress made a surprising face, which made me laugh, as I could tell she was from Japan, as I was told not many Japanese even eat Natto. Of course I had to ask later and she is not a fan. Hahaha... I enjoyed it though. Enjoy.

As another reviewer says, this is an undiscovered gem! Hidden away inside an arcade, it was filled…read moreon a weekday evening with mostly Japanese patrons. Plenty of wait staff who were quite attentive, including some who were preparing table side shabu shabu (cooking thinly sliced meat and veggies in a broth). They have a huge menu with an unusually wide selection of small dishes as well as the usual entrees. I ordered their ten piece nigiri (17 GBP), grilled miso black cod (12 GBP), and salmon belly age dashi (cooked lightly in a daikon soy based sauce) (7 GBP). All were excellent including with fresh not powdered wasabi root. Super affordable, high quality with great service -- what's not to like!

When it's too cold for an LA girl in London, I crave some piping hot broth with noodles. Luckily,…read moremy friend was craving Japanese food as well. I started off with the Rockin' Shrimp (to be honest, I forgot the name and I can't load the menu back home), which was very similar to the shrimp appetizer of a similar name from the chain RA Sushi here. Very juicy succulent pieces of shrimp in a light tempura batter with a salad underneath. A good amount of shrimp overall. Loved the dipping sauces, which was a sriracha mayo/aioli and a green spicy dipping sauce. My friend and I liked the green sauce more, even though we liked both sauces. I had a bite of my friend's beef yakisoba and she liked it, but I like yakisoba a bit drier and this was a bit saucy for me. The beef was flavorful but not the most tender. My udon was one of the best I've had. Clear broth that needed no added flavors at all and perfect udon noodles with the right bite. The tempura was very light and had sweet potato, zucchini, shrimp and a red bell pepper. Prices were decent and not terribly expensive for a Japanese place, considering the quality. If it were not as cold, we both would have tried their sushi.

The fish was fresh and amazing! Service was spot on and loved the quaintness off this nook!read more