Don't expect traditional sushi here as this chain caters to more British-inspired and street food…read moredishes. The food is good and the service is pleasant though they do add a (removable) service charge by default. It's in the Arndale shopping centre so it's quite noisy and you definitely hear the music and announcements from the centre. Plenty of seats, both bar seating and booths. They have recently launched new deals including a pricey all you can eat option and a three-plates for a set price option on Mondays.

Now .. this review is based on my liking of sushi ... this was the first time I tried proper stuff…read moreBUT everything about the restaurant was fine so if you like sushi then BY ALL MEANS .. you'll not find a better place. On my trip, it was a little late to open as they had problems with the hot food service ... these things happen so I won't hold it against them ... so I got a seat straight away, the staff were extremely helpful and it felt good. I love the idea of food coming around and you checking it out on the menu and picking it up. First thing I picked up was some broccoli ... it was really nice .. the sauce it was in was awesome. I did kinda have an idea of what I wanted before hand so I just had to wait for it ... as it was just opening, things were a little slow to come around ... plus I was like at the opposite end of where the sushi chefs were so it probably all went anyways. I wanted the seared beef but it never came and, thinking about it now, it probably won't have come until the hot food part was working again ... by the time it was on, it was fuller so it would have taken a while and I'd already had 2 desert plates so going back to beef would have been weird I opted for the basic water .. it was so cool that there was a tap in front of me to get however much I wanted, when I wanted it. The downside was that it was tepid .. so maybe the cooling thing was bopped too or they hadn't turned it on I don't know. I finally tried my sushi and it was meh ... but this is me not really liking it so it could have been amazing. One downside for me was the soy sauce ... it was far too salty for my liking ... but I am used to having low sodium soy sauce at home so going to normal soy sauce is a big change. The desert plates were awesome .. I had a pancake with custard thing with a raspberry coulis and omg .. I wanted that coulis on everything ... I even did put it on the chocolate moochi that I also picked up ... the deserts were amazing but to go to a sushi restaurant for desert is weird. As I say .. if you like sushi then by all means go for it .. you'll love it ... but if like me you're not sure and wanna try it then go .. but look at what's on offer before hand to try it. It was also expensive .. but I guess sushi is. 4 plates cost me a little less than a burger and fries from solita and I couldn't finish the burger .. this left me slightly contempt but I snacked later. GREAT PLACE IF YOU LIKE SUSHI ... I can't stress that enough ... my review was because I found out I don't like sushi it seems. But I'm glad I tried it

Good sushi and taste was amazing with love. price is also resendable. highly recommended place for…read moresushi and noodles.

I was very impressed with Nudo Sushi Box…read more I met Emily B. here before the most recent yelp event and found such a great amount of different sushi boxes to choose from. Eyes being bigger than my belly, as per usual, I opted for a 12 piece California roll and sashimi box with salmon and tuna. It was very good - and very reasonably priced! If I were to eat the equivalent at Yo Sushi! it would set me back at least £20. I'll be coming back real soon!

Food was great! Service was great! Cool place to have dinner! Nice experience chef was very…read moreentertaining.

I came here for lunch with Sasha J. last week and as always, it did exactly what it said on the…read moretin. Quick, tasty, affordable. I love that you can sit down and get stuck in straight away. At lunchtime all the grey plates are £1! so you can literally stuff your face for a fiver :) I always get a helping of edamame beans, some salmon maki , spicy tuna rolls and a couple of others.

Sakana is pretty amazing for both ambience and food. I enjoyed it that much I have hired the…read moreupstairs for my wedding reception venue. The food is classed as pan asian which is great as I love all asian food. However, the sushi, although very good, I feel it is slightly overpriced for what you get. The duck, especially at lunch, is amazing value though. Plenty for 2 to share. This is definitely a place to try out if you love asian food.

Bit of a disclaimer with this one: sit us in a restaurant with a 50% January discount and of course…read morewe're going to order twice the amount of dishes - but it's healthy, omega-packed Pan-Asian cuisine, so it's completely acceptable... My first visit to Sakana and I was pleasantly surprised at how its interior looked (more so the delicious smells wafting over as you passed by their open kitchen). We were seated in a corner with decent views of the goings-on, and set about conquering the menu - the group was almost military in its tactics, dividing the menu's sections between ourselves to make sure we got to sample lots of different dishes. Three of us ordered a bottle of their house red (a Merlot) which was actually quite good - a bit on the peppery side but I really liked it. The food started to arrive after a bit of a wait, but we'd had some prawn crackers to whet our appetite. The sashimi platter that I ordered for us all to share was a bit disappointing (usual price £28 for 15 pieces). I can't think of anything else that was particularly underwhelming; the combo of orders was all rather good - but the highlights for me were the Taiwanese buns which you could have with shredded duck or pork belly (we ordered both). These were absolutely heavenly, for want of a better word. Service was friendly, if not a tad haphazard at times; it's definitely somewhere to consider for date night. That being said, you'd have to be happy 'flashing the cash' as I don't think it's worth the full price they'd ordinarily be charging diners.

Noodle and Sushi was amazing. Taste was amazing. and service is good. highly recommended place.read more

This place is awesome! I didn't expect to find a place that…read moresold Mango Sago and other types of Chinese sweet dessert, or shaved ice in the middle of Manchester. Hell, it was hard to find a good mango sago place even in the U.S, where Chinese community is big. And I found it right here in the middle of Manchester Chinatown! I got the mango sago with mango, black pudding, and white rice balls. It was delicous, light, and exactly what I expected it to taste like. The dessert shop was pretty empty at lunch time. but the interior was nice and well-decorated. This dessert shop was hidden on the upper floor of the conveyor belt sushi restaurant Wasabi, and that made it even more of a hidden gem.

This is a small cute little sushi place near Ancoats on Manchester. The inside is small but the…read moredecor is very cute with J-Pop playing in the background. The menu is very limited but does have a decent selection of tasty donburi, salmon and tuna sashimi, sushi, nigiri, maki rolls and various sides like miso soup, kimchi, teriyaki chicken wings, edamame, gyoza etc. The service is good and the staff are extremely polite and friendly. The prices are average; cheaper than most Japanese restaurants, expect to pay about £10-15 per person depending on what you order. All the donburi are less than £10 and are big enough for a lunch on their own! The downside is that restaurant is a bit out of the way and quite small with only bar style seating, no proper table seats.

2 stars for location and pricing. Located in the Spinning Field area surrounded with amazing bars…read moreand restaurants. Pricing is cheap. £8 for a 15 piece rolls and £4 for detox miso soup. Why 2 stars??? The sushi is premade and fridged, self serve. The soup was hot but pretty tasteless even with all the toppings. Just very disappointed with the food. I was looking for something quick, that's how I ended up here. Well, that's what I got, a quick effortless and tasteless food. Oh well, time foe my cruise! Gonna have to try something different after!

itsu is Spinningfields' latest addition - on opening day they gave out free lunches and snacks and,…read moreunderstandably, the queue snaked all the way down to Leftbank. Forgoing that opportunity, myself and some colleagues returned two weeks later for a quick lunch and catch up. It's located in the old Samsi unit and it's a huge space, with lovely large floor to ceiling windows which let in lots of natural light (a nice change from the moody ambience of the likes of Artisan and Neighbourhood). Their array of salads and sushi can be found in the cooler units, along with their drinks selection, and hot pots can be ordered from the counter. They also have frozen yogurt which, come summer, I'm sure will be a much welcome addition to the area. Now, it's easy to feel overwhelmed in this situation; there's so much choice! Not wanting to hold up the busy lunch queue, I decided to pick up a chicken teriyaki rice salad, though the hot pots looks delicious. Staff were very efficient and worked well to keep the queue moving. You pick up your cutlery or chopsticks from a side unit, plus any additional sauces you may want, including hoisin and itsu's own hot sauce. These are also on the table if you eat in. We had a good experience and it was great to see the area so busy, a trend which will only continue with the opening of XYZ. However, their price point is enough to put me off returning - £5.99 for a salad which didn't fill me up, and roughly the same for a hot pot, simply seems too much. If you were to add snacks and a drink you could easily spend £10+. Somewhere to keep in mind for quick lunches in the future, but only near pay day.

Amazing service. Had hibachi grill. Did king prawns in teriyaki sauce. Also fried rice. So…read moretasty. Chef did an amazing job of entertaining and cooking. Highly recommend this place.

This restaurant is in the waterlogged city centre - with blocked drains, flooded streets, uneven…read morepavements and generally untended. Nine of us turned up for lunch on a miserably cold, wet day. The meal here was just about better than ok, but not at all near great; scrapes two stars against price paid. If I were invited back I wouldn't be looking forward to going again. The teppanyaki 'show' is almost non existent. We've been to dozens of these shows over years in USA and on cruises. The shows are usually highly entertaining with food portions tasty and generous. This place was lifeless in comparison so if it's the show that attracts you'll waste your time and a lot of money too. Customers are also being ripped - off. This is the biggest shock I had - although the cooking left much to be desired as it's not simply cooking that's essential: building and concentrating flavour and plating up tasty food is important and mostly missing here. My wife chose what was a mean - portioned duck spring roll starter at a stonking £8 - 75p in ingredients to make (see photo). It tasted ok but not super. I got a 1 star tempura seafood £9.5 starter. It was also quite poor, not generous, lukewarm and the tempura wasn't crispy light either. I do better/tastier at home. A £1 chicken breast becomes a £20 teppanyaki with the addition of some sliced fried potatoes, about 20 pence worth of potato and tasteless thin sliced vegetables, tipped from a plastic bag onto a hot plate (beansprouts/carrots/snow-peas) then steam cooked to limp, unappetising, served with a very small bowl of fried, long grain white rice; say about fifteen pence worth. The rice wasn't cooked in front of us but at the hot plate behind our 'chef'. My pitiful small portion of cheap rice was al mush rather than al dente, with lumps of starchy boiled rice still prominent (see photo). No second portion was offered. I opted for fillet steak main £26 for 4/5 ounces of raw meat; had I opted for sirloin it was £24 for 6/7 ounces. The meats were tasty and cooked as ordered. I chose the Sapporo peppercorn sauce. It was far and away the tastiest part of the whole meal by a distance (not a big challenge) but the 'chef' slightly burned the pepper sauce. My first 330ml ale choice at 7% wasn't available (£12.05 a pint) I got a 6% tasty amber ale (£10.32 a pint). The staff are polite and courteous. The atmosphere was surprisingly muted despite the fact that the restaurant was very busy ripping off lots of folks at one time.

I completely disagree with certain previous reviews cough *roz. To state that that the boxes are…read moreexpensive, they really aren't especially if you compare prices to that of Wasabi , yo Sushi ( who are cheap anyway). I passed this place the other week (it's been there since mid August) Walking in reminded me of the large fridge section of boots or Eat. All the sushi here comes prepacked so its ideal for the quick takeout.. With a choice of udon soups on the top shelf, underneath they had individually wrapped handrolls, large sashimi boxes, salmon , chicken, dumplings and swordfish. As for the drinks I didn't see anything alcoholic..not even the likes of sake or asahi.. Choosing a stackful of boxes we opened them up to reveal our treasure. The first one was the seared swordfish, which is not the cheapest fish . Yet here I was eating massive chunks of it for £3.50 ODD. Next was the tuna and salmon sashimi box. I think this was the most expensive box,at £7 but the amount of sashimi it contained was amazing. Box number 3 exposed x3 salmon nigiri, x3 tuna Nigiri , x6 salmon California rolls and edamame beans . This was around the 6.50 Mark which again works out cheaper than £2 a plate for two pieces! Finally we fought over the salmon box, which held maki and nigiri for £3.50. This place gets its high rating mainly due to the ideology of it. Cracking concept, great value for money and convenient. I mean the decor is okay..although next time look at the ceiling in the toilet ...there is a camera..hopefully its no longer live... The service was also pleasant, a nice lady who asked if we prefered forks or chopsticks (which came with a tooth pick-) However the food will never be five star because everything is refrigerated which makes the rice not as palatable. The tuna is also the same grade that wasabi use..tasty but I'm sure it artificially dyed. So overall I would come back again for some sashimi and a hot soup..but I will not have the very ricey dishes.

Nudo Sushi Box has just joined the Oxford Road lunch scene with healthy sushi boxes, rice sets and…read moresoups & noodles. It has a really great vibe and has been busy every time I've passed by - you really need to pick a bit of a quieter time for your first trip though as there is so much to choose from! It's all lined up on shelves like you would find at a supermarket, however the team are constantly bringing out boxes so you know what you're looking at is super fresh. I've tried two lunches there now - the first was Chicken Teriyaki Rice which they heat for you before you go. This was delicious with great flavour, although could have done with a little more chicken. Today I went with the Dumpling & Nudo King Prawn Sushi Rice Set. Again flavours were spot on, although there was no description of what was in the dumplings (I think veggies). I also tried the Jasmine Silver Needle Tea (£1.80) which I've managed to get three drinks out of and still plenty of flavour. http://nudosushibox.com/menu Sadly they've priced the boxes quite high, with most items coming it at around £5.00 & above, so this could only ever be a treat option for lunch. For a healthy and fresh lunch alternative to a bog standard sandwich though, it's a great shout. Well worth checking out.

I came here originally a year ago for a second date..maybe it was this distraction that made it…read morefeel more magical. Craving sushi I suggested we return to this all you can eat sushi place for £22 each Once seated they supply you with a tablet in which you can essentially order what you want with those couple of hours. We of course ordered a boat of sashimi to be advised this was not included. The quality of the sushi itself is okay..however the service is wooden without much advice of what you can and cannot order with the deal. The venue itself is nice with calming tropical scenery and sounds with flowing water but for the price we paid I know so many more venues that offer better sushi for the same price. Overall the magic has gone..I guess its okay for average sushi?