Authentic Izakaya
in London.

Dinings SW3 is chef Masaki Sugisaki's elegant Chelsea expansion — a refined Japanese restaurant where Sugisaki's Japanese culinary heritage meets the finest British seasonal produce in a beautiful Lennox Gardens Mews setting.

Founded in 2006 by ex-Nobu chefs, Dinings' Marylebone basement is a beloved institution — creative Japanese small plates and exceptional sushi in an intimate, lively setting that helped define London's modern izakaya scene.

London's most acclaimed izakaya, The Aubrey at Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park brings the energy of a Ginza nightout to Knightsbridge through exceptional Edomae sushi, robata grills and innovative Japanese cocktails under head sushi chef Miho Sato.

Nestled in a handsome period building facing Grosvenor Gardens, Kouzu brings serious Japanese culinary craft to Belgravia, led by Kyoichi Kai — the Japanese chef who helped establish Zuma's founding kitchen and who won the UK Global Sushi Challenge in 2015.

Europe's first Nobu, open since 1997 at the COMO Metropolitan Hotel on Old Park Lane, remains one of London's most iconic Japanese-Peruvian restaurants — the birthplace of Nikkei cuisine in the UK and still delivering its legendary black cod miso and signature sushi to an international clientele.

Opened in 2021 at the purpose-built Nobu Hotel London Portman Square in Marylebone, this is Nobu's most modern London outpost — a 200-seat restaurant with a sushi counter, private dining, and a Sunday brunch featuring unlimited sushi and a live DJ.

London's easternmost Nobu, open since 2017 at the Nobu Hotel Shoreditch, brings the brand's signature Japanese-Peruvian cuisine — black cod miso, yellowtail jalapeño, rock shrimp tempura — to a capacious 240-seat basement restaurant with an adjoining sunken garden terrace in the heart of EC2.

Renamed Nanahoshi at the start of 2025, this hole-in-the-wall Soho counter has been championed for years as the pound-for-pound best Japanese food in London — chef Yuya Kikuchi's market-driven sushi and small plates are guided entirely by what's exceptional at the fish market that morning.

Opened in January 2025, Himi is the debut solo restaurant from the team behind the beloved Roji — a neo-izakaya on Newburgh Street where Tomoko Hasegawa and Tamas Naszai serve season-led washoku dishes, rare sake and impeccable sushi at counter and table seating.

One of London's longest-running Japanese izakayas, Asakusa sits on Eversholt Street in Camden and has quietly served authentic Japanese home-cooking to a loyal local following for over three decades.

Inaho is a remarkably small, long-running Japanese restaurant hidden in a converted garage on Hereford Road in Notting Hill — a neighbourhood gem where a Japanese chef from Niigata delivers some of the most authentic sushi and izakaya cooking in west London.