Amazing Japanese food excellent value. Also the restaurant has very friendly and helpful staff if your in this part of the woods I thoroughly recommend you visit a fill your belly!!
Emilene Conder Acmt Apcm
+5
Amazing food love the bento box and the roll boat � can't wait to go back. ��
Great food and friendly service as always.
Superb very fresh sushi and great service ! Very good portions !
The Food Connoisseur
+3.5
Catford has it’s best-kept secret, it’s rare for me to venture out to the South West of London. Sapporo Ichiban is at a random spot near the back streets of Catford Centre. Don’t be discouraged by the shop front beyond the glass doors there’s a gigantic fish pond with enormous gold fishes. To the right is the open kitchen and bar where you can watch the chef slice sashimi and cook the hot food. Restaurant staff wears traditional Japanese kimonos and hakamas, the times I went they have been polite but tend to forget things you ask them for.
Our local Japanese, we eat there one or two times a month. Excellent sushi (try the salmon skin tempura rolls and the eel nigiri), super value bento boxes. Unreservedly reccomended!
Came here to celebrate my daughter's birthday. My first time in a Japanese restaurant! Excellent experience, delicious grub. Very kitsch front window but inside is minimalist; there is an excellent sunken seating area at the back. Brilliant, friendly service. Dishes cooked to order; very reasonably priced cocktails. Good choice!
Delicious mouthwatering food and a wide selection of authentic Japanese dishes to choose from; best I’ve had in London so far. Fantastic and warm service. Very reasonable prices. Wholeheartedly recommend. <3
I’ll never not adore this restaurant. I’ve been coming here for nearly a decade, not super regularly but it’s never disappointed me. The sushi is fresh and flavourful with soft and fluffy rice, the drinks and cheap and cheerful (get the plum wine!!!) and they’ve always got room for me and my friends. One of my fave sushi places in south east london, I would take anyone here. And the value is amazing!! You always leave full and they’ve always got something you want. It’s even good for my veggie and vegan friends!
This is such an underrated gem and some of the best sushi I've had in South London for a ridiculously reasonable price! Don't judge a book b its cover - the front of this restaurant does not do this place justice. The sushi is as good as any I've had at fancy central London restaurants but for SUCH a low price. The staff are amazing, the unique setting (sunken tables) makes it so much fun, and the Japanese-Chinese menu includes all my favourite dishes from both cuisines! I almost don't want more people to find out about this place but the owners really deserve it because they're doing such an amazing job. The free matcha chocolate that they make in-house and give you with the bill was the icing on the cake !
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We have waited too long to write a review for our most favorite place in London. And no, we are not in the so called new age "food critics" category, whatever that meand. If you're expecting high end service and a katana wielding lesson, this is not the place for you. We are also not "authentic Japanese food experts", as some gleefully label themselves, we just like the restaurant, top to bottom, authentic or not. Service can be slow at times, as it can be experienced IN ANY OTHER RESTAURANT ON THE PLANET, but if you're not going there after a starvation diet or during peak times, it should be fine. Consider that it is a family business and three, four people are usually doing everything, from cooking to serving and cleaning. We often take our own empty plates back or we even clear our own table, as to give them a hand (now the restaurant aficionados are going to have a mild stroke upon hearing this) but that, for us, is part of the charm of the place. Food wise, we have never been disappointed, I mean NEVER, and the price per quality and quantity can't be beaten in London. We are two average people and we never seem to pass over the 25 pounds bill, for both of us. That's literally the cheapest dinners we ever had in London. Since we've been going there for one year and a half we've got to know the staff and they've gotten to know us and we've always been understanding of the serving times or possible mishaps.
So, my advice is to go there with an open mind and decent appetite and if you're planning to visit the restaurant at peak times, be ready to wait a bit for your food. And stop whining about everything.
Has a mixture of normal seating and the low, more traditional seating. Staff are friendly and attentive. Extensive menu. Good vegetarian options. Same with the juices. We went for mango and watermelon, both after good. Had tofu and veg gyoza to start. Bento boxes for main. All the food was and very reasonably priced. Recommended.
Michaelangelo Olinares
+5
Been going here for almost 2 decades, The best Japanese restaurant in Catford hands down.
A HIDDEN GEM!
Staff are so welcoming and service is great. There’s a lot of love and character in this business, always get excited to eat here. I enjoy trying slightly more daring foods at times but get too scared to, however, when I dine here I don’t have to worry as I can trust them!
Great food, great value and really nice pleasant staff! Highly recommended. Red Snapper bento was wonderful.
Sunken seating area is fun, kids love it. The sushi is extremely yum.
Staff were lovely, food was AMAZING. Excellent value for money too. I think they will become my regular takeout.
Really delicious. I went for the tofu bento box, was good !!
Amazing Japanese food. I particularly like the sushi and sashimi which are made with great quality fish. I recently discovered they do take away (pick up only) which is a real treat.
Excellent food, with a wide selection of hot and cold dishes. For lunch we had deep fried bread-crumbed calamari and a delicious prawn salad (with apple), followed by pork katsu bento and a superb ‘Tofu steak' bento, with green tea. There is a variety of seating, with counter seats, tables and a raised area with traditional low Japanese tables where you can sit cross-legged or with feet in the well beneath the table (we sat here). Interesting lighting and Japanese themed decorations, but the fabric of the venue is showing signs of age.
Amazing fresh food. Authentic setting. Traditional Japanese dining. Tofu was amazing. Salmon and Eel excellent
Excellent vegetarian sushi. Delicious, moreish and rather filling too. Very lovely owners, humble and kindhearted. Would definitely come again for more
Really awesome food! I have been going here for years and it never disappoints. The staff are great too! Definitely a local jem!
The taste of the food is fresh also you can see how is cooking your food and you have free soup.
Staff really lovely!
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