Matsuri St James

About

In Japanese Matsuri means festival, and it's probably fair to state that this (and it's High Holborn sister) restaurant is a celebration of Japanese cuisine. To the Japanese, eating is more than appeasing your appetite; how a dish looks is as important as how it tastes. So, in its large softly-litsubterranean restaurant Matsuri serves the traditional flavours of sushi (amongst the best in the capital) with the modern tastes of teppanyaki, all presented with precision. Favourite set menus are Matsuri and Taiko, both three courses. Managed and staffed entirely by affable Orientals, this is asauthentic a Japanese dining experience as you're likely to enjoy in London. There's even a huge black-haired puppet head dominating the stairway leading from the bar to the restaurant. He's called Nebuta and he's a traditional matsuri symbol. Or the general manager's granddad (his joke). You decide.

Just off from the main restaurant, opposite the sushi bar, is a two-in-oneteppanyaki room seating 18 diners, but to offer smaller groups a moreintimate an experience it can be partitioned. There are a wide range ofmenus to choose from, yet you can have one designed specially if you givethem a budget. Of course, you might want to immerse yourself in thesophistication of the main restaurant, in which case you can hire as manyteppans as you need in a single area. Different again is the modernground-level bar which exudes a fresh loungey feel and seats ten. Best ofall, it serves all sorts of traditional hot and cold sake. Open seven days aweek.

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Accomodation	The Cavendish London (0.06 miles) The Cavendish London and Classical Spectacular (0.06 miles) Sheraton Park Lane Hotel (0.11 miles) Dukes Hotel (0.14 miles) Le Meridien Piccadilly (0.19 miles)
Attractions	Malcolm Innes Gallery (0.00 miles) Christopher Wood Gallery (0.04 miles) Portland Gallery (0.04 miles) White Cube Gallery (0.05 miles) Alfred Dunhill Collection (0.05 miles)
Pubs	Intrepid Fox (0.46 miles) Imperial The (0.48 miles) Zeta Bar (0.55 miles) Ivy House The (1.23 miles) Zanzibar (1.80 miles)
Train Stations	London Charing Cross (0.77 miles) London Victoria (0.88 miles) London Euston (1.48 miles) London Waterloo (1.50 miles) London Waterloo East (1.59 miles)