Kurumaya in the City: More than Sushi

Kurumaya was opened nearly four years ago in the heart of the City offering a wide range of authentic Japanese cuisine. The Kaiten bar serves expert cuts of sushi, maki and sashimi along with a selection of hot dishes. But if you are looking for more than sushi, try the basement restaurant. It is here that Kurumaya’s chefs present a mouth-watering selection of Japanese food and the intimate restaurant features a sunken tatami seating area

Kurumaya offers a wide selection of take-away boxes containing a mix of their most popular dishes. If you are feeling more adventurous, choose from the à la carte menu and create your own box!

Kurumaya’s Executive Head Chef, Mr. Enrico Venzon, has over twenty years of experience in the art of sushi preparation. As well as the standard boxes, Kurumaya is able to provide platters for meeting and events. They have catered for groups from eight up to one hundred either delivering the sushi on site or preparing it in front of the client. They are also able to offer sushi training sessions at the restaurant.

Best Items:

Reverse Spicy Tuna Maki
Soft Shell Crab Hand Roll
Avocado Maki
Hamachi Sashimi
Chirashi—Fifteen pieces of assorted sashimi on a bed of rice
Take Set—Two pieces each of tuna nigiri, salmon nigiri, sea bass nigiri, ebi nigiri, tamago nigiri, tuna maki and salmon maki, along with one piece ebi tempura maki

Nirvana Serves Combination of Indian and Sri Lankan

Nirvana sets itself apart from traditional Indian restaurants by its unique combination of Indian and Sri Lankan styles.

The head chef has trained with many well educated top chefs from all over the world and worked in restaurants offering many different cuisine types including quite a few years at Just St. James, Just Oriental Kitchen. The owner has traveled all over the world sampling cuisines from each place visited enabling him to provide input, even down to the most specific spices to create dishes that are unique to Nirvana including the Gaya Chicken, the Devil Prawn, and the Hyderabadi Lamb Shanks.

The concept of “nirvana” is Buddhist, derived from the idea of a perfect place, and the chef and owner hope that their cuisine can come close.

Sapore Italiano: Best Italian in East London

After 20 years of experience in some of the most famous restaurants in Romagna where he was teaching others the secrets of pizza, Sapore Italiano’s professional chef came to London to offer Londoners the real taste of traditional Italian cuisine.

Sapore Italiano is serving authentic Italian pizzas and pastas and has a full menu of various Italian specialties. Pizza and pasta recipes inspired by Romagna and Mediterranean cuisine are prepared to the highest standards of Italian cooking leading Sapore Italiano to proudly claim that they are one of the best in East London. Come in or order take away today!

The Delhi Deli Experience

Great food is all about fine recipes, ingredients, cooking methods, timing, and the touch of a fine culinary chef. The menu at Delhi Deli is inspired by everything from tangy bombay street snacks and home-style punjabi curries to exotic vegetarian and seafood delicacies of southern India, each dish tastes as good as it sounds. Distinctive flavours and authentic recipes from across regional India, prepared by India's best chefs using the finest and freshest ingredients and cooked the age old traditional way.

At Delhi Deli they believe to produce the ultimate dining experience great food must be complimented by equally great customer service. They use state of the art technology for order taking which translates into a pleasant dining or takeaway experience. The dishes are packed in specially made Delhi Deli tubs, retaining heat longer and avoiding spillage - giving you mess free, piping hot food delivered right to your door by the drivers on their distinctive Delhi Deli delivery mopeds.

Lebanese Food at Mandaloun: Epitome of Mediterranean Diet

The cuisine of Lebanon is the epitome of the Mediterranean diet. Lebanon is the direct descendant of the ancient land of the Phoenicians. Those ancient sailors, known for their well-developed sciences and trade, travelled the Mediterranean and greatly influenced the cuisine of those whom they reached via their trade routes. The Phoenicians introduced wine and olive oil to the world and, much later, the Lebanese introduced homous and tabouleh.

The Barakat family has an established history in catering and hospitality which dates back to the 1930s when John (Hanna) Barakat established “Al Ahweh” in the picturesque village of Ain Ebel in the mountains of south Lebanon. In 1948, John’s eldest son Joseph, a true entrepreneur, took over and expanded the operation to include hospitality, catering, entertainment and retail.
Joseph’s four sons went to Europe to pursue higher education and after successful careers in catering, hospitality, retail and investment banking, the four brothers set up a UK operation in 2002. The first restaurant was opened on the Fulham Broadway and instantly became a local favourite.

In 2008, Joseph’s younger brother, Pierre, established Mandaloun on the other side of the Atlantic in Jacksonville, the largest city in the sunshine state of Florida. Shortly thereafter, Mandaloun London was opened and the Barakat family’s legacy and tradition continued to expand and bring culinary enjoyment to new parts of the world.

Indian Food in the Heart of West End at Imli

Imli Modern Indian Tapas is located in Soho in the heart of the West End, London. Launched by the team behind Tamarind, Imli offers a casual, but sophisticated, dining experience, with innovative cooking that is both accessible and affordable.

December 2005 saw the launch of Imli, a new Indian food concept. The traditional meets modern ethos also extends to the interiors where the design concept fuses the simple elegance of modernity with the richness of Indian tradition. Modern characteristics of bold form, colour, and scale are mixed and layered with traditional Indian elements of craft, pattern, and texture to create a unique and inspiring culinary experience. Visit Imli or order online to experience the true taste of modern Indian food.

Fuzzy's Grub: City Secret in Cornhill and Crown Passage

At Fuzzys Grub they take great pride in the quality of the food that they serve. Starting with the raw ingredients, they source their prime meats from the best suppliers who can meet the demand of their busy shops. Their fruit and vegetables are delivered fresh from New Covent Garden market every morning.

The chefs in their kitchens are hard at work beginning at five in the morning, preparing food to serve that very same day. They do not use any artificial flavoring, additives or preservatives to ensure everything is just like they would cook at home!

The first Fuzzy’s Grub was opened in Fleet Street in November 2002 by two great friends, Fazila Collins and Georgina Laing, nicknamed Fuzzy and Grub. Recognizing a huge gap in the ever expanding lunchtime market, they collected old family favorite recipes and opened a shop offering good, simple British food.

In 2004, Fuzzy and Grub rather boldly decided to open a new store in St James’s, and buoyed by the positive feedback to their traditional British food have subsequently opened shops in Bow Lane, Cornhill, Crown Passage and Basinghall Street. Never wanting to rush, Fuzzy and Grub have always concentrated on making sure the quality of the food is spot-on and that every customer leaves the shop happy. If a customer wants rare Scotch roast beef on doorstep white, with homemade horseradish, crispy roast potatoes, a dash of gravy and some pork crackling, they will get it.

Fuzzy and Grub have always been keen on maintaining the “Britishness” of the shops as well as the unashamed meat theme which is central to what they want to achieve. The shop interior is based on old-fashioned butchers, with traditional tiled floors and walls creating a nostalgic and welcoming experience. Paintings showing the various cuts of meat hang on the walls to inform the customer about exactly what they’re eating.,

Fuzzy’s Grub used to be something of a closely guarded city secret – the preserve of city folk, the talk of dinner parties and across trading floors on a hung-over Friday morning. As the business has grown, Fuzzy and Grub have maintained the small shop values which served them so well, whilst successfully increasing their customer base across the City and West End. Fuzzy and Grub can always be found behind the counter, Monday through Friday, serving their loyal customers and keeping an eye on the staff. So if you were to pop in to any of the shops, chances are you’ll bump into one of them there!