Matsuri St James's
Bury Street, London
Average User Rating (1 reviews)
| Address: | 15 Bury Street London SW1Y 6AL | ||||||||||||||
| Map: | See on a map | ||||||||||||||
| Cuisine: | Japanese | ||||||||||||||
| Region: | St. James's (London) | ||||||||||||||
| Nearest Station: | Green Park | ||||||||||||||
| Telephone: | 020 7839 1101 Book a table | ||||||||||||||
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| About Matsuri St James's: | Matsuri restaurants are upmarket Japanese outlets serving dishes such as sushi and sashimi. They offer a set dinner menu with 8 courses as well as a range of smaller meals. Catering for private parties of up to 30 people is available upon request. This branch also have a bar area. | ||||||||||||||
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| A Customer | Newbie | Since: Sep 2006 | Posts: 20339 | View Profile |
My Review
1 out of 10 stars
We (4 friends) visited Matsuri 06/25/2009 and unfortunately it was an unpleasant experience.
Most important: The food was way under par, ranging from a refrigerator cold starter (vegetable salad) to a completely overcooked teppan main course (lobster and seafood). The entire meal was completely without any taste whatsoever, everything was bland.
The service:
We all had the same set menu, but the waiter kept arbitrarily cleaning our "table", some were left with 2-3 empty bowls/plates in front of them as they had finished the course, but the waiter kept bringing new courses instead of clearing the table.
Value for money:
None whatsoever. we paid £100 pp and the food, service and ambiance was unfortunately worthless.
The details:
- Vegetable salad, julienne in a vinaigrette, refrigerator cold, tasteless
- Soup, served in a teapot, virtually tasteless
- Salad, mixed salad, with tasty vinaigrette (only tasty component in the entire meal)
- Sashimi, salmon, scallops, tuna. All from frozen fish, carelessly sliced, too thick, salmon not properly cleaned (the brown, unpleasant, fatty layer had not been removed). Served with wasabi and soy sauce, no ginger.
- Tempura, 4 slices of carrot, one aubergine (all tasteless) + one prawn - OK
- Teppan with asparagus, carrot, scallops, lobster, scampi and squid. All but the squid were overcooked and underseasoned.
- Fireball ice cream. Expected it to be spicy, it wasn't.
I visited the Matsuri some years ago and it was pretty good, now it has lost everything.
I apologize for any spelling mistakes as English is not my 1st language.
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