Fujimoto — Restaurant in England

Having just come back from our first Japan trip, we sorely missed its food. We were in London the day before and were underwhelmed with Japanese food quality.

Fujimoto has been on our list to try for a while and we are so glad we did!

It is hands down one of the best Japanese restaurants we've been to in the whole UK.

The food is superb and the service is excellent.

Our pork gyōzas appear to be homemade and have more filling in it than any other gyōzas we've had, including a place we went to in Tokyo. The taste was also excellent.

The nasu dengaku (miso aubergine) was cooked beautifully albeit a little oily but tasted so nice with just the right amount of miso and sugar.

The chicken karaage was fried brilliantly. It had a very flavourful crunch and delicious chicken. The curry and rice was spot on and the small bits of pickles (possibly homemade) rounded off the dish.

The miso ramen was also great albeit slightly more salty than we'd like. However this could possibly be solved with an extra portion of ramen 😂the charsu was sublime and so were the ramen noodles.

And because everything was so good we had to have dessert.

The ichigo daifuku (strawberry mochi) was delicious. The Mrs thought the mochi was a little firm but I like the gumminess and chewiness of it and the adzuki (red bean) paste was really nice. Mrs thought it a bit sweet.

The matcha cake with ice cream was good. The cake was really nice although let down by the ice cream.

Overall we've now found our staple place to get our Japanese food fix.

I can highly recommend this place for anyone wanting to have authentic Japanese food.

PS even the tea comes in some awesome cups that we're going to ask where...

I recently dined at a restaurant and wanted to share my experience. While the food itself was enjoyable, the service left much to be desired. It seemed like there may have been some issues in the kitchen, as the service was incredibly slow.

We ordered five starters, including kimchi, gyoza, pork with ginger, chicken teriyaki, grilled aubergine and main course cauliflower curry. Surprisingly, it took a staggering 1 hour and 30 minutes for four starters to be served. Even more disappointing was the fact that we didn't receive the last starter or our main course. It became evident that there were some order queueing problems, as our main course hadn't even begun to be cooked.

Despite the delays and incomplete orders, the food itself was decent and deserving of an 8/10 rating. However, the waitstaff seemed inattentive and failed to take care of our table. We had to prompt them to order more drinks and ask for the dirty dishes to be cleared. This lack of attentiveness was quite disappointing.

On a positive note, one of the waiters did make a nice gesture by removing some of our alcoholic drinks from the bill as an apology. This was appreciated and showed that they recognised their mistakes.

Overall, I believe that this restaurant has potential, but the owner and management need to seriously address the issues with service and order management. A slow service can greatly affect the overall dining experience, and it's important for the staff to be attentive and proactive in taking care of their customers.

I hope this feedback helps the restaurant improve and provide a better experience for...

My fiancée and I visited the Fujimoto restaurant to celebrate our engagement in Kyoto on a Saturday night.

The atmosphere was great within the restaurant, the serving staff where really polite and took the time to talk to us and where honestly interested when we said we had just come back from Japan.

The food was really amazing and as they say in Osaka (I think) "めっちゃ美味しい" - Extremely delicious. The portion sizes where bigger than what we thought they where going to be and we ended up over ordering, but the food was so so good. I did ask for extra pickles to be added to the pork katsu curry and was told that wasn't a problem, the pork katsu and the curry was better than what I had previously in Tokyo. The prawn tempura/gyoza/yakitori and croquettes where all as delicious. Only thing that I would ask is if crab croquettes could be added on to the menu, but guess it isn't for simplicity. The serving staff did apologise to us about the wait for our food, which we was actually shocked about as the food came out quickly and at a decent rate, as in the food wasn't just thrown at us like some other restaurants do. Also there was Asahi Super Dry on tap, which went down a treat!

We really enjoyed our meal/time and we have found a new favourite restaurant. We are looking forward to our next visit, and have been raving about the food with our friends and family. The only real issue we had was that we wasn't sure if we should be ordering in English or Japanese? lol Attached picture is my...