this place is a hive of activity. i visited with my sister on friday gone and it was absolutely buzzing. it had been a few years since i had visited this restaurant but i can say for sure it will not be that long again. they have a beautiful bar out the back past the smoking area called tengu. as soon as we walked into the restaurant we were greater by the host and as we were early we were given the choice of having a drink or our table. we went for the drink, being friday and all and we happily made our way to the tengu bar. this bar is very cool, much softer lighting than the sushi restaurant and you can still order a selection of sushi while you're there. we had a pint of japenese beer, which was really good. when we made our way back to the restaurant for our table, it took us a long while to choose what we wanted to eat because everything looked so good. in the end we choose a bento box, some pork dumplings (i may be developing a dumpling addiction), seafood tempura and vegetable tempura all to share. it was absolutely delicious from start to finish and the staff were very helpful and attentive throughout. the bento box came with miso soup, (really tasty), crispy salmon dish (which was the equivalent of pork crackling in my opinion, yum), white fish wrapped in bacon (absolutely gorgeous), some cured beef and some salmon nigiri (very tasty). the dumplings were like little pockets of flavour in a crispy shell. a portion of six pieces did not last long. and the batter on all the tempura dishes was so light and crispy. fantastic food all round. i can see why it was so busy on a friday evening. we finished the evening with an old fashioned each. thanks zomato for reminding me how good this restaurant is.