Restaurants

Read a lot of reviews on this place and it seems to be quite good all round so thought I'd try it out!
Atmosphere is ok due to it's small size it's quite hard to be quite extravagent,but for me it's always always about the food!so we ordered a lot of chefs recommendations including crab salad,tofu,salmon with quail egg,fatty salmon etc.all were ...okay.don't get me wrong it definitely wasn't bad but for the price of around minimum 7 to 11 pounds per small dish enough for a small mouthfull for four people youd expect it to be nothing but delicious!the worst item we had must be the snow crab legs grilled.sounds great but when it was served it was just tiny legs of crab grilled to dryness with us picking the so called meat out with the metal pick!not quite fresh enough too as I an a big seafood eater from asia it's east to tell when something is fresh or not!not in this case!considering you can buy a few fresh crabs from billingsgate Market for a tenner and just steaming it would be a million times better!we then ordered some sushi too and some hand rolls.some of the nigiri was quite nice though the rolls were a bit mushy.handrolls were a little bit of a disappointment.it wasn't bad but it actually wasn't as good as yo sushi if you can believe it or not!just didn't have much flavours in them.we had the salmon and also a soft shell crab handroll.cocktails we had at the start were around 6.50£ but it was too average for a restaurant trying to be that bit higher class.presentation of the cocktail was just normal.wasn't quite cold enough ,I'd expect the glasses to be cocktail glasses but was just a champagne glass and chilled.let's not even mention any umbrellas or slices of lemon or cherries!i got 3 shavings of Lemon zest which I thought was Ginger!it's just all about the expectation really.I didn't try the other meats like classic chicken teriyaki etc cos at the end of the day those are quite similar from Each restaurant.I was expextibg exquisite mouth watering foods for the price of 50 per head.I shouldve paid a bit more to try the so called top ones of zuma or umu but they were all booked out.to summarize there's lots of restaurants in London my favourite being the one in mornington crescent where it's good value for money and it completely wipes the floor off the competitors with honest great tasting dishes.compare the crab salads here and it's got tangy fresh salmon roe taste but here the snow crab salad was way way too salty and just some crab leg meat laid on top.not much flavours to be honest.so you have the timeout 3 out of 6 star restaurants that are worth going to and serves decent food.then toy have the top end 5/6 stars that are ultra expensive but everything really IS that great.then you have those that are okay but charge prices of near high class restaurants but the food quality nowhere reflects the price,and that's chisou for you Im afraid.it's definitely one for the people that haven't had the real deal of good fresh exquisite tastingfoods of Asia where it obliterates any competition in Uk almost!sorry if this review soy ds negative because I guess it is!!but you d be better off paying a third of the price for the same or better Or else go the extramile with higher class.service was generally good I couldn't fault that but again it has to be all about the food!no more than 3 out of 6 stars at most timeout.I think you guys need to work on your tastebuds!

Nice, Sashimi and sushi (finally) rival Ikkiyu, Not all round, but they got those two nailed.