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After a brief summer refurb, Japanese restaurant Satsuma has been relaunched in 2011 with an updated look (streamlined 'pod' style booths, for example) and a new menu specialising in katsu - a general term referring to food that is breadcrumbed and deep-fried.
There are straightforward katsu sets (featuring the usual chicken, pork cutlet, prawn and oyster), served with steamed rice and a suribachi - which is a kind of Japanese mortar and pestle used for grinding your own sesame seeds into a powder for use as a dip or garnish. There are also bowls of katsu curries.
Our pork katsu curry looked decent, the cutlet with its attractive golden-brown hue, but the panko (Japanese breadcrumb) coating could have been lighter; the pork itself was rather dry, remedied only slightly by the accompanying velvety curry sauce.
A half-hearted sprinkling of tiny chopped pickles was superfluous, but we liked the well-cooked Japanese short-grain rice. Not too bad for the price, at £7.80 for what is essentially a one-plate meal - but it's still far from the quality experience you might reasonably expect from a katsu 'specialist'.
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What is 'following'?020 7437 8338
Open noon-10.30pm Mon, Tue; noon-11pm Wed, Thur; noon-11.30pm Fri, Sat; noon-10pm Sun
Meal for two with wine and service: around £45
Credit cards AmEx, DC, MC, V
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Babies and children welcome ( high chairs ), Bookings not accepted, Disabled ( toilet ), Takeaway serviceSatsuma map
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