Taku

Japanese sushi master Takuya Watanabe’s name is known to many from Jin in Paris. In 2023, Watanabe crossed the Channel to open a London restaurant, Taku, in Mayfair. It’s one of London’s elite omakase experiences, with16 guests per sitting (12:30 P.M., 5:30 P.M., 8:30 P.M.) taking their seat at the counter for 20 courses of seasonal dishes and edomae sushi, from £180 for the lunch menu to £400 for the prestige omakase. Much of the produce is sourced locally, including Cornish pollock shirako (milt) served with black truffle and Comté sauce or konbu-cured lobster with hispi cabbage and dashi.