LONDON: Yashin Sushi

Best. Sushi platter. Ever. 

If you think about it, sushi is actually an incredibly lazy way of eating. Instead of taking a tiny portion of meat, vegetables and rice, arranging it onto your spoon, and then delivering it to your mouth, the entire mouthful has already been carefully and delicately composed into a bite sized nugget of perfection. It is such sheer Japenese-infused ingenuity that I simply cannot fathom how I ever balked at the thought of eating raw fish. Ironically, my change of heart only came about in London. Then again, with personal growth comes a maturing taste palate and a new found open mindedness to different textures and flavours. 

With it's tastefully done interiors and impeccably dressed wait staff, Yashin fits like a hand into a glove into High Street Kensington. I was spoiled for choice with their sashimi platter: trout, sea bass, yellowtail, parrot fish were laid out in 2 tempting rows of four amongst other sashimi, the names of which I can no longer recall. Luckily I didn't have to choose - everybody had a plate of their own. 


Thanking my dinner hosts with a box of my favourite Pierre Herme macaroons, I went home happy; with a full stomach and reunited with the dslr I'd painfully sacrificed in the packing process. 

The miso soup comes in a tea cup!

Test tube sake in ice: each test tube is a different type of sake.

Yashin

1A Argyll Road

High Street Kensington

W8 7DB