Sushinho

Press Reviews (5)

• AA Gill (25th August 2009)
  0/5 stars
  
  In “a rather smart dining room” on the Kings Road, Gill samples Brazilian-Japanese fusion food. Unfortunately they are “not naturally companionable cuisines”; the former “large, generous and sloppy” and the latter “like neurotic fish origami.” This restaurant, he concludes, “is a bad concept done as well as it could be.”
• Giles Coren (3rd August 2009)
  2/10
  
  “I had never planned to review Sushinho”, admits the critic, because the newish Kings Road serves Japanese/Brazillian fusion food, which is “everything I never wanted.” His experience does not exceed his expectations; in this “loud, dark Chelsea cocktail lounge” neither cuisine is realised well. The sushi (which, the critic believes, “must be first-rate or nothing”) is “just about edible, and thus pointless” and the Brazilian pork belly is “bland and dusty”.
• Terry Durack (23rd March 2009)
  12/20
  
  “Sushinho's claim to fame”, as the critic neatly summarises it, “is to be a cocktail-friendly fusion of Brazilian and Japanese, inspired by the fact that Brazil's sizeable ethnic Japanese population is the largest outside Japan”.
• John Walsh (2nd February 2009)
  Food 2/5 stars, Ambience 4/5 stars, Service 4/5 stars
  
  “[C]ombining the food of Rio and Tokyo on the same menu seems bizarre”, says the critic, but he is informed that “Sao Paolo houses the largest Japanese population after Japan itself”. The cocktail he samples is “delicious”, but the food is “weirdly hit-and-miss”. The setting is “lovely”, though, and the staff are “unfailingly helpful”.
• Jan Moir (17th December 2008)
  
  “Even before Sushinho had served what turned out to be our Worst Dish of the Year, this lacklustre new fusion restaurant in Chelsea did enough to make even the most fizzing festive spirits nosedive into the pits of despair.” Right from the off, the critic can’t be accused of mincing words in her review of this Brazilian/Japanese newcomer.