Inamo

Press Reviews (5)

• Giles Coren (24th June 2010)
  4.33/10
  
  The critic visits a novelty-driven Japanese in Soho where the food “started well and then rapidly fell to bits”.
• Jay Rayner (17th May 2010)
  
  A review – why now, one wonders? – of a Soho pan-Asian, where interactive menus are “beamed down on to your table from a projector above.” The smaller dishes, such as Japanese eel and sea bass sashimi are the most succesful, however “[i]t all fell apart in the larger dishes” - special mention is reserved for “floppy and sweaty” crispy duck with pancakes. Prices are a little steep, but all in all “Inamo is fun, and if you choose carefully you can eat well.”
• Richard Vines (2nd April 2009)
  2/4 stars
  
  “It sounds awful, but it isn’t”. The critic rather likes this funky Soho Japanese, which (almost) succeeds in doing without waiters.
• Charmaine Mok (22nd October 2008)
  3/6 stars
  
  With its “hi-tech hijinks” (not least “individualised computer screens set into the tables and projected by giant, silkworm-like monstrosities”), this Soho newcomer is, according to Ms Mok, the “ultimate experience” for “unsociable” diners. There’s some praise for the “interesting menu of Pan-Asian dishes”, but the meal left her “unsated and unsatisfied”.
• Rowan Moore (11th September 2008)
  2/5 stars
  
  The Standard’s (architecture) critic visits this Soho Japanese newcomer where the “big idea is that your table is an interactive screen, where by pointing and clicking you can find your menu, see pictures of each item, and order”. “It’s a gimmick with a capital G”, of course, but it’s “fun for all that, and you should go once just for the ride”. The overall effect of the cuisine is “a surfeit of sticky gunk”, with “a lack of freshness in the taste, and frightening swings from the good to the truly horrible”.