Restaurant Yoshino
Sushi is the perfect pre-theatre supper: what could be faster than raw food? But I always worry that it is too healthy to be filling, so tried to fill my rumbling tummy with green tea and miso soup – (sipping around the whiskers of the langoustines head that floated in my bowl to flavour the broth), and all I think I managed to achieve was creating a kind of fish tank inside me ready for the tuna and salmon to swim around it… The sashimi was beautifully served in pearlescent shells laid in little lacquer boxes. I love the condiments that go with sushi – salty soy, wasabi that hits the bridge of your nose and the pickled ginger; love them to such an extent that I risk drowning each roll in so much sauce that the delicate flavours of the fish itself are lost.
The only thing I didn’t enjoy was the raw squid: it has such a tough texture and the white flesh clung to my tongue as I tried to chew it up enough to swallow. I prefer the rubbery bounce of overcooked calamari to that. Other than that I found everything delicious in this inconspicuous little restaurant.