We first arrived in High Sushi, Golders Green, just after 6pm on a Friday night and we were surprised to note that we were the first guests to arrive for dinner. Because it was just the two of us, they said that we were only allowed to have the sushi buffet, £15 per person, rather than order from a la carte. To be honest, it would have been nice to have a choice of the a la carte menu! There were a few things I would have liked to try that wasn't on the buffet.. but none the less we didn't decline.. (not that you can't order from the menu.. just that its not worth the value to pay for the buffet and not eat entirely from the buffet).
For the buffet menu and (unlimited) green tea, would cost just under £20 per person (including 10% service charge), which isn't too bad, particularly if you can eat a lot of food in 1.5 hours time.
The restaurant decor itself is not bad. Its bright and I like that you essentially sit on the floor without having to cross your legs! But this can be inconvenient if you're with someone thats more elderly.
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| Inside: Hi Sushi |
For the sushi buffet, there were two mini menus, one of which you can only order once (max 7 items and includes dishes such as: miso soup, tempura, teriyaki, spring rolls, rice, tofu steak, curry, salad) and the other menu is one which you can order as much as you like (up to the time limit, and is the sushi menu which includes salmon sashami, clam sashami, salmon/avocado roll, california roll, spicy tuna roll and a few others).
We ordered the clam (x4) and salmon (x4) sashami , the one off soft-shell crab roll (x4), salmon/avocardo roll (x6) and salmon skin roll (x6). Everything was nice, just what I expected from most sushi places. The salmon was creamy, the clam was fresh, the salmon skin was crispy, the soft shell crab was yummy (too bad you can only order once!), and the salmon/avocardo the usual - nice.
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| From left: clam sashami, salmon sashami, soft-shell crab roll, salmon skin roll and salmon and avocardo roll. |
From the limited menu, we ordered miso soup. To be honest, I have tried better miso soup. It tasted slightly* on the diluted side, otherwise ok.
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| Miso soup containing seaweed and tofu |
We mainly ordered tempura from the limited hot food menu: prawn (x4), tofu (x4), shitake mushroom (x4 whole mushrooms), fish (x6, a white fish, possibly seabass??). I loved the sauce on the fried tofu - slight sweet and was v.yummy. I've never had shitake tempura before, it was quite nice and its nice to have something different to the usual. The fish tempura, was not bad. The prawn tempura, was well, OK - I have tried better - I prefer when the prawns are fresh enough so you can eat them very slightly raw on the inside. I think the let down was the tempura dipping sauce - I don't know it didn't particularly have that much taste or enough of a kick to bring the tempura itself to life. The sauce didn't even have grated radish inside it which is also something I quite like.
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| Tempura (anticlockwise): tofu tempura, prawn tempura, fish tempura and shitake tempura |
Overall, the service was quite good (although, it wasn't too busy at the time). They topped our teas up without asking and the food arrived promptly. I like that the tea is unlimited. The food itself was not bad, but nothing 'stood out'. I would say that this is a nice place, the atmopshere is friendly in general. Most of the tables, it seemed, were mainly suited for groups of 2-4, with possibly one table for maybe 8? but then again I didn't particularly observe.
Food = 6.5/10
Atmosphere = 6.5/10
Service = 7/10
Recommend? yep for a nice informal evening with friends
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