Sticks N Sushi

Sushi restaurants are popping up all over the place at the moment, which is great. The problem is lots pop up that are not so great… Stick n Sushi is not one of them! Considering it’s in the middle of Covent Garden it is also one of the best value Sushi Restaurants around!
It’s a great modern setting, with great service which is always important. But as usual it’s all about the food for me!
Sticks n Sushi has a great menu… delicious sushi, along with some great meat sticks which is what makes these guys a bit different.
Make sure you share as there is so much to choose from, and you don’t want to miss out. Some of my favourites include…
Sashimi Mix
Ebi bites
Yakiniku steak
Sushi Rolls-​Mix it up, we love Duck and Crab the best
Spare Ribs
Emmental in Bacon sticks
Black Cod sticks
Scallop in Bacon sticks
That will give you a great mix, but go for what you like. it’s all good!
The sticks are really good, but don’t go overboard as the usual suspects on the menu are great.
Sticks n Sushi also has a great cocktail menu, so try and wok your way through them as well!
Go with at least 3 other people, and give yourself a couple of hours to enjoy the place!

For me it’s one of the best sushi chains in London and it didn’t even open up its first restaurant in London but Denmark.
Even during the busy Christmas season for our annual Christmas lunch, high quality of food and service delivers.
We started with some soy cured salmon with minced shiitake mushrooms. The salmon was beautiful and rich in flavour. The texture was smooth and the minced mushroom was a lovely companion adding more depth and silkiness. An excellent start.
Next was the Japanese potato salad, a lovely simple potato mash contrasted nicely with the crunchy vegetables of carrots, cucumber and onions. Tasty light and healthy.
The salmon and avocado maki were perfect. The rice cooked well and held perfectly when you held it. The flavour of the silky rich salmon shone straight through the roll. Quality right there.
The only dish that didn’t tickle my tastebuds was the green salad. It was too dry for my liking, too crunchy with the softer quinoa being lost in there. More softer leaves would have been preferred for a more equal texture so the avocado could be enjoyed and played its role.
Amongst us all we also ordered a sharing platter from the set menu. We chose the Upgrade platter that came with a variety of rolls and meat on sticks. Beautiful glistening sushi, all so incredibly fresh and the rolls were paired so well with the ingredients it came with too, all perfectly balanced in texture and flavour. So much creativity.
The sticks consisted of fresh tender flakey pieces of tuna, flavoursome, herby chicken meatballs and succulent juicy lamb chops. All delightful.
Last to arrive in the savouries were the scallops in a light kataifi pastry. The texture was amazing. A light crispy pastry incasing a fresh and bouncy scallop with burst of saltiness from the trout roe for that little extra bit of joy!
Dessert could have been the steal of the show itself. All presented beautifully and made with such creative flavours, fusing Japanese and Western flavours together. We had the coconut cake, crème brûlée, dark chocolate fondant, dark chocolate and sesame balls and vanilla icecream. All delicious and was the perfect ending to dinner.
I cannot recommend Sticks n Sushi enough. The atmosphere is fantastic, romantic and sleek as well as being child friendly. Bar seating downstairs for those who want to watch the chefs at work or large group tables for families and celebration. They have everyone covered. Of course the food is fantastic, of the highest quality and staff are trained to be knowledgable and as friendly as could be.

I went in to the restaurant to order take away. I was seated by a table while deciding what to order. The service was absolutely fabulous! The waitress checked in with me several times during my visit to ensure I hadn’t changed my mind about beverage and updating me on remaining wait time. Ordered a couple of different Uramaki roles, incredibly delicious.
Definitely the best sushi place in London!

I actually can’t review the food since we were never served before giving up and leaving.
After 15 minutes, I was going to bother the bartender for drinks but realized the couple sitting at the bar hadn’t been served either and they were sitting right there trying to get his attention.

Best sushi I’ve had outside of Tokyo. Solid 9.5/10.I haven’t had anything on the menu which ‘isn’t great’. Can’t wait to revisit next time I’m in LDN.

Fantastic food, great aesthetics, superb service. Overall, truly exceptional experience. Definitely returning! everything is good and fresh

I came here with a group of 5 girls on a rainy weekday evening after work for some sushi & sake combo (well it was gin actually but you get the jist) and this place was perfect for this purpose. Firstly the place is huge but still oddly cosy which is great when you want to talk freely without eves droppers. The atmosphere is a mix of professionals and creatives which makes you feel hip and the service seemed busy but the right level of attentive. The food was AWESOME! Sushi can be hard to great right but I loved the slight twist on standard dishes (grilled edamame — why hasn’t it happened before?!) with the platters a great selection for when you’re so hungry you can’t choose. The price point was right with it costing £50 for 3 courses, a cocktail each & some wine. I plan to bring the hubby here for one of our date nights, he definitely won’t leave hungry!

This place didn’t have the best sushis and I felt that it wasn’t authentically Japanese, the food and the atmosphere were both quite westernized,(still nice tho) but somehow I liked this place. Anyways I think it’s worth a go.

Wide offer of nigiri, sushi, sashimi, salads, etc. It is a great place for knowledgeable eater of Japanese food as well as those looking for traditional menus. I highly recommend.

Amazing don’t miss it if you are in London. It exceeded our expectations and is also great with kids since they have a menu for them. Cod sticks, Salmon ceviche roll and coral crab were amazing.

So much yes for SticksNSushi!
I have mad love for any place who can sit two overdressed and under-​dated ladies on a Saturday night sans reservations, so… props guys!
The lowdown as follows: had a crapton of sashimi, because carbs before marbs are the death of my social life, and it was sensational.
Also had a few «sticks» and non sushi items, including this cauliflower thing with truffle that was excellent, and a lamb with miso and butter stick (very good) a beef with garlic stick (good, tad chewy), an emmenthal and bacon (oh mother) and some rolls, including the Shake Daikon (good) and a hell’s kitchen roll.
Now I’m reading all of this, and what the actual fuck did I write that whole thing about carbs if I was going to order an entire wagon of food? Who knows anymore.
Anyway, the place is LOVELY and their menu is easily the most visually stunning I’ve seen in mah laaaaaf. Seriously. Great place, shall return upon becoming thin again.

Sushi was lovely, sashimi and tepenyaki were all undeniably good. But I was extremely disappointed by the arrogant attitude of the waiting team, the tricks playing around the waiting system, and the way they manage customer makes me felling like idiot. It is one of those tricky restaurant that I am feeling being fooled.
We walked in, didn’t book. The host by door told us will take us to the bar and having few drinks till the table is available. I certainly respect that and have no problem to wait. As soon as we were led to the bar, the waiter told us will be dinning at bar. To be honest I have no problem to eat on bar, but I hate the way they lie, this waiter was right standing at the door with the host. I wish to point out that there were plenty seats at that time, and I respect that reservation goes first so that I nicely asked if we could wait in case there are free tables. Anyway that never happened.
We felt exhausted and hated the service.

Sushi in London comes in one or two forms: One, cheap and terrible and usually eaten out of plastic containers in neon-​lit fast-​food versions of Japanese sushi joints. Or well-​crafted, well-​presented, delicious and ridiculously expensive meals in hot spots around town.
This is a story of the later.
Sticks N Sushi felt like it popped up overnight and then suddenly was everywhere. I had not checked it out and so when I had a meeting who wanted to eat here, how could I say no?
I couldn’t, and I didn’t.
On first glance, it’s beautiful. On second glance, it’s even more beautiful. It’s modern décor at it’s best: dark lighting, black tables, wooden giant eyes on the walls watching you as you go, even the menu is a work of art, with interesting Instagram-​esq pictures with quirky captions spliced between the food.
And oh, the food. They do a mixture of Japanese fusion here but mostly it’s two things: sticks (or meat on sticks) and sushi (or sushi). We tried a selection of a bunch of things. Some was some of the most phenomenal things I’ve eaten in London, like the fried cauliflower with black truffle sauce. Holy woah. Or the edamame, which was a gigantic portion with a spicy sauce. Loved it. Some, like the California rolls (I know, I know, it’s your most basic Americanised sushi, but hear me out) was disappointing, too much things packed into a roll and created kind of an, «Eh,» flavour. This one feels like a hard one to mess up and yet, it was just kind of there. Sad next to the shrimp tempora roll, which was delicious, and the previously mentioned cauliflower.
More surprising, while expensive, it’s not ridiculously make you gasp when you see the bill expensive like other sushi joints in town. It’s not an everyday meal but it’s not a once a year meal either. I will be back.

Danish sushi chain, why not? The food is decidedly Japanese but with a strong dose of Western bravado. If you’re looking for the normal subtleties of Japanese cuisine, you’re barking up the Scandinavian tree. But don’t let that deter you. Sushi N Sticks is loud on cool wood design and big flavours.
A copious meal for two with drinks came to £99. The menu is a beautifully photographed but slightly ridiculous (and overwhelming long) menu of sushi, yakitori and other bits and bobs of Japanese food items. There is a shorter book of preset menus to help those who can’t muster the energy to work through the main menu.
We had:
Grilled and green salad: there must be something ridiculous like 20 ingredients in the salad. It’s pretty to look at and topped with a bold salad dressing. I enjoyed this but my eating partner found it too strong.
Spare ribs: delicious! Fall off the bone meat coated in a super tasty sauce
An assortment of sushi rolls:
— crab coal sushi roll was with black coal rice which was a cool contrast to the normal white. I didn’t really like this as much as my friend. I thought there were too many things trying to happen at the same time.
— Hells Kitchen Roll: I was slightly apprehensive about the BBQ sauce but I liked this roll. Pretty to look at, tasty to eat
— crispy ebi roll: this was my favourite. I thought the shrimp and the crunch came through really well to contrast with the rice
We also had two smaller rolls which were good but not necessarily outstanding (ebi and chilli and salmon and scallion).
Our waiter was awesome. He was a bearded Asian guy with a fab smile and friendly demeanour. Why can’t all service in London be like this?

I am an avid lover of SUSHI!
I was recommended Sticks and Sushi by a friend, again very chic and modern (slightly pretentious).
Cocktails are lovely, mostly made with Japanese influenced alcohol, including sake.
There is a lot of varieties on the menu from ramen to raw fish sushi and steak fillet sushi.
For starters I had the scallops placed in a light batter with a mustard base sauce. Very pleasing for the pallet.
The food is beautiful presented, for mains we ordered a variety of sushi fish based mains. I’d personally pick out a dish on every page of the menu to give yourself variety and a choice of flavours. Throughly enjoyed my experience and the food was definitely vibrant and flavoursome.
HIGHLY recommend sushi lovers to visit, the only downside to the restaurant is that is very pricey.
Don’t be afraid to add a pinch of wasabi to your sushi!

Popped by for a brief dinner, and the food was great but the service was very disorganised.
We had time for only small dishes. I went for an 8pcs plate of rainbow rolls. The ingredients were very fresh which I appreciated. However, perhaps it was too fresh — the rolls disintegrated very easily and I would have expected better, neater rolls than that from a restaurant of this price range.
Service, once again, was very disorganised. They messed up my friend’s plate, and it took them some prodding to finally bring it out.
Ambience was quite nice. A bit noisy, but posh enough for dates.
I’d go back to try out some of the other dishes — the menu looked good. I do hope their service will have improved by then.

Love the food hate the menu.
Its a great place to eat and enjoy yourself. Staff is great and helpful but very busy pretty much most of the day. The only problem was the menu, little description and a lot of pictures. Great for eye candy, but not for ordering.

Sehr freundliche Bedienung. Das Essen war sensationell und auch genug. Reservierung ist zu empfehlen.

Sticks and Sushi was highly recommended to me by my friend I was staying with in London this weekend. I live in San Diego CA and my friends from home told me I should check out Sushi Samba but he said that was very touristy, hard to get a reservation and the food at S&S was much better. Now I eat a lot of sushi and sashimi and I am beyond impressed with the food I had at S&S.
First of all we had a very nice server by the name of Sebastian who was from Denmark, my friend let him know it was my Birthday and he wished me a happy birthday. He walked us through both menus, took our drink orders and gave us some time to look through the menu. I could have ordered everything, it all sounded delicious and their menus are mini booklets with a photograph of each option next to the bite and description. I’ve never seen a menu like that before, it’s a great idea as it makes everything look and sound more appetizing. We picked out several things we wanted and out of that Sebastian gave us his recommendations and I’m glad we listened.
We started with edamame, you can never go wrong with that, we had the plain but they offer a spicy option. Next we had the tuna tartare which was my favorite bite out of everything we had on this day, it had pine nuts, avocado, was full of flavor and truly was to die for. Next we went for rolls, I chose the salmon rice paper roll which was a very neat concept and something I’ve never had before. It was more of a wrap, it had lettuce, carrots, cucumber and shrimp tempura (light on the batter side) all wrapped up in rice paper and then sliced into 6 pieces. I personally avoid to many rolls with rice so this was a perfect option for me. We also had the gipsy big roll which was very good then we had one of the small tuna chilli rolls.
I wanted more and if I come back I really would like to try their mini sides of vegtables. From looking at the pictures the oyster mushrooms looked good along with the cauliflower, broccoli and mini corn on the cobs.
We didn’t have cocktails as we had a busy day ahead but they have a variety of cocktails, beers and non-​alcoholic beverages.
I highly recommend Sticks and sushi for their service, atmosphere, food and my favorite part… looking through their cool menu booklet with the pictures!

Quick glance:
+ beautiful menu
+ beautiful sushi
+ patient and attentive staff
+ good décor and atmosphere
— Soho prices
Full review:
A friend invited me to lunch at Sticks N Sushi after she missed visiting the original concept in Denmark. So there you have it, it’s a Danish import and hence why you’ll find quite a few Danish beer on the menu.
The restaurant has a hipster feel to it, in a positive way, giving it a good ambiance. The menu is beautiful — every item has a picture and laid out like a guidebook rather than a normal menu one would scan from top to bottom, left to right. It was distracting at time as my eyes dart from picture to picture, but I enjoyed the novel experience.
The food that arrived at our table looked as beautiful as the ones pictured in the menu. The flavour of the sushi wasn’t mind-​blowing, but they tasted good and looked even better. On the other hand, the beef we had came with a wonderful sauce, and the dessert I had (black sesame ice cream) was packed with flavour.
The staff was very attentive to allergies requirements and double checked with the kitchen to make sure we don’t ingest anything we shouldn’t. The only downside is the Soho prices, roughly £30 each for lunch (a plate of beef, two plates of sushi, two desserts and one tea), but it is worth a treat. Overall, a great place to catch up with friends over some visually enticing food.

BEST SUSHI. EVER.
this place started off on the wrong foot with us, as they had misplaced our booking and wanted to act as if we had not in fact made one. until we pulled up the confirmation email from them… and then we were promptly seated.
i wish i could remember our server’s name, because he was just lovely and provided the best service we could have asked for! the menu is a lot to take in, and so we had to look at it for quite a while to get all the information. they offer lots of different options and combinations of things and it is difficult to decide!
we got a mix of different sticks and sushi rolls. all of it was absolutely on point. well cooked and prepared, with great flavor combinations. everyone in our party was thrilled with their choices, even my brother-​in-​law who had declared he had given up on finding good sushi in london. oh, and their seaweed salad is the best… i could have eaten three of them. and their children’s menu is just perfection for small ones!
the interior is really beautiful, and the seating is super comfy. modern but not stuffy, with simple lines and neutral colors. worth a go if you are near covent garden!

punkte: 10
(10 top, 0 flop)
allgemein: super japaner ganz im zentrum bei convent garden
empfang: sehr freundlich
auswahl: sehr vielseitige auswahl an sushi, sashimi, nigiri, spiesschen und anderen leckereien.
frische: sehr gut
service: sehr freundlich
wein: gute weinkarte, spezielle und feine weine
einrichtung: sehr weitläufig, im oberen stock etwas mehr halle als im unteren.
preise p/​p: 50 euro inkl. wein für 3 gänge mit kaffee
anmerkung: für london ein relativ preiswerter japaner, welcher allerdings von dänen, die in kopenhagen auch ein solches restaurant haben geführt wird.
sauberkeit der toiletten: sehr gut.
speziell: unbedingt das thunfisch tartar probieren. etwas vom feinsten, das ich je gegessen habe.