"**** food, dreadful service and uninspiring surroundings. There were chunks of plaster coming off the wall, and cobwebs and grime on the bathroom mirror. We ordered a starter to share and two mains. One main came out on its own and we assumed that it couldn't be ours as we'd only ordered 10 minutes ago. Then we had a bit of a to-do with the waitress, who said that it was ours, and if we had wanted our starter to come first, we should have said. She then brought the starter out first at our insistence, but clearly the mains had already been cooked and were just kept humming away under a hot plate – when they arrived immediately afterwards they were tepid and had a thick skin on the top. The empty plates from our starter were left on our table. The chicken katsu curry was really grim – a glorified chicken nugget with a gloopy and flavourless chip-shop sauce, and my friend didn't finish her tempura curry either. All this time the service was sullen and dismissive, and as the people next to us were also complaining about a missing order, so the atmosphere was pretty lacklustre for a Thursday night. I had previously been to the Feng Sushi in West Hampstead, which had a considerate and interesting proprietor and was a lovely place to eat – this is nothing like it. With so many options around Waterloo, you'd be better off going to a mass market chain like Wagamama for the price. At the very least, the food would be hot, and you wouldn't have your bill flung at you."
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