Restaurant/cafe #17 Yo! Sushi, Harvey Nichols, Edinburgh

I love sushi. If I could afford to, I’d have sushi every day. One unfortunate downside of my trip to Japan in the summer is that now I’m back home, sushi seems damn expensive (Oh how I miss you ¥150 tuna nigiri). My friends Cat, Tom and Laura also love sushi, and have long been on at me to go to Yo! Sushi with them.

Given their month-long January Blues promotion, where most of the menu is available for £2.50 a plate, this week found me meeting up with them to check it out. I have to say, I left bitterly disappointed.

Key to the “kaiten-zushi” concept is ensuring a varied selection of dishes. I don’t know if it was just down to the promotion or not, but the conveyor belt was sparse at best during my visit. To make things worse, several of the items our group ordered never turned up, despite chasing them up twice. They were kind enough to give us a 20% reduction on the bill, but when Edinburgh is so generously equipped with Japanese restaurants it’ll take more than that to entice me back.

Thickest cut sashimi ever, drawing with soy sauce on napkin, 7″ present from Tom