Akira Restaurant

This Imperial Treasure Peking Duck Deadened Jay Rayner’s Soul | Eater London

"Located on High Street Kensington, this high-end Japanese spot pairs conspicuous comfort with food that earns breathless praise: a delectable sea bream appetiser precedes a robata omakase presented as a ‘vast box of treats’—a gastronomic advent-calendar of small delights. Highlights include meltingly soft wagyu accompanied by deliciously superfluous sushi; even a somewhat unnecessary pudding of custard with green tofu is framed as a forgivable blemish. The critic also notes the restaurant’s extravagant attention to comfort (including a top-notch, roughly £1,000 toilet), concluding that here it’s possible to eat as well as one sits." - George Reynolds