Donabe
Japanese restaurant · South Bank
Southbank Riverside, Belvedere Rd, London SE1 7PB, United Kingdom
Highlights
Clay pot rice, grilled eel, and Wagyu highlight this spot
Clay pot rice, grilled eel, and Wagyu highlight this spot
"This chic Japanese restaurant has incredible interiors by architect Kengo Kuma with bamboo that climb the walls like a futuristic forest. The haute-cuisine level of Japanese food, dishes too are little sculptural marvels and a modern take on traditional kaiseki. Sake bar, Ni Ju San, has an extensive sake collection, and hosts sake and umeshu — traditional plum wine — appreciation classes for those who like to learn as they drink." - dn&co.
"Never judge a book by its cover or a restaurant by its entrance. It may be quite quirky in its looks but the omakase at this sweetly run Japanese restaurant provides an enjoyable and well-rounded experience, as the ingredients are as impressive as the chef’s knife skills." - Michelin Inspector
"Much like going to see a 180-minute movie at a posh cinema, eating in Hannah Japanese Restaurant’s mahogany-filled dining room is a calming experience. One that ensures 2.5 hours safe from the rain and one of the better meals you’ll have in London, combined. Eight courses—including plenty of edible flowers and Japanese pottery you’ll fleetingly consider stealing—later, and hopefully the weather will have improved. But if not, channel all of that raw fish you just ate at this Waterloo restaurant and embrace the rain." - rianne shlebak, sinead cranna
"From £125 per person It’s important to pick the right person for dinner at this warm and perfectly peaceful restaurant in Waterloo. It needs to be someone you want to spend two and a half hours with and just as importantly, someone whose sense of wonder will also be triggered by stellar sashimi arriving on a theatrical glass platter. Hannah Japanese is a restaurant where every steamed urchin, charcoal-grilled wagyu beef, and caviar-adorned turnip is delivered with a quiet, old-school confidence. It’s perfect for big-ticket date nights or a memorable evening with someone who also gets a little teary-eyed over wagyu." - Rianne Shlebak, Jake Oliver, Heidi Lauth Beasley
"Hannah is a Japanese restaurant which aims to provide our guests with authentic and unique experience through high quality dishes and the culture behind them."
