Donabe Hannah
Japanese restaurant · South Bank ·
Omakase tasting menus, bento boxes, and rare sakes in elegant interiors
Omakase tasting menus, bento boxes, and rare sakes in elegant interiors
"Donabe Hannah is a Japanese clay pot rice restaurant in Waterloo serving dishes like sea bream donabe cooked over coals and salmon roe donburi. We haven’t been here yet, but want you to know this spot exists." - Sinéad Cranna
"By night, Hannah is a truly majestic tasting-menu-only Japanese restaurant. But by day, it’s a truly majestic place to rock up to for a lobster tempura bento box that will make all your colleagues deeply jealous. If high-end grab-and-go options aren’t your thing, you can also sit down in their relaxing dining room for the katsu don, which just so happens to feature some of the best lobster we’ve ever had. Prices are high but hey, that’s lobster, baby." - heidi lauth beasley
"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
"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