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The Aki journal: stories and guides on Japanese cuisine & dining from Cavendish Square

If you love Japanese cuisine as much as we do, you have found the right place. Inside this journal, we pull back the curtain on our kitchen, sushi counter, robata grill, and the Kiyori cocktail lounge. Whether you are searching for the best sushi in London, curious about binchotan‑fired robata, or want to understand our zero‑mile farm‑to‑table menu, we have you covered. Expect stories on Kobe beef certification, private dining, and the rhythm of Japanese hospitality in Marylebone.

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Aki London restaurant near Wigmore Hall offering pre-concert Japanese fine dining and cocktails

Restaurant near Wigmore Hall: pre-concert Japanese dining and cocktails at Aki

You have booked a night at Wigmore Hall, one of London's most treasured music rooms. The programme is set, the calendar is blocked, and the anticipation is real. But there is one variable left to solve:...

Aki London - best Omakase experience with authentic sushi

Authentic sushi in London? 5 signs you’ve found the real thing

Finding authentic sushi in London is harder than it should be. Too many restaurants promise Japanese precision, then serve fridge-cold rice, horseradish paste, and fish hidden under spicy mayo. Every piece of sushi at our Marylebone...

A full Japanese tasting menu in London including cocktail for under 75 pounds

A Japanese tasting menu under £100 in London? Thursday deal at AKI Marylebone

Finding a Japanese tasting menu under £100 in London is harder than it should be. Too many menus in the capital promise precision, seasonality, and omakase flair, then quietly dilute the experience the moment value enters...

Unique cocktails in London at Marylebone's latest new bar and cocktail lounge Kiyori underneath Aki London

Spring in a glass: the unique cocktails in London making Kiyori the lounge of the season

Around the Chelsea Flower Show, running this year from 19 to 23 May 2026, the city goes properly all in. Blossom in every florist window, peonies on restaurant tables, and a sudden city-wide confidence about horticultural opinions...

Hikari - Aki's new Japanese brunch in London, every Saturday at Aki Marylebone

Hikari: Japanese brunch in London, every Saturday at Aki

London has plenty of brunches. Very few feel distinctly Japanese, and fewer still manage to be both generous and genuinely well judged. Hikari, our new Saturday brunch in Marylebone, has been designed to sit in that...

Japanese cuisine restaurant in London: what it tastes like at Aki

London has no shortage of Japanese restaurants. What it does have a shortage of is Japanese cuisine done as a complete philosophy rather than a category on a delivery app. Most of the city's Japanese food...

A birthday dinner in London to remember

Every year, without fail, the panic sets in. Someone sends a WhatsApp to the group. Twenty-three unread messages later and you are no closer to a plan, the Saturday is already half-gone, and the only thing...

Condé Nast Traveller highlighted Aki's pristine sashimi and pesticide-free garnishes as some of the best sushi in London.

The best sushi in London should come with more than sushi

If you are searching for the best sushi in London, you are usually handed the same sort of list. A blur of omakase counters, reverent whispering about fish, and a great deal of theatre with surprisingly...