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Closed - Young Bean have applied for an alcohol licence at this site. --Kake

This is a bit of a strangely positioned restaurant, sitting on the southeast corner of the raised barbican section - just round the back of the Guildhall.

Lunch

They do a very small japanese menu and nothing else - this however is not a bad thing. They do what looks like (although I didn't try it) good sashimi and sushi, as well as a selection dishes based on fried, breaded chicken fillets, pork fillets, HUGE prawns or tempura (veggie i think).

e.g.

• Pork Katsu - HUGE plate of rice, pork fillet and katsu curry (full of random veggies)
• Chicken Teryaki - Chicken fillet with teryaki sauce, served with miso and rice

They've got a small selection of wine, along with a couple of bottled beers and cans of soft drink.

The main meals (including sushi boxes) are �8 or �9, soup and rice are �1 extra if you don't buy a meal where they're included. They also have a few smaller things for �5-�7.

The portions (including the sushi - I saw the guy layering up some sushi boxes...) are pretty big, with the curry being the biggest lunchtime portion I have ever seen, and the quality seems to be universally good.

(When I did get round to trying the sashimi - a salmon and tuna board - the tuna was a bit fishy and old tasting...I haven't tried it since. However, I have since tried the tempura, which was excellent, and their specials, variable but generally good (make sure you ask what they involve as you can sometimes get something totally different from what they *seem* to describe) - Billy)

All in all, an excellent place for lunch, as long as your hungry. It can get quite full at lunchtimes, and I don't think you can book - expect to wait 10 minutes or so for a table.

Dinner

They do a seperate dinner menu, available from 6pm.

Takeaway

They also now do a takeaway menu as well, and have a seperate takeaway room on the side of the restaurant similar to the Japanese takeaway booths that you find all over the city these days ([Tomodashi Unit] for example).

Food ranges from a top end of �3.99 for most rice/meat/fish dishes down to about �1 for some plain noodles.

They also do sushi boxes ranging from �1.20 to �6.40.

Directions

Check the website for directions - the restaurant is on the higwalk, near the bridge section over the west end of London Wall. There are access points to the highwalk (marked on the website map) in Moorgate station (western most bit has an escalator up) as well on Basinghall Street and various other places. The restaurant is just south of the bridge over London Wall.