The Chisou

London, United Kingdom

3.3

Closed now

23 reviews

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Telephone:
+44 20 7629 3931
Website:
www.chisourestaurant.com
Address:
4 Princes Street, London, United Kingdom, W1B 2LE
Mayfair
Nearby public transportation stops & stations:
350 ftOxford Circus Station
480 ftOxford Circus
550 ftOxford Circus Station/Margaret Street
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Takes Reservations
Yes
Delivery
Yes
Take-out
Yes
Accepts Credit Cards
Yes
Good For
Dinner
Parking
Street
Bike Parking
No
Wheelchair Accessible
Yes
Good for Kids
Yes
Good for Groups
Yes
Attire
Casual
Noise Level
Average
Alcohol
Full Bar
Outdoor Seating
Yes
Wi-Fi
Free
Has TV
No
Dogs Allowed
No
Waiter Service
Yes

Today

Today 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm
6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Closed now
Local time (London) 12:22 AM Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Business hours

Monday 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm
6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Tuesday 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm
6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Wednesday 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm
6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Thursday 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm
6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Friday 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm
6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Saturday 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm
6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Sunday 1:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Description

Specialties

Possibly the best Sake list in London

History

Established in 2002.

Chisou Mayfair opened its door in Septemeber 2002 and since then a large amount of ex-​pats have visited us every day.

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23 reviews of The Chisou

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Place rating: 3
London, United Kingdom
Mediocre at best. The beef tataki was my favourite amongst all the dishes ordered. We ordered plenty due to the small size.
Anyway, like I said, mediocre…
Price to size portion barely makes the worth. There’s a bunch of other Japanese restaurants in London that’s worth going to, this isn’t.
Nice area and décor.
Place rating: 3
London, United Kingdom
Got the Blue Fin Tuna (all three fatty variations), Yellow Fin tuna, Seared Salmon, Seared Fatty Tuna, and the Tofu Soba. It was all very decent and everyone was really friendly. The sushi was very fresh.
I didn’t feel particularly swoony about Chisou but it’s a solid place for sushi and izakaya.
Place rating: 3
Cork, Republic of Ireland
Went here for dinner this week. Food is decently good and service is very friendly at this establishment. They have a nice imported beer from Niigata prefecture in Japan and the sushi was fresh, other dishes were tasty although portions were a bit on the small side, also the prices are not low. I would say that this is not a great spot for a dinner due to the food-​to-​price ratio, but would be a good place to visit as an izakaya (which, fair enough, is in the name of the restaurant), which is to say, go there have some drinks and a bit of light food rather than a full meal.
Could possibly bump up another star after future visits…
Place rating: 4
London, United Kingdom
Décor is typically Japanese — simple. Not very romantic but it makes up with the fact that its relatively quiet. Visited several times and food is always kept at high standards, most probably as its run by Japanese. Sushi is excellent as well as hot dishes, all presented with meticulous manner. Food is a bit pricey, but its still cheaper than Nobu and quality-​wise its the same. They also have take-​away next door and worth popping in to grab lunch. Overall one of best sushi in town.
Place rating: 3
London, United Kingdom
Well. yeah OK, the classical place you say A-​OK. I mean, I enjoyed my time here, but with the London current offering of restaurants I’m pretty sure I’ll never get back here.
Me and my lady came here on a saturday night with a single good objective, sushi! And they delivered, sushi was pretty good (I mean 4-​stars good, not «I want to crawl and cry like a baby» good), rice at room temperature (a little bit hotter, as it should be), a low amount of wasabi and a nice, thick raw of slice fish, definitely well done and organized. Even the choice of fishes for the mixed sushi (9 pieces + a roll) was good and covering several degrees of consistencies and flavors, and the inside-​out prawn tempura roll was definitely the top hit.
We also had a mixed tempura which unfortunately was undertone, the batter was too oily and fat and the ending was not crispy, a classical for bad tempura.
Service was unfortunately very poor and the reason (with the tempura) this is a 3 stars review rather than a 4 stars, badly organized, we had to repeat the same orders over and over (water for example), we always had to speak with different waiters and they of course remembered different things, I mean it’s like there was no pre assignment of the tables and everybody was just happily do everything they wanted! A little bit of organization would do great to the restaurant, as the sushi chefs surely know how to prepare delicious dishes!
Place rating: 5
London, United Kingdom
Mmmmmmmmm. I was mesmerised by the food here… especially the tuna and salmon rolls!!! Omg!!! And the mackerel sushi!!! And the Eggplant. OMG. The service was excellent. Wow. As Jack says in Season Three of Lost ‘We have to go back Kate. We have to go back!!’
Place rating: 3
London, United Kingdom
It’s a good restaurant, yet, not good enough for me to give it 4 stars or above. The food was fine, but considering the cost, it was not really worth it. For example, I ordered the selection of tempura as well as the tempura roll, and both of those were not as crispy as they should be. For starters, we ordered soft shell crab and something-​croquette, they were ok, but not amazingly delicious or anything, I would recommend you try Eel (Unagi) if you are here, since that was the dish that I found most satisfying of the night. Well, in short, this place didn’t amaze me at all given its very high prices.
Place rating: 4
London, United Kingdom
Chisou is in a posh area of town and the restaurant itself is decorated nicely, but the lighting is a bit too dim for my liking. It was a hassle trying to read the menu by candlelight!
However, the food were top notch. We had an excellent sushi to start and the flavour combination is just right to make you wish you could order more (at the expense of not finishing your hot main course!). I ordered the grilled black cod and this was cooked perfectly, with a soft delicate body and just melts in your mouth.
The service was good although we kept having several different waiters ask us the same question that someone else has asked already, which, whilst they have the best intentions in mind, could be coordinated better.
We played a little prank on waitress when getting the bill. She had her back turned to us at the till and my friend had the best impression of bird chirping ever and we watched for her reaction. We could tell she was smiling on the reflective wall in front of her but she artfully ignored us: D and continued as if nothing strange is happening at the table behind her.
Good place to go to if you do not want to share the restaurant with a lot of other guests as the area at the side room we were in (right outside the kitchen) were quite secluded and made for good catching up with friends from overseas! However, if you need to read business documents over dinner, then you will need to go to a more well-​lit place!
Place rating: 4
London, United Kingdom
The wine selection was good. The sushi was nice and seemed fresh. The staff seemed nice and the service was good. The place looked great and outdoor seating was available.
Place rating: 3
London, United Kingdom
This place is super cute and is literally bang downstairs to my office, so great location! I personally thought the food was really good, but the combo food-​price was off-​putting. I think it commands prices of a much more luxurious place without the atmosphere — and it didn’t have my beloved sea urchin on the day of, so… bummer!
This place is definitely a 3 ½ stars because the food is actually quite good. They should have a lunch menu, spending 35 pounds on lunch is cray cray.
Place rating: 3
London, United Kingdom
It seems they put the prices up without actually putting more effort into their soups or sushi. Mediocre noodle soup for £10 is rather steep.
Place rating: 2
London, United Kingdom
Incredibly tiny quantity of food. I had their lunch worth £6 at 12.30pm and was hungry again at 2.30pm. I know Japanese food is never a lot, but this is ridiculous.
Place rating: 4
San Francisco, CA
This lovely little Japanese restaurant has good food and friendly service, something you can never take for granted in London. The sushi and sashimi is traditional and basic which adds to the delightfulness of this place. The food quality is amazing every day. Every member of the staff is attentive and friendly, especially the chefs.
Chisou has become one of my favourite restaurants in London. I’m a regular!
Place rating: 4
London, United Kingdom
OK, I feel the need to chime in here. I’m fond of Go Chisou– I always sit at the bar and order from the menu. I find the food to be very good and the prices to be almost ridiculously fair. For around 20 quid for a meal plus a beer, you will be stuffed and happy. Very good resource for my neighbourhood. And, to compare Go Chisou to Pret, as the previous reviewer did, when Pret use English Mayonnaise in their rolls, is absurd. Go Chisou is in the epicenter of London’s tourist bustle, yet makes a strong effort to be a locals place and much better than it needs to be. I commend them.
Place rating: 3
London, United Kingdom
Grabbed lunch from the takeaway section Go Chisou here yesterday. Very overpriced compared to other takeaway sushi, but that in part has to be blamed on the Mayfair location. Prawn and spinach salad was delicious with a fabulous yuzu dressing. Avocado sushi was your average avocado sushi extra points for ripe avocado. £10 including a diet coke is double the price of Itsu around the corner, but for freshness, quality and variety it’s definitely the winner.
Place rating: 3
London, United Kingdom
Their donburis are top notch but the prices are oh dear. Why do you have to pay £12 for a salmon donburi when you cant get through more then a half of the rice in a bowl? It’s a shame they can’t cut the price by serving less rice and then all would be perfect (it does include miso soup, but still…)
The place is smallish size, there are tables outside once the weather improves and generally quite a relaxed hide out when you find yourself on Regent street with an empty stomach. Don’t get me wrong, the food and drinks are tasty and authentic, but seriously overpriced-​this place doesn’t have much ‘atmosphere’ either. I would go for the takeaways if I could afford it…
Place rating: 3
Manhattan, NY
Relative to its price, the food is average.
The four of us ordered a good variety of food (tempura, grilled salmon, sushi etc). But none turned out mind-​blowingly good.
However, the thing I like about this place is its location and décor. It’s quiet yet very conveniently located.
Place rating: 4
New York, NY
Went twice while in town for business recently. First time I had a lovely appetizer — spinach cubes that were cold and nicely seasoned with a light soy based sauce. Next I ordered a noodle soup which was gorgeous looking but unfortunately flavorless, very disappointing.
Next time I went I ordered a cold tofu salad that, in the description on the menu, should have had a dressing of some sort but arrived bare and flavorless. I was sitting at the sushi bar & the sushi chef prompted me to splash some soy sauce on it. Of course that made it better. Next I ordered the tuna sashimi and a side of rice. The sashimi was delicious. Moral of the story — stick with the raw fish.
Place rating: 2
Menlo Park, CA
I hate to be the downer about this place but three of us had lunch there yesterday. We shared:
The chef’s 9 piece sushi platter
Two rolls — Tekamaki and Kapamaki
Shrimp and Veggie Tempura
It all tasted fine — not great as the white fish weren’t beautiful — but two of the three of us got very sick last night.
The restaurant is sweet and small and the service is efficient and as a San Franciscan, it compared well enough to our West Coast sushi. But there is too much coincidence that we shared this food and 2 of 3 got sick.
Place rating: 4
London, United Kingdom
The only restaurant in London where they answer the phone in Japanese!
Chisou has a take-​away oriented half (with some tables) and an eat in side at two adjacent shops round the corner from Oxford Circus. We turned up on a beautifully sunny day and although there are three tables outside the takeaway we’d booked to eat in. Thankfully the manager set up an extra outside table (balanced a little precariously) and saved my good mood! I was very pleased.
We had their chef’s special menu with a salad, miso soup, mixed tempura, either of sushi or sashimi (with rice) and an orange for dessert. It was all very good and the service really was excellent, although they’d occasionally forget we were outside.
All in all an excellent, central location for good Japanese and the opportunity to watch the ladies of Mayfair go by.
Place rating: 1
London, United Kingdom
Nothing says success like a poorly produced copy. Go Chisou is the sad younger sibling of popular Japanese restaurant Chisou. Opened up directly next door, it’s sushi fast food style. They cater to mostly office workers, selling pre-​packaged too-​cold sushi from a fridge cabinet and you can get the fresh stuff made to order. They have a couple of seats at the sushi bar and a larger sitting section in the back and downstairs, which is windowless and depressing.
I used to pop in, grab a couple of pre-​made maki rolls and sit at the bar with my book. But as with any ‘good’ thing, they now only let you sit if you order from the menu. Can’t imagine why I’d bother, the sushi chef isn’t even Japanese and the staff don’t exactly welcome you with open arms. As with a lot of west end places, they seem to ‘manage’ takeout patrons — how long you can stand looking at the selection, how you pay and how you are hustled out of there. The fact that none of the staff speak much English, or pretend not to anyway, makes the process even less appealing — sort of like rudeness by default. Go Chisou is a step up from Boots and Pret sushi, it’s fine if you need something to hit a sushi craving but only if you’re not choosy.
Place rating: 4
London, United Kingdom
I come from Manila and when I got to London, I was very surprised at the lack of authentically good Japanese food — given that London is very cosmopolitan.
But Chisou was good enough for me actually — the tempura is still not very fluffy but fluffy enough, compared to that of other Japanese restaurants. I ordered the tempura udon once and tempura maki the other time and both were very enjoyable.
Its location is very good too — near the bustling Oxford Street yet far enough to escape the chaos.
Place rating: 1
London, United Kingdom
This restaurant makes Nobu look cheap!
It is very expensive and the food is average.
I ask to get some more dressing for my salad for which i got charge £1.80 !
Thats not acceptable. Show me another place in London were you have to pay to season your food? :)