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Just awful
When the waitress said -you will just have to wait - for a third time I realised what a disaster this place was. They still seem to think it is 2020 with signs extolling you to wear masks. The said waitress was masked and gloved and had no interest in her customers. You order through QR codes only to find that half the stuff hasn’t gone through- but the won’t tell you what you have ordered. You just have to wait. The manager even encouraged me to write to the owner as he is sick and tired on all the complaints. If you want to go somewhere where - you just have to wait -then you will love it. I suggest sensible people avoid
Be the first to ReplyA little disappointing
I’m not convinced the Caribbean - Japanese fusion thing works. The noodle dish with bacon was pretty odd, the various fried small plates were quite stodgy and overall it all lacked either the flavours and feel of the Caribbean or the delicacy of Japanese food. Not awful but I probably wouldn’t go back
Be the first to ReplyBirthday dinner
We had a wonderful night at Nanban recently for a 20th birthday dinner with family. The food was excellent, as were the cocktails, and the service was amazing! They even brought out a dessert with candles for the birthday girl. Thank you!!
Be the first to ReplyStodgy
Simple test of any restaurant is would you return or recommend, sadly no. Worst gyozas I have ever had, soggy. Apart from that the two mains we had were stodgy and over salted.. note to restaurant owners, the pandemic is over, the hassle of QR codes takes away from the dining experience, as do masked staff.. Environment is tatty…. We were looking forward to it, both foodies, this is not a return, many other better quality restaurants in the locality
Be the first to ReplyExcellent
Great food in a very atmospheric location. One of the best in the area. The ramen has an incredibly intense broth that is to die for.
Be the first to ReplyQR CODES!!
You have completely taken the customer experience away from this beautiul restaurant. Get menus back!
Be the first to ReplyGreat food
Went with my 2 friends on a Saturday night. Seated with a smile and all the workers wore masks so it was very safe. I ordered the goat ramen noodle which was excellent, very spicy! We also tried warm sake with our meal which was delivered quickly. Would recommend!
Be the first to ReplyLess exciting than I was expecting.
I was expecting a more inventive menu. Having heard Tim Anderson talk about his food on Kitchen Cabinet and seen him on Masterchef but it was fairly standard fare
Be the first to ReplyCan't wait to return
We were craving some ramen and happened to stumble upon Nanban's Tue 2-for-1 deal. Upon research, we also found out its goat ramen was London's Top 60 must eat. We also ordered the Leopard and chicken ramen, plus a yuzu-sauce entree. All the dishes ordered had very nice flavours, and ramen broth was delicious! Will definitely go back!
Be the first to ReplyA disappointing visit
I was hoping for much more. Batter on the Tempura was more like batter from fish n chips, heavy and strong making it hard to make out what the vegetables were. Portions are smaller and look nothing like the image on the menu. Chicken Ramen was all brown, in colour and taste. Everything was so lacking in taste I was worried I had Covid but the beer was good, disproving that idea. Ordering directly from the website is a chore especially when you don't order everything together. Twice we had to get up from the table and walk around the restuarant looking for staff when we had a question or because a part of the order hadn't arrived. There is much better Japanese food at lower prices nearby
Be the first to ReplyIs this new ramen?
Passing by Brixton today and needed something to fill my stomach… the staff warmly welcomed me and brought me to a table. I ordered New Ramen for Faye Wong (Vegan) - attracted by the fancy name! To my great disappointment, the ramen tasted like half-cooked instant noodle, the ‘oyster mushroom chashu’ was too salty and soury and the spinach didn’t taste as fresh. I later realised the restaurant’s founder was a MasterChef winner, and customers may come with high expectations. In my opinion, there is no way the food I had today live up to that standard!
Be the first to ReplyExcellent Service
Amazing professional service from Hari and team, very enjoyable experience! Food was lovely and would return.
Be the first to ReplyDelicious food, quick service
Delicious food and friendly service on a rainy Monday night in late May. The welcome was great. I had an exemplary Sassy Sidecar cocktail. We ordered the Lazy Goat Ragu-men, the Aubergine and Courgette Tab Tan Men and the Yaki-Udon. All were excellent with the goat being stand out. Service was quick and smiley.
Be the first to ReplyLost its Nanban
Revisiting this place for a catch up with friends. Many pre-covid memories here of great food and good times. Sadly the place has really lost its way, its vibe and the quality of its food. We noticed several classic favourites are now missing from the menu and those that remain are tired imitations of their previous incarnations. Small plates were ok-ish. Yaki Soba was tasty but my Miyazaki Ramen was just plain bad. Cold chicken, tired veg, poorly prepped soy eggs and odd noodles floating around in a weird peppery broth. Overall the food has really lost its definition, the plating seemed messy, little attention to detail with presentation and TASTE of the dishes all suffering as a result. Seems the founder/chef has now moved on and it shows. The whole place just feels a bit lost and rudderless. Its not totally awful but has sadly gone from great to very very mediocre.
Be the first to Replymessing with classics.
Overall, it was an unpleased experience. Place looks gloomy and dark. It's not clean: dirty mirror in the toilet, dirt glass seatbacks etc. and also it looks like they don't care about keeping the place welcoming. You can also see the messy kitchen from your table. Waiters are not present. it looks like you are alone. I don't like waiters who breath on your neck but it looked like they did not exist. You are forced to order from the website like you are ordering a take-away, If I wanted to order a take away I would have been stayed home, where it's much cleaner than the restaurant. I knew it was a fusion and it sounded cool but they really messed up iconic dishes. Chicken teriyaki was a soup of teriyaki sauce and rice. Japanese rice is fluffy and delicious when it's not mixed up with sauces. The teriyaki sauce was salty. We asked to take ginger out of the recipe but we found chunks of ginger in the sauce. They've forgotten their prepared teriyaki sauce had ginger inside. My GF hates ginger and we sent it back. We appreciated they did not charge us about it but my GF was disappointed and still hungry. Gyoza were messed up too. All of them stuck together with a weird pancake-y batter. I was expecting Veggie in tempura to have some taste. They were tasteless. A lot of tempura batter and you could not distinguish which one was. I hoped for some interesting Brixtonian veggies from the market. I am not sure what I have eaten. Presentation was not great either. I am so sorry but I am not sure how they survived during the pandemic. It was seriously terrible.
Be the first to ReplyRuined by grumpy service and mad ordering system
Excited to visit and made a trip to Brixton just to do this restaurant - but I really did not want to spend my evening peering at my phone trying to get the creaky online ordering system to work. Not helped by the fact that in-house wi-fi wasn't working. 20 minutes to get a glass of wine! Grumpy staff were not sympathetic - but every table was complaining, so understandable.
Be the first to ReplyAks
Ridiculous system of ordering ONLY online while in the restaurant even when there’s no wifi -and god forbid you don’t have a phone….. meaning surly staff are resentful when you actually ask them to get something for you as opposed to staring at a screen while they walk past you. We waited 20 minutes to get a drink and more for food when they could have just taken our order like human beings - one to one using actual conversation. Insanity. There has to be another way. What ever happened to service ?
Be the first to ReplyChef Tim Anderson is needed back in the kitchen
We ate here about 3 years ago and thought the food really good, tasty, innovative and well presented
We tried it again today, having driven across London to do so. Oh dear!
Perhaps the fact it was empty, (us and one other couple) on a Saturday lunchtime and every other eatery in Brixton market was heaving should have been a bit of a warning
First of all the waitress was really nice and very apologetic about the fact we needed our phones to log onto the restaurant website, read the menu and order our meal.
Yep the waitress was standing right next to us but we placed the order including the table number, so bizarre and no customer connection
The restaurant looks shabby, the instructions for ordering are stuck to the wall by the table, all ripped and homemade, website info on an A4 sheet taped to the wall in several places. Just looks so unprofessional and looks like nobody cares anymore
I know Tim Anderson the originator and chef of Nanban left the restaurant at the end of 2021, the difference is marked (not that it tells you on the website he is no longer there)
We ordered 5 small plates,
Yuka, crispy fried chunky cassava. Heavy stodgy greasy, just awful, inedible
Gyoza, pretty boring and nothing special. You can buy these frozen in any asian supermarket and fry at home
Anarchy in the Yukhoe, this is a cold dish, korean beef tartare, macadamia nut, and nori oil. This was really cold and really greasy
Market Tempura, heavy and greasy, not tempura
Atlantic Prawn, tasteless, frozen battered prawns on a bed of tired lettuce the only above average thing was the yuzu, chilli dressing
Would not recommend any of the above
Desserts
We also ordered 2 desserts
these were better probably because most elements were bought in
Nanbanana, cinnamon ice cream, banana and miso butterscotch sauce
Happy Endings, (this is a company in East London) Miso salted caramel. Came on a plate still in the wrapping from the company they bought it from. No attempt at presentation at all
The bill when I ordered was £50.40 (including a bottle sparkling water). The restaurant had another 12.5% service charge added which is not mentioned online
Overall very disappointing, will not be rushing back across London to try again
Terrible
Still ordering like it’s covid off phone/ internet with info given by masked waiters who speak so fast it’s almost inaudible. Meal comes too fast and obviously terribly pre done and appears luke warm and stuck together. One of the worse meals I’ve had in a long time. Lettuce garnish looked shriveled. Someone needs to check on their name being associated with this restaurant. Shoddy and cheap feeling. Wi-Fi signs stuck everywhere like an Internet cafe and table information cut out in a misshaped kindergarten and very unthought manner. Will not return and will not recommend. Lazy.
Be the first to ReplyDire
From the get go it felt like I was at a knock off Japanese Nando’s. When we arrived the guy we spoke to said 2 minutes and pointed at a sticky bench, we then spectated 2 couples eating for a little while.
The 2 minute sticky bench man then led us to our table, asked if we “have been here before?” instructed us to order online and vanished.
The veg tempura had more batter than a Chicken ball from the Chinese. The Yaki soba was salty AF and on par with the noodle/veg/sauce deals you get from the veg isle in Tesco, then heading it to a 5 year old to make.
The one and only time the waitress spoke was to ask my gf if she had finished her half full drink whilst we were eating. She then leant over the table and dragged the empty glasses from it.
Italian and Dutch lager but they don’t have Kirin or Asahi
Chicken Karaage, Edamame and the cocktails were good tho!
Veg Tempura
Chicken Karaage
Edamame
Yaki Soba
Udon noodles
2 Bier Morretis
2 Mojitos
1 Negroni
12.5% ‘optional service charge’
£110
Dire
Food great but the Tempura is not Tempura.
Overall we had a great experience.
We ordered:
Yaki-Udon ×1 £15.00
Premium Sake Tasting Flight ×1 £20.00
Market Tempura (Vegan) ×1 £6.50
Hanetsuki Omni Gyoza (Vegan) ×1 £6.50
Angry Birds ×1 £10.00
Bacon and Curry Butter Yakisoba ×1 £15.50
All in all food was great.... The only sticking point for me was the Market Tempura, which was essentially battered vegetables. The batter was the kind you would find on a Chinese sweet and sour chicken ball..... Definitely not tempura. I was really disappointed when this dish arrived as I was looking forward to a light tempura batter but was met with a stodgy dense batter that just wasn't appetising. I don't think you should market this as tempura when it clearly isn't. Is a shame because everything else was great.
Such a disappointment
Genuinely one of the most disappointing meals I’ve ever had. Looked amazing, but both ramen broths were completely tasteless, the noodles were either under or over cooked and I had literally a slither of pork belly in my broth (which also had no flavour or seasoning). We had jackfruit KFJ as a starter too, which was average to poor.
Service was alright, but they didn’t seem fussed when I told them we weren’t paying the service charge due to the terrible food.
Closing down soon or something? Something has to change. Wouldn’t return.
Terrible
If you have any kind of dietary requirements go elsewhere. My friend who is coeliac ended up having to go get a microwave meal from Sainsbury’s for them to heat up for her as they couldn’t provide any gluten free options. This was despite someone (claiming to be the chef) assuring me they could accommodate this. The staff were rude and accusatory and uninterested in helping find a solution. As someone who has a shellfish allergy I stuck to the vegan option. It came well after most people had eaten and was pretty dull. Wagamama would have done better. The wine was nice though so that’s something
Be the first to ReplyGreat food bringing together Japanese cuisine with the tastes of Brixton
Having booked online we had no trouble getting a table when we arrived. We found the online menu easy to navigate, and appreciate the variety of meat, fish, and vegan options available. There was a great selection of drinks, both local and imported, which matched the Brixton-influenced menu. Service was efficient if not overly friendly. My only regret is that my bacon and curry butter yakisoba was filling enough that I had no room for dessert - next time I'll be back to sample a few of the small plates and, I hope, the Nanbanana.
Be the first to ReplyLovely food, good cocktails, ordering poor
Visited on a Friday evening. Food and drink was good, high quality ingredients and plenty of alcohol in the cocktails we ordered. Our favourites were the chicken Karaage and the tempura. I had the nanbanana for dessert which was amazing.
Would definitely return.
The only issue for me was the ordering system - most places now have gone back to ‘proper’ service rather than having to order on an app and I would have liked to have seen a proper menu and place my order with a person. That said, they didn’t seem to have a lot of staff for the amount of tables so maybe it’s to keep the burden off their waiting staff.