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74 Opinions in 2 websites
Placed an order through Just Eat. Food arrived 30 mins before expected time. It was the wrong order. I phoned and to be fair they advised they would send a completely new fresh order. They did. Ok to be honest. I had the tonkatsu with tonkatsu sauce and rice. Also ordered the prawn katsu with rice which didn't come with the first delivery. 3 thin strips of prawn meat in breadcrumbs was the main event for the "prawn" katsu curry. Not cheap at £13.95. Overall portion sizes were dismal, food was ok. Attentive in that they redelivered our order. Not decent value for money. Sadly we won't be ordering again.
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I first reviewed Koku Shi in September 2019 and gave it four stars, and we returned several times over the next few years (Covid permitting). Our most recent visit with our son was a great disappointment: not only had the prices risen a lot (not unusual in a restaurant over five years) but the quality had declined considerably. The nigiri tuna was thin and pale and the rice it sat on was almost as bad as supermarket sushi, the katsu sauce was thin and lacking in flavour. The sweet potato and ebi tempura were both especially disappointing: the contents of the former were very thin sweet potato batons with almost no texture and the contents of the latter were the skinniest prawns I have ever come across. The batter on both was way too thick and greasy. I lived in Tokyo for six years so I know my Japanese food, but was still favourably impressed by the 2019 incarnation of Koku Shi. The best that I can say about the current incarnation is that the boiled rice was quite good. We will probably not be back.