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Sushi Tetsu
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- Opening Hours: Mon-Fri 12N-3pm 6.30-10.30pm Sat 6-10.30pm
Square Meal Review of Sushi Tetsu 
Run by a delightful husband-and-wife team (he cooks, she deals graciously with the customers), Sushi Tetsu may be small but it feels airy and well appointed. Take your pick from an enticing range of nigiri, hand rolls, inside-out rolls, sashimi and the like, mix and match your ingredients or let main man Toru Takahashi (aka Tetsu) create something special for you – ‘nothing is too much trouble’, says a fan. Depending on the market, you might find different cuts of tuna, turbot, horse mackerel, razor clams, spear squid or sea urchin in various combinations with pickled radish, spring onion, cucumber, umeboshi plums and so on. Special ‘omakase’ feasts (from £50) may last up to three hours, so take your time, sipping saké or green tea as you go.
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- Address: 12 Jerusalem Passage, London EC1V 4JP
- Telephone: 020 3217 0090
- Email: info@sushitetsu.co.uk
- Website: Visit Sushi Tetsu
- Opening Hours: Mon-Fri 12N-3pm 6.30-10.30pm Sat 6-10.30pm
- Cuisine: Sushi
- Area: Clerkenwell, Barbican
- Price: £60.00
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Location of Sushi Tetsu
- Nearby Tube/Rail Stations
- Farringdon Tube Station .400m
- Farringdon Station .430m
- Barbican Station .433m
- Nearby Airports
- London City Airport Terminal .10.6km
- London City Airport .11.4km
- London Biggin Hill Airport .23.6km
- Nearby Landmarks
- London Metropolitan Archives .346m
- Smithfield .497m
- Worshipful Company of Haberdashers .576m
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The Insatiable Eater :: Sushi Tetsu - The Joy of Sushi
Sushi Tetsu is one of those rare places that reminds you why you go out to eat. This welcoming seven seater in Clerkenwell, run by an amiable husband and wife team, serves unpretentious, high quality sushi and sashimi to an appreciative audience. As you step behind the noren, hiding prying eyes from the street, you emerge into a cosy bar much like what you would find on the back streets of Japan. When I visited, the atmosphere was buzzing with happy punters, with the bubbles of conversation occasionally popping to be replaced with a soft groan of happiness or an appreciative nod to the chef, acknowledging a wonderful shared experience. It's the best sushi experience you'll find in London...
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Sushi Tetsu is an intimate, miniature sushi bar just down the alleyway from The Modern Pantry in Clerkenwell. It was opened by the ex-Nobu chef Toru Takahashi in June, 2012; I would have eaten there far earlier, if it hadn’t been for my pregnancy and the unanimous medical recommendations to avoid all raw fish while incubating a little human. It was a difficult 9 months without sushi — I remember salivating over instagram pictures and blog posts of beautifully crafted nigiri or perfectly fresh sashimi and I honestly couldn’t wait to dive in myself...
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Every so often (not often at all) you encounter a place that makes you fall in love with food and the dining experience all over again…a ‘food crush’ if you will. Sushi Tetsu is one of those rare places. It is almost as if time and space seize to exist when you enter into this small quaint Japanese restaurant and all that is left is you, the chef, the maitre de maison and above all the food...
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