Richard's review of Soseki

A stunningly beautiful place in a grotty modern office building overlooking a modern sky-scraper; you could easily be in Osaka.

I have sat at the sushi bar and in the booths, and both are excellent. The sushi is inventive, the fish fresh the service attentive, and not so formal as many Japanese restaurants can be. Unless you are Japanese, or spend too much time hanging out in Japanese restaurants, the menu offers little expectation of what you will find on your plate. Instead, you put your palate in the hands of a small troop of chefs, who prepare beautifully proportioned and presented dishes, one after the other.

It is not cheap, but this is both: (a) Japanese; and (b) in the City, so what do you expect?

Unfortunately they didn't have the much advertised William Curley chocolates were not in evidence last time I went, but all that means is an excuse to go to his tiny shop in Richmond (enroll on the afternoon chocolate making session).