Roka, 37 Charlotte Street, W1T 1RR

Lovely cocktails - First of all a confession.  I may have been too engrossed in gossip with long-lost friends that I didn’t pay full attention to the food, oops.  - Vegetable tempura - However, I could tell Roka was very good – attentive service, interesting menu and delicate cooking.  We started with fantastic cocktails - a green tea martini and cherry blossom...

Roka : Japanese, expensive but oh so very good.

Roka is part of an ever expanding chain of zenith-class restaurants owned by German restaurateur, Rainer Becker. He also happens to own the Zuma line of luxury restaurants. Since he opened Zuma in 2002, and then Roka two years later, his highly acclaimed brand of refined Japanese cuisine has gone strength to strength, now Zuma and Rokas have expanded to Hong Kong, and in 2009, a new...

Too much good Japanese is a good thing: tweat-up reunion @ Roka Restaurant, London

Too much good Japanese is a good thing: tweat-up reunion @ Roka Restaurant, London - Some things in life are just impossible to have too much of. Hugs, for example, I could have all day every day, but that “work” thing, it gets in the way.  Japanese food, especially good Japanese food is another example. I could eat that all day every day too, but again work gets in the...