Yo! Sushi
It is not always easy to search for the best foreign cuisine in London. You may have or not recently noticed that food prices are rising in supermarkets, even in restaurant bars because of all the fuss about; new cafe shop businesses developing; health services providing customers with advice on dieting and lighter meals for vegetarians; and the existence of newer, popular restaurant brand names - such as BENJYS and ’starbucks’….the list goes on and on……everyone is obsessed about eating and living a different lifestyle.
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For the first project - in semester 1 – my task was to choose and investigate a single culinary experience. I was also assigned to analyse spatial charateristics between people and the built environment, within a particular cafe-bar restaurant. ‘Yo! Sushi’ is originally a modernised cafe or sushi bar; where customers are served with a variety of free drinks and also offered with a multiple choice of food dishes (which consist of Japanese and newer western cuisines).
Compared to other restaurants I visited, Yo Sushi was far cheaper to order food off the menu and the service itself provides its own webpage so customers can also order summer food on the net. Rather than the cafe bar being private to the public, it is instead a really suitable place for people to socialise; and the interior setting of any Yo Sushi cafe you walk into is completely stylish, futuristic, contemporary and tropically beautiful. It is a new architectural experience and you will be able to understand what Japanese culture stands for once you’ve tried it. You will be provided with chop sticks and be allowed to collect dinner plates with cooked food from the conveyor belt located next to wherever you sit at, however you will have to pay cheaply. Each plate provides vegetable foods (fish, salmon, rice & noodles) and the price is indicated by colour marks on each plate. You order food later after you’ve eaten your meal.
I went to one of the Yo Sushi restaurants and found out that costs for food & drinks vary depending which meal you pick so try it! Yo Sushi cafe bar is just three blocks away from where waterloo station is. If you walk along Belvedere Road from Waterloo Road, and then walk towards the A302 you will find Yo Sushi bar round the corner of one of the high-rise buildings.
The interior of the cafe is divided into two different sized rooms. The small room is the reception area and main entrance to the cafe-bar. The larger room consists of both the main kitchen and dining area, for where people await to be served. The kitchen area is architecturally centred in the larger room and also surrounded by a widen, four-sided bar table (that consists of a circular-formed and mechanised conveyor belt). Customers are prohibited to enter the kitchen, however you are allowed to walk round in the dining area.
”Yo Sushi stores are supplied with funky settings and service that it offers to its customers. Brightly coloured modern benches and tables surround the sushi train belt, with overhead spot lighting brightly focusing on the sushi on the bench. Taps built into all the bench tops provide endless spring and sparkling water, and at the same time giving the store a reason for charging an excessive amount for this privilege”……
”It is another franchise, following Wagamama’s successful formula of modernising traditional cuisine but this time applying it to the sushi train concept….Healthy grub woudn’t you say?”
Post references: http://www.yosushi.com/ &
http://www.londononline.co.uk/profiles/185690/ (map location)
