Londoners Magazine

A new restaurant opened in Islington this weekend, that will be selling a combination of Italian and Japanese food.

In a move that would give Gordon “six-dishes-on-the-menu, local-produce-only” Ramsay a kitchen nightmare, Tokyo-Gino on Barnsbury Road has an array of dishes from both countries.

The restaurant’s website says they will be selling “sushi from the east, and wood fired oven pizzas and fresh made pastas from the west.”

Noodle and rice dishes, lasagnes and salads are all available on the menu which is absolutely enormous.

The two styles are kept separate (so no sushi pizza, or tomato and basil soba noodles) and cooked by two different “East and West” chefs, presumably on different sides of the kitchen, to avoid confusion.

This Londoners writer has never before seen or heard of such a thing as an Italian and Japanese restaurant, and commends the originality of the idea. It is also of the view that Islington badly needs a Japanese restaurant that isn’t Wagamama.

Punters can eat in or take away at TokyoGino. Look out for the first review on the web, right here on Londoners.