Wagamama

Wagamama Review

Canteen food wasn't like this at your school. Modeled on a Japanese canteen, Wagamama, with its long wooden tables and benches and high ceilings with exposed metal piping, ensures a unique communal dining experience. It attracts a young, loud crowd and is constantly busy. Formal courses aren't acknowledged—food is served as soon as it's ready, and appetizers and main courses arrive together. Edamame—steamed and salted green soybeans in the pod—are a delicious starter and great fun to pop open and eat. Choose from filling bowls of ginger chicken udon (teppan-fried udon noodles with chicken, egg, beansprouts, spring onion, and chili) or chili beef ramen, and wash it down with fresh fruit or vegetable juice. There's also a fine selection of beers and sakes for the less abstemious.