Abeno Okonomiyaki Restaurant Review

One of the best okonomiyaki in London - it s delicious and not too oily.

Things I ll recommend:
- generally all food cooked in front of you on the teppan
- okonomiyaki- we recommend having all sauces and add pork to your selection
- the Japanese hot cake we had is pretty good - we particularly like the matcha ice cream

We didn t get a chance to try their gyoza and tempura but they seems delicious.

Make sure you reserve before going as it can get really busy.

Perfect place for try the original Japanese okonomiyaki!

Best okonomiyaki outside of Japan! Excellent service.

Great culinary experience, with friendly staff. The special okonomiyaki with everything, may be too much for some people, but you should try at least to share it with someone.
The only down sides are you will need a reservation, and you may take more than hour to finish your meal.

Okonomiyaki was delicious and the staff was very friendly. A very interesting experience to see the food cooked on the hot plate in front of you. Beware your clothes will smell accordingly when you leave

I've never been to a restaurant where the service and the food is this great, must visit, don't miss out!

Authentic feel, excellent service, really nice food. Prices reasonable.

One of the best restaurant in London, go there with your eyes closed

Amazing food! It brings back nice memories of visiting Japan. There s a very good selection of okonomi-yaki and other Japanese dishes and drinks. The sake cocktails are just perfect. The place is usually busy, so you have to be very lucky to get a table without booking. Therefore reservations are recommended!

Third time going and the staff and food are as amazing as ever. The staff are very friendly and welcoming and don't rush you to eat and go, they encourage you to take your time and enjoy your meal...which is always tasty!

Delicious food and very friendly service. Also the experience of having the food cooked at your table is cool.

The food was delicious and the service was great too.

Great Japanese fare. Friendly staff. Very reasonable prices.

Food is excellent here: after you order a cook comes to your table and, right in front of you, starts mixing up all the ingredients and prepares your meal, which is then cooked on the hot slab on your own table.

Very good Japanese restaurant. Okonomiyaki Kobe Mix and Avocado Gyozas were delicious!

Always enjoy the food and service at Abeno. Okonomiyaki is one of my favourite Japanese food. The menu at Abeno is wide and lets you enjoy a variety of Japanese dishes like Yakisoba, and Omsoba too. The desserts are authentically Japanese too. What's not to love about this place? I will always recommend to friends who are interested in Japanese cuisine to give this place a try.

Authentic Japanese food option and super close to British Museum

My first Okonomiyaki in London, and very good quality. Be prepared to wait if you've not booked, and bear in mind you'll leave smelling of grilled food. But brilliant grilled food.

abeno too offers some unique japanese cuisine, cooked before you.

Very nice. Friendly staff. The size of okonomiyakis (normal size) is a bit small. With noodles it is better (Modern - yaki). Abeno Okonomiyaki is very good and hearty. I recommend it. The desserts are very good too. (Matcha ice cream and red beans)

Price acceptable for a Japanese.

I recommend this place

The place to come for authentic okonomiyaki in London.
Many tourists come expecting other Japanese food and there are few on the menu but you should only come if you are expecting to eat okonomiyaki.
The staff makes the okonomiyaki in front of you and the taste is second to none.

Authentic clean and delicious and respecting Japanese restaurant with a simple, tasty and original menu, prepared in front of you, that is relaxing comfort of a way to spend midday / evenings :)

Burnt okonomiyaki :-( very pricey given the quality of the food. Service was also extremely slow despite the restaurant being quiet at the time we went.

Service and food are absolutely amazing, explained everything along the way, a spectacle to watch as well as eat.
Also very covid secure

Third time and the food is still amazing. This time I tried a Sunday desert and it was delicious! 100% recommend this place .

Been going to abeno for many years now
Amazing food and great service as always

Can not recommend this place enough, what I would say is try and get reservations because can get booked up most days

Super. Real Japanese cuisine also in London. To try everything.

Sadly a truly dismal experience. Agressively priced and thoroughly underwhelming.

They go for a food as theatre experience which is let down by an unenthusiastic performance that would have been better off taking place in a closed kitchen.

The end result was barely edible food that tasted nothing like it should and cost about 4 times more than it would elsewhere.

Average okonomiyaki sadly when I had high expectations.
We went with 6 of us and perhaps temperature wasn't hot enough for making for all of us, it was too soft inside, it wasn't ready or cooked enough, then over cooks while you eat as its still on the same hot plate.
I'm Japanese so I know what authentic Okonomiyaki is.

Okonomiyaki was authentic and very delicious. Popularity is also understood. More than half were occupied by Westerners.

Having never been to a Japanese restaurant I enjoyed the food.
The deep fried fillet steak was very tasty.

Really good restaurant and quite original. The Sapporo okonomiyaki was amazing and the gyozas too! Make sure you book as it is quite small and it is always busy!

Excellent restaurant typical Japanese cuisine Hiroshima, to recommend.

The okonomiyaki set for lunch is a great deal.
Japanese people are also working, and all other foreign staff can speak Japanese.
It has a strong Japanese taste and is delicious. It is really helpful to be able to add pickles and miso soup as a set.
I visited every day.

The price is an issue. Very expensive but delicious food

I love Abeno! This place does authentic okonomiyaki which is delicious, and on top of that all of the staff are able to speak Japanese, so I was able to practice my conversation.

The people and service are amazing. This place has been in operation for over 20 years and, armored with this knowledge, blew away my expectations.

Stand out dishes were the Chicken Karaage and the Ozomoyaki (give slight preference on the osaka mix over the tofu mix I had). The yakisoba, gyoza were good.

Everything finished before your eyes on your table, Great experience.

For everything we had, the bill was superb value for money. Will 100% visit again.

A delightful place with a friendly service and delicious okonomiyaki!

I love Abeno! Not only is their okonomiyaki delicious, but the desserts are too. What s not to love?! They also do hot cakes!

Great Okonomiyaki, very professional and quick service. Will be back to try more soon!

Excellent second visit. Nothing to fault at all on the food or service fronts. If anything can be improved at all I would say it is the lighting.

Fantastic authentic Japanese food with excellent service, friendly staff with lovely ethically sourced ingredients which makes up for the price. Best to book for peak times in the evenings and big groups.

Best coffee jelly I've had! Great service with the employees cooking certain food for you, which is great to watch. You may have to share a grill if it's busy and you have not booked a table.

Nice service, but the food itself was a disappointment , especially considering the price.
The starters and dessert were particularly overpriced for the actual content, unfortunately!

I already knew the other restaurant in the chain, Abeno Too, and this maintained the excellent quality of service. The food was prepared in front of us on a hot plate and it looked great. We tried Ume wine (a Japanese fruit between apricot and plum) and we loved it!

Such an amazing experience. Authentic (and some Western twists) Okonomiyaki cooked at your table. Service is excellent and it's a pleasure to watch the food being prepared. Not the showboating you get at some table-cooking restaurants, just simple quality cooking.

For someone with an appetite I'd say go for the regular okonomiyaki with a few sides, or go for a supersize one. Some desserts are cooked on the hot plate too and worth ordering.

Delicious okonomyaki. Expect smelly clothes after eating there though, as they are cooked on the table's hot plate itself and there isn't much of a ventilation.

Compact Japanese restaurant. Walk ins unlikely to get a seat so book ahead. Realistic Japanese cuisine. Lovely atmosphere. Lovely staff. Good washroom facilities. Good Japanese cuisine experience.

Abeno is a fantastic restaurant. Their COVID precautions make you feel extra safe and they're very serious about making you feel comfortable. The food is also fantastic - the okonomiyaki being the star but do try the starters. A great experience and look forward to returning again and again.

Great food and lots of vegetarian options. Nice experience to have the food cooked right in front of you and to eat it straight from there.

Came here spontaneously with a friend. We had the spinach and cheese okonomiyaki with extra prawn and the salmon teppan-yaki. The okonomiyaki was flavoursome, but the teppan-yaki was lacking in taste and quite expensive for what we got More

Very authentic Japanese okonomiyaki experience, and a great place to go with friends who are keen to share. The menu has lots of interesting combinations for the adventurous foodies, and the staff are very attentive to special requests. Would recommend the Wafu dessert - the overall preparation, presentation, and taste was delightful.

Why did they close Abeno II? The original Abeno is rubbish compared to the one that was close to Leicester Sq.

I used to be a regular at that one and had never been to the original one.

I didn't think it had any atmosphere. I'll not bother with Abeno again.

The food is very good, but not so good to justify a 4 days in advance reservation, at least!

I love Japanese food! This is the best okonomiaki in London...

Best place to go in London if you are missing food from Osaka!

Great experience to have, with Japanese pancakes cooked in front of you which were delicious.
A small place, so if you are a large group book in advance, but accommodating staff.

I came to Abeno Restaurant as It had been recommended to me as a place that serves real Japanese food. I was surprised to find out that Japanese cuisine isn t just sushi. I m fact, we didn t have any rice at all. Instead, we ordered a number of very interesting sounding meals. It was all fantastic. A series of small meals led the way to the star of the evening- okonomyaki ( I guess it s like a Japanese omlet) . All the food was prepared from freshly chopped ingredients and fried in front of us on the hot tables ( just like in the movies). The people preparing the food would accompany the process with a small story of each meal s origin....it was truly entertaining. I had never learned so much about food in a restaurant. Not to mention the deliciousness of that! What I really liked as well is how they use seasonal ingrendients in their menu- something that the waitress was very proud to mention. I never been to Japan but after the visit to Abeno, I have another reason to put the country on my bucket list- fantastic cuisine. 5 stars from me!

I thought this place would be a tourist trap, but it was actually authentic. The desserts were great as well.

Very average okonomiyaki. I had the Osaka with noodles. Lacked flavour and I didn't like how it was left in the hot plate overcooking the okonomiyaki.

Authentic okonomiyaki with great service. Surprisingly child friendly for a place with a hotplate in the middle of the table!

Is okonomiyaki the greatest of all foods?
What I do know is that if this place ever closes, I may just cry.
Also the staff are some of the loveliest in London.
A real treat.

The sauce is Otafuku sauce, but it's an Osaka-style okonomiyaki restaurant and teppanyaki restaurant. I ate Kobe Deluxe, but it's grilled on the iron plate of the customer's table. The amount of powder is small and light. Beef is roasted red meat in the shape of a steak, cut into pieces with a trowel, placed on okonomiyaki, sprinkled with blue seaweed and bonito flakes. Japanese scotch whiskey and shochu are lined up on the counter. Of course, there is also a Japanese menu. A young English-speaking woman who speaks fluent Japanese responded and the customer's order was Japanese, so I wondered if the cook in the kitchen was Japanese.

In my top places to eat on the city. Fantastic food and really friendly service. Authentic cuisine too.

A real Japanese restaurant! Very good food and service was very nice too. Will definitely go back.

Great tasting okonomiyaki and staff were really friendly.

Okonomiyaki cooked in front of you, even though you don't really get to participate! The food is good. The place is rather quiet, which is part of its charm to me.

Okonomiyaki is recommended! It's okay to speak Japanese

The most delicious Okonomiyaki in London. Cooked right at your table by very friendly staff, this is one of my favourite restaurants