CHOTTO MATTE SOHO Review

Great ambience, excellent service, the most inventive sushi I've tried, and extremely delicious. Very brave and successful fusion between Asian and South American cuisine. Huge choice of food and drinks.

Came here for a friend s birthday. Awful - got our entire tables order wrong. Only a few things came. They got us drunk and charged a fortune for things we never even ordered. I left starving but could not be bothered to wait to order more. It was awful and waitress was incompetent

The Miso Chicken is probably one of the best dishes I've had in my life. Absolutely outstanding.

I am a huge fan of Japanese food. The food here is above average but too expensive for what you are getting. The service is also nothing to write home about, it's on the slower side. The place seems a little confused as to what it is trying to be, it tries to be formal and casual at the same time and fails at being either.

Food : 4/5
Service : 2/5
Ambience : 3/5
Overall : 3/5

Exciting mix of Asian and South American food. Ordered the tasting menu with six or seven different small dishes. You can just eat one of them when the next one comes on the table. Lively environment with music and voice in the bar but not so loud / much that you can not converse at the table. Nice and knowledgeable staff who may have a little too much to do. It went a little too fast when serving and presenting the various dishes.

The service might be slow but they do know how to cook an octopus

Only came here for a drink but they had a great selection of sprits. Quite a different vibe for soho.

Chotto Matte localed in the heart of London with a truly incredible location. Offers a special menu with fantastic dishes. Always busy.

Had Sunday Brunch menu for my first visit there and it was a wonderful meal, everything was delicious and the sushi was so beautifully fresh and melt in the mouth, the set menu also includes 3 mocktails (you can pay a little extra for More

Great sashimi platter! Goid mains. Found it too noisy to catch up with friends. Had a table downstairs this time. Would recommend upstairs over downstairs

Fantastic restaurant and delicious food. Perfect for business dinner, birthday celebration or romantic hook up (first date ). Love it so much.

Absolutely outstanding food and service. The staff are exceptionally well trained and accommodating, and the food is absolutely amazing. I would eat here every week if I could afford it. Try the cocktails, they'll make anything you like if you ask nicely. Some of the clientele are a bit pretentious and arrogant, but the great atmosphere and top notch staff more than make up for it.

Best upmarket cocktail bar on Soho. Perfect for that intimate drink

On the hottest day of the year was refused ice in my water despite being a paying customer and having been given ice previously in my (overpriced) cocktail. Also was offered only a small glass of water which was not sufficient

Really interesting fusion and really tasty food. I took my Dad here for his birthday and the team went above and beyond to celebrate it with a surprise desert!

lovely vibe, great food. Quite expensive so for a special night out.

Great mix of food, if a small group try and get a counter table at the back.

I am a vegan and I found this restaurant an amazing place with an exciting range of spiced and varied vegetables. I especially liked the Tempura. The way it encompasses exotic flavours was a delight, and it took full advantage of the natural textures of the veggies.

Warm and welcoming staff with great service.

Excellent service, food and drinks. Trendy, upscale place.
Highly recommend: Moshi Moshi (drink), Nikkei sashimi, black cod, yuca frita, Nikkei dressed sushi (aubergine miso and salmon black garlic aioli were my fave)

Superb food and customer service. A wonderful dining experience. Well worth a visit.

Super delicious!!! We had the privilege of having Sabi be our waiter. He recommended the yellow tail aburi. Probably one of the best things I have ate this year. Every thing was so good. Sabi was awesome and answered all of our questions. This place made our London trio that much better.

Love the food here... amazing cocktails and great service

Expensive but worth it, make sure you book as it gets very busy

First, the hostess didn't ask for our coats. The restaurant wasn't crowded at all and she tried to sit us next to another table.
I asked if possible to sit in another one. She said yes but with a rude face. Later, I had to ask a waitress to take our coats in the cloakroom because there is no way that you can hung it up in that "chair". It is so uncomfortable!

The waiter was so nice. However, I asked many times if food was spicy and he said it wasn't. When food arrived I was only able to eat sushi. We order too many dishes and everything was really spicy.

Cocktails, decoration and prices are ok.

Tasty food but on the expensive side. Excellent selection of whisky, although bar staff can be hit and miss.

Restaurant with a very nice and young environment. Attentive and present service despite the great confusion. Sought and very very good dishes. Prices quite high (in 3 without alcohol about 55 pounds each). Recommended for an "important" and elegant dinner.

Very good customer care,staff members are very friendly

The sushi is delicious. High prices, 4 rolls with wine about 100 pounds, but if you like Nikkei fusion highly recommended. Anyway, the best Nikkei sushi restaurant is Osaka.

It wasn't cheap but each dish was delicious and service was hugely attentive, knowledgeable and fun.

Terrible service. Forgotten orders (despite reminding twice). Slow. Bad attitude.

3.5 Food is better than average. Service kind of ok. Worth a try. Yomato (sth like that) martini is quite nice.

I enjoyed a lovely lunch of yellowtail collar and peruvian sweetcorn. The fish cooked on the robata grill was firm but succulent and the peruvian sweetcorn was huge, well dressed and filling.

Love this place. Great sushi and you can always get a table which is rare for soho.

Extortionate prices. Horrible service. Inattentive and unfriendly waiters. Why have the music so loud you can't even hear your diners. So dark, people have to use their phones to read the menu. Only saving grace was the food. Tasty and beautifully presented. Overall not worth the novelty. Plenty others to choose from in the vicinity.

As food is delivered to our table of 3 for 1 person, the waiter failed to tell us that they 1)ran out of salmon 2)there's no chef, as we sit for an hour waiting. Upon complaining, the waiter offered 2 super cold, old appetizers (french fries, tacos). We told mgr who apologized and gave discount.

I don t have words to explain how good was the service. We reserved a table yesterday for a one year anniversary, me and my girlfriend we loved the whole thing from entering the doors to the ending of our meals.. specially a huge thank to Brian the waiter he made it happen. Thanks a lot to all the staff
Will be back

Great night, seated outside and then moved in. Very happy with the food and drinks. Will be back.

4.0
Kind service but they forgot dishes and it took long.
Food was still great. But unfortunately the seating changed (a lot less place, as to many tables compared to when it opened)

Absolutely yummy food. Lovely atmosphere. Nice service. Great cocktails. And pretty good price. Will be going there again. For sure.

Love this place, amazing food that has to be tried once in your lifetime. Small plates of varying different styles from sushi and sashimi to delicious hot meats from South America. Great atmosphere to go with, with fun music and cocktails.

Amazing food and cool setting. Expensive but you get what you pay for

Food was fantastic but the service was poor, our order was written down wrong and we had been served food wrong numerous times. The staff were polite but slow but I don t think we ll be coming back

The restaurant is amazing with amazing staff. They make me a special night with my girlfriend. I will go again as soon it will be possible.

Good place to go wirh friends to discover the Nikkei cuisine by sharing delicious meals

Good sushi. A good small selection of single malt whiskies.

First time been here. Wonderful experience, super friendly staffs, we tried the sharing manual, which it's a fixed course that everyone could enjoy together.

Excellent food, nice portions, excellent drinks. Recommended.

So expensive food terrible service.
Thank you but never again.

As a lover of Japanese food, this ticked all the boxes. Fresh and delicious. Definitely will be going back. Not cheap, but really good ambience. Bar looked good, going to pop in one evening for drinks.

Very good. Mix between ping pong and nobu. I enjoyed it, but felt it was too pricey considering the small portions. We got the black cod, baby chicken with coriander and the lamb chops. All excellent.

Decent Japanese fusion cruising . The sake is not bad either but the first one that we got was off- it has gone vinegar-ish. The restaurant staff were very courteous and sort that out swiftly, bringing us a new bottle. If you are looking for a fusion place, it s a good choice. Ooh, most importantly, the do Uni here (sea urchin) and it s goooooddd.

Good vibe, great cocktails, decent food. Overpriced but hey, it's soho

Fantastic food. Our host Angela was amazing. Good selection of food and something to satisfy everyone.

I was really excited about this place, Japanese and Peruvian flavours sounded interesting! Unfortunately this turned out to be one of my worst dining experiences. We ordered a lot of dishes, starting off with the miso padron peppers which were lovely however from there everything went downhill. The prawn tempura was under cooked and had almost no colour on it and tasted like it had been defrosted as did the rest of the food. Happy to pay premium price for great fresh seafood but all the seafood had a strange taste and very watery. I don't think this place will last if it continues to serve such sub par food when there are great restaurants all over Soho. Really disappointed with the experience, paid hundreds of pounds for awful food.

Like the food here, Japanese Peruvian fusion. Recommend the lunchtime bento box although they're smaller now.

Food and service is appalling. Cocktail was pretty good. Style over substance. First time ever I've had to ask for the service charge to be removed. As an Englishman I was upset with myself after for asking.

Delicious and delightful - a wonderful dining experience.

Overrated. Music too loud, space too tight, didn t know if I was in a club or a restaurant. Food over cooked and far from South American quality.

Fantastic place, amazing drinks. Just a pity we always end up having to go to the bar because the table service isn't great.

Fab service, fab food, special treatment for the birthday girl, nice atmosphere, cant recommend enough.

Went on Sunday evening (would skip this place on a Fri or Sat evening tho) which is apparently a great time to enjoy the place without a huge crowd.

Def. going back soon

But for the waiter spilling a drink on my favorite shoes...

If you can't make great French fries stick to serving drinks.
The food looks great but is poorly made.
Chicken dry, french Fries are supposed to be complicated but very poorly done purple potato puree, extremely salty and too soggy.

Drinks well made and the atmosphere is nice.
There an endless better places in London.

The flavour combinations were creative but mainly didn't work. The yasai sushi roll was particularly disappointing: it was meant to taste of truffle but really just tasted like badly matched veg slathered with each dressing. Even the flavour of the grilled sweet corn was off.

I had only vegetarian options; meat options seemed to meet with approval from others in my party, so could be that the chefs just aren't great at vegetarian food.

Really great food. A bit pricey but not unusual for London.

Definitely something different. It is however rather expensive and although the food unusual and tasty, in my view it doesn't justify the price tag.

Cozy and fashion restaurant, fusion japanese sushi with a view. Expensive but worthy

Was fantastic experience from the start to the end.
Service very friendly and professional, food quality and flavour superb.
Thanks to Tom from the bar for the fantastic cocktails ...

Too expensive for bad service and interesting food combinations.

Katerina was delightful throughout - so helpful, so lovely and a trainnee to boot - she was absolutely perfect. Food is absolutely gorgeous and presented lovely. Definitely recommend the black cod and the Nikkei sashimi. Will go again very soon!