24 Kensington Church Street
W8 4EP
Tel: 020 7937 7927
Date of Last Visit: Sunday 11 February 2007
The Victim: Me, myself and I
The Damage: £18
The Background: I was over on High Street Ken for some retail therapy. Therapy realized, I thought sushi might be a light refreshing way to re-energize. So I seriously wandered the streets, knowing there must be a Japanese restaurant somewhere. I found it on Ken Church Street and was happy. To start.
The Entrance: Feng is not a large place. It is very very small. I kinda liked this. It was also very empty for 2 p.m. on a Sunday, but they seemed to be doing a good take-away business so there was that.
The Menu: I wanted an assortment, but I would have had to offer everything individually and probably would have spent £30 doing so. So I went for a box combo, but to be honest, I really didn’t like all of the box combo options. They were very vertical in nature…all tuna, or all salmon, or all (insert fish here). I went with the tuna, mercury poisoning and my mother be damned!
The Food: I kinda got the feeling that the tuna had been frozen and defrosted on a number of occassions. It just didn’t have that freshy-freshy quality to it. Hmmm. It was tasty, don’t get me wrong. And I probably wouldn’t have noticed it had everything on my plate NOT been tuna. But because everything was tuna, well, I noticed it. Interestingly for me, the nigri was served with chilli sauce. I’ve never had nigri with chilli sauce before. Again, this was not a bad thing, and maybe in Japan, they serve nigri with chilli sauce all the time–I cannot speak knowledgeable because I myself have never been to Japan. But given that all the staff up front was Brazilian, well, a girl has to wonder.
The Verdict: Eh. Did I mention it was a little dark inside–and not in that romantic way (which wouldn’t have mattered because I was all by my lonesome anyhow), but rather in that "We could turn the lights on but we’re not going to" type of way. I want more variety in my "box" sushi, and I don’t want to pay a fortune for it.
