Whilst on our walking tour a month ago Sandra and I had noticed HiSushi across from one of the theatres on our walk. Mostly we noticed that they had an all you can eat sushi menu so we were determined to come back and try it one day. For £14.80 you get as much sushi as you can eat in two hours off a select number of dishes plus up to seven hot dishes (on a once only order).

HiSushi is actually quite an attractive restaurant. On the ground floor there is a koi pool and waterfall out the front and you can sit around the sushi bar. Upstairs most of the tables are sunken into the ground to give the feel that you’re kneeling at the table like a traditional Japanese restaurant.

As for the food the offer sounded too good to be true and it kind of was. Sushi choices were dominated by salmon with the following on offer: Clam Sashimi, Salmon Sashimi, Salmon Ngiri (Sandra’s favourite and probably the best value choice), Inari Ngiri (my favourite even though it was basically only tofu skin stuffed with rice!), Cucumber Roll, Salmon Skin Roll, Salmon & Avocado Roll, California Roll, Spicy Salmon Roll and Spicy Tuna Roll. You could also order for one time only the Tuna Sashimi (which turned out to be rather sad anyway) and the Prawn Tempura Roll. So it was kind of like what should we have – salmon, salmon or salmon? Ha! The sushi itself was pretty good but with the limited choices started to be a bit samey.

The hot dishes sounded promising and included Wasabi Prawn, Chicken Teriyaki, Prawn Tempura and Tonkatsu but they were quite horrible. Serves are small and they crammed all our selections onto one plate so all the flavours contaminated the other flavours. Because its an all you can eat offer they say that they have a right to charge you for uneaten food so we had to great creative and hide some of the uneaten hot food under the lettuce!

Service was decent and, bearing in mind the time limit, they were at least were reasonably responsive in taking our orders for and bring the sushi to us.

Looking at the menu they offer a lot more than what we saw – its seems harsh to judge just on the all you can eat purely for this reason. If you like salmon sushi then Hi Sushi all you can eat menu is for you! Guaranteed you’ll get filled up – we certainly rolled out tonight.