The team behind The Prince Arthur in Belgravia (which we reviewed at the start of the year) have already launched their next place - Arthur's Market in Chelsea. Located way down the King's Road (opposite The Cadogan Arms), the space houses a deli, grocery store, butchers, fishmongers, and two restaurant concepts - ASA Izakaya and Salvador. As you can probably guess by the names, the first is a sushi counter and the second is a Spanish tapas bar.
In 2008, Anthony Bourdain filmed a sequence of his show "No Reservations" at Sukiyabashi Jiro, a 10-seat sushi restaurant in the basement of a Tokyo office building. After 15 courses of single-bite nigiri sushi from the restaurant's owner and much-celebrated chef Jiro Ono, Bourdain seemed to achieve nirvana. As Bourdain narrates, the fish and rice are served at room temperature, which Ono believes captures the purest essence and beauty of the fish.