New Sushi Restaurant, Kiyoto, In Hatch End

The new sushi restaurant in Hatch End may be new to Hatch End but their restaurants are not new to London. They have other branches in Mill Hill, Boreham Wood, West Hampstead and Cockfosters.

Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

The restaurant may have only been open less than a month (in July 2023) but is already so popular that it is hard to get a table at busy times. My family were interested in booking for Friday or Saturday night, but they were so busy that they could offer us only after 9 pm, or 5 pm. We could have had a table on Sunday.

I looked at the name of the restaurant and wondered if it was a variant on Kyoto, a city in Japan. According to Wikipedia, it is also a masculine boy's name, which they call a given name and I would call a first name.

Their menu is printed white on black which can be hard to read in a poor light. To make a quick decision, it help to know the ingredients in advance.

Apporo

Asahi

carpaccio

edamame

futomaki

gyoza

katsu

Kirin

scallop - a type of shellfish, round and rubbery

inari

mayo - short for mayonnaise

miso - soup

nigiri

Ozeki

poke

ramen - noodle

rock shrimp

Sashinim

sriracha sauce

sushi

tataki

tempura

teriyaki

tofu

udon

wakame

to make a quick decision

Useful Websites

www.kiyotosushi.co.uk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushi

 More photos and text on later post

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Breakfast Travel Diet - I must avoid the almond croissant

My favourite snack is Costa's almond bake slice.

I've looked at snacks in Waitrose cafe and at Costa, as well as the freshly baked croissants and muffins in Tesco and Morrisons - and tea time scones with cream at Marks & Spencer to take home and divide between two people or two meals.

Croissants are the worst and if you look at recipes to bake your own you see why they are so calorific and taste so good. Full of butter. My other favourite is almond fillings and marzipan. Marzipan is basically ground almonds mixed with sugar, the amount of sugar varying from about 25% to 75%.

You are better off buying a sandwich - but the egg with mayo could contain more calories than the chicken sandwich.

As for bagel with smoked salmon and cream cheese!

So I have to run to and from the shop in order to eat half a croissant. Anybody want to run with me and then share my almond bake?

We've started doing a daily calorie count in our family.

http://www.costanutrition.co.uk