Experiences
Experiences at Hotori
Two counters, one room. At the grill, owner-chef Shiwei Zheng works over white-binchotan charcoal. At the sushi counter, head chef Shunji Irokawa — Tokyo-trained, more than twenty-five years at the counter, three consecutive Michelin Plates — cures and ages the day's fish in the Edomae tradition. Below are the chef experiences you can book; both counters also serve à la carte.
The dish Hotori was built around
Beak to Tail
£102 · 24-hour pre-order
Created by owner-chef Shiwei Zheng, who spent years learning to break a single chicken into seventeen distinct cuts by hand. Each setting uses one whole Fosse Meadows bird: free-range, slow-reared in small flocks to at least 81 days, among the best chicken in Britain. Every part is grilled — from familiar thigh and wing to the prized bonjiri tail, the oyster, the soft bone — seasoned and cooked to order over white-binchotan charcoal, prepared fresh the same day. Seventeen skewers, one bird, nothing wasted.
For more Hotori Experiences, visit: https://www.hotori.co.uk/experiences
…booking a table in a frenzy of greedy anticipation!
The grill, in miniature
Yakitori Omakase
£50 · 24-hour pre-order
The Yakitori Omakase is the counter in miniature — a seat at the grill, and the chef choosing for you. Eight yakitori cuts and two vegetable skewers, drawn from the same free-range Fosse Meadows chicken as the Beak-to-Tail, each seasoned and grilled to order over white-binchotan charcoal an arm's length away. There is no menu to read; you watch every skewer turn and arrive in its own time, from crisp wing to soft, smoky thigh. It is the most direct way to understand what Hotori does over fire. Eight seats, nightly.
For more Hotori Experiences, visit: https://www.hotori.co.uk/experiences
Signature Set
Signature Set
£50 · 24-hour pre-order
The Signature Set is the short way to eat everything Hotori does. It opens with our signature plates — tomato carpaccio, tamagoyaki, hamachi carpaccio — moves to a sushi selection cut at the counter, then to three yakitori skewers off the binchotan, and finishes with dessert. One menu, both counters, no decisions. £50 per person, food only.
For more Hotori Experiences, visit: https://www.hotori.co.uk/experiences
Private dining & groups
Private hire of the ground floor, the counter or Brass Dove, the bar downstairs: see Private dining.
Guest reviews (Google)
"Yakitori masterclass."
George F. · Google"As close to Japan as you can get in London."
Calum M. · Google"Great to see the whole chicken is being used."
Joe W. · Google