The signature

Beak-to-Tail Yakitori

£102 · 24-hour pre-order

The dish Hotori was built around — 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.

Seseri · Teba · Furisode · Negima · Obi · Tougarashi · Soriresu · Sabiyaki · Sasami · Engawa · Hatsu · Reba · Sunagimo · Nankotsu · Bonjiri · Kawa · Tsukune

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Hotori’s Beak-to-Tail yakitori — seventeen cuts from a whole Fosse Meadows chicken, grilled over binchotan
Yakitori skewers grilling over white-binchotan charcoal at Hotori

The grill, in miniature

Yakitori Omakase

£50 per person · food only

A seat at the grill, and the chef choosing for you. Eight yakitori cuts and two vegetable skewers, drawn from the same whole 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.

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An Edomae nigiri set at Hotori’s sushi counter

The Edomae counter

Edomae Sushi Omakase

£50 per person · food only

The work of head sushi chef Shunji Irokawa — Tokyo-trained, more than twenty-five years at the counter, three consecutive Michelin Plates. It is built on restraint: the day's best fish, aged and cured in the Edomae tradition, set on warm, hand-formed rice with Kyoto vinegar. Seasonal appetisers, a starter, then five nigiri and four maki, each piece passed to you one at a time. The fish is allowed to speak.

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Private dining & groups

The counter seats eight; the dining room around forty. Below, our basement cocktail bar Brass Dove — a London speakeasy group with bars across the city — is available for private hire, and for lunch groups of around twenty to thirty (minimum spend from £50 per head on food). Private hire with food and drinks is hosted by Hotori; cocktail-only events are hosted by Brass Dove. For private events or larger parties, email info@hotori.co.uk.

Private dining space at Hotori, available for group hire

"Yakitori masterclass."

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"As close to Japan as you can get in London."

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"Great to see the whole chicken is being used."

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