Daily Mail
Tom Parker Bowles wanted to love this family-run Japanese with “utterly charming” service, sibling to Sakuras in Southampton and Portsmouth. Sadly, the cooking made that impossible.
Things began well enough with prawns in “gossamer-light” tempura, “the best I’ve eaten for months”, but soon “descended swiftly into mediocrity, with a dreary, claggy mess of tuna and salmon, piled into a cheap, hard taco shell”. Sukiyaki was a “dull, homogeneous bore”, while “unagi-don is worse, the eel flabby and muddy-tasting”.
“With a little work, Konjiki could be a really decent local Japanese. Let’s hope it’s just teething problems, and the best is yet to come.”
Tom Parker Bowles - 2025-05-18
