OKAN Brixton East - (Near Lambeth, South East)

5 /5 Dan Calladine: Good Japanese food and drinks. I popped in for a quick dinner and really enjoyed the special donburi rice bowl (with squid, prawns and kimchi) with a draught Asahi. The menu is extensive with noodles, okonomiyaki and more, plus lots of choice in drinks including sake and beer.

5 /5 April: one of my favourite restaurants! really cute inside and the service is always amazing, all the ladies that have served me here have been lovely! some of my favourites would be the okra and crispy pork and the beef and kimchi teppenyaki. Both the noodle dishes are great but i love the thin omelette the omu is wrapped in and the okonomiyaki is always good and so filling! prices are also very reasonable :)

5 /5 Ayumi Takahashi: Top quality glass of Japanese Sake "Dassai (Otter Festival)" from Yamaguchi Japan with an ice cube was my great experience on the hottest day in June ! Amazed by the range of top quality Japanese sake brand in this small casual local secret location you can taste. From Central London, Brixton tube station 5 mins walk or bus No.35 getting off (bus stop T) near by (from Shoreditch to Brixton) for avoiding central London busy areas. Also I loved the casual "Izakaya" or "Japanese Showa era night street stall" atmosphere here very much. This shop is a recently opened one in Brixton as one of the very popular Okan restaurant branches (not inside Brixton Village arcade, this is the 2nd branch - name is Brixton East). More spacious and relax inside than other Okan branches. Food - you can say I found authentic Japanese Okonomiyaki Osaka style here. I and my friends enjoyed taste of home. If you would like to visit "Japan in London", taste this Okonomiyaki. I also had Yaki gyoza , edamame shared with friends and cool beer in Summer evening. I recommend and also reasonable prices are great too.

3 /5 I. C.: Not sure if they have a chef with Korean background? Saw so many good reviews here but our visit was a bit disappointing. They claimed to be a Kansai style restaurant but why kimchi??? We ordered the omelette with eel. We thought it was an omelette roll because this is supposed to be a common Japanese dish. So overpriced because the omelette turned up as a dish with shredded eel wrapped in a thin piece of ‘egg tortilla’ (at the beginning we even thought they had forgotten to add the eel, as they were so small). Okra with crispy pork: okra tasted good but where was the crispy pork?? There were only pieces of pan fried meat. When the server brought us the udon, we knew we were going to be disappointed again. The udon was served in Korean aluminium pot which was definitely not the Japanese would do. The udon tasted alright (not that Kansai style unfortunately), not impressive at all and the portion was small. We ordered two Okonomiyaki: One Special (with seafood and kimchi) and one pork. I think they’d better put on a bit more mayo on the surface in order to balance the saltiness of the okonomi sauce. And it seems there was too much sauce cooked with the seafood in the Special that made the okonoyaki too wet. Service was attentive. Meanwhile, sorry don’t think will visit again.