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Inamo

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134-136 Wardour Street,
Soho,
London,
W1F 8ZP

(020) 7851 7051 

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Reviewer ashep
25/05/2009
YOU NEED TO GO HERE!!!!! This place is perfect for a first date or any time you need to impress.

The restaurant is a ready made conversation as it is so different. Plus you can play battleships against each other while your waiting for the perfect ice breaker.

The food was amazing, the staff friendly and fun. Basically this restaurant is everything you need a restaurant to be.

If anybody gives this place a bad review there is something very wrong with them!!!! What on earth can you not like about this place.
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Reviewer Becxxx
22/04/2009
I have no idea what the previous reviewer was on about but I had to leave a rave review for Inamo!!

I was so excited to go after reading a review & have been excited to tell people about our experience ever since.

It was explained to us that the food arrives shortly after ordering so if you have a group make sure you order your food together i.e. set menu/starters etc.

We still managed to order seperately (too many beers before arriving?) but the time between food delivery was hardly noticeable.

There is also minimal margin for error as we were able to correct a few mistakes.We all thoroughly enjoyed the food & the presentation was excellent.

Now for the fun part....the novelty of the laptop style table which included games, a web cam and various options of projected table designs was so much fun it kept us entertained throughout.

This would be ideal for the shy or for a first date as is a great ice breaker. Another perk was being able to call your waiter, this stops all the annoying times when you cant catch their eye!!

Granted if you're a cheat the complex!? game of battleships could be pointless but for the non smokers amongst our party it was a novel way of waiting the smokers to return :-)

Also recommend red wine la caplana dolcetto d'ovada mmmm

Highly recommended A star.
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Reviewer mud
05/04/2009
What a letdown. Don’t go with a friend as the staff seem incapable of making sure two starters or mains arrive together, let alone within 5min of each other.

So if you get yours first, eat straight away as your food might be cold before you friends arrives.

Starter was ok but under cooked, very let down by the mains. Drinks took too long to come, 10 mins to long.

Considering you order from the desktop interface, you’re still charged a service charge. Considering what the service had to actually do, they couldn’t do it well.

Inamo all gimmick no substance. (don’t even get me started on the games, battle ships when the person is in front of them and you can see their table, just shows not enough thought has gone into this)
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Reviewer Anonymous
29/01/2009
I was visiting Imamo for the first time in Januari 2009 and found the place realy nice. The food was good and the price was not expensive and not cheep. The big thing is the tacnology and the staf, they where exellent. Could be recomended.
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Reviewer Anonymous
20/01/2009
This place is brilliant. Saw something like this on TV ages ago and thought it would be an interesting way of dining, so we went there last night and it was better than I'd imagined.
The food was amazing, the balance of flavours, textures and presentation was the best I've seen for a long time.
The sevice was great, even though we got there very late, they explained the menu and everything came out quickly. The staff were very friendly, and didn't hurry us despite the late hour!
Price wise, very good for the quality you get, especially the wine £14.00 is relativly cheap nowadays.
Having something interactive (battleships, Chef Cam etc) is great for when the partner goes off to the loo, definately original and fun. Certainly a place to take someone to impress.
I would definately like to see more places take on this new technology, however it's the food that wins this one for me, I could have sat there all night and eaten my way through the whole menu!

Fab fab fab!!
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Reviewer Anonymous
27/11/2008
This was the best dinner experience for a long long time.

The food is absulutely excellent, the staff was very freindly and the whole interactive thing is just fab.

We will dine there again....!

The Duck was fab!
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Reviewer Anonymous
18/10/2008
Excellent food. Fun experience. Prompt, polite service. The interactive menu gimmick is a lot of fun and there are a lot of extras for you to discover. It's a toy, but it's not pretentious. It's well-organized, easy to use, and entertaining.

The Boar Rolls and Spring Rolls were great. The quail was not remarkable, nor was the asparagus salad. The desserts were very tasty.

We'll be going back.

If I was to change something about the place, I'd put more drinks on the menu. I like Asahi Superdry, but that's the only beer they had. And I'm not a fan of iSake's products. They performed adequately when mixed in the creative cocktails, but I was hoping for a broader selection of sake available by the glass. Just a few more sakes and beers would be great.

I also hope that the software changes a bit by the time I visit next. E.g., I hope they have a different selection of table cloth images, maybe a different game, maybe more information on surrounding bars and clubs in the area.

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Reviewer loranius
18/09/2008
The idea behind the restaurant is certainly new and fun, with the tech theme lying dominate behind the usual waitress ordering and service.

The other reviews certainly praised this place, and the concept is certainly new and satisfying. There is only a catch. Value for money is rock bottom as each dish costs £6 upwards but the portions are minute. The service standard really has much to be desired - and I presume the manager didn't think they needed good experienced waiters/waitresses because you'll mainly be ordering from the "touch-table".

Service is dire. First of all, when you book this place they assign you a table to sit at and it seems that no matter what you choose you'll be placed at that table. I arrived with a friend at 6.30pm and the place only had about 6 customers, out of a ground level capacity for about 36. However, we weren't allowed to sit at the cushioned sofa bit at the corners because...well, they have parties arriving at 8pm! What a ridiculous approach to the dining experience, squeezing you into the tables in the middle just in preparation for a party 2 hours later?

Even during the meal, the waitress tried to take away my dish as I was still holding food with my pair of chopsticks, and the waitor who gave me the cardreader machine when I asked for a bill actually disappeared after giving me the machine!! He was so busy helping a new group of arrivals! They had 5-6 waiters/waitresses that I could see and I didn't understand why this guy had to leave our table for that? In the end I did the whole process myself, including printing the merchant receipt and the customer receipt. My dining partner also commented that I could easily have clicked refund on my card straight away since the waiter didn't bother coming back until we both got up and left.

In summary: The ideal is good, the food is good. Value is lacking and service needs a lot of help.

It's safe to say I won't be coming back again and I won't tell my friends to come here.
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Reviewer NickLondon
27/11/2008
I don't know where you have been eating, i love this place.... and honestly the food is much better and cheaper than in any normal London Restaurant. Show me a good place in London where you can eat for 60£ including a bottle of wine for two? Yes this is what we did pay and we loved it! - Report
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