Yari Club, London WC2: ‘I didn’t expect the robot chef to be simply a deep-fat fryer’ – restaurant review | Japanese food and drink

Yari club In Covent Garden, London, is the Robot Yakuri Restaurant. I will break it for you. “Robot”, as in food, is prepared by our new mechanical eve. “Yakitori”, mainly, grilled meat on small skewers – think about the small Japanese kebab submerged in sauces. After that, of course, a “restaurant”, as in the place where humans were one day jobs before assuming robots. Robots bleeding, eh, screaming here, and taking our jobs?

In fact, “Yari Club” robot sits in the store window, and it seems that he passes the chefs who played the role of Michelin who believe that the world will stop rotating if these gods are not cooking at 5 am for the source of pollen and the light. The real chefs can be great pain: the price, sarcasm and volatile. But there are no such problems with the chef at Yari Club, because it is a large bouquet of stainless steel filled with hot oil. Despite this jaw, the future side is isolated aloud In all marketing, this private robot, at first glance, is very disappointing. Less robotic than I imagined (or I hope) and simply simply a very unattractive kitchen tool. Sikhs are loaded of chicken hearts, chicken gzezard, chicken wings, and all other pieces that can be imagined from chicken on a ball, pulled through hot oil to get a precise number of robots to make them a juice, then immersed in a special sauce, sweet, dependent on soy.

What did you expect? One of the Mime duo in the 1980s Tik + tok Wearing a square and taking me inside to take fine chips in a well -known alien space? No, but I did not expect the robot to be just a low-fat frying pan, or-and this is kicking-so that it relies heavily on humans to do its work. At lunch time I visited, Yari Club was almost empty, while Market Berwick Street was on the road in Soho completely moving with lunch clock workers in queues in a large number of food trucks, or in Newish Pizn BredstallWhere the cheese carbohydrates are cooked and served by a human hand. It is strange that it seems that something about the large and luminous YAI Club and the lifeline that does not paint the crowds.

At first glance, the Yari Club menu may seem a bit limited, especially if you are not in a mood for the dispersed chicken on a stick, or to eat it in an unpleasant “cafe” space, which reaches warm like the waiting room in a small regional office. However, in fact, there is a lot that you should love about food at Yari Club, although it will take 10 minutes good for work, even with the help of a great person in the foreground who pointed to Bento boxes, Carrie Katsu, and very deep corn ball options, which turned out to be deep blocks of stones, and Crunchy SweetCorn, and photograph them completely. It took another server to refer to Tsucon Chicken meat ball skewers, thought reformer, winter offers list, pepper padrón and tempora vegetables.

In fact, every YARI Club Robot experience is to emphasize the magnificence of humans, what with their opposition thumb, patience and sympathy, and the amount of hospitality that needs them to survive. Robot Yari Club owes a large debt for hospitality employees in real life, because it is not possible to start processing orders, downloading his own skewers or placing them on panels. Also, the needs of vegetable plants cannot be met, apparently: a possible dinner has been blocked, asked whether the tofu option for European onions can be cooked without touching chicken fat, and met from the anxious and exit appearance. In an ordinary restaurant, someone had been negotiating with this customer, but Robot Yakitori did not care about the flip.

However, the food in Yari Club is somewhat good, and about 3.80 pounds of two skewers, at a very reasonable price as well. the Momo Chicken thigh, classic Negima Chicken, chicken wings Teebu and Tempura are all delicious and indelible: fragile, juice, soft, smoked when they are, and flax and gentle in other places. Over the course of 13.80 pounds, you can build a huge pinto box that includes six skewers, rice or salad, collaslo, pickles, Nuri and more than the Umami flavor bomb that is Yari sauce. Meanwhile, the interest of thought enjoys everything that is limited to the side with the artificial side of the permissible wine mixture of supermarket; Migraines in a paper cup. They have Coedo Shikoko Black Lager and Owlong Tea in the cans, as well as a lot of gentle Japanese tea.

I will return to Yari for a snack, but it isn’t worth traveling away from your way. There are more impressive robots in ASDA. I have met our new hospitality shepherds, and as we still need to help.

• Yari Club 57 St Martin’s Lane, London Wc2, Helo@yariclub.com (No phone). Open throughout the week, from Monday to 11:30 am to 8:30 pm, from 8:30 pm. From about 15 pounds for the head, in addition to drinks and service