Three sushi restaurants opened in Reading last year, and Iro Sushi is the last one I’ve got round to reviewing. I managed Intoku last summer, where I thought the food was excellent but everything around the food – service, timing, polish – had gone missing in action (some of our food had, too). Then a couple of months ago I went to You Me Sushi, where I was very pleasantly surprised by some decent sushi and sashimi, albeit in a slightly sterile environment. But it was only last weekend, on a scorching Saturday, that I finally made it to Iro.
Even then, shamefully, it wasn’t my first choice for this week’s review. I was originally going to a town centre venue I thought was ripe for reappraisal, but as the day got hotter and hotter I realised I needed something cooler and subtler. So Zoë and I ambled up Queen Victoria Street hoping that the window seats at Iro Sushi were free, and felt very lucky when we discovered that they were. An A-board outside advertised “CHICKEN KASTU CURRY”: I hoped it wasn’t a portent.
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