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Koi
This restaurant has ceased trading.
- Food served: Mon–Sat noon–2pm, 5–11pm; Sun noon–3pm, 5–11pm.
- Number of wines sold by the glass: 3
- Also offers: Children's portions, Children's high chairs, Wheelchair access
- Music on stereo: MTV on the TV
- Capacity: 100
- Largest group: 100
- Open since: 2008
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Boasting the biggest teppan grill in the city, at the weekends Koi’s customers can expect flames, knife-juggling and plenty of banter to go with their dinners. Weekdays are more sedate affairs, with teppanyaki dishes prepared in the kitchen rather than right in front of you. Squid, octopus, surf clam and prawn all feature on the sushi menu, and a big combi platter of nigiri and sashimi not only looks great but allows contrasting flavours and textures to shine through. Good stuff, but the show is well and truly stolen by two soft-shell crab hand rolls, the crab crispy, then soft, then salty – extremely good, even though the lettuce is an odd addition. It’s not the only one, with sweetcorn in the miso soup being particularly ill-advised, although char-grilled veg in the chicken yakitori works well. With a long menu covering a lot of bases and plenty of seats to fill, Koi would be a great option for larger parties who want to try and share lots of different things.
- High point: Soft-shell crab, nom nom
- Low point: Sweetcorn in the miso
Reviews of Koi (26/30 Potterrow, Edinburgh)
- 4. jeff, edinburgh – 15 August 2010, 1:00pm
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We went here for dinner on 16th June 2010 and found our experience to be the same as E. Slow service, unclean toilets and poor food not only chewy but they choose to serve the chicken curry with salad dressing on the hot chicken!
- 3. E, Edinburgh – 20 April 2010, 5:44pmKoiReport
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Visited for lunch Sunday 18th April 2010. The restaurant was very quiet with only one other couple within.
I ordered the Tori Katsu Curry with steamed rice. The chicken was so fatty and overcooked it was inedible. My friend had the Gyu Katsu Curry with steamed rice which consisted of dry and chewy beef.
Considering they only had one other table to serve the service was extremely slow and we had to wait some time just to get our bill. Price for this and 1 diet coke was £24.80!
To top it off I would say that if I had visited the toilets before I ate I would have left straight away - they were disgusting and had clearly not been cleaned properly in some time!
- 2. foodKING, edinburgh – 26 March 2010, 1:38pm
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Visited Koi many times over these few years... Amazing food and service. The food stadards are very high and there special menu has so much to choose from.
Cooking with heart and passion brings out the best flavours of a dish and I can assure people Koi does so.
The management Eddie is always very helpful and a true gentleman.
We always recomend to friends and families....
Gan ba de!!
keep up the good work.
- 1. M – 26 July 2009, 11:35amKoiReport
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It surprises me that Koi claims to be the first and only Teppanyaki restaurant in Edinburgh. We had a chat with the manager / owner before they opened talking about Aey (excuse the spelling) the Teppanyaki restaurant on Albyn Place which had closed down a number of years ago. Interestingly enough I believe Izzi also claim to have teppanyaki bar, but I've not been there.
Koi has really deteriorated into a poor imitation of a teppanyaki experience, best suited to stag and hen parties. I get the impression that this is exactly what they are catering for, with the whole emphasis being on a couple of the same old 'party tricks' by the chefs.
When we turned up the chairs and bar were still dirty and had to be wiped down and set up while we waited. Despite having booked well in advance we were squeezed around the teppan bar with with a number of other parties, it was clear that at least two people hadn't turned up... had they have done it would have been virtually impossible to fit them around the bar.
The menu has been reduced to a small number of set meals with no real option to pick and choose what you would like to eat. The food was served and cooked at an alarming speed, with our main course being served at the same time as our starters.
The food itself was disappointing with a number of cheap and frozen ingredients bringing down the overall quality and not representing value for money.
The overall impression was that we'd visited McTeppan instead of an authentic Teppanyaki restaurant.
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