YO!Sushi

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Department stores used to serve old-fashioned Brit food from a hidden space on the top floor. YO!Sushi, the UK-founded international fast-food chain looks out over Glasgow’s primary paseo from House of Fraser. It’s popular with the young, for location, fun, kitsch atmosphere and healthy fast food. The signature conveyer belt runs from the front bar to the booths at the back, each with its water taps, wasabi, throw-away chopsticks and a buzzer if you actually need to speak to a waiter. Plastic bowls of sushi go round and round but a short wait for freshly prepared dishes is recommended. Half the menu is hot with highlights including spongy octopus balls in crisp batter with a fruity katsu sauce and seafood udon soup with thick flakes of salmon and prawns in spicy fish stock with slices of fresh chilli. Chicken firecracker rice is equally good, not as fiery as it implies but very well seasoned. Tempura batter on soft shell crab though is limp and oily. Portions are starter-sized and it’s easy to get carried away, resulting in towers of colour-coded dishes at the table and it is more expensive than fast food rivals but far more healthy. ‘Blue Mondays’, where half the menu is priced at £2.30, is just one of myriad discount schemes.

• High point: Fun food in cool surroundings
• Low point: Disappointing tempura