Wagamama, Soho, London

The food is always good just like all the other wagamamas but the staff here are really top notch. I went one night and ordered the wrong thing by mistake and they changed it and didn't charge me any extra and were very understanding about it.

I strongly agree with Manu Marchal.

Great Japanese food and good prices. If you don’t mind sharing your table, it’s a great informal dining place. Who knows, you might meet a new friend that they plonk next to you when they are busy.

This food is soooo generic. It’s a shame qype doesn’t allow 0 stars.

Not a fan of the food or the service culture. The generic asian/japanese food is hardly authentic, rather overpriced for what you get and the seating on benches as though you were in a school canteen is off-putting. Seems to cater to the fast lunch time crowd.

What you see is what you get. Its consistently good, nothing to dislike.

Easy asian food. No surprise, no deception. Whenever you’re in need of a quick asian lunch fix!

I like Wagamamas, you know what you are going to get and it’s reasonably priced, good for groups, as the tables are long and you have to share otherwise! I love the food here.

To be honest, I am not a fan of wagamama. I may be alone on this but I find the food non-authentic (never in my life have I eaten stir fried udon with neon pink pickled ginger and pulled dry pork in a Japanese retaurant), and the ramen quite bland. The green tea I was served was not green tea at all. I suppose the redeeming factor was the two for one coupon given out after the meal and that service was fast. However, I doubt I will order the so-called ramen again.

I’m a big fan of Wagamama; you can’t go wrong with a nice katsu curry, washed down by an Asahi beer. The spicy beef noodles are also a good bet. Different branches are all much for muchness, but this one has got the service licked; it’s all fast and efficient. The prices are very reasonable for central London, which accounts for the chain’s massive popularity. The communal tables can be slightly annoying, but I guess that’s cos I’m such an anti-social Brit. It’s also worth keeping your eyes peeled for 2for1 vouchers; these have been knocking about theinternet recently.

I absolutely love Wagamama. I’ve visited many of their chain restaurants around London and have never been disappointed.

Their food is a lot healthier and of a much higher quality than most chain restaurants, and it is very tasty and unusual too.

They have a pretty good selection for vegetarians too. I really love the spicy chick peas and their vegetarian rice dish in particular.

The layout is canteen style, with long tables which you share with other diners. You can also see the food being cooked.

The food is quite reasonably priced, about £7 for a main dish. The main dishes are HUGE portions so you definitely won’t leave hungry!

I would definitely recommend for you to try it out if you get the chance. I will definitely continue to use it.

Wagamama is a fantastic restaurant chain and this branch is no different. The service is so fast, and yet the meals served are much healthier than your traditional fast food.

There are meals to suit everyone, from children to meat eating adults and vegans. The food is very reasonably priced and is absolutely delicious. The staff are friendly and attentive, and even remembered my daughter’s name throughout our lunch there, which made her day. There were crayons and colouring books on hand to entertain her while we waited, although the food only took about ten minutes to cook.

We’ll definitely be back.

not so revolutionary these days as when it first arrived. still, it brought some much needed innovation to the London cheap and easy food scene. I’ve generally had ok at every location I’ve tried, with food either being decent or good. the value is good too, hence the popularity. if you want to keep the bill down, and fancy some faintly exotic but safe Asiany fare, you’ll do fine here.

Love this branch of wagamama’s. Have been here several times. I always know what food i’m going to get here but i always know its going to be value for money and taste great. Have people watched here too, never seen anyone famous but know that some celebs like to come here! Great place to come to after a hard days shopping!

One of my favourite places to eat. Offers great variety of food appealing to everyone. Really fresh ingredients used and all cooked to order. Having visibility in the kitchen is really nice as you can see all the food being prepared and cooked. The portions are just right . If you are looking for a fast healthy meal , try Wagamamas

Even though it is a chain restaurant it has to be said it is one of the best. The portion sizes are great and the noodles are delicious. It can be noisy and packed but the seating is spacious. The staff are always keen to help.

waggys is not really japanese even though people think it is.
very plain tasting food but overall quite healthy as it is just plain food.

its always impersonal as it is like a huge canteen. speedy asian oriental

If you like super fast service then this is the place to eat!
I can honestly say I have never been anywhere that serves food this quickly!
There was no comprimising on quality either, everything was cooked to a high standard.
Love it, love it, love it!

Wagga’s generates a diversity of opinions as this busy thread can testify! For many of us it was probably the ‘way in’ to noodles - I can remember the raves that accompanied the opening of the very first Wags in London. Granted it lacks originality and integrity but it is dependable. And if you want the real deal, then wherever lurks a Waggas, there also will ye find a pukka noodle bar (in my case the wonderful Kitsu).

From Hell’s heart, I stab at thee. For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee.

I do not use these words lightly. But they seemed somehow rather apt: after all, if one is taking aim at a whale - which the chain of beastliness they call “Wagamama” certainly is - it’s only fair to steal from another great whale-hunter. Let us all hope that my experiences there don’t send me the way of Ahab. I’ve still got both legs, but the day is young.

For those who would accuse me of snobbery - psh, join the club - I can only say this: I judge any eating experience within context. I don’t walk into a sandwich shop expecting a wood pigeon salad. I don’t buy a takeaway pizza then beat the delivery guy for forgetting the foie gras-encrusted angel’s wings. I don’t walk into McDonald’s… no, that’s it. I don’t walk into McDonald’s. Or around, under or through it if at all possible.

Wagamama is a chain restaurant serving pan-Asian glop, much like the extinct (I think) Wok Wok. Ramen noodles. Udon noodles. They do little dumpling-like starters, sell Asahi (probably) and - here’s their little “thing” - the waiters take your order using some sort of electronic device. I thought I was about to be given a parking ticket but, turns out, they were transmitting my order over a wireless network. Straight into the chef’s brain, possibly. That would be impressive. So there you are, sat at a bench along with a selection of lunchtime diners bathed in the same misery and fatalism that brought you there, and then - as if by technology - your food arrives.

Well, my ramen noodle dish looked and tasted like spaghetti in ketchup. And that’s all there was to it. It was so bad - so indescribably, teeth-grindingly, waiter-mutilatingly bad - that I made a point of getting up from the table, going to the stairs through which one gains ingress into this sparely-decorated culinary torture chamber, and informing the queue of waiting diners (and there was a largish one) that my lunch had just forced me to spend 5 minutes in the gentleman’s room, retching until my spleen burst out of my diaphragm. I didn’t much like Biology at school so my physical geography might have been a bit out, but trust me… a vivid picture was painted.

OK, I lied to these people, who only wanted some noodles. But it was a white lie within which was held a grain of truth: after all, when they looked ahead to lunch and the thought “Mmm, noodles” crystallised in their skulls, this was not what they were anticipating. The food I had was gruesome. It was like watching Tom Aikens being butchered with a blunt chopstick. It was a dinner party to which Flavour, Presentation, Service and Charm had been turned away at the door. Spare me. Spare yourself. Never, never enter this temple of evil.