{"id":816736,"date":"2026-03-10T13:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/816736\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T13:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:55:11","slug":"kumori-handroll-bar-is-opening-in-soho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/816736\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumori handroll bar is opening in Soho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a series of pop-ups, Kumori is going permanent<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year we wrote about the <a href=\"https:\/\/londontheinside.com\/how-london-hand-rolls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">handroll trend<\/a> taking over London and now we\u2019ve got more info about one of the new spots opening in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Kumori, founded by Marc Flekei, started doing <a href=\"https:\/\/londontheinside.com\/map\/pop-ups\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/londontheinside.com\/map\/pop-ups\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">pop-ups<\/a> last year, including at the Monaco Grand Prix, 1 Hotel Mayfair, and How Matcha in <a href=\"https:\/\/londontheinside.com\/map\/marylebone\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/londontheinside.com\/map\/marylebone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Marylebone<\/a>. This spring it\u2019s opening the doors to a permanent handroll bar in <a href=\"https:\/\/londontheinside.com\/map\/things-to-do-in-soho\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Soho<\/a>, where the design, done by the same firm responsible for Kricket Shoreditch and Soma, has been inspired by Tokyo at sunset (kumori means \u201cclouded light\u201d). As well as looking pretty cool, it\u2019ll sound good too with curated playlists coming out of a custom <a href=\"https:\/\/londontheinside.com\/for-the-record-londons-best-listening-bars\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/londontheinside.com\/for-the-record-londons-best-listening-bars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">sound system<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The kitchen is being headed up John Randy De Guzman (ex-Tobi Masa) with Alvin Contawe (ex-Dinings and Roka) joining as senior sushi chef. Handrolls will be the main draw, made to order using bespoke extra-crispy nori, designed to keep maintain the structural integrity of the rolls. Varieties will include unagi foie gras, spicy tuna with jalapeno miso, torched scallop, baked crab, and toro with torched bone marrow, with a selection of nigiri and small plates rounding out the menu.<\/p>\n<p>Key Information<\/p>\n<p><strong>Opening date<\/strong> | April 2026<br \/><strong>Address <\/strong>| 26 Denman Street, London W1D 7HX<br \/><strong>For more information<\/strong> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kumorihandroll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@kumorihandroll<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a series of pop-ups, Kumori is going permanent Earlier this year we wrote about the handroll trend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,124992,393,124993,4884,65212,257,2550,69996,16,15],"class_list":["post-816736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-eat-drink","tag-england","tag-food-drink-news","tag-great-britain","tag-japanese","tag-london","tag-soho","tag-sushi","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116205225633129327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}