Wagamama

Wagamama never seem to dissapoint. From milton keynes to london food is always good. Tasted most of their menu, top food is katsu curry obvious choice, and the grilled duck ramen bery tasteful. Im not too keen on spicy food but the firecracker is a big hit my mrs love that! All washed down with a large clean green juice! Starters is chilli squid hands down all the time!

I was really looking forward to eating here but found the food and service very average. I asked if they had a gluten free menu and the waiter brought me the entire nutritional guide used by the restaurant. When I asked for some help he sent the manager who was helpful but the food came out as plain noodles with vegetables (no sauce). There were several people serving us and for a GF person that’s unsettling as a lot can be lost from kitchen to table. This is definitely more fast food at higher prices.

Wagamama is A-​OK. It’s a good take-​away option. It’s nothing special. To all you silly people that compare it to your best ramen in Tokyo, stop being silly. You’re silly.
I’ll stop hating on other reviewers now. Anyway, this place isn’t bad at all, but as I said, nothing special. The edamame and veggie pad thai is pretty good, and the veggie ramen is ok, could use a little more flavor– but couldn’t most veggie ramen? Anyway, I still would like to try their curries. Order Wagamama to go and take it home and watch a movie. Happy day.

Oh Wagamama… My love. You’re a bit overpriced and really not authentic but I don’t care. I have so many good memories of eating here with classmates while studying abroad so I had to come back tonight while on vacation!
This food is very similar to PF Changs here in the States which means very good albeit a bit costly. I had the Udon Noodle plate which was about £9 but was a rather large portion a full of chicken, shrimp and scallops. It was delicious and filled me up which is all I can ask for. Service was great as well, the food came out quickly and we were checked on a few times during the meal. Finally the space (like pretty much all Wagamamas) is large, simplistic and stylish.
There is a lot of choices for great food in London and Wagamama is definately one of them!

Usually pretty good in terms of food but service at this location seems to struggle a bit, for instance your drink or your food being ready and sitting on the counter but then it doesn’t come so eventually when the food arrives, it isn’t very hot.

Met my husband here on his lunch break with my one year old daughter. Props to this restaurant for having two kinds of high chairs (basic kind and the kind that attaches to the table). I really enjoyed my vegetarian ramen, however my husbands pad Thai was «just ok», nothing special.
The main disappointment here was that the food does not come out together so my husband was finished by the time my meal came.
The staff was friendly and accommodating and the restaurant was very clean. I would go back here for some ramen but probably wouldn’t make a special trip for it.

I really hoped this place was going to be good, especially since it was the closest noodle place near the hotel we were staying. We just wanted something simple and close by and Wagamama was the choice.
Unfortunately it was a bad choice!
The ramen is the worst I had … ever! And I had plenty of ramen around the world from Tokyo to LA to now London. My wife ordered the chili chicken ramen and I ordered the pork ramen. I really don’t know what to say — it just didn’t taste right or good and something about the flavors were just off. Oh right — there was no flavor!
I ate about ¼ of my bowl and decided I didn’t want to eat anymore. And I was starving too!
Not to mention, the extra cup of green tea I ordered never came (since I was drinking green tea to wash down my food) and in the end, I stood at the counter and waited for a good while to pay. It seemed all the servers were busy and just walked by me left and right. The place was busy but it wasn’t packed house at all, since we went in the early afternoon. Maybe it was an off day for service and food?
So my experience with service was slow and the experience with the food was just horrible. I would not recommend going there if you actually enjoy eating ramen. I’m sure whatever ramen you had before, it is way better than this.

While independent Asian restaurants are always my preference when I want some chinese food it’s quite comforting to know that I can find a pretty good chain all over London that I can enjoy some of my favourite dishes. I am known to love a good chicken katsu curry and this one did not disappoint. The venue has a nice modern vibe and the food is really tasty. The desserts are also quite good and you know what they say… There’s always room for dessert. :)

The pulled pork filling in the gyoza was an odd texture that I didn’t really care for, but my main meal (I forget its name, but it was a chicken curry dish with coconut and lime) was quite tasty. If you don’t like spicy, be sure to dodge the tiny red peppers in it :-)
Our initial waitress was fantastic, but I think her shift ended, because the follow-​up guy wasn’t nearly as responsive.
Overall, it wasn’t a bad experience, but it’s not a place I’d return to (my friend loves it though!)

Good ramen, with a delicious soup that was nicely spiced and cooked. The meat was very nice and tons of flavours inside the soup. Served in a traditional large bowl even tho the chefs weren’t Japanese they did a good job! Service was good came and sat us and greeted kindly, and gave us recommendations for the many dishes. The place kinda reminded me of a cafeteria abut like I was back in high school with an open style kitchen and long bench tables, but clean and homey. Would come here again to try something else on the menu for sure.

Ramen soup stock is quite tasteless. A lot of chili peppers and cilantro are added to mask that the soup has no flavor. The ramen noodles are also a disappointment. Do not order the ramen soup!!! The cost for three dinners was almost 60 pounds… what? For semi-​fast food? Not worth it. There are so many better options in London!

Im Mai 2014 waren mein Freund und ich in London. An einem Tag, nach einem längeren Fußmarsch durch die Stadt, kamen wir an diesem Wagamama vorbei. Vor kurzem hatten wir Werbung für diese asiatische Restaurantkette gesehen und die sah richtig appetitanregend aus. Daher (und weil wir Hunger hatten) entschieden wir uns spontan, hier einzukehren. Und wir haben es nicht bereut! Das Essen war sehr lecker, der Service schnell, sehr freundlich und professionell. Wir haben sogar noch ein 3. Essen kostenlos bekommen, da sie dieses wohl übrig hatten und nicht mehr zuordnen konnten. :-) Danach waren wir richtig satt. Schade, dass es keinen Ableger von Wagamama hier in Deutschland gibt.

Pad tai noodles were Al dente and tasty but the actual flavor of the sauce it was cooked in was very weak.
The duck gyosa were very tasty though… I do wish they had been pan fried… but excellent flavor

Horrible, horrible, horrible food!
I don’t even know why they consider themselves a Japanese restaurant?!
The rice was completely over-​cooked, the meat was just bad, the wontons were under-​cooked, they substituted with European veggies, and beside chili, this kitchen hasn’t seen any Asian spices yet!
The staff was very friendly. The place very clean. I didn’t expect much for the price, and granted, I usually go to places that are mainly visited by Asians, but this was purely insulting food.
Don’t go. Just don’t.

Wagamama is my favorite restaurant in London!
I love the fact that you sit cafeteria style not at individual tables. The food comes out hot and in the order that its is ready! If only they had a Wagamamas in Las Vegas, NV!

The layout of the restaurant looks like a cafeteria. Salmon was fresh but the ramen I ordered lacked flavor.

I’m not totally over Yo’ Mama humour:
«Yo’ Mama so delicious she… erm…»
I’m missing a link here, but point being: I like Wagamama. And, hey — why wouldn’t I? Wagamama is reliable, it’s hot, it’s tasty.
I can’t argue with the Waga-​grumpy who complain that it’s noisy, it’s not authentic or there are queues: all of that might be true. All of that, however… is not the point of Wagamama.
It’s fast but not fast-​food, it’s hectic, it’s efficient, it’s lip-​smacking, it’s warmth-​on-​a-​cold day (yaki soba!) or light-​on-​a-​warm one (wakame salad!). This location in particular, is a great oasis from the hustle-​bustle of Oxford St. Some reviews mention lines, but I’ve never had to wait here for a table.
Unilocal note: I’ve heard rumour that some Wagamamas have started serving breakfast. To which I say: I look forward to meeting up in the AM, Wagamama.

You should go to Wagamama if:
— you are hungry and want something quick to eat
— a hot bowl of cheap ramen without leaving your neighbourhood (or borough?) It’s a big chain
You shouldn’t go to Wagamama if:
— you want authentic Asian food
— you are a Ramen snob
— you want to have a quiet meal (it’s very loud)
That’s my opinion about Wagamama.
P.S:
The seaweed salad was delightful, the tea stained egg was terrible, and the green tea is free.

It’s a chain… I was sick during my trip to London, and desperately needed a heaping bowl of hot and spicy soup to run my system through its paces. After being rebuffed by two ramen places which had closed at 2 o’clock (I slept too long), we ended up here which has full service throughout the day.
It’s really weird because you can tell there is some authenticity in the menu (Wagamama is the brainchild of a Hong Konger), but all servers and line cooks are either locals or Eastern Europeans!
Anyway, it was what I needed, when I needed it; I wouldn’t come back normally but it satisfied me so 3 stars…

Wagamama is a great choice if you’re looking for ramen, chicken or rice dishes… personally, I was looking for ramen because of a sore throat, and this was just the ticket. I got the basic ramen bowl, which comes with chicken and some veggies. It was yummy, though the chicken had a bit of an odd taste/​texture. Overall, not outstanding but perfectly satisfactory.

Wagamama seems to be a bit better than OK, but I’m not ready to call myself a fan.. . so this is probably more of a 3.5 star place, but I’m in a «round down» mood today.
The set up is somewhat unique. There aren’t a bunch of small tables or chairs, but rather a number of long tables with built-​in benches. They remind me of the cafeteria tables in school, except the benches are broken up (you can fit about two people per bench segment) which mean it’s easier to sit down and get up than those terrible benches from grade school that ran the length of the whole table.
The space is nice. The kitchen is open. Service is OK. They seem to use a team approach, rather than having a dedicated server for a table. This lead to someone trying to take our drink orders after we already placed our orders, and three different people trying to take our orders at one point or another. There are pluses and minuses to this approach to service, but in general I’m not a fan.
The ginger beer was tasty. The food is… well, not as good as I’d like it to be. My chicken katsu curry was just kind of bland, which was disappointing. The panko-​breaded chicken was good, but the gravy definitely fell short. I tried another chicken dish that my friend ordered, and it was also a little lacking in flavor.
The dessert was pretty average. I tried a bite of the apple & sweet yam tart, and it was a bit different, but interesting. I’m not a big apple dessert person so I’m not sure I’d order it myself. My foodie friend who ordered it didn’t like the sesame seed element or the vanilla sauce it was sitting in (which turned out to be melted ice cream, according to our waitress). My baked vanilla cheesecake was OK. Nothing memorable.
They bring out the food in a rather willy-​nilly fashion. You might get your main dish before your starter, and your main dish might come out minutes before anyone else in your party gets anything, so be prepared to eat in front of your friends or sit and watch them eat.
I’d probably eat at a Wagamama again if it was convenient, but I wouldn’t go out of my way or wait for a table.