I'm not sure how my colleagues managed to summon 12 souls but so she did and we were on our way to a private room set-up

i feel it was not cosy and cramp though...i can't imagine 12 ang moh in that puny table (sorry if it is cultural, i don't think it was big size friendly) ... and we have to take off shoes, not an issue. But the personal concierge service is indeed worth the money...i think they had 2 servants for the room.

11 had the buffet, 1 had ala carte. Real big menu with so many things but not a Jap fan...was there more for some bonding with peers, so passing no judgement on food.

cheap and delicious (quantified by peers) ... S$488 for 12

JWNY

Hi, My friends & me went to the Ikoi Japanese Restaurant about once a month. The food here is very nice and the service is excellent from all the staffs.

Yesterday, we had a birthday celebration for me and they make a special sushi Birthday for me..that's really impress and surprise.

The restaurant is always fully book, if you would like to go there,you may need to book the seat in advance.

I'm really recommend this place!

Honestly, I have nothing against using FTs but I do notice a trend where eateries seeing a drop in their standards of their food and I am guessing this may be one of the reasons why the comment.

The my first time there, I had nothing but praises for that place.

But over the weekend, I was quite sadly disappointed.

The service was wonderful. *We had the room.

But the food was... IMHO, losing it's standard.

The Tea Pot Soup - sad.
The Sashimi - I expected better
The Chawamushi - I thought this was from a food court

Not sure what to expect after reading the reviews here. A colleague loves this place and so we, the 6 of us, came for lunch (S$33++).

It is a smallish place and was only half full during lunch so we had no problems with noise levels, which can get quite high.

We ordered lots of stuff and they gave lots of other which we didn't order so here goes:

Sashimi. Well, the sashimi here is much better than any other jap buffet I have tried. It was fresh, nicely cut, well presented, not fishy at all. Excellent, if only they gave real shiso leaves and fresh wasabi. But 6 of us had 3 serves totalling about 100 slices.

Salmon skin hand roll. Good, but I have had better elsewhere but I still enjoyed it.

Sushi - 1 slice of hamachi and 1 slice of swordfish each. This was really nice, large pieces with a small bit of rice hidden below, just like in Japan. Very fresh and good

Tempura - average, nothing memorable

Chawan mushi - average, nothing great

Chicken yakitori - average, can get better elsewhere

Unagi - pretty good.

Eggplant fried with miso - this was very nice

Agedashi tofu - quite good

Nabe - average

Went to Ikoi today for birthday lunch after reading and hearing good reviews about this restaurant for quite a while. Sadly, it is one of the worst one that we had tried so far.

the sashimi was okay, the tamago sushi does not have eggy flavor, the inari sushi was good, chawamushi reminds me of the steam egg that my mum always cooked at home because the chicken flavour was too heavy, ramen was tasteless and fried udon was sour, to our surprise!

the only items we found quite nice, the mixed tempura as well as big onion tempura, and the miso soup which was salty enough to provide the kick.

I don't think we will ever visit this restaurant again, Hanabi at Vivocity left a much better impression