Jin Kichi

Jin Kichi on Heath Street in Hampstead NW3 is a long-established Japanese restaurant whose elegant green facade has been a welcome sight on bijou Heath Street for decades. Hardens notes that the "mainstream Japanese cuisine is a good fit for the neighbourhood" — sushi and sashimi, yakitori grills, hotpots and noodle dishes covering most of the Japanese canon. Hampstead is one of London's most literary and artistic neighbourhoods; its high street has some of the most expensive retail in North London. Heath Street leads up to the Heath itself — 791 acres of ancient woodland and open land that has been a public space since 1871. Jin Kichi has been part of the Heath Street landscape long enough to be considered an institution.