Douglas Blyde discovers if Sushi by MASA in the Harrods Dining Hall really is worth the price tag, or whether it's papering over the cracks with an abundance of caviar and black truffle.
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While sipping a âSonic Mook Experimentâ in the freshly renovated Light Bar, I pondered how, over the years, many have wished a biblical plague to finish off Shoreditch. Well, no such luck. Itâs alive and well, and Iâve had a banana-flavoured old fashioned and some monkfish yakitori to prove it.
That said, I do understand why people feel so strongly about this area, which has been a magnet to the young and wilfully edgy for almost three decades now, because they can be exasperating and are very definitely laughable. In fact, the word âShoreditchâ itself has become a punchline of sorts, and the cause of much groaning and eye-rolling. Such things are hard to shake off.