Kenji Sushi
The Scotsman's restaurant critic named it as one of three places her own family actually goes.1
Why go
Nobody has reviewed this restaurant. What exists is one line in a review of somewhere else: writing about taking her nephew to a pizza place, Gaby Soutar explains that eating out with three children has become a birthday thing
, and that they usually end up at favourites including Edinburgh's Origano, Fazenda or Kenji.
1 That is a critic naming a default rather than reviewing the food, and it says nothing about the fish. The hygiene register puts it at 24 Deanhaugh Street with a Pass from January 2026.2
Good to know
- Address: 24 Deanhaugh Street EH4 1LY, on the Stockbridge side of the bridge.2
- Price: nothing published.
- Hygiene: Food Hygiene Information Scheme Pass, inspected 21 January 2026, FHRSID 1533689. Six months old.2
- Searching the hygiene register: a UK-wide query on Kenji returns twenty-six rows, nearly all a retail chain of the same name in shopping centres. The Edinburgh restaurant is the only catering premises among them.2
Verdict
could-visit — A sushi restaurant on Deanhaugh Street in Stockbridge that the Scotsman's restaurant critic names, in passing, as one of three places her own family ends up at for birthdays. Nobody has reviewed it, including her, so there is no verdict on the fish. But a working critic's default is a different kind of information from a roundup placing, and it is the reason this sits at could-visit rather than listed. The hygiene record is a Pass from January 2026, six months old.