There's a new Japanese street food spot in Altrincham which people are already calling the 'altar of sushi'

With a pointed roof and brightly-lit interior, it is easy to mistake Unagi, a new Japanese street food restaurant in the centre of Altrincham, as a place of worship. In fact, it's intricate design has already led to it being nicknamed by locals as a Neo-Tokyo 'altar of sushi'.

Housed in a former clothes shop and storeroom on Central Way, next to the Everyman cinema, Unagi is a name that many people looking for Pan-Asian delights across Greater Manchester and Cheshire will already know. It has garnered a firm reputation thanks to its thriving locations in Timperley, Didsbury, MediacityUK, Cheetham Hill and Wilmslow.

Unagi’s wide and expansive menu features everything from yaki udon and sushi - rolled in-house, of course - to bao buns and Japanese-inspired soft serve dessert. Naturally, you'll also find the likes of chicken karaage and katsu curry.

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For Unagi’s owner David Vanderhook, who also runs the Con Club in Altrincham, Lime in Salford Quays and the George Charles in West Didsbury, the Altrincham restaurant is a defining moment for the Japanese street food venture - for it started life in the borough as a food truck venture just two weeks before the lockdown began.

“It’s great to be back in Altrincham - it’s where it began for us,” owner David Vanderhook tells the M.E.N. “We originally had an American Airstream here that was converted into a kitchen that we opened up two weeks before Covid. It’s definitely a full circle moment for us.”

Between then and now, Unagi has been actively keeping itself busy with its