The Institute of Light

OK for you like a student food. Great music and fun atmosphere.

It's a glamorous bar. The okonomiyaki are delicious. The DJ'd music is pretty good.

I absolutely loved the vegan Japanese food at this restaurant. The bar was also amazing! I highly recommend it to anyone.

When we arrived it was not clear who or where we had to check in. We were ignored by staff so we walked out. Huge queue for the bar so we could not ask there.

The food was delicious and the atmosphere was lovely! I would highly recommend this restaurant to anyone looking for a great evening with good food and cocktails.

Current food residence is BBQ the pork bun was delicious, really good salad and smoked chicken wings. Sadly the fries were off the night we went and the corn wasn 't anything special. Pals ordered the lamb gyros which was like a slab of lamb meatloaf in a bun, they said is was OK but wasn 't as good as the pork. Great service and really good atmosphere. Short wine list and 5 Points beer on tap.

We were greatly looking forward to out visit as the the kitchen is currently being taken over by Zoe Adjonyoh. However, whilst the food that we had was ok, we felt it was massively over priced. Some of the dishes were great value like the whole baked Tilapia but then the dish if meat balls was tiny. 5 little balls of meat each no bigger than an olive and luke warm. again three skewers of tiny meat strips for nearly a tenner was not sufficient to impress. All in all the food was ok but the execution wasn't great and was not enough to get me to rush back anytime soon.

The restaurant is still new, but so far, things are looking good. The vegan platter and chicken wings were both delicious. However, the okonomiyaki didn't quite match up to what I've had in Japan. It's a regional style with more cabbage and a thin crepe at the bottom instead of the traditional rice flour version. It's not bad, but it might not be for everyone. My group couldn't finish any of the dishes we ordered, so if you're not extremely hungry, you might want to skip the wings and platter and just try the okonomiyaki. The wine list was limited, with only one option each for red, white, orange, and rosé. The beer we wanted was unavailable, which was surprising since the Five Points distri...

I've been for dinner few times at this restaurant and I've been really happy. Service was very good and the food was amazing, however my experience at Saturday lunch has been very bad. The restaurant was extremely cold and even though in the whole restaurant there were just my friend and I, service took long to come just to us some menus. After that we felt like we've been pushed to make a decision very quickly. The food arrived half cold and the other half took not long to become cold thanks to the very low temperature there was in there. I ate as quick as I could and left without enjoying what could have been a nice lunch. I will definitely try to go there again for dinner hoping it will s...