Steve and I are HUGE fans of Sushi and will buy some for lunch a couple of times a week. I hate that we don't have a Sushi bar in Cramlington where I live as M&S Sushi just isn't the same as the real deal (YO! Sushi if you are reading this - please come to Cramlington! When in Newcastle we will often eat at a Sushi bar and after visiting the new YO! Sushi on Grainger Street during their launch party, I was dying to take Steve. Date nights are few and far between at the minute though so when I received an invite to dine at YO! Sushi, I tentatively asked if I could bring the kids along too. It was a big fat yes and we were told that YO! Sushi was fantastic for kids and they'd be made to feel very welcome. A word of warning - the food is VERY tempting as it passes in front of your eyes and I would set yourself a limit before visiting as it's very easy to get carried away. Every Sunday at YO! Sushi, adults can order 10 plates from the menu or conveyor belt plus enjoy unlimited Miso Soup for just £20 and kids can order 5 plates for just £10.

This is an AMAZING deal. Personally, I'm not sure I could manage 10 plates so will be saving this for a time when I have a looooong afternoon free and can stretch the deal out across a couple of hours. This deal would cost a family of 4 just £60 excl. drinks which for 30 plates is honestly incredible value (exclusions apply see website for details). If you have big appetites I would say, go for it!Why not join our North East Food Lovers Facebook Group?can you buy heb sushi with food stamps Where to dine out in the North Eastgry online restauracja sushiA sale of Japanese restaurant chain Yo! buy sashimi nycSushi is on the menu after its private equity owners appointed bankers at Canaccord to explore interest in the business. sushi grade fish online canada

The company, which is owned by Quilvest, is understood to be hoping for a price tag of around £120m, more than double the £51m the buy-out group paid for it in 2008. Sushi, founded in 1997 by entrepreneur Simon Woodroffe, brought the concept of Japanese “kaiten” sushi bars and their maki roll conveyer belts to the UK for the first time. He founded the business with an investment of £150,000. Six years later, Primary Capital backed a management buy-out of the business, led by chief executive Robin Rowland, in which Mr Woodroffe retained a 22pc stake. He sold out entirely when the business changed hands to Quilvest, but still receives a royalty worth 1pc of turnover in perpetuity. Under Quilvest’s six-year ownership, the group, which is still led by Mr Rowland, has expanded to 76 sites across the UK, with 11 franchised restaurants overseas in Dublin, Norway, Bahrain, Dubai, Saudi Arabia and the US. The company has set its sights on opening 10 new restaurants a year. The group made £12m of earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation in the last financial year.

The sale of Yo! Sushi comes amid a wave of the UK’s most well-known restaurant chains being put up for sale. Gondola Holdings, the restaurant group behind Pizza Express, has hired Goldman Sachs and Rothschild as advisers to explore options for the business. The group, currently owned by private equity group Cinven, is likely to sell Pizza Express, which has an international presence, separately and potentially float or sell its Ask and Zizzi chains in a separate deal. Bowmark Capital is also exploring the sale of Latin American food chain Las Iguanas for nearly £100m, according to a source. Canaccord is understood to have been hired earlier this month, however, a formal sale process is unlikely to formally kick-off until later this year. Canaccord declined to comment, while Yo! Sushi and Quilvest did not respond to requests for comment.Paul Belford Ltd has rebranded YO! Sushi, dropping the ‘Sushi’ from its logo and introducing a new typeface and graphic patterns inspired by Tokyo iconographyPaul Belford Ltd has rebranded YO!

Sushi, dropping the ‘Sushi’ from its logo and introducing a new typeface and graphic patterns inspired by Tokyo iconography The rebrand is the first time YO! Sushi has made a significant change to its logo since it launched in 1997. (It was founded by British businessman Simon Woodroffe and was the first to bring Japanese ‘kaiten’ conveyor belt-style eating to the UK). The company’s official name is still YO! Sushi, but the word has been removed from its logo, and the word YO! will now appear alongside Kanji script on signage and fascias. Martin Brown, creative director at Paul Belford Ltd, says: “We felt that whilst the atmosphere and dining experience at a YO! restaurant continues to have a unique energy and buzz, the logo should also better reflect the high quality healthy food on offer. This led to a simplified, slightly gentler mark with a Japanese influence.” An extensive brand book includes graphics inspired by Tokyo iconography: there are patterns based on road systems and the city’s famous Shibuya crossing as well as artwork from Tokyo-based illustrators.

The rebrand also introduces a new typeface – Aktiv Grotesk – and photography guidelines. In addition, Paul Belford Ltd has designed new menu covers, chopstick packaging, signage and noren curtain graphics for restaurants. The branding is being rolled out by YO!’s in-house design team and will start to appear in refits and new restaurants from this month. The rebrand coincides with YO!’s expansion into the US, Europe and the Middle East. It now has several restaurants in the US and UAE as well as one in Saudi Arabia, two in Norway and one in Denmark. It replaces a graphic system designed by &Smith earlier this year – in April, YO! Sushi unveiled new staff uniforms, wall graphics, menu designs and A-Boards which featured black-and-white patterns and illustrations based loosely on anime and manga art. &Smith told us the  graphics aimed to reposition YO! Sushi as offering a true taste of modern Tokyo – newspaper-style menus introduced Kanji script and featured articles on Tokyo music and culture.