Wagamama

I echo Robyn Z’s sentiments: It does feels better to support independent businesses but Wagamama sure is a great pick for food at Ocean Terminal. This was my first experience of the chain and it didn’t disappoint.
I had a fresh juice to start followed by a steamed bun and raw salad and then, for main, the vegetable katsu curry with panko-​coated sweet potato and aubergine and rice on the side. — All tasty and flavoursome and filling.
Service was fast and friendly; we had no long wait for service or food, and staff were really easy to get a hold of, which was refreshing. I turned round and, accidentally catching eyes with one of the waiters, smiled. No sooner was he over seeing just what he could do for us. ‘Nothing! I was just smiling!’ This made everybody laugh. — Still, it is better to be too attentive than not attentive enough.
Solid four stars for Wagamama. I don’t think I’ll find myself a regular, but now I know what all the fuss is about and I’m sure I’ll be back somewhere down the line.

I like Wagamama. Attentive quick service in a decent, clean setting with fresh and tasty food. Good selection of starters (dumplings etc) and then a choice of curry, ramen, teppanyaki, donburi which you can have various ways (prawn, beef, lamb etc). I have started going back to Wagamama due to their decent kids menu — really nice simple chicken katso with noodles or rice, or ramen or yaki soba. Clean simple tastes which kids love. i might go more to the Ocean Terminal branch more if it were not for the excellent Mr Nick’s Greek canteen.

We ate donburi and Pad Thai. Very quick service, food was fresh and tasty, especially the Kimchi. However it is still quite standard, therefore «only» four stars.
Recommended if you want a nice bite before or after a Britannia visit or going to the movies!

my love for Wagamama runs true and deep. i know it’s a chain and we should all support the local indepedent places, but i just love a really massive bowl of ramen noodles swimming in a savoury broth! so when one opened up only a mile away from me in Ocean Terminal i was well excited and even more so when Nikki A suggested our dinner date should be there.
We arrived at about 8pm on a tuesday night and were seated right away. the place wasn’t busy, obviously not everyone loves noodles as much as us, but it meant we got great service and a our food arrived quickly. while having a debate over what to eat we ordered drinks and i was well pleased to see plum wine on the menu! so good! it comes as a sort of wine cocktail, mixed with sparkling water that takes the super sweet edge off.
i ended up ordering the pork ramen with the ebi gyoza which both arrived promptly after we ordered. the gyoza was soooooooooo good, crispy and packed with juicy prawns. although deep fried it still tasted light and went well with my massive bowl of pork ramen! the pork in my ramen was tender and flavourfull and the only tiny problem i could find was that the broth in my soup was not quite as hot as i would have liked.
so overally, this new wagamama is just as good as the rest! being in ocean terminal means it’s not as busy as the one on lothian road as it’s a bit out of the way. however the lack of people does mean this place lacks a bit of atmosphere, but since i’m really there for a love of noodles i don’t find this a problem at all. less people means more noodles for me!

Service was fast and friendly. The space was clean, new and bright. It’s the usual set up of benches and tables.
I choose the Prawn Itame — which was a version of green thai curry. It was pretty nice and had the right kick! Kinda brothy too! It was warm, tasty and filling! Peach Iced tea came to my rescue to chill my lips from the spicy tingles!
i’ll be back i want to try the pulled pork dumplings and the duck dumplings! I might also try the jasmine tea too — that will really go off my radar!
I like this branch, staff are friendly and it saves me from going into town (Edinburgh) or Glasgow!