With a sophisticated twist from a traditional Japanese sushi, your GAIJIN dining experience will make you want to come back .. Not every teppanyaki restaurant will have the whole ‘throwing food at you to catch' theatrics but visiting restaurants where they cook in front of you is a fun, interactive dining experience for kids. Two rooms wide and one room deep, Yamato Japanese Restaurant is hidden in the backstreets of Melbourne's Chinatown and is well worth finding.
MakiMoto Kellyville is a fully licensed 70 seat, casual restaurant. We have a great space for our customers to enjoy a nice meal with friends, family or work colleagues. MakiMoto is a place where we bring you fresh and healthy Japanese gourmet, combined with open kitchens and architecturally designed spaces.
As far as I can remember, my experience of Japanese food in Melb has not been spectacular, but after Paris, I am willing to give it another chance. Bimbo has been around forever, as a pub/bar/club on Brunswick Street with a sunny rooftop perfect for recovery sessions. They also serve $5 pizza, all day every day and it’s bloody yum. They have pizzas with prosciutto, prawns, mushrooms, spiced lamb, three-cheese… you name it.
Diners are stunned into silence as they watch perfect nigiri being assembled in a matter of seconds, then flambéed with a torch and basted in lemon. When you sit there, you get the impression that you're an ungainly rhinoceros because the skill is so sublime, and the service is so gentle and efficient. This is something that cannot be avoided, so make an effort to act civilly and just enjoy yourself. No matter how many appetisers you order, we recommend that you order the 5-course option. Toto's Pizza House is located to the north of Universal Café and to the south of Toto's Pizzeria.
I prefer sitting in front of the grills watching them prepare my meals. You know when the fish isnt fresh, it has a rougher texture. I lived near the corner of Toorak & Chapel around that time, so I saw plenty of restaurants come and go.
In 2018, this Euro-Japanese fine diner moved from its home in Daylesford to Carlton. The dishes here, delivered thoughtfully across several multi-course options, are a compelling argument for fusion done the right way. Share your unique referral code and enjoy $10 off tasty burgers, Chinese takeaway dishes, and more. To access your unique code, select the 'Get $10 off your order' button from the profile icon at the bottom of your Uber Eats app.
There is a restaurant or eatery for every budget and every dietary preference. Here are our most highly-rated Burger Restaurants in Melbourne. Teppanyaki may have been the first restaurants of its type in Australia, but not there are many more. Their authentic drinks are also not to be missed and you should definitely try the toasted sesame whiskey – it’s a warming delight. The menu alternates regularly but is helpfully designed for sharing, making this the perfect spot to teach your date how to use the correct utensils. Although not exclusively Japanese, we still had to put Supernormal amongst our best Japanese restaurants in Melbourne.
Co-Owner and Executive chef Ken Ibuki offers a skillful, modern take on Japanese flavours with neoteric flavour pairings and artistic style. Koko features authentic teppanyaki and a la carte cuisine, and is famed for the quality of its sushi and sashimi. A sake bar offers the city’s best range of aged and exclusive sake from Australia and Japan. Grill Americano is Melbourne’s newest and most exciting restaurant. Specializing in wood-fired oven cooking and Josper Grill, brining you the best of Italian cuisine with a focus on Australian produce.
For a good-value sushi bar kinda place, I found Sushi Ten in the city pretty good. Japanese restaurants are our favourite places to explore in Melbourne. Whether it’s a steaming bowl of ramen noodles, freshly sushi or a great kaiseki meal you’re after, you’ll find them on our Japanese restaurants’ list.
There are numerous high-end restaurants where master sushi chefs expertly ply their craft with multi-course experiences in sleek surrounds, but the casual, mid-range category is where Melbourne really excels. Auswalk did a great job organising everything and we felt well prepared with all the information they provided. There was so much diversity in flora, fauna, interesting landscapes and geology. We stayed in lovely accommodation and were fed delicious food with access to great local wines. My Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair trip was the first time I had used Auswalk.
It comes with deep-fried prawn heads, which you can eat as is. In a salt-spiked mouthful, the shell dissolves into a crunchy and brittle crunch. A burger with ebi katsu, breaded prawn, appears on the specials display. Taru taru sauce is drizzled over a generous portion of the Sushi restaurant Cobb Lane's breaded, buttermilk-battered prawns. Hard-boiled eggs give this Japanese tartare sauce more body than its western counterpart. To watch his hands move with the speed and precision that he does is like watching a combination of brain surgery and martial arts.
When you see the wonderful dishes on offer within this jaw-dropping venue, you’ll fully understand why. Some of the candidates for our best Japanese restaurants in Melbourne specialise in a particular area of Japanese cuisine. They only serve a maximum of sixteen diners every night. So make sure that you book well in advance to enjoy this special experience. The place is slightly crowded but is expected because it's in the CBD. The background music is not too loud so it's perfect for conversation.
Expect Japanese-inspired food, sake, cocktails, and wine—all set to a killer soundtrack curated by a collective of tastemaker artists, played by vinyl DJs, and amplified through a Klipsch La Scala sound system. This pocket-sized natural wine bar is located on a corner in Surry Hills, and it’s already a favourite with the locals. The wine is approachable, as is the food, which leans to share plates of bar food. Think fried chicken, crispy cauliflower, and mushroom medleys. There are only 20 seats inside, and a few seats outside, so walk-ins are preferred.
If you’ve got a pretty penny to spend, there’s arguably nowhere in Australia doing finer sushi than this quiet restaurant tucked away on a residential Richmond street. Here they only serve omakase, or ‘chef’s choice’, a daily changing procession of deftly sliced, shaped, torched and brushed nigiri, presented piece by piece. The knife skills of sushi master Koichi Minamishima have been honed for over 30 years, resulting in his ability to create tastes and textures in sushi you’re unlikely to forget.