Pros: Great tasting traditionally made food, awesome alcohol selection and a great atmosphere.
Cons: Serving sizes can be a bit small, especially the sushi. You can easily spend a lot of money here if you're not careful.
This is definitely a hidden gem within fortitude valley.
Got the Deluxe Bento Box & the Pork Gyoza Bento 🍱
Was an absolute delight and would definitely recommend. Can’t wait to go back.
Change of name but the restaurant looks unchanged! Gyoza or dumplings are still the signature dish. Our lunch is ordered via an iPad and our dishes start arriving after 10 minutes.
*Agedashi Tofu has a soy based sauce with grated ginger. I prefer the Dashi broth. Rating: 3.5
*Sashimi Plate is good, not great. The Kingfish/Scallops are very fresh.
Rating: 4
*Pork Gyoza are served sizzling on a hotplate and taste very fresh.
Rating: 4.5
* Takoyaki are freshly fried but they are lacking Octopus pieces.
Rating: 3.5
This meal is quite average but I can recommend the Gyoza. Thank you guys!
With... Phuong Tran
Really good service. Friendly staff. Food was great. We ordered the Teppan seafood. Liked that! Highly recommend for authentic Japanese food.
Walked past and found this amazing place whilst staying in Brisbane for the week!
Ordering made easy with a touch screen menu on each table.
We came here for lunch and had a bento box, miso soup, curry and gyoza/dumplings. The gyozas came on a hot plate! That was something new to me and I loved it.
All the food ordered was delicious and would love to come back.
Staff were friendly and helpful, thanks for an amazing meal!
Came in on a busy night. Delicious food. Great quality that you would expect from a traditional authentic Japanese restaurant. Cosy inside. Touch pad order. Gluten free options available - we tried the GF Teriyaki Chicken and GF Agedashi Tofu.
So delicious!
The Black cod miso was really delicious and I think much better than Kiyomi (which is one of my fav restaurants) and Etsu- it’s a must order!
Beef tataki was flavourful and the flavours of the condiments with it tastefully put together
The pan fried capelins were delicious and such a throw back to Taiwan for me.
Everything was well cooked, umami and the service was wonderful. I love their menu, there is a plethora of choices so you will be able to try something different the next time you’re back.
A lot of menu items are unique and aren’t dishes you would often see at other Japanese restaurants as they are very authentically Japanese. Will definitely be back!
Staff super nice, helpful and Very attentive. Food is amazing. Sashimi was super fresh. The curry in the lunch menu was affordable and tasty. Will come back again.
Loved everything about this experience. We ordered teppan seafood, teriyaki chicken, edamame, and the highlight dish was the grilled black cod. Impressive, high quality food, and a wide selection of sake. Will definitely be back!
Very yummy and fresh kaisen Don. Would love to try more other dishes as well.
Really good little Japanese, I will go back for sure, couple of super minor issues and one major, but only with one dish, seemed like a family business and staff where friendly, polite and professional, some of the food was excellent and some was average, I think they have to many dishes and should do less to focus on what they are good at.
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The best Japanese restaurant in Brisbane - REAL Japanese food (owned by real Japanese people with a real Japanese chef) and very reasonably-priced considering the quality, portion sizes and authenticity! It’s beautiful sitting outside in the evening as well - my evenings were just perfect here with a glass of wine and a subtropical, light, cool breeze, gazing into the restaurant with its sake barrels. I have had a lovely Chardonnay by the glass whilst waiting for oysters and other “tapas”-sized dishes thinking how I will miss this place so much when I’m back in Europe. Brisbanites are so very lucky to have this truly Japanese restaurant.
The bento lunch (set) boxes are top quality, truly Japanese in taste and great value for money. Good Japanese rice is used while the miso soup is made using their own house-made dashi (stock). Sashimi is expertly-sliced and artistically-presented, and we have even had uni (sea urchin roe) sashimi as the special of the day! Fresh Australian seafood is sourced locally, with different daily market offerings. Some interesting daily specials and new items like sautéed chicken gizzards, thin slices of fatty pork belly on a hot plate with ginger and onion slices, simmered beef stew, and deep-fried garfish and its crispy bone have been my tapas! I also love the unagi nigiri (eel sushi - the best I’ve ever had). The sweet glaze is sensational and the piece of eel is generous, succulent and grilled to perfection.
Salads and vegetables are fresh, and there is an extremely delicious sesame dressing apart from the regular Japanese salad dressing which I couldn’t get enough of. called “Goma Ae” is delicious and I had it with broccoli and green beans.
The drinks list os also impressive with beers, wine, whisky, ciders and other drinks from Japan (sparkling sake is really nice!). There are also authentic Japanese desserts, my favourite being the sweet red bean filled Sakura Daifuku (mochi) with the most interesting salty-pickled sakura leaf on top.
Great service - friendly, polite, warm and gracious, with easy and convenient iPad ordering (do ask for specials of the day or if you have dietary special requests). Reception upon arrival is very welcoming, and they have been so accommodating to our special diets. Vegetarian and gluten free options too.
They really aim to please the customer here, and have a great passion and love for food and respect for ingredients.
This cosy Japanese restaurant is located within the Emporium. Food and service was great.
We ordered the grilled semi-dried squid, sashimi combination, seared salmon sushi, aburi pork, shoyu ramen and Wagyu tataki. Everything was very tasty however the aburi pork texture was a bit tough and appeared not to be fresh.
Price-wise I think it is a bit expensive but they do offer good quality food and service.
Amazing Japanese restaurant in Brisbane that has a consistently in food orders !
This is our favourite place for many years now ! Absolutely fresh sashimi and very testy food , fast orders and very friendly stuff !
Thank you for your wonderful service and wonderful food !
We will be back !
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