Review Kay Japanese Restaurant - Chatswood

This place is fantastic! Amazing Japanese food done to perfection. I love how you order from the touch screen as it makes choosing your food much more exciting. A little hard to get to the restaurant but will always recommend it. They also serve half dishes so if u can’t decide between two dishes just get one half serve of each! The best of both worlds

Very good (and filling) Japanese-style food. We had a spicy Tantan Ramen and a Chicken Katsu Curry Udon. You order food on iPads at each table. The restaurant was rather quiet (7pm on a Wednesday) and there was strange circus-like music playing that grew on us!

Full size kaisen don. Price does not match the portion. The fish is only a handful compared to rice. For the price of 14.90, not worth. Half size pasta come with broccoli. But only 1 broccoli

So my partner and I chanced on this store in the corner of this odd mall in Chatswood. There were a few red flags indicating to me about it such as 150 items on a menu and a slightly dingy place with slightly dim lights. But we opted to give this place a try due to the multiple good reviews. I ordered this 'Butter Ika' while my partner got a buta shogayaki. Now the reason I left my order in quotation marks was because the resulting 'ika' I got looked like squid rings smothered in a soy sauce. If I didn't know any better, I'd say the sauce was teriyaki sauce and the dish was thrown together in the kitchen using frozen squid rings. This makes their menu picture of expecting a really nice squid quite misleading. Furthermore, the slightly mushy texture tells me it was likely not fresh. The buta (pork in Japanese) was overcooked and uses a pretty similar soy / teriyaki sauce to the Ika. There is some additional ginger flavours that do ring true to what shogayaki should be, so at least that kind of nails the dish, just that the pork was tough and dry. However, I think the butter Ika fell really far from its presentation on the menu. As a 'popular' item on the menu, I was not sure if those words were meant in a misleading way. It did not help that reviews of the place gave it a pretty good expectation, and we came in at a relatively relaxed time, being the second pair of customers in the store during our visit. Understandably the cost of the food is relatively cheap and I should adjust my expectations. And I certainly was not expecting a smorgasbord of squid since that would be absurd. But I think that if there are places where food costs below 15 AUD and still satisfies basic criteria such as being cooked properly and with some attention to detail, I may have been kinder in my review. I suppose the caveat here is that it is inexpensive food that can fill you if you want something that is relatively Japanese in nature. I would not likely come here again though.

No nonsense japanese. Too pricey for the quality though (inflation meant +$1 per menu item). The katsudon is a hard dish to get wrong, but somehow they did. Takoyaki and pork katsu curry were fair. Don't order a set since this automatically means +$2 to your bill.

I am in hospital and need to be on a slightly modified diet. I ordered delivery and requested for the chicken to please be cut up really small. I didn't expect this to be fulfilled but it was, and so perfectly. It was better food than I have received this stay in hospital. Thank you so much for providing tasty, nutritious food and listening to your customers. I will have to come in person next time.

This is a nice little restaurant tucked away at the back of the ground floor. The food is great, at a reasonable price. You order by iPad and the food is served very quickly. The best thing about this place is the ambient music. If you're lucky you will hear some recognisable tunes played with the abomination that is the recorder. I've been a few times and will continue to come back. We like this place.

Such a great place to try out different variety of food. They have mixed Japanese and Western cuisine. All taste really good. They have half-size for most items, but great portions, so even better for those that are indecisive of what to get. Decent pricing as well.

Best Ramen in Sydney. The last place I used to go to was Takeru in Sydney CBD. I get the feeling that this is the same place just under a different name and new location. I recommend this to anyone that likes good Japanese food. Good size portions and actually a really good system in place for service and ordering. I give it 10 stars instead of 5!

My daughter who was just 12 had her bday here yesterday with 5 other friends (12yo-16yo). They all had a great time and head waiter called my no. just to say that my daughter already left the restaurant. He also called back when one of her friends forgot her bday card with money in it. Very accommodating and friendly place. Staff always polite, service is quick and food's great. Plus we love that food also come in half sizes portion. Thanks Kay!!!

The best Ton-katsu curry ever!!! I usually drive to Chatswood only to eat in this Japanese restaurant. Lovely food and people. I do highly recommend it.

This is my go to place most nights. Recommend trying the Katsu Curry Udon. I order this one all the time! Since trying katsu curry udon here for the first time I can't stop ordering it everywhere I go. I can't get enough of it!!! Help me!

Great food and friendly service, highly recommend

What a great place can't wait to go back. Staff are amazingly friendly.

Service is super quick and food is awesome! Will def visit again

Food is OK, but very slow service, understaffed, at least 4 tables needed to be cleared and they left it with lots of people waiting outside.

Great Japanese taste that I never ate before. Nice location. Awesome view.