Japanese Restaurant Melbourne

One of regional Victoria’s celebrated fine-dining restaurants upped sticks to Carlton in late 2018. Visit Kazuki for thoughtful Japanese-fusion dishes in an elegant, minimalist fit-out. The seven-course menu is a flavourful journey of nori crisp whipped cod roe, BBQ ox tongue, mussel crackers and more. Let the experts take the lead on drinks and select matched wines for a super luxe evening. On a Carlton corner, Ima Project Café is breathing new life into smashed avo. Japanese twists on archetypal breakfast dishes can also be found in Ima’s miso-infused tomato baked eggs and the porridge drizzled with Mitarashi syrup, a traditional Japanese sauce made from soy sauce and sugar.
The food comes out on a winding train plus there are touch screen menus if you can't wait to order. Prices are a little on the higher side averaging $4.20 per plate, with speciality items made to order upwards of $7. You'll also find Sushi Jiro Melbourne sushi trains in Knox, a sushi train south east Melbourne supercentre Chadstone, Victoria japanese restaurant near Gardens, The Glen and Box Hill Central. I reckon if your budget allows Chocolate Buddha is the best sushi train Melbourne has to offer. The quality of the food and the presentation are outstanding, which is reflected in the higher than usual prices. You could argue it's the best sushi Melbourne CBD, despite some worthy competition.

Located within proximity to Epicurean’s seafood and dessert stations, the grandiose round table can sit up to ten guests. A world of adventure awaits you this Melbourne Food & Wine Festival, with the chance to broaden your horizons and your palate. Whether it's eating or drinking, cooking or dancing, classical tradition or the latest trends, the chefs and restaurateurs, drinks makers, producers, community organisations and party people of Melbourne have a Special Event for you. The challenge for Sato was to create a suitable menu using predominantly local produce and I remember that seafood was especially a regular topic of discussion. Open for lunch and dinnerIzakaya Denis a cool uber chic dining experience. The concept of a izakaya is like a Japanese tavern with small meals to enjoy with drinks.
Even when the learning is challenging, the positive environment is encouraging and supportive. I've been here for a couple of years and have loved learning Japanese here. The teachers are amazing and the lesson content flows really well from one topic to another. Mixed salad, rice, and chilli paste with fresh salmon and tobiko topping, free miso.

Simple, clean, flavoursome Japanese dishes – like their traditional salmon breakfast or nourishing rice bowls – are a great refuel before you browse their range of covetable stuff for the home. With Japanese cooking classes, specialised groceries and fresh produce, this is your friendly neighbourhood Japanese retreat. If discreet fine dining with dramatic Japanese flair is on your wish list, enter the world of Akaiito.
Hi, my name is Dylan Cole, and I moved to Australia five years ago from England, UK. Whether you seek a hearty bowl of ramen made from the freshest locally sourced produce, or wish to chow down in a generous portion of katsu curry, Melbourne will have you covered. LiHO Shokudo might only be a small suburban Japanese cafe and bar, but it packs a mighty punch with its food, drinks and service. If you are hanging in the Northside of Melbourne, then DenDeke is the restaurant for you. The rock ’n’ roll interior is fascinating and works as the perfect backdrop to the intricate and moreish food on offer here.
Kazuki and Saori Tsuya, a husband and wife team, are the masterminds behind Kazuki’s Restaurant located on Lygon Street in Carlton. Strongly influenced by the traditional Japanese saying “ichi-go ichi-e”, meaning to treasure every moment, Kazuki’s Restaurant embodies this philosophy  down to its very core. This Japanese Melbourne institution is a steadfast shoo-in for the city’s best ramen, and their expansion into Hawthorn and Carlton hasn’t quelled the lines snaking out in front of their original CBD outpost each day.

Then for dessert the amazing bento box action with the gold leaf featured a superb Hot chocolate fondant! The flavours work incredibly together with the sweetness of the fondue and the balancing green tea, which is not overly sweet. We enjoyed perfect food and company in a sensational restaurant, albeit it will make demands on your wallet. Gaijin is a restaurant we fell in love with and is a fun excellent dining experience at affordable prices.
Wa Creations, the Omakase-style diner has a sleek fit with a long seated bar that looks onto the kitchen— providing an inside glimpse into the preparation and coming to life of each dish. The menu which has a 'Kappo' style, features several courses all based around seasonal ingredients and precise cooking techniques. Sake lovers can expect a diverse selection curated to highlight the different brewing styles across the various regions of Japan. Passionate about fine indulgence and exceptional five star customer service?

There are many fine dining Japanese venues and equally as many cheaper options. Neither kind of eatery sacrifices the quality of their produce. From sushi dishes, izakaya, gyoza and sake bars, Melburnians are spoiled for choice and can be transported to the streets of Tokyo in an instant. Melbourne is a city that is renowned for its culinary excellence.
Their regular dinner menu comes in a washi paper scroll listing small dishes of foods and drinks ranging from imported Japanese sake to locally grown wines, in both English and Japanese. Tempura Hajime’s dinner menu offers incredible dishes including chef Shigeo’s selection of delicious tempura with mixed seaweed salad and Japanese wagyu beef layered on top of vinegared sushi rice. Their lunch menu offers tempura dishes such as eel, John Dory, scallop, nori, potato and sea urchin, although it does depend on what’s in season. Don’t be fooled by the small interior as Tempura Hajime offers one of the best izakaya experiences in Melbourne.
The Elizabeth sushi train team members who served our table were friendly and offered excellent customer service, and we did not wait our food too long. This sushi place offers a range of traditional Japanese cuisine dishes like tempura, a range of classic sushi rolls, hot platters and more. My attempts to see the Japanese restaurant within the frame of a white Australia argue for the possibility of other forms of representation and identity being structured within the frame. Through the theoretical movement of the fold, I aimed to find an alternative to a unified, unchanging form of Japaneseness that locates an object and a subject in fixed positions.

This article examines a new mode of ‘Japaneseness’ emerging through increasing cross-cultural exchanges and interactions since the late twentieth century. Based upon ethnographic data and fieldwork, it demonstrates how Japaneseness is reconfigured through contact with other forms such as ‘whiteness’ within popular commodity culture. The article analyses the Japanese restaurant in Melbourne as an ‘exotic genre’ within which the new mode of Japaneseness is informed and constructed. It argues that this mode of the exotic can be distinguished from earlier formations of exoticism that unproblematically locate a subject monolithically within narrow stereotypes, although the old exoticism has not entirely disappeared. Rather than viewing the Japanese restaurant as a cohesive category, this study conceives of it as a cross-culturally implicated formation that challenges a fixed representation of Japaneseness constructed from a single point of view.