Best places: Japanese restaurants in Essendon, Australia

👍👍 We arrived and were greeted by the friendly FOH who was able to seat us despite being early for booking. The place is huge without feeling cavernous and had a great loft/warehouse type vibe. We almost ended up ordering "entrees" and "mains"... Everything on the menu looked amazing, it was hard to de...

👍👍 ORDERED (05/2023): 🍱  Chicken nanban set with rice & miso soup: Deep-fried chicken dipped in sweet-sour-savoury vinegar sauce served with Japanese style tartare sauce ($17.00) 🍄 Grilled Mixed Japanese Mushrooms: Grilled Japanese mushrooms with garlic miso butter ($12.00) I spent $23.50 on lunch....

👍 went out on a Friday night, 3 ppl in total, booked and was seated on a shared table. had a night-after-work craving for drinks and ramen vibe 😌 ramen's broth was flavourful in good temperature, dipping ones would be better if it can serve a little warmer (or maybe it's more the cold weather haa), n...

👍👍 Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous setting! And the food was delicious. So nice to have Asian breakfast options around as I can’t stomach western breakfast options. We were a group of 4 and got a selection of options that we all loved. The staff were also super lovely after we mixed up our booking. Highly...

👍 Edit: Ordered a Bento Box for dinner via delivery. Tasty but would recommend opting for an eat in option for the best level of freshness and warmth for this dish. Nice dining experience at Okami this past weekend. Many varied options and at a reasonable all you can eat price of $36.80. We weren't...

Japanese restaurant with a bar, traditional decor and chefs preparing teppanyaki at tabletop grills.

👍👍 I just had my lunch, set B with Omusubi. Excellent foods, services, great cookies Two thumbs up. Try this if you are in Melbourne, highly recommended.

Upmarket Japanese cuisine, including platters and banquets, in an intimate, white-painted space.

👍👍 Highly recommended! Tried dine in here few times and never disappointed with both foods and services

😠 Very disappointed. The worst bento box we’ve ever had. Ingredients doesn’t seem to be fresh at all, we also ordered a pork katsu bento but the katsu is not pork loin as it suppose to be, it seems to be any random part of the pork cut to fillets. And the bento box only include some rice, one sushi r...

🫤 I’ve really tried to be patient with this place. But, put simply; it’s a hot mess. Slow and forgetful service. The turnover of staff is probably a sign of what is going on here; which is only highlighted by the owner once getting into a yelling match with a supplier in front of customers a few weeks...