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Haven't been here for many months, used to go here regularly. Things have changed. Really quiet this lunchtime with hardly any food on the train or cu…
Tammy Torise
Tenkai Sushi Restaurant
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Popped into Tenkai for some takeaway sushi a few nights ago. Excellent takeaway prices - most sushi rolls are $2.20-$2.50. The dine-in prices range fr…
Meatballs And Beef Cheeks
Tenkai Sushi Restaurant
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We went specifically for the lakes. Delicious flavour, great heat, really lovely to eat. The restaurant is a little shabby and could do with a thoroug…
Lady Bacon
Tenkai Sushi Restaurant
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Tenkai Sushi Restaurant is open for Casual Dining. Tenkai Sushi Restaurant serves Japanese and Sushi dishes. Incorrect or missing information? Make a report, or claim the restaurant if you own it!Details
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10 Reviews on “Tenkai Sushi Restaurant”
Hands down my favourite sushi train in Brisbane. The fish is always fresh and generously portioned, but it’s the rice in the sushi rolls that sets this place apart from all others–the texture is just perfect, and there’s never too much of it to overpower the contents of the roll. The atmosphere is perfect for a sushi train–nothing fancy whatsoever, just grab a stool, grab your sushi and enjoy. The only hot dish I’ve tried is the tempura udon–very nice and reasonably priced. Would highly recommend to anyone looking for no-frills, delicious train sushi!
Landed in Brisbane after flying in from Auckland today, and a horror drive into town staying nearby, resulting in wanting something quick and simple to eat for dinner. This was really the only non-pub option in the nearest vicinity. Walking in, the immediate impression was it would be a ‘cheap’ kind of place to eat as the food choices were on laminated printed paper, stuck on the walls, with additional laminated strips of hand-written labels and prices.The interior was simple, and a short sushi train ran in the middle section. The seating was a bit strange with high bar-stool type of seats, which isn’t really the best for eat-in though I guess it was probably more designed in mind for the sushi train component, but they made all of the tables that same height.The menu was variations of a theme, primarily Don (rice bowls) and Udon, with variants of curry, or ‘classic’ types like honey chicken, katsu, una etc. They had some vegetarian options also.The place was fairly empty at nearly 8pm at night, and sushi was going around on the track, which begs the question of how long they had been going around, and the premise wasn’t exactly a ‘chilled’ environment.My wife ordered a honey chicken Don, and I a pork belly Don.Unfortunately, we both heard the microwave being in action for prep of our food, and it was evident that the pork belly was the main culprit. The honey chicken was passable according to my wife, the pork belly was also just on passable. The fat was still very firm, not at all sufficiently rendered in the braising sauce that it should have been to have that delicious melt-in-mouth and gelatenous feel you want, along with that sweet-salty asian/teriyaki braising sauce. On the plus side though, making up for the lack of the quality of the meat, the quantity of both the meat and rice was good. The honey chicken Don however had the same amount of rice, but not the same amount in both the chicken, nor honey glaze sauce, which is evidence once you start getting into the dish itself.Finally, another reason why I wasn’t able to give this place an average of 3.0, was that the general cleanliness wasn’t, the tabletops were grimey, the menu’s grimey, they had empty take-away containers open on one bench with a container of some kind of liquid, and packets of wasabi sachets, no doubt for packing take-away in, and another table had a roll of paper towelling on it and napkins strewn across it. Sure, it was a late Wednesday night, but when you have two guys cooking/making food, and one girl floating behind the register and the kitchen, it would have taken all of 2 minutes to put the paper away, put those containers away into the back or somewhere else, and maybe 10 minutes (since it was very dead) to actually clean down. Sad, but thats just how the impression came through.tl;dr – Passable food for the price, a little on the grimey side, unsure about the age of the offerings moving around on the track.
As someone who has eaten a considerable amount of sushi all over Brisbane in the past ten years, this has been my go-to place for sushi for the last few years. Delicious, consistent, reasonably sized rolls and relatively cheap, which I’ve found is an almost impossible combination in Brisbane nowadays. Also the same (fantastic) girl always seems to be on front of house. I don’t even have to order now, she knows my order perfectly.
Good cheap sushi. I went here for a quick dinner around 8pm on a Friday night and wasn’t hoping for much from the varied reviews. It’s really not a bad place, though the furniture is a little old. It was clean and there wasn’t much on the train, which meant everything I wanted I ordered fresh. Being a uni student the price is also spot on.
AMAZING!. It was amazing, the take away sushi is just 2.20 and they make it fresh which means the meat is still warm and the sushi wrap is still moist yet retain thats tenderness, Amazing, have been there three times in a row and i cant stop loving it
The best teriyaki and chicken bowl in brissy!
Michelle. Have been eating here for over 2 years and love it! The food is fresh, tastes great and the staff are very friendly and helpful.