Shinjuku

9 Reviews on “Shinjuku”

• Tbomb

  Very good..

  This is a quiet restaurant with good value standard Japanese food that is better than others in the vicinity.

  We came in fairly late on a Saturday night and were pleased that our large sushi platter came out rather swiftly(especially considering we had no entrees to entertain us whilst the sushi was prepared). The sushi was very nice, fresh and great value..

  This place is an unassuming hidden gem, give it a try..

  January 28, 2020, 4:08 pm

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• Laura Harvey

  My go to place for take home sashimi.
  These guys do an amazing mixed sashimi and sushi platter for 2 people. Fish is really fresh, I’m preety sure they make it to order. The kingfish is especially delicious. And the wasabi is home made, of course. Wouldn’t go anywhere else

  January 17, 2020, 1:54 pm

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• Lida Cheung

  My partner suggested that we try this place out as we are local. I was a bit sceptical as I had never seen customers inside but wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt.. I should have read the reviews first. Biggest regret! Interior was cute, but the menu was limited and really did not impress. The items seemed over-priced but we decided to go ahead an order anyway.. We ordered the Tonkatsu, Whole Fried Flounder, Miso Soup and Gyoza with two servings of rice. First came the Gyoza. It looked like a very sad plate of steamed dumplings.. The skin was ripped in places with a gluggy texture, obvious that it had been frozen. The meat was beef which I felt was a strange filling choice, and to top it off it was sitting in a soy sauce/vinegar mixture. Completely soaked! I’m by no means a Japanese culinary connoisseur but I thought at least it would be panfried.. Next came the Tonkatsu which was a very sad, dark and dry piece of meat. The pork was tough and it was accompanied by thinly sliced cabbaged topped off with some sour sort of dressing. The chef had a heavy hand and the bottom of the crumbed meat was soggy. The katsu sauce was definitely bottled.. Finally, the whole flounder came. I felt like this was the most disappointing part of our meal. How can you go wrong with whole fried flounder.. It was topped off with the same sauce that came with the tonkatsu. Miso soup was powdered and came with sliced mushroom, a tiny amount of tofu and what i thought was bok choy.

  All in all, really disappointed. Bill came up to $50 and probably worst fiddy I ever spent..

  January 11, 2020, 6:57 am

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• Jolene Lim

  We never had such a bad meal in a long time. Shinjuku is located on Sydney road, next to Barkly Square and only open for dinner. We decided to give it a try on a Friday night after late late shopping at Barkly Square. The restaurant was not busy with a few diners. The interior looks quite warm and inviting but that’s the only positive I can think of. The menu is not balanced ( missing udons, ramen etc) and seemed expensive for a local Japanese restaurant. We ordered tonkatsu chicken, bento sashi and green tea to share. Staff are not friendly ( looked moody?) and service is poor. The miso soup which was part of the bento was served first and it looked like a Chinese version of miso soup, served with Chinese green and cut button mushroom! Then came the tonkatsu chicken, it looked quite unappealing from the minute it arrived to the table. It’s a thin and very dry piece of chicken with sliced cabbage salad. The crumbs are not crispy and looked like it’s been fried in over used oil. It’s very poor value for $15.60 and it didn’t even come with rice. My bento arrived 15 mins later so we had to eat the tonkatsu as entree or it will turn cold if we waited for the bento to come. Each element on the bento was cooked so badly and you can tell just by looking at it! The sashimi pieces was all smashed and didn’t look fresh! I had a small bite and it tasted off so I didn’t finish it. The gyoza skin was coming apart, tasted more like cheap steam dim sim than pan fried gyoza. The tempura prawn was inedible too as it tasted off and batter was thick, not light and crispy. The ginger beef is dry. It was a very unsatisfying and expensive dinner for it is worth. Don’t waste your time here, you better off going to Maccas next door. Very disgusted with the food here.

  January 6, 2020, 4:09 pm

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• Jude D'Souza

  Service took long but well worth the wait, best nigiri and sushi I’ve had in Melbourne thus far!
  Insanely deliscious and big portion sizes. Highly recommend

  May 18, 2017, 1:39 pm

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• Dave

  Yakitori were the least bad part of a woeful meal. Fatty pieces of chicken with an unpleasant take on teriyaki sauce. Salmon and tuna sushi were warm, thick, hacked pieces of fish with the the largest veins of fat I’ve seen. Partner tapped out after one bite: I should have followed suit. Unagi (eel) sushi were vile. Jagged cuts of warm, terrible smelling eel. One bite of this and I was done and dry retching once we left.

  Tried so hard to overlook the faults and just enjoy this. But my God… It was absolutely vile.

  February 1, 2017, 3:22 pm

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• Sugar_licks

  Staff are very sweet, we were seated and ordered we got a mix of tuna takaki, grilled fish, and a Californian roll – all delicious and the green tea was lovely too

  December 26, 2016, 2:29 am

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