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Assorted dishes at Obanzai Mama.

Obanzai Mama

For Kyoto home-style ‘grandma food’ and make-your-own bento boxes.

  • Emma Breheny
Pork loin katsu is the hero at Katsuhon.

Katsuhon

A cosy Japanese eatery in the CBD specialising in crunchy, golden katsu.

Bar Selecta bar director Joey Tai (left) and co-owner Masaki Hisaike.

Bar Selecta

A Tokyo-style listening bar in a suburban laneway.

  • Kosa Monteith
Signature ramen made with chicken broth.

Umami Tokyo

Late-night izkaya serving disco-friendly ramen and Japanese drinking snacks.

  • Dani Valent
Umami Tokyo’s signature ramen is made with chicken broth instead of tonkotsu pork.

Get disco-friendly ramen and snacks at Chapel Street’s new late-night izakaya

A music-loving ramen chef creates a venue for those craving Japanese food after midnight.

  • Dani Valent
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Splitting a matcha flavoured daifuku with a piece of string at Sydney Daifuku Store.

Split your mochi with a piece of string at this hidden Japanese cafe

Our reviewer has never encountered a more expansive offering of these squishy pastry desserts than at this spot. It’ll cure your wish-I-was-in-Japan blues.

  • Lee Tran Lam
Sogumm’s owners Changhoon “Kimi” Kim (left) and Suhyun “Su” Kim

‘Melbourne’s Silicon Valley’ rises as a daytime dining destination. Here are five spots to try

Some of the most exciting new lunch venues are in a small pocket of the inner south-east.

  • Tomas Telegramma and Quincy Malesovas
Stairway to Heaven.

On omakase restaurant in Redfern that turns dinner into a show

There’s a new rendition of Stairway to Heaven. You’ll find it at R by Raita Noda, a 15-seat Japanese fine diner on Redfern’s Wunderlich Lane.

  • Erina Starkey
Chef Tomotaka Ishizuka behind the counter at Tomo-An kaiseki restaurant.
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This newly two-hatted laneway restaurant in an old warehouse is ‘a portal to Japan’

Tomo-An chef Tomotaka Ishizuka serves his Aussie-fied Japanese tasting menu to six guests at a time.

  • Dani Valent
Wagyu short rib teishoku (set meal) served with rice, miso soup and more.

Omi 380

A one-stop dining hall for all the current hits of Japanese food.

  • Quincy Malesovas

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