Busshari Restaurant

Busshari staff are particularly proud of their Soft Shell Crab Karaage ($18) making it into the Daily Telegraph’s list of the top hundred Sydney dishes. For good reason, too, it’s dry and intensely savoury. Ease your way in with the daily Sake Tasting Set ($15/3) that’ll have you discussing the merits of junmai, junmai ginjo and junmai daiginjo like a sake connoisseur. While hot dishes like Saikyoyaki ($20) - a blackened piece of miso-marinated toothfish that flakes into buttery white curls when tapped with a chopstick - are great, this place wins at sashimi.

IS just alright, quite long waiting for the food to come, the sushi just alright. The only dish I like only the karage shrimp with matcha salt and the king prawn nigiri.

The Sashimi Salad was definitely the highlight of my experience - a large plate of fresh sashimi topped with a mountain of salad and drizzled with the traditional miso dressing. Busshari is a rather trendy outlet with lively vibes which is great for pairs or small groups. Their menu is reasonably priced for the high quality of food being offered.

Very very disappointed with the quality of the food here. It was on many top 10 Japanese restaurants in Sydney lists. We went here for a birthday dinner with 10 people last year. Never again. The sea urchin was not fresh at all and had a definite 'fishy' smell which was bitter and did not taste fresh. The rest of the sashimi platter was.. okay. Just not n the top 10 range. They apparently have "the top 10 edamame in the world". We ordered it and well, it was like normal edamame. Other food looked and tasted alright, but the quality of food definitely did not live up to its stellar reviews.

One of the first Japanese formal restaurants (not Sushi train) I had ever been too was Busshari.



Going back years now it was when Japanese hadn't really hit Australia, let alone Sydney and the idea of eating raw fish was considered weird. Back then, I recall thinking how damn expensive the meal was. Little portions and so expensive, but things change and though Busshari hasn't lowered their prices, the rest ...read more