Suminoya Japanese Restaurant

We now call Japanese BBQ one of favourite types of restaurants. We visited Suminoya to try their “all you can eat premium BBQ”. With price ranging between $50-$65 for one and a half hours, and half an hour more to sit and consume the ordered food. There are a few rules – order only as you plan to eat as food wastage is highly discouraged, as it should be. You can order as you please from their easy to navigate touch screen menu – which is the typical ordering practice at these type of restaurants. We were excited about the foods on offer, particularly the high quality cuts of meat with a range of seafood, duck, chicken pork and wagyu beef cuts such as rib, harami, rib finger and tongue.
The thin cuts and quality meat meant it was easy and quick to cook, and so tasty to eat. The meat flavour enhanced by the high heat of the ...read more

Expect to find gas barbeques and a whole lot of industrial hardware hovering over your table when you now come for yakiniku at this longstanding Japanese restaurant. And while there is a cost to the intrigue and aroma that once emanated from this CBD alleyway, the obvious advantage is you can now nip back to the office after a long lunch without your hair and clothes reeking with the tell-tale aroma of barbeque. Beer goes hand in hand with barbeque, and Japanese barbeque is no exception. My favourite is the Koshihikari Echigo Beer ($15/500ml) made from Niigata Koshihikari rice – the finest rice grown in Japan. A Three Choice BBQ Set ($26.90) here comes with salad, rice and miso soup, offering up a full and balanced meal.

As you enter you're visually assaulted with the columns of smoke extractors that reach from the ceiling to each table. It gives the space a very modern look with booth for groups and more intimate dining in the split level area downstairs.For lunch the bento selections revolve arond your choice of protein (ie. Terrayaki Chicken/Fish, Tempura, Nigiri, Sashimi, Deep Fried Pork Cutlets) and are presented a deluxe jewellery box-like manner with all the accompaniments.The BBQ set menu is offered in a number of tiers with a choice of 2,3 or 4 kinds of meat. In this case it was the Wagyu beef, Duck and Pork Belly that were chosen. No right to complain because youre in charge of the cooking on the BBQ mesh. Perfectly seasoned it was quite a filling meal. It's served with miso and rice and is quite substantial. Really enjoyed this. The service staff is quite dilligent and friendly and the overall experience was surprisingly workable into a short lunch hour. Definitely a surprise and ...read more

Great all you can eat buffet, probably one of the best one in Sydney. They have a great range of meat and sides, and the staff was really attentive and brought out the food pretty quickly. There's plenty of time (2 hours) to demolish the goodness. Two thumbs up!

For another taste of Japanese cuisine, we were really looking forward to bento boxes and authentic Japanese BBQ, known as Yakiniku, at Suminoya in the CBD! It's a wonderful restaurant to introduce yourself to the Yakiniku style of Japanese BBQ. We absolutely loved trying the Lunch Box, which came with chicken Ton-Katsu with fresh fish sashimi, a crab cutlet, radish, tofu, miso soup and a bowl of rice, which was excellent for trying small portions of many of their dishes. The restaurant is located just off Pitt St, so walk down the small alleyway till you get to the side entrance – it’s a bit hard to spot at first! However, the cosy interior and friendly and helpful staff makes this well worth the find! There are plenty of comfortable seats surrounding large wooden tables, with BBQ fans above each of the tables reminding you of their speciality.