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User Reviews on Akiya
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Food 1 |
Ambience 4 |
Service 4 |
Value 1 |
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This restaurant used to be quite nice, with reasonable Japanese food for a suburban location. It is quite obvious after tonight's dining experience that the ownership of the restaurant has changed. It is quite clear that those running the restaurant are chinese, and the food seems to have the quality of cheap chinese takeaway but at the price you'd pay for sophisticated and delicate Japanese.
Apart from a lady wandering around the dining room in a floral apron initially setting off alarm bells that things may have changed, when our entrees arrived, we knew this restaurant was not what it once was. The gyoza were essentially chinese dumplings of poor quality, they did not even look remotely Japanese. The vegetable tempura was the most sorry excuse for a tempura ever. The batter was awful and only two vegetables went into it: carrot and sweet potato.
Clearly they were trying to economise by not even throwing in a few pieces of capsicum, broccoli or mushroom. The orange, dry mess was not a promising start.
The main meals were beef and vegetable teriyaki respectively. I had the latter meal previously but the new version was 90% cabbage with a few shreds of carrot and bean sprouts, and a meagre portion of dried up tofu. There was barely any sauce included with the meal so I felt like I was just eating $16.50 worth of hot cabbage. The beef meal was not quite so bad, but the meat was clearly a cheap cut, down from the quality of old and not good value for $18.50.
How disappointing to lose a good local venue for Japanese. When will people learn that you can't just "pretend" to offer Japanese food at an expensive price and serve up cheap ingredients that have been microwaved (like the dried up gyoza).
We will never return again.
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caterpillargirl -
See my reviews 1 , 03 December 2008
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Below Average |
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Food 3 |
Ambience 5 |
Service 7 |
Value 3 |
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We ate here recently on a mid week night. I have to say it was just ok. The staff were friendly and the service reasonably good but the food just doesn't cut it.
Some of the problems should be easily rectified, for example, the main course sashimi plate consists of 2 types of fish, farmed salmon makes up about 80% of the plate and 3 pieces of tuna the other 20%. Where is the variety. To make things worse, the main course sushi plate uses just the same 2 fish and a couple of prawns. That is just lazy.
Other mistakes are more in the cooking itself, the sweet potato in the tempura was very hard, the gyoza were falling apart and somewhat burnt on the bottom. I can't even say this is an Ok neighborhood restaurant because it is also quite expensive and has pretentions. Food plus one bottle of wine ($28) came to $134.
I have to agree with the other reviewer, there are many better restaurants around than Akiya.
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melrich -
See my reviews 28, 24 November 2008
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Below Average |
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Food 1 |
Ambience 1 |
Service 6 |
Value 5 |
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My mother and I decided to try this restaurant because we fancied Japanese and wanted to dine locally. We have lived in the Brighton area for years and have always wanted to try this place, well, we tried it but we will never go again.
Firstly, when we arrived after being seated, the staff were having a conversation at the top of their voices amongst themselves in Chinese (my mother was born in China), already we were suspicious about the authenticity of the food, not to mention getting irritated by the overly loud staff chat in a relatively empty restaurant.
The food was truly woeful, the only endearing trait was that the ingredients seemed at least partially fresh, but the sushi was soft and fell apart, the eggplant dish we ordered was absolutely vile: half an eggplant completely deep fried with an overly sweet sugary sauce dumped on it. I've eaten eggplant in plenty of Japanese restaurants but never have I seen one deep fried whole. Everyone knows that eggplant soaks up oil like no tomorrow and it was like eating the oil out of the deep fryer straight.
The agedashi tofu was equally average, with a strange strong smoky flavour and the smelliest bento flakes I've ever experienced. Our prawn dish might as well have come from a cheap Chinese takeaway and even the pot of green tea ordered was unstrained and we ended up with loads of tea leaves and bits floating in our tiny cups that we had to fish out.
All in all, a mega disappointing dining experience. Stay away!
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Miss Kalinka -
See my reviews 6, 27 June 2008
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