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User Reviews on Furusato
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Food 6 |
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I Read all the reviews and was looking forward to a real Japanese experience with real standard Japanese food. Furusato, hometown, really sets the mood. We were disappointed, however, by the bland flavours, the not-quite Japanese tastes, and the decidedly Korean service of this Korean run Japanese restaurant. Great value and excellently close to the real thing, but not quite there either. Acceptable, but not exceptional. Oh. And the Jazz? We heard the same CD of two performers play over and over again in a loop of only about 30 minutes.
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Chilli&Garlic -
See my reviews 9 , 30 August 2008
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Food 7 |
Ambience 8 |
Service 7 |
Value 7 |
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Go here for lunch with work friends. Pleasant atmosphere, really cheap lunch specials and reasonably priced menu overall, good service, nice food. Love the courtyard to bask in the sun with jazz floating through the speakers. Shares the courtyard with residents (?) who like playing darts in their underwear swigging beer but it makes for a good laugh and makes you enjoy the Aussie sun even more.
Lunch special of fish terriyaki at $9 is great, comes with typical Japanese pickles (lotus root, Chinese cabbage, choy) and miso soup. Udon is $7, no soup (and no pickles I think). Beef tataki is perfectly sliced, marinated, mixed with raw egg at your table. Only complaint is the thimble sized tea cup for tea, I know tea is delicate but it burns my fingers on such a small cup!
Staff are accommodating and friendly, regualr lunch haunt, would love to try dinner here. Prompt service as we only have under an hour for lunch. (And can I just say, PyrmontBoy 200's reviews are just a sounding board for him to bring negativity to show off his superiority complex, it's about the food mate, not your "hot date".)
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ken_w -
See my reviews 56, 28 May 2008
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Food 8 |
Ambience 9 |
Service 9 |
Value 9 |
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This is one of Sydney's little gems.
I love quiet undiscovered places and being Asian, I like my asian cuisine to be authentic. Some reviewers criticised this place for serving "boring" japanese food and I find it hard to understand how someone could fault this restaurant for cooking traditional japanese food. It would be like going into a traditional English pub and getting upset because it didn't serve Thai curry!
The sashimi boat here is outstanding for the price you pay. I wouldn't recommend the sushi but the tofu starters, gyoza, tempura and hot plate dishes are rather nice. I love the jazz music in the background and the soothing atmosphere in this quiet restaurant. A great place to hang out with some friends for a simple relaxing evening that's easy on the wallet, healthy for the gut and wonderful on the palette.
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Myn -
See my reviews 3, 05 April 2008
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Food 10 |
Ambience 10 |
Service 10 |
Value 10 |
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I went without planning it on New Year's Eve. Ordered "Banquet C" Beef Sashimi, Gyoza, Tempura, Sush & Sashimi, Teriyaki. All of it was superb, the staff were lovely, very friendly, helpful, unobtrusive. The courtyard is magic on a summer evening. The best meal I had in 2007.
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harry8 -
See my reviews 1, 01 January 2008
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Food 3 |
Ambience 7 |
Service 1 |
Value 2 |
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I was disappointed with the service and the menu in this place. The menu has a selection of the really standard boring Japanese dishes that we've all eaten 500 times each already in whatever food court or lunch restaurant you go to. Newsflash Furusato-san, inner city dwellers want more than a chicken teriyaki or a sushi roll these days.
In regard of the service, I thought the waiter was rude and he just had such a shonky businessman feel about him. When he came to take our orders he asked what we were having, and before I could answer he pre-emptively asked me "Chicken Teriyaki?" I said "No mate", and then asked him "Do you have any raw live octopus?" I proceeded to order the most un-teriyaki thing on the menu, which it has to be said, wasn't that far removed from good old Teriyaki.
Later, when we paid, he scrummaged through our tray like a little racoon right in front of us, and had the most obviously disappointed look on his face when he saw there was no tip. Aaah seriously it makes you laugh...
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PyrmontBoy200 -
See my reviews 18, 27 April 2007
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Food 3 |
Ambience 6 |
Service 5 |
Value 3 |
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We ordered the Sushi bridge, tempura Prawns/Vegetable combination, and some kind of seaweed salad. Well the Sushi bridge was well presented however the taste - it definately wasn't fresh and the rolls were rubbery. The seaweed salad was an experience.
The Tempura combination Prawn & Vegetable had only two prawns in it and more vegetables & some of it wasn't cooked through.
As for the desert it was terrible - we ordered the Green Tea Ice cream and some kind of Rice punch and it was YUCK!
Over all the service was okay (when you could understand them), the ambiance was nice, the sushi definately not fresh & I will not be going back again!
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polifresh -
See my reviews 2, 29 March 2007
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Food 5 |
Ambience 6 |
Service 3 |
Value 4 |
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The Sushi was dreadful! very small bits of not very fresh fish on large ignorant pieces of not very fresh rice. The service was poor and the language barrier was a near impossible hurdle. I have been here twice before and each time it gets worse. Initially we were asked if we would like to sit outside. It was a warm night and we thought that would be good except that the lighting is so poor, you are literally sitting in the dark. Service was slow and painful. If you like good Japanese go some place else.
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MikeThurley -
See my reviews 1, 29 April 2006
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Food 9 |
Ambience 9 |
Service 9 |
Value 9 |
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Been here several times and also have taken overseas visitors here for lunch. Very polite service, friendly and lovely food. They also went out of their way to explain which dishes were vegetarian. I plan on trying out one evening also.
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cupcake -
See my reviews 2, 06 April 2006
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Food 7 |
Ambience 5 |
Service 2 |
Value 8 |
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I went to Furusato tonight with my partner (who told me that the name means "ancestral village"), without having read any reviews about it. He had the dinner box and I had gyoza and the sushi/ sashimi combination. His serving was large and he (a Japanophile) was pleased with its quality. My gyoza were pleasant and the sushi/ sashimi set was an amazing bargain for $18 with 12 slices of sashimi and half a dozen sushi. The sashimi was fresh and tender.
However, there was a waitress who just shouldn't have been there. She seemed barely aware of where she was and incapable of answering simple questions. The other waitress was pleasant when we dealt with her but I was really annoyed by the fact that 40mins after we'd finished our mains, no one had come to clear the table or to ask us if we wanted desserts. I had to go up to tell the first waitress that we'd finished and she still didn't register what I was saying until I repeated myself. To say that her heart wasn't in it would be an understatement. She was just appalling. Oh and as a side issue, I have to warn people that the chairs are not good for folks who have to deal with back pain.
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Pooh -
See my reviews 41, 15 February 2006
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Food 9 |
Ambience 7 |
Service 8 |
Value 8 |
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I went to Furusato for the Valentine's Day banquet. Initially I was concerned about the waitresses English skills, however the service was polite, unobtrusive and efficient, and despite being busy, drinks arrived quickly and food was brought out course by course at well-timed intervals. The meal was one delicious delicacy after another, with crispy hot gyoza, perfectly subtle tempura and beautifully sweet and thick teriyaki with an excellent miso accompaniment. The restaurant courtyard was a nice retreat for me to laugh about my chopstick use and enjoy an intimate meal for two. A place I will definitely re-visit!
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anon135 -
See my reviews 3, 15 February 2006
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