PACHINKO — Restaurant in Launceston

Firstly this place is uber cool, located in Quadrant Mall in Launceston.

Secondly the staff are really friendly and welcoming.

Thirdly, the food is really good. We had the tuna sashimi, the vegetable pickles, the agedashi tofu and the green bean tempura for starters. All these meals were exceptional, with the standouts for me being the pickles and agedashi tofu.

We followed that with the fried eggplant with miso and the corn in miso butter. Both were exceptional. My traveling companions loved the eggplant, while the corn was my favourite.

Matching perfectly with the food was the wine we ordered, a chilled 2020 Havilah 'Real Light Red' from the Tamar. It was very good and was part of a very interesting wine list.

Finally desert was a real winner. I loved the Vietnamese coffee inspired dessert, and our traveling companion thought the ice cream sandwich was the bomb.

This place definitely comes...

Ate here last minute, as it was open a little later than other restaurants.

The staff was absolutely lovely, and I asked for the recommendations and was told the "feed me" is always a good choice. 9 courses for $65, what a bargain!

I could not fault the food, it was spectacular. I definitely recommend!! Its hard to pick a favourite dish, but the bluefin tuna sashimi salad was amazing, as was everything else. I really couldnt pick a fault anywhere.. Our waitress was amazing and always had a smile on her face. As others have said 5 stars isn't enough. Coming from Sydney for a 9 course degustation you'd expect to pay $150+

Ignore the ignorant people with their 1 star reviews, this place is probably the best food in Launceston, and perhaps the best in tassie I've had. I'm a regular to tassie (at least twice a year) and I've eaten at a lot of places. I promise you won't be...

It was a disappointing experience here. We ordered the market fish sashimi which I felt was a very small serving size with little slithers of kingfish and overpowered by the cucumber and radish. Perhaps put less cucumber/radish and add thicker cuts of kingfish?

Secondly, the Nikujaga braised pork was quite tough and chewy and in my mind I expected it to be more tender- maybe it was the cut of meat they used or needs improvement in the slow cooking process? I feel as though it was very overpriced for the quality that we got- $32 for the pork and $26 for the sashimi.

The only good thing was the okonomiyaki, it was tasty but this is a hard dish to mess up. This restaurant failed to wow me. I think Bar Wa Izakaya in Hobart is alot better fusion...