Akiya Japanese Restaurant — Restaurant in Melbourne

Went here for dinner sunday 26th February 2017. Had high hopes after reading mostly good reviews and the restaurant being in Brighton.

Ordered teriyaki salmon, teppanyaki beef, rice and green tea. The teppanyaki beef was so chewy I could only chew two thirds and then had to swallow each piece. Very poor quality meat for this dish. Only ate it as was very hungry and had not eaten anything since breakfast. Salmon was decent but too small for a main dish.

Sauce was just ok. rice decent. Green tea arrived extremely hot and had to wait several minutes before drinking. Green tea is not meant to be served so hot like this.

Decor and atmosphere also lacking and chair so tiny and flimsy i thought I would break mine at any moment and I am an averaged sized male.

Only gave 1 star as the salmon was decent.

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Ordered through Ubereats knowing it was being delivered by restaurant staff. Ordered at about 7 pm to try and help local businesses. Waited for 1 hour before calling up, or at least tried to... Called about 15 times and got declined about half of those. Understood that it was probably busy but its not that hard to answer the phone and say there's a bit of a delay... Being in 14 day isolation this was dinner so couldn't go pick it up. After finally getting through to the restaurant they said it would be delivered within 5 minutes. Finally got it and when I asked the delivery driver (who is restaurant staff) what happened he just laughed. Very very poor service. Only took 2.5 hours to get an answer and then eventually food... Not one to complain but thought I had to...

We have walked past Akiya many times in the past to our detriment. We dined in on a weeknight and may have just found a new local favorite. The service was friendly and efficient, the interior was fine and the ambience was good. The food, everything we ordered was great quality and tasty with stand outs for us being the teriyaki chicken and curry katsu don. An unexpected and nice touch (typically seen in fine dine restaurants) was starting us off with a amuse-bouche rice cracker with sashimi which was sweet and delicious, along with finishing with four little house-baked cookies that were also tasty. We had a great experience dining in at Akiya who offer great Japanese food at great value. We will...