My Little Bento — Restaurant in Melbourne

@my_little_bento 📍Moonee Ponds

🍗 Karaage Chicken 🍣 Tsuke Tuna Sashimi (Special) 🥟 Chicken Prawn Gyoza 🍛 Salmon Teri-Mayo Don 🍜 Pork Ramen

My Little Bento is an authentic Japanese cafe located just on Margaret St opposite Moonee Ponds Station. They offer a menu featuring ramen, curry, sashimi, don and more along with a blackboard full of rotating specials. 🥢

They are licensed and have a selection of Japanese sakes, beers and a small cocktail menu which won’t break the bank - loved the Yuzu G&T! We had heard great things about the Sashimi here and can confirm it is a must order. So fresh and presented beautifully. 🤩

The Chicken Karaage was crisp and moist inside and the Chicken Prawn Gyoza in chilli oil was delicious, both generous in portion. The Salmon Teri-Mayo Don had lots of salmon! The Ramen was ok, a bit porky for my personal taste, the Char Siu was fattier than I’ve had before (the lean pieces were fantastic) and the noodles were too soft. 🍜

Open for dinners Tuesday to Saturday but also lunch Friday and Saturday! Although the restaurant does look like an unassuming day-time cafe, the dishes are of high standard. Would return for snacks and a cocktail!...

I had been there last year with my partner and really enjoyed everything about that place so I kept the card from the restaurant and I finally had a chance to go back there with a friend in June and it was as great as I remembered it! Very lovely little Japanese restaurant with authentic food and customer service. Having lived in Japan for a while I'm always on the lookout for an authentic Japanese experience in Melbourne and My little Bento definitely provides it. We had sushi to share, I had a Katsu curry and my friend had a special curry Udon with prawns and we were not disappointed at all. So yum! The waitress is really accommodating, friendly and efficient. There's a lot of small details that are just "kawaii " too, great drinks ... just in love! There's also a nice outdoors space that I'd love to try when it gets warmer. I'll definitely be back! If you love Japanese food and culture like I do, I definitely recommend you...

The staff was lovely and very attentive. Despite lovely presentation of food and decent and quick service the portions are quite stingy and small. It costed $24.50 for a chicken bento and the serving of karage was about a small handful served in a small bowl. The veggie servings were a part of the bento and would be an estimate of a table spoon for each. The bowl of rice and the miso soup was the most generous serve. I ordered also a curry kastudon and the chicken serving was again tiny, about 5 thin crumbed strips. All the rice dishes are mostly generous and flavourful with the rice but the meat portions are tiny. I visited a few years ago and the servings were much more generous. inflation sucks bro. for 3 dishes and 2 small drinks it costed 91 bucks. I could purchase 3 dishes at another asian restaurant and the portions would be more generous for half the price....