Cairns Riki Japanese BBQ Restaurant — Restaurant in Queensland

If you're a fan of Japanese Yakiniku, you know how delightful it can be to find an authentic Japanese Yakiniku Restaurant in your city. It's truly a joy. That's how I felt when I visited “Riki Yakiniku” in Cairns. Chef Jason trained for a decade in Osaka as a Yakiniku Chef and served high-quality Japanese BBQ standards. We savoured Wagyu marble 5 and 9 meat, beef tongue, and beef in the bone, and each dish was delicious. We also enjoyed the prawn tempura, seaweed, and miso, all equally delectable. And to complete our meal, we relished some refreshing Japanese green tea ice cream. This is the restaurant if you're looking for an authentic Japanese BBQ experience. It comes highly recommended! 😋😋😋

We came back to Cairns for our second vacation. We must ensure that we dine at Riki again. Not only once, but we had three dinners. Each time, we truly enjoyed it. The food standards are among the best Yakiniku that I have tried.

It is a MUST TRY Japanese...

This isn't a fair review for a bbq restaurant because we didn't have the bbq.

We came here for my birthday dinner as it was a place that we've walked passed many times but never went in.

So we thought we'd give it a go.

Before the meal we got a confirmation SMS to confirm time and number of ppl. That was a nice touch and helped avoid a mistake in booking. Off to a good start.

Wonderful reception, friendly staff on arrival, tick.

Two small fish tanks with fish that are afraid of ppl i.e not domesticated. My son had 30mins of joy just moving the fish around by simply walking from one end of the tank to the other. Tick.

Waitress was upbeat and friendly. Tick.

Food portion is big. We didn't manage to finish all that we ordered which is unusual.

Food taste is standard. Not amazing out of this world, just standard.

We may have to come back to try the...

Perfect. Menu was really interesting and everything we ordered was really fresh. We had the king sushimi platter and it was very fresh, generous size and well prepared. We had the BBQ special set which was a really good mix of tastes and good quality meat. The kids had udon, gyōza and takoyaki and ate it all without complaint. Restaurant had good vibe. No horrible noise or music. Our kids were treated very politely and extra bowls and things provided quickly when we needed. Chef and waitress looked like a husband wife team and they worked the restaurant well despite it being just the two of them. Nice touches like fresh wet towels was lovely after being out in the city. Nice sake. Good drinks menu. Will definately add this place to the...