Iori Japanese Restaurant

Always such a great experience.
Staff are always lovely and pay great attention to ensuring you have a good time.
Food is delicious! Never once had a disappointing meal.
Atmosphere is cozy and welcoming.

We had a set with entree, miso pot, and desserts 😋

The quality of food was good, but nothing really special. We have paid 86$ (special price) for the package for 2 people. The service was really good, waitress were always present and careful. I honestly wouldn’t go for the full price.

Iori seems to have been here forever, and has changed very little.
Although it has been an age since I had stepped inside, there was a frisson of familiarity and good memories of times past.
Despite our confirmed booking having been mislaid, the highly knowledgeable and helpful staff managed to fit us in with ease, although service did seem rather rushed.
We opted for a pescatarian degustation to reacquaint ourselves and some allergies were accounted for with aplomb. It was a great meal
Fabulous, friendly and attentive service, it would have been better with a greater delay between courses, however I hope that our lost booking was the cause.
The interior is somewhat and tired, and the lighting rather dark and makes it difficult to read the menu. Small things, which we didn’t mind at all a few days before Christmas.
Great staff, great food.

A delicious surprise of miso crab dinner plate. This dinner was a surprise for me. Usually, I meticulously plan and scour the menu. This was a Fridate with my partner where he took care of all of all the seafood goodies I was craving and spoke to the restaurant who made it happen. They even took care of him really well! With his food allergies, they made a little chicken banquet for him.

Arigato Iori!

I am just not sure how it has received the high ratings it has received…

If the food was about half the price of what they charge, then I would have said it was reasonable for the quality. However for the price they charge (and I left hungry after a full no carb degustation – in fact I was so hungry that I even ordered a bowl of rice!) it was actually very disappointing. Not just quantity but also quality.

The menu itself looked promising with a lot of dishes on offer for the degustation meals (and as a solo diner there weren’t a lot of options). As each dish was served I kept wondering if they were serious with the portions…

Sashimi pieces were the smallest and thinnest I have ever been served. Tempura was dripping with oil (a good tempura deep fried at the right temperature should be crispy without any oil even on the wax paper), chicken teriyaki was a bit too sweet and so was nasu dengaku.

I requested for a fresh wasabi, and that was $5 for a small side plate of wasabi. I don’t think the menu had anything for less than $20.

This place is definitely run by a Japanese chef but I have had better Japanese food at restaurants run by non-Japanese in Sydney.

Overall not the best Japanese experience and I am having some potato chips as I write this as the dinner was so inadequate (and it cost $90 without any drinks!)

I am giving more than one star as they were pleasant enough despite the food issues described above