The best restaurantsof japanese in Cork

26/05/2025: Love what they’re trying for here and hope they can make it work but won’t be eating here again until they deep clean their prep space. You can literally see the grime from standing outside the counter in the queue. Just wiping down surface areas doesn’t cut it when you’re working in the food industry guys.

20/05/2025: I had the vegan rolls and absolutely loved it! Everything was super fresh and delicious. The place is clean, well-organized, and the staff are really friendly. Highly recommend it!

01/10/2025: This restaurant is an airless casual wine & soba bar, not a fine-dining, high-end Japanese restaurant. No sashimi, sushi, or really anything that we were expecting. I reserved for the "main bar counter," about a month in advance as it is advertised as a chef's counter. It is instead a server station/overflow space where all we witnessed was three gals struggling to pour a pint. Menus are cheap paper with a long (tiny printed) specials board listed on a chalkboard. It is recommended to take a photo of these specials on your phone & "zoom in." We were not walked through anything despite saying it was our first time. I have never been asked to take a photo of something at an upscale restaurant in my life. Service was poor. Food was boring and expensive. For a bistro with a long list of specials, I would have expected to hear about a few of them. And for a wine bar, maybe a pairing could have been suggested. I would have rather spent our night in Cork anywhere else.

29/09/2025: Very similar experience to those listed; was expecting a 'Michelin star standard' experience and was very disappointed. The service was excellent but the prices for the standard of food were astronomical in comparison to what you get. An extremely underwhelming wagamama or soba springs to mind.