Hanabishi

Mietta's Eating & Drinking in Melbourne 2000

Contributors' Choice
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Hanabishi

People keep recommending the specials here. Given that the printed menu is already quite large, this makes for difficulties for the inexperienced Japanese eater. As a result, your success rate might vary. Given specialist knowledge to extract the best from the kitchen you could enjoy some excellent and unusual dishes, without, it could be mediocre. At lunch the different lunch boxes with a substantial variety enclosed come quickly and are popular. Staff wear traditional kimono and move quietly round the plain, rather sombre, room. Upstairs there are some smaller rooms often used for private parties. In the middle one, the large windows look out onto the tops of the King St trees.

187 King Street
Melbourne
Japanese Cuisine
Melways reference 1A: C5
Phone: 9670 1167
Opening hours: Lunch: Mon-Fri 12 noon-3pm, Dinner: Mon-Fri 6-10.30pm
Licensed & BYO Corkage: $2.50 per person
Accept credit cards
Seats Inside: 80,
Closed: All public holidays
Features: Restricted smoking, private rooms seat 12, 12, 12, and 12
Favourites: Sushi $13.50/ 20, Sushi and sashimi $25/51, Tempura $13/20

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