Hako Japanese Restaurant

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Hako Japanese Restaurant serves authentic and modern Japanese food. It is a small restaurant with modern interiors. Food is of constant good quality and is value for money. Their menu offers a range of favourites from tempura to sashimi.

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Reviews of Hako Japanese Restaurant

  •  Local Star   108 reviews
    This place is decorated beautifully with an incredibly intimate and soothing interior, with soft music playing in the background. Waitstaff are courteous and polite, speaking in hushed voices. The dinner menu and drinks list are both extensive. Choices do lean slightly towards the pricier side, but the quality of the ingredients is exceptional. Stock used in the Nabeyaki udon is one of the best I've tasted yet.

    3 months ago

  • Lucrece
    Lucrece  Foodie   940 reviews
    While the food here is quite delicious, it is definitely not great value for money. The serving sizes are one the small size, and the price is higher than at other Japanese restaurants. If you wish to dine here, I suggest going for a special occasion, it is not a restaurant to attend often.

    3 years ago

Restaurants

Cuisine

Japanese

Price Guide

Mains under $30

Licensing

Licensed

Menu

Dinner Lunch

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  • Hako

    John Lethlean, Reviewer

    Friday, December 14, 2007

    A warehouse with good-value Japanese food - how Melbourne is that, asks John Lethlean.

    Well-worn, black-enamelled Baltic pine floorboards; plaster-white walls; a high, matte black ceiling; distressed-timber window frames; strict rows of hanging naked light bulbs; clever up-lighting creating a shadow play on the walls with plants, decorative twigs and flowers; timber tables with bistro chairs; the occasional piece of simple Japanese furniture; a curved back wall embracing a bar and a Ned Kelly slot to the kitchen ... The new Hako is like a monochromatic warehouse; essentially utilitarian but softened by table after table of warm, happy people and a glowing hostess, finally in her new digs after years forging a reputation for food and hospitality in a CBD laneway shoebox. "So what do you think," she asks a few familiar faces wandering into the new restaurant for the first time (the smart ones with reservations, the unlucky trying their shot at a weekend walk-in). "It's very Melbourne, isn't it?" Indeed it is. A Malaysian-Chinese-Australian host; her Japanese-Austr...

    Source: The Age

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  • Hako

    John Lethlean, Reviewer

    Monday, December 03, 2007

    Hako boasts a funky approach to quality Japanese food both traditional and progressive.

    There are two Hakos, tucked away in Flinders Lane, south of Elizabeth Street. Each has its place, and I like them both, but don't confuse them. Needless to say, the pair have much in common. A cool new warehouse-style space, for one, with impossibly high matte-black ceilings and scuffed black floorboards, old window frames, lots of stark white plaster punctuated by simple Japanese furnishings and sculptural flower arrangements. It's a simple-yet-edgy contemporary fit-out by day or night, that reflects the owners' style and references Japan only subtly. And both Hakos have the same couple running them; chef Masahiro Horie in the kitchen, his wife Ji-ah organising the floor, a slightly more challenging role now they have 60 or so seats to fill (as opposed to their 20-seater in Degraves Street, the premises from which was born Hako's cult following.) Both have Japanese food; some of it quite traditional, some quite progressive, most very good. But Hako for lunch is a different...

    Source: The Age

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