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MIZUYA

Pioneering the touch screen menu system is what put Mizuya on the map. Years later with consistent food standards and a state-of-the-art karaoke system, the crowds at Mizuya haven’t even lessened one bit. With an urban party atmosphere juxtaposed against traditional wooden beams and Sakura blossoms, one feels like Alice down the Harajuku rabbit hole. It’s a cool 200 item menu list here but some of our favourites were the mentaiko grilled salmon roll and melt in your mouth ox tongue kushiyaki. So let loose on a Friday night here at Mizuya, after all a little party never killed nobody. (SL)

Basement, 614 George Street, Sydney, +61 2 9266 0866, www.mizuya.com.au