Cocoro

I have seen a lots of review about this restaurant is not kids friendly on social media, I need to say that's false. We took our 2 year old daughter in with us tonight for the wife birthday, and the staff are super friendly and helpful. Highly recommend the Lamb and the Udon noodles. My daughter had 2 bowls by herself. Thank you for the awesome service.

Went here for lunch. We ordered signature sashimi plate and wow, it was amazing selection of fishes, prawns, shells. Their dishes are very delicious. Very professional service gave us detailed description of every dish.Food: 5/5

An amazing dinner at Cocoro. We felt the food was very fresh and the flavours were carefully executed. Some reviews I have read have mentioned that the service could be improved. We experienced very good timely service. I wonder if some of the feedback on bad service could be down to cultural mannerisms. For 4 people we ordered from the a la carte menu: 1. Traditional sashimi of market seafood, 5 varieties; 2. Salmon, kingfish, snapper in new style sashimi, with a beautiful citrus sesame sauce ponzu 3. Karaage chicken 4. Seafood Tempura 5. Chumaki rolled sushi - prawn tempura roll 6. Inaniwa handmade udon noodles with cloudy bay clams, shitaki mushrooms which was introduced to us as a Japanese take on pasta. An added bonus was that the clams were huge. 7. Tobanyaki angus beef eye fillet on a sizzling plate. All dishes performed but standouts were the eye fillet, new style sashimi and the tempura sushi roll was a real underdog with that crispy rice made with akazu red vinegar. The portion sizes are not huge but the dishes are carefully executed and to have all dishes perform deliciously meant that we felt happy to pay the premium price. We appreciated the calm ambiance of the restaurant and I personally appreciated the dampened acoustics as sometimes you can find that restaurants can be acoustically poor.

Sashimi is very fresh. Of course, it is necessary to keep the price fresh. All three people didn't have enough to eat at 200 yuan, and their service attitude was very poor.High-grade ingredients, good taste and extremely rubbish service.

Probably one of the best if not the best Japanese in Auckland. One of our go to favourite restaurants. All of the dishes are fresh and beautifully presented. Decent selection of beer and spirits. Friendly and knowledgeable staff. Tip : do try their sakes!

In short, highly recommend Cocoro. Well presented and delicious. For starters, Cocoro is very creative that using different combination which brings up different food experiences to the customers. For seafood platter, my favourites are sheared lobster, crab and king fish. 5 sauces are provided to the customers designing for different types of seafood to maximize the food experience. Their plum wine is nice. Crimson and Tea Garden are just amazing! Service is good, staff are very friendly and they explain to you the content of each dish and what is the best match. Overall, the seafood platter, A5 wagyu beef, and chocolate dessert are the highlights of the 5 course meal.

Honestly, not the best value for money and plz forgive me if it hurts your feelings because I did expect a bit more. 98 dollars for 3 little entries the duck breast is the best the of the whole meal 3types * 2 pieces of sashimi - the plating is a bit under what a Japanese cuisine should be, I couldn't help myslef to compare with Industrial Zen 5 years ago it changed owner a longtime ago, before that it was the best Japanese restaurant for its price in my opinion or Massu 1 big bowl of "sushi" - should I call it a Don instead because for my limited knowledge sushi means a small piece of meat on top of a small cube of rice although this sushi bowl is really fulfilling 1 creme brelee that is ok Plus 50 dollars for 4 glasses of pairing sake or white In a word, all the dishes are --- ordinary considering its price....

The best Japanese in Auckland. A unique experience and totally worth it. So many things we ate. The stand out to me was scallops, so chuch and creamy never had it like that before can still taste it now.

I had the best Japanese food outside of Japan at this restaurant. 10/10 highly recommendFood: 5/5

It's very expensive, and the ingredients are not fresh and unpleasant. It's not worth spending 460 nz dollars on a pile of unpleasant ingredients. The sashimi is very fishy and unpleasant to eat