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Ocha 2 Go

  1. Hawthorn
  2. Hawthorn Japanese

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Address: 64 Burwood Rd , Hawthorn 3122, VIC, AU
Phone: (03) 9819 6928
State: VIC
City: Hawthorn
Zip Code: 3122


Opening Hours

Tuesday: 11:30-14:30
Tuesday: 17:30-21:30
Wednesday: 11:30-14:30
Wednesday: 17:30-21:30
Thursday: 11:30-14:30
Thursday: 17:30-21:30
Friday: 11:30-14:30

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Reviews
One of my favourite restaurants in the world, a must visit every time I’m in Australia to enjoy Yasu and Michelle’s amazing food and hospitality. It doesn’t get much better than this. Stunningly fresh seafood, meticulous technique, great wines / sakes / beers, knowledgeable and friendly staff, this list goes on.
Visited this restaurant recently for dinner with my wife when staying a few days in Melbourne. Loving japanese food, I have been to Japan, frequently cook japanese food at home and also dined in countless japanese joints on a regular basis across the world. I looked up 'best japanese restaurants Melbourne' with the aim to dine in of of the highly recommended places here. A restaurant guide from Dec 2021 listed Ocha as one of the top 20 places to eat. So we made a booking for dinner. We ordered: 12 piece Sashimi plate, Eggplant Dengaku with red miso, Katsu Pork Slider, Agedashi Tofu, Grilled Swordfish Steak with Salad and Yakisoba noodles. The positive: Service was friendly and prompt, so 5 stars for that. The food was of good quality. The dining ambience was pleasant although nothing out of the ordinary and certainly nothing related to Japanese dining. The Agedashi Tofu was delicious, can't fault that. The Pork Katsu slider was nice, although nothing outstanding. The negative: Sashimi plate - I have never seen Sashimi cut into such small pieces, looked like a kids meal. While the quality of the fish was good, it was not anything outstanding and certainly the presentation was not what you would expect from such a restaurant. The Eggplant Dengaku, while delicious - the presentation was disappointing. It did not look appetising at all, there was just this blackish eggplant put on to the plate without any regard for making the dish visually appealing which is what you would expect for a japanese restaurant. The Yakisoba noodles were a fair and decent sized portion. The taste however is not any better than what I had in places that charge half of that. Watery sauce, large amounts of chunky cut carrots. The biggest let down was the grilled Swordfish steak. While the steak was tasty and perfectly cooked, the presentation of the dish is the worst I have ever seen. A bunch of green leaves of whatever 'salad' that is supposed to be dumped lovelessly on to the plate and then the 2 pieces of swordfish popped on top. Zero stars for presentation. I would not even serve a meal like that to my friends on a weekend BBQ at home. Japanese chefs and restaurants are known for their passion and attention to detail, they take great pride in making the food look as good as they can. This is what japanese cuisine stands for. None of that fundamental principle was evident in any of the dishes we had on that evening. I don't know what the owner and chefs of Ocha consider 'modern' japanese, but to me the only modern aspect of this restaurant is to bring the typical australian 'laid-back' and lazy attitude into the presentation of their so called japanese dishes. And you pay 40$ for that - are you kidding me? Overall - the place is highly overrated and underwhelming. Would not go back and would not recommend either.
First dinner out with my family since lockdown ended. One of the dishes we ordered was the Chef sushi/sashimi recommendation and it was delicious. The cuisine here is what I would describe as modern/ fusion Japanese. Pricey but worth every penny and I would certainly come again.
Good quality Japanese food. The sashimi was very fresh. Most dishes were a smaller sharing size. A shame that the sushi rice consistency was too sticky with the rolls we ordered that night. It’s a spacious restaurant with a few dining areas.
Fantastic flavoursome Japanese food, service was also great and attentive. Everything tasted fresh. Beef tataki was different to what I am used to, would prefer with ponzu dressing but was still nice. The black cod dish is the high light
My wife and I ate at Ocha for the first time tonight and can happily say we will be back time and time again. The service was amazing and the food was delicious. They easily catered for a coeliac diner, which was a massive plus as well. Highly recommended to all! Dietary restrictions: A coeliac friendly resturant!
I grabbed a range of dishes from here. The last time I was here was pre lock down. The food was tasty, I enjoyed the variety and the different flavours. The sushi was fresh, the miso eggplant great except the sauce was sweet. But overall it was solid and definitely worth a visit. Great service at this restuarant which also has a separate take away section. Precious review early 2020 The food was delicious. I tried some Katsu Chicken, vegetable tempura, vegetable and water chestnut gyozas, sushimi, Unagi eel sushi, a pork Katsu slider, a grilled salmon slider. Phew hahaha but I shared these dishes. Oh and I almost forgot the miso eggplant which was served hot and this was some of the best eggplant that I've ever had! It was perfect. Everything was really good, fresh and tasty. A couple of the highlights were the sushimi and the Unagi sushi who h was served piping hot! Yum. My hot sake was good quality and the Sochu was a winner. The dark kirin beer was a great way to start my meal. If you like good quality Japanese food at reasonable prices, then I can recommend this place.
Disappointing, slow service and pricey. Tofu seeweed salad, dressing too sour Salmon Taco, the seaweed thing was not crunchy Teriyaki Duck, too salty Sushi and sashimi, portion too little / small and sashimi too thinly sliced Kingfish Jaw, over cooked and not enough salt.
The food were amazing, especially the hot large dishes. We booked for a 6 pm dinner and were asked to have the table returned at 7:30 pm,but there was a long waiting time, the last main course arrived at around 7:20 pm, then the staff told us that unfortunately they do need the table back so couldn't serve us desserts. Though the staff was very polite, it would be better for the restaurant to ensure they are able to serve all three courses.
3.0. I was a big fan of the old Ocha in Kew. It was a tiny venue and it was often hard to get a booking there. But, it had real atmosphere including an air of exclusivity. The new Ocha has been in larger premises in Hawthorn for some time and it continues the modern Japanese food tradition of the old venue. There’s plenty to like here. The food is good, sometimes very good, and the bar and table service is terrific. But, I had a couple of issues with our experience here. One, the place is a bit noisy when it’s full. Two, and more troubling, we had to wait an eternity before any food arrived after being seated. More on this shortly. We started with a drink at the bar which was very pleasant. The bar and managerial staff were totally on the ball both with drinks and conversation. A long humour laden discussion over our drinks about the merits of dirty martinis was both entertaining and funny. We enjoyed the banter and then moved to our table. We ordered promptly after sitting down essentially leaving the venue to choose the dishes. But, then we waited and waited and waited. So did other tables around us. The food was just so slow to come out. It was basically a glacial one hour wait. I was just about ready to start eating the cutlery, I was that hungry. I haven’t experienced a wait like this for food for years. To be fair to the restaurant, it was clearly the absolute busiest time of the night. The restaurant was full and clearly lots of people had ordered around the same time. I get that. But, aren’t restaurants meant to anticipate these sorts of things and manage them. As we sat waiting and waiting I wondered why the restaurant couldn’t arrange just one appetiser or small dish to tide us over a bit. That plus actually being advised of a bit of a delay would have helped the situation. Instead, we were left hanging and had to make our own enquiries with the staff about when something might be coming. All in all, it was not well handled and it left us frustrated. Finally a dish and then multiple dishes started to arrive after an hour. Our first was finely sliced calamari. On first tasting, I found the calamari bland and thought it needed seasoning. It didn’t. All it needed was a couple of squeezes of lemon juice from the supplied wedges on the plate and the dish was absolutely transformed. It was very nice. A lovely dish. Next dish was salmon tartare with seaweed. This dish too had beautiful taste and textures. We really enjoyed it. A carpaccio of beef was next. It looked good but we all thought it was a little flat and needed more flavour. The sashimi and sushi combination followed. This was good but certainly short of top draw. There were several nice pieces, the best probably being the unagi nigiri which was delicious. We finished the mains with eggplant with miso which was lovely and tempura crab and beans with a green pepper which was also good. Our dessert was a couple of scoops of green tea and black sesame ice cream. All in all, we enjoyed the food. It’s good but not spectacularly good modern Japanese fare. Our thanks to the staff here who were terrific as suggested earlier. The table and bar service was uniformly good and the banter was a lot of fun particularly from the head barman. He didn’t convince a couple of us about his views about martinis but we enjoyed our conversation with him immensely. I marked the restaurant down half a mark for the lengthy wait for food. Without that, I would have scored it 3.5
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