Saké

Modern Japanese cuisine. Excellent quality. Had the 7 course set. It was amazing! Wine was brilliant too. Easily go here again for a special occasion.

Great food and service. Although our table wasn’t set when we arrived the manager came directly to us to apologise for the 5 minute wait. He then bought us a round of drinks. Very impressed!
Unique experience. Get the Mr Brightside Cocktail and watch the theatre of the smoke emerge from the glass.

Visited site okay last night for dinner with special friends.
Had a great waiter called Marco, Who bought special dishes out to give us a taste of all the cuisines of Japanese food. We gave him some parameters around cost and tastes and he was very good at sourcing the correct amounts and flavours! We could have done the chefs tasting menu all the signature tasting menu but decided a more personalised approach was better!
Particularly recommended the popcorn prawns and the Sashimi tacos!
Deserts were delicious as well and the chocolate cake was the standout!

Had a work dinner here and we were in the private dining room around the back. This venue is quite nice on Eagle Street Pier.
We had the set menu and although the quality of the food was good, it seemed to take forever to come out. Not exactly what a group of men needed after flying in from around the country for a work conference. Portion sizes were small and I dare say there were a few members of the group who left still hungry.
The service was great and all our drink needs were certainly catered for and they were constantly topping up our Edamame plates.

It was good but it wasn’t as Japanese in the menu choices as I would have liked. It reminded me more of an upscale sushi train with good alcohol

I wanted very much to like this restaurant but found it just ok. The view was nice and the ambiance of the restaurant is good. They have a mix of some traditional offerings and so re-​conceived sharable items. The robata veg were good. But I felt they lacked variety in the fish. The shumai were pointlessly weird. It just didn’t live up to all the wonderful reviews.
It isn’t bad. I would go again and be more thoughtful about my ordering. Service was attentive. The barramundi sashimi they had was nice. Tuna was fresh. But just did not feel any excitement over the joint.

Very good restaurant. I can’t confirm the «authenticity» of the food here, but I can tell you that it is quite nice. Good selection of food and booze. Smaller quantities force you to savor each bite, which made me enjoy everything just a little bit more.
Service was fast and friendly.

Love the place whether it be for drinks at the front or meals inside. Great service. Let the steward know your preference for meat or seafood or veggies and you are served an array of delicious entrees. Highly recommend!

Went for dinner on a Saturday night to celebrate my birthday! The ambiance was fantastic, the staff was friendly and most importantly the food was amazing!!! We had a variety of sushi rolls and they came out pretty fast and were delicious. The S express and dynamite rolls were amazing. I highly recommend!

Arriving after 7PM on a cold evening, it was great to be seated at the sushi bar and be welcomed by the staff in such an enthusiastic manner.
I tired the sashimi platter with 18 pieces of mixed seafood and absolutely enjoyed everything about it, there was a great variety of fish and couple of marinated bites.
Next I had the steamed prawn shumai and wagyu gyoza both hit the spot and arrived nicely after I finished my platter with the arrival of my miso soup that really warmed me up — though admittedly that could have been the sake.
There was also a nice bar area that on warmer evening would be glorious to sit and watch the world and river by.

Saké is perfect for special occasions, in this case it was a birthday dinner for two. The service was outstanding — attentive but unobtrusive. They are very helpful when it comes to ordering sake. We’re fans, but novices.
We pretty much picked one item from each section of the menu to share. It’s hard to choose standouts because it was all so good! I’ll give it a go though: sashimi tacos — an old fave, fresh and spicy; sweet and succulent barbecue corn; panko rice and edamame balls — just the right amount of wasabi heat.
There were a lot of really appealing vegetarian options, which is a nice change when it comes to fancy riverside dining.
Just a heads up, there’s a 2% surcharge when paying by card.
Verdict: highly recommend.

This place was amazing! The best food I had while staying in Brissie! The staff here are extremely kind and the food was incredible! Just make sure you search for the restaurant in your regular maps because the address used here gave me the wrong address! Also be sure to be okay with the prices — most prices in Brissie are on the high end but this was a tad more pricy than usual!

My partner and I dined at Sake for a romantic birthday dinner and it was fabulous! We arrived early and were given the option to head to our table or enjoy a cocktail at the bar. Upon choosing the latter we were impressed by the cocktail menu and enjoyed our drinks. I noticed that Sake offers a bar menu too; this would be a great venue to have a delicious nibble and nice sit down cocktail or two before hitting the clubs on a Fri/​Sat night. Also the bar area is separate to the dining area so the more formal dining area is kept quieter, less busy and relaxed.
I am a big fan of Japanese food so we decided to order a variety of dishes as opposed to a standard entrée/​main/​dessert. I love sashimi and the kingfish just melts in your mouth. The modern Japanese fusion is executed perfectly; even my partner who is not a seafood enthusiast was devouring sashimi as the flavour combinations and fresh ingredients are amazing. We ordered the special which included sea urchin from Tasmania and it blew us away!
Our waitress was lovely and attentive. I have been meaning to visit Sake for ages now and I am so happy that I was not disappointed. We can’t wait to visit again!

The food is just amazing so beautiful to look at let alone eat. The staff are exceptionally efficient not warm but exceptionally efficient. It is a lovely spot for a beautiful meal. Special occasion definitely.

When I walked passed I wasn’t sure if it was all looks no substance — I was wrong!
The food is amazing and really high quality. Everything is presented well and the atmosphere is pleasant.
The waiter did mess our order up slightly but the service was great so can’t complain.
For me it’s not expensive as I’m from London and it would of easily been double there.
Overall you have to try this spot, Great stuff!

Best japanese in Australia? Factor in the river view, deduct the waitress who needed a personality transplant, add the fact they served at 3pm and the answer is yes, due to great food!

Service was terrible. We ordered a somewhat expensive sashimi meal, but the server didn’t bring or offer any soy sauce, so I had to go and ask for it.
The karaage I ordered never came.
I spend a lot of time in the US, where servers work for tips so they’re always hovering around asking if everything is cool. When I’m paying top dollar for a meal I expect that I get what I want. Sadly I didn’t. Please get up to standard, so we can just have a happy time, that’s why we’re sitting in your restaurant paying you.

I only had two small dishes, the something jalapeño and the seaweed salad.
I’ve had plenty of Japanese food/​sushi but the quality of both dishes was spectacular.
Service was also very good.
Would definitely come back for the main dishes.

In a city that is full of Japanese eateries it can be difficult to find a standout, but it has been found. Saké.
Looking over the Eagle Street Pier dining precinct in a slightly secluded location next to the Bavarian Bier Café, Saké offers a modern insight to the wonderful world of Japanese cuisine. This is immediately noticeable from the elaborate furnishings which comprise a mixture of a bar with typical high table and bench seating, restaurant table seating, a handful of sunken group tables with cushion seating and bar-​style seating around the kitchen. The walls and ceiling throughout are graciously filled with Japanese artefacts and artwork.
Even the food menu follows the theme with its folded square design, mimicking origami. The menu itself consists of a range of traditions and modern Japanese dishes. There is a selection of the staple sushi and sashimi, tataki, teriyaki, tempura and yakitori along with some creative touches like tuna belly, tonkatsu cups, stuffed quail and popcorn shrimp — an absolute must as an appetiser. A couple of tasting menus with popular options cater for those who cannot choose from the mammoth array of food on offer.
On this visit I ordered the popcorn shrimp, wagyu new-​style with ginger, chives and yuzu soy, yellowfin tuna belly with edamame & jalapeño purée, sautéed shiitake mushrooms, asparagus spears and nori dressing and steamed prawn dumplings with spicy ponzu. This sounds like a lot of food but the popcorn shrimp the wagyu new-​style are starters designed to share.
The juicy shrimp, the melt-​in-​your-​mouth wagyu strips and the succulent tuna, it all came together in a sensational, flavour abundant dining experience. The dumplings were particularly notable with the creative use of a nest of thin noodles as their skin.
Service was spot on with attentive and polite waitstaff. With exception to the popcorn shrimp, the remaining dishes all arrived together which was a little surprising at the time, but due to the portion sizes and styles of dishes this wasn’t a problem.
With establishments also in Sydney and Melbourne, Saké is at the forefront of modern, creative stylings of traditional Japanese cuisine.

When I was up in Brisbane, I was told by a fellow blogger that Sake was THE restaurant to try! Having a Sake in Sydney and yet, not having visited it, I thought ‘Yeah, you are SO right!’ and thus, we headed off to Eagle St :)
I am not by ANY means an adventurous Japanese cuisine devourer. Yes, I am a devourer, Just not adventurous. But my friends? They loved everything and anything on the menu! You know why Sake clicked? Because it TOTALLY delivered for both of us!
A menu with a full range of exquisite, intricate and innovative dishes that were reasonably priced for a fine dining establishment! That came as an unexpected and pleasant surprise! Furthermore, the service was impeccable — no fumbling waiters dropping drinks on you, or grizzly waiters getting your order wrong! A polite single waiter who was given our table, with SO much knowledge about the menu so he could cater to any questions or dietary concerns — a sign of fantastic service and going that extra notch forward!
The food was brilliant. It really lived up to the reputation of Sake as a contemporary Japanese restaurant because while using traditional flavours, Sake put its own twist on it! For instance, I ordered the Vegetarian sashimi and instead of the usual little rolls I am so used to, I got small packed balls of rice drenched in soy sauce and eggplant flavour, or topped with pickled radish and spring onion, or a giant mushroom top carved into a flower!
The meals were also very hearty and generous in serving, there was no skimping on the amount of broth or meat served, nor in the vegetables, which I find is common in fine dining. The smaller the meal, the more exquisite, but here, it is exquisite in large numbers :)
A few honourable mentions according to my friends? The Popcorn Shrimp (with a spicy creamy dipping sauce of the gods) and the Waygu Terrine — just a tip for when you shall undoubtedly visit!

Awesome.
The wife and I dined at Sake last night.
$ 235 well spent.
An insanely good gin also Whitley Neill (neat of course).
It is truly a shame that the original Chef in charge is heading back to Japan to do his own thing.

Short: great experience, well priced, efficient wait staff, great sake and blended/​sake, non sushi/​sashimi dishes the highlight.
Easy to book, OK when we called ahead to advise we were running late.
Setting is quiet and well managed by the staff. You quickly forget the bustling pier is just downstairs. Lots of room between tables. There’s sunken seating booths and then normal table settings — ask when you book for the earlier option.
Table of four had the chefs selection banquet. Good choice and spread across the menu. Sashimi, scallops, all the way through to really well portioned beef and salmon dishes. Each dish introduced. Portions already divided up, a good touch. Great dessert to end.
I won’t go blow by blow on each dish but I will say that Sake is as close to what I experienced at a Michelin starred Nobu overseas as what I’ve had in Australia. If I was going to be extremely picky I would say the sashimi wasn’t as high grade and not cut and presented as well, and there was a couple of minor service delays.
That’s being picky though and on a cost comparison I’d put Sake on par. Highly recommended for couples and groups.

Sake deserves credit for creativity and execution. They’ve got an imaginative menu with plenty of clever and unique dishes on offer, and everything we ordered was beautifully presented and delicious. They’ll also accommodate requests for off-​menu items and custom sushi rolls, which is awesome. The barra nigiri is excellent and definitely worth trying; they should really come up with some rolls using this fish as well.
There were a couple of major letdowns that prevent me from rating this place higher than 3 stars, however. The first was the pacing of the meal, which was all over the place. Our entrees were delivered within 5 minutes of us placing our order. This is fine (or if anything, a little *too* quick). Then we got to sit around and wait for about 40 minutes after we finished off the starters before the rest of our meal started to arrive, all the while watching patrons all around us receive plate after plate of delicious-​looking food while we sat there, hungry, with nothing. And when the food finally came did any of it come together? No. We’d receive one dish, finish it off, then sit around for another 20 – 30 minutes before the next item arrived. And they served the nigiri *after* the maki! I expect any high-​end Japanese restaurant to know better than that.
The other issue comes back to pricing, and portion size. The prices here are sky-​high for the most part, and the portions are absolutely miniscule. The $ 35 «main» my wife ordered left her still very hungry, and not because she has a huge appetite or because I ate most of it for her. There just wasn’t enough food on the plate. Same goes with the starters, the portions are mini-​tapas-​sized. Expect perhaps 2 mouthfuls per entrée, as that’s really all you’ll get. Perhaps if you order 4 or 5 starters, you’ll get enough food to make one reasonably-​sized entrée.
So it’s really hard to say that Sake offers good value. You’ll get delicious and creative food here, but expect to pay around $ 100/​person, minimum, if you don’t want to go home hungry.
Also, the wasabi on offer at Sake is pure reconstituted horseradish powder (colored green, of course). For a place as trendy and spendy as Sake, I consider this unacceptable. They should be using real wasabi, or at least offering it as an option for a small surcharge.

Sashimi delight!
Thought I would check out a bit of what Brisbane had to offer in regards to more refined dining experiences and saw that Sake was a decent offering if you are in the mood for Japanese.
This is one of the better Japanese places near the CBD and when you enter you are greeted with a hearty «Irasshaimase» meaning ”Welcome” from the chefs behind the bar. We managed to get a table for our group without a fuss and without a prior booking.
They led us straight to our table and explained the menu and the daily specials. The meals are all served with the purpose of sharing which makes this place great for groups of all sizes.
We ended up ordering several dishes. We started with Beef Tetaki and Blue Fin Tuna Sashimi (a special on that night). The Tetaki hit the spot and the Blue Fin Tuna was an offering of 3 different cuts starting out least fatty to the most fatty cut. This was exceptional.
For a mains course we decided on the Miso Barramundi with Japanese Mushrooms and Seaweed Salad as accompanying dishes. The flavours were all spot on with the Barramundi being a standout dish.
For desert we chose two dishes. We decided on Watermelon five ways which included a lime infused with watermelon juice (another special on that night) and a Chocolate Fondant with a white sesame ice cream. AMAZING!
A fitting end to a great meal and dining experience. Definitely an experience to remember for the right reasons. Looking forward to coming back here in the future!