Pepper Lunch

I could eat this every single day. Order at the counter. Grab your number and take a seat. The place comes sizzling. Light cooking is required. Floo of the meat, stir of the rice/​veggies. Remove the splash guard and you are
Good to go! I like the rib eye with bean sprouts. An extra pour of that garlic sauce! Mmm. Can’t go over board on that sauce! That had to be what really makes this food so tasty! Maybe the butter they top it with too. Yhep that combination is killer. I love it for that quick casual food, that I don’t mind eating alone.

Exactly why you expected from the place. While the portion looks small, it’s actually pretty big. This place is self served, you pay, and they give you a number. They will bring up your food, for water and sauce you will have to pick it up from the counter. I ordered the kimchi beef. Loved it!

Pepper Lunch is fast food with a difference. The menu is quite extensive with many options such as steaks, salmon, pork, chicken curries among more. You order at the counter and then the food is brought to you on a hot plate and you need to cook the food yourself. The hot plate arrives and it’s 230 degrees.
You cook your meat how you like with option for soy or chilli sauce. The portion sizes are good and they have options like add an egg or double the meat for $ 5. I chose the Pork and Kimchi and decided to double the meat as I love a protein hit.
I felt for $ 15.90 I got a decent portion size and the cooking yourself is fun. The flavours are very good and meat is fresh. The venue is always busy but the staff always bring out the food very quickly. I have never had to wait longer then 5 minutes for my food here which is pretty awesome.
The venue is close to Event Cinema so it’s a good spot to go to pre movie. Happy with this spot when I’m craving a good feed and need it quick.

So filling and delicious! I love pepper lunch, definitely a must try ! The best part is you can favour it to your taste with the soy sauce, garlic sauce and chilli bits.

Had the kimchi beef rice. This place can do no wrong — cheap, tasty and quick!!! Solid meal.

Cheap self cooking food at its finest. A little peppery for me but the sweet sauce made up for it. The smell is a lot better than the taste. Super fast turn around time. Tables are a little dirty which is understandable as people are mixing and flipping their own meals to cook to perfection.

When my friends saw Pepper Lunch on our first day in Sydney, they were so goddamn excited. I took my friends to Pepper Lunch when we were vacationing in Hong Kong and Malaysia last year and they loved it. We don’t have Pepper Lunch back home in the states so that’s why my friends went nuts when they saw it. Pepper Lunch offers delicious fried rice dishes that cooks right in front of you as you stir and watch the meat and rice come together in a hot stone plate. It’s something the U.S. will never allow because everybody will sue Pepper Lunch up the ass for their own stupidity and carelessness. I love how the fried rice always have a strong cracked black pepper taste to it. The service is quick, staff is nice, and for $ 10 – 13 it’s pretty filling. Wherever there’s Pepper Lunch, I’m there.

I have been to Pepper Lunch few times actually and usually before the cinema.
The food is good, yummy and cheap. Personally love the teriyaki salmon. Nice and sweet and comes with rice, egg and some veggies too. Next time I have to try the hot sizzling plates. Looks like everyone is eating them here.
The staff is also nice and looks like they renovated a bit recently and looks good :)

Affordable/​Cheap. (where else can you get steak for under $ 15).
Accepts cards.
Convenient (right on George St — within steps from town hall).
Tasty (tastes sooo good…).
I don’t think theres too much I could find wrong with this place as it ticks off most of the boxes for me. But if you’re vegetarian, I’d probably stay away from this place as theres not too much (fun fact — theres no real word for vegetarian in Japanese)

This is place is just amazing! Reminds me of Japan, for example the welcoming sound of ‘Irashaimase’ from the staff. It means ‘welcome’ in japanese
The staff are just so kind and very helpful and are always smiling ! When you go into the restaurant you’ll always be greeted by a loud ‘Irashaimase’ ! The menu is fantastic and very cheap!
The food’s healthy and fresh! Great tasting and arrives quickly at your table.
When you order, they give a number and you find a seat to sit down. When the waiter brings your food she/​he tells you what it is again and you start to make magic, by stirring every ingredient and all the flavours inside the hot plate! The plate will be a round clay pot style dish and will be HOT! So don’t touch it, it will have a safety paper around but you can remove it if you wish! It also depends on what you order, if you order beef and rice, you’re required to stir it around, but if you get the steak obviously you’ll have to flip it over once one side is cooked!
Overall this restaurant is great! If you’re a common foodie, a traveller on a budget or even a japanese food maniac you’ll love this place as much as I did!
Please please visit this place !

I’ve eaten at the Japanese restaurants around there but never tried Pepper Steak. I was always fascinated by the sizzling plates, everything just looked amazingly yummy.
Came here for dinner before the cinema. You can either get a Pepper rice dish, a steak dish or a combo dish. You can choose from salmon, prawns, chicken, burger, among other things. My friend and I got the teriyaki salmon for $ 8.50, which is pretty good. You can add a miso soup for $ 2.50 or the salad bar for $ 3, which basically includes veggies — green beans, brocolli, cauliflower, corn, etc. The salmon was really tasty and had a nice sweet sauce. The rice was covered in sesame and seaweed and was also very nice. I really like this place. Will have to try a sizzling plate next time.

The whole do-​it-​yourself steak house concept is huge in Japan, and this one on George street is surprisingly the only one in Sydney, so well worth a visit to try it out.
The huge menu board that greets you on entry is a little confusing and daunting for first timers. The concept is simple though, meat dishes are served raw on a sizzling hot platter, and the heated platter cooks your food for you at your table.
You select your meat pieces (steak, chicken and/​or salmon), and extras, sauces, rice, salad, and ‘cook’ your own sizzling meal on a hot plate at your table, by stirring the food around the plate until ready.
The steak is lightly seasoned with pepper, and the heat provided by the hotplate cooks the meat so it’s nice and tender.
Note, if you’re not a garlic fan, or are on a pre-​movie date and don’t want garlic breath, watch out for the mustard butter served on the steak, scrape it off or specifically ask for no butter when ordering, as I found the garlic pretty potent.
Entry is just off bustling George Street, look out for the yellow awnings and the intriguing pictures of plates of raw meat meals out the front.

Oh Pepper Lunch, you’ve taunted me for so long with your inviting neon menu and delicious name. Pepper AND lunch, two of my favourite things! I don’t generally dig diners or «fast food» type of places but there is something very alluring about a Japanese one… I think for no other reason than that it reminds me of similar places I’d occasionally visit when I lived in Tokyo.
Anyway, for all its’ allure (it always looks busy and a lot of Japanese people eat here– good sign) and no matter how many times I’ve stopped by and gazed wistfully at the menu before discovering the magical Menya Mappen next door, Pepper Lunch has never had more than one sad, lonely, seaweed salad on the menu for vegetarians. If you’re vegetarian go to Menya Mappen next door and walk out wearing a happy face!

I stumbled across this place with my boy when we were looking for a quick bite to eat before catching a movie on George Street. These day, we like going here just as much, if not more than going to the movies!
Pepper Lunch is a cult Japanese fast food restaurant which has found its way to our shores (there are over 200 Pepper Lunches in Japan!). The concept of Pepper Lunch is basically cheap sizzling beef, chicken or salmon mixed with rice, vegetables and sauce of your choice. It is basic order at the counter, grab a number style service but the food is a cut above your alternatives — it beats by far a Hungary Jacks burger on nutrition and taste. My recommendation is the Pepper Rice Curry Beef. The prices are reasonable too –a basic Pepper Rice dish will set you back no more than $ 10.