Sushi Ten

Arguably the best value Japanese sushi restaurant in Melbourne, a little gem of a find in Carlton. Katso Don, Miso Soup, Sushi Rolls and Sashimi, very fresh and delicious, a small family run place with lovely owners, who are really friendly and great with kids. Free Japanese tea and a bargain family meal, great Asian cheap eats 🙏🙏🙏

It’s quite hard to write this review because I really liked this place. I was a regular customer until yesterday. I used to buy takeaway mostly, but yesterday, when my boyfriend and I decided to dining in here, we had the most horrible experience, I actually wanted to cry. We payed when we ordered the food and then went for some non-alcoholic beers to wait for our food, when we were drinking the beers, the chef came to me and started yelling at me because I had to payed for dollars for the BYO policy, I was aware what BYO means but I wasn’t aware that you have to pay for it, my partner and I don’t drink alcohol so we aren’t very familiar with this policy, so in my confusion I asked him why do we have to pay?, the chef answered very ironically “why?, why?, you know why! Policy, government policy, 2 dollars per beer! You don’t understand?” I was completely shocked because he was very upset, he makes us feel very uncomfortable, I looked at my boyfriend and he also was quite shocked. He told us “everybody knows that, but you!” He assumed that we knew that we have to payed the four dollars. I felt really bad because he was taking to me very rudely, I thought he was joking at the beginning because you cannot be so rude to someone that haven’t done anything to you, specially when is someone that goes to buy food takeaway at least once a week . I’m also a chef, I felt a huge lack of respect. I payed the four dollars with a bull of $5 and he’s wife, which is a very lovely person, refunded us the money for the food, and we left that place to never come back. I’ll ended up going home and cooked this delicious meal (photo below) when what I actually wanted was to eat someone else’s seasoning. He doesn’t know how to treat his customers. I hope he can read this post, and I’ll recommend you Yukio (chef’a name) to seek help for your anger management issues or you could lose your business. I understand how much pressure we can have when we’re working but you never can treat a customer like that, you cannot assume that the customer knows everything, specially in a country where tourism is a very important part of our economy, also your customers pay your bills my friends, you always need customers, and returning customers aren’t easy to keep, here’s a clear example of it. Sadly never coming back, cero start for you Yukio.

Quaint little place run by an old Japanese couple. Don't have s lot of choices to offer on the menu. But one of if not the best sushi bowl/poke bowl in town. Perfectly balanced flavour without the use werid sauces like every other places. Just plain yummy sushi bowl. Beware the owner is quite grumpy but the lady is super sweet.