Kosaten Launceston

Interesting little place to dine. All food ordered via a ipad at the table and delivered via a sushi train. Very nice presentation and found the food to be quite tasty, but not a lot of prawn or meat filling for the price.

Yummy, the matcha tiramisu was mostly cream and 10% cake. Would like more cake in that. Otherwise yummy yum yum!!!

Was going to be 3 stars except for the terrible experience. Please visit if you like a place where the staff are always right, the customers are always wrong even when providing honest feedback that not all the food was good. Positives- some dishes, like the Pumpkin agedashi tofu and Wagyu beef, was delicious. Eel and salmon sushi and most other nigiri dishes we ordered pretty alright, even if a little pricey compared to other eateries in the area. Food and drinks came quickly. Sadly the “fresh” oyster was not fresh (we ate it then realised this blerghhh), tuna sushi was canned tuna and dry / tasteless, (even John West made better) grilling smells from kitchen very fishy which wafts over most diners at the bar. Serving size quite small for other dishes like teriyaki chicken etc. Saw the two girls to the right of us and the couple to left of us leave certain dishes untouched. Not sure if they had issues too. The chawanmushi was not made with fresh seafood, smelled off and they added vinegar / lemon juice on top to try to take the fishy smell away. We couldn’t eat it and sent it back untouched except for a small spoonful taken out. No apologies provided and the waitress did not return to follow up. We were still charged for it and was told by at the payment station very condescendingly “WELL I checked with the kitchen and the chawanmushi WAS up to standard”. Err ok, but it smelled horrible… We refused to pay for that dish as it was off and inedible and the sour looking waitress at first refused to take it off the bill, continued to be condescending and rude, and only updated the bill when we insisted that as we couldn’t eat it, we were not proposing to pay for it. At that point another waitress with lots of eye make up stepped in and told us off. Yikes. After that at least we were allowed to pay and leave. Well done, for the sake of insisting on charging a $8 dish to a $130 bill you’ve made a customer who may try again to one who will never be back. EDIT: was unwell the next day, should have asked for money back on the oysters too. Restaurant was not truthful or accurate in their response- we did not mention girlfriend’s recipe in discussion at payment station.

We ate here for lunch, the food is fresh, it's good but very little choice and it's still expensive for what we took...

Very nice, a must-eat when you come to Launces

Yummy and fast sushi!

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