Matsuya Restaurant

Food:

The menu is lengthy and may bewilder the uninitiated, but all sushi is top class and literally hundreds of traditional Japanese dishes are on offer. Some tastes like tofu soup or traditional dishes like grilled sardines are more for the Eastern food fundis but should be given a bash by the adventurous types. The yaki don with rice, beef strips and prawns is a good for both the hungry and the inquisitive. All food is fresh. Some may argue that the tastes are a bit Westernised; finding out for yourself is the best bet.

Wine:

Good wine list, but sake and plum wine should be your first choice if Japanese food is your thing.

Service:

Fast, friendly and unobtrusive.

Ambience:

The new mall venue is large and less intimate than the old venue. Decor is still minimalist.

And...:

It's a bit too quiet at times but this makes it the ideal venue for a large, rowdy and hungry crowd. (GU, September 2010.)

Skye Aten
30-Mar-2012

Matsuya might not be the best Japanese restaurant, but it is the only one with such a wide variety of Japanese dishes in South Africa.



Many of the food is actually much better than some of the Japanese food I've tasted elsewhere, like in Randburg.



The waiters weren't always well informed about the dishes, but things have changed since 2011. In any case, nearly everyone has a smartphone these days right? So, go check out Wikipedia to see if you'd like to order Ramen noodles, and you might be pleasantly surprised!

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Liezl Frost
12-Dec-2011

If you want quality sushi, this is the place. If you want quality Japanese food, this is not the place. The decor is tacky, the acoustics are horrible and the service is not that great either. Our waitress couldn’t even recommend a dish, as she was not interested or just not educated.

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Laurens
20-Jan-2012

I agree, the sushi is excellent. But for the rest, this has not been my expereince at all. The decor may be understated (which is good thing), but it is not tacky and I have never expereinced bad service. The waitresses may be a bit shy but at least they are not overbearing and don't try to get you drunk and sell you too much wine as in most other South African restaurants. The Japanese food is excellent and far more authentic than anything else you will get in Pretoria.

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