Sakae Yakiniku House is similar to Sakae dining bar (and they’re only a short distance away from each other) but still different in that there’s also Korean food on the many and that they have the option of BBQ. The strange thing about it (apart from the name), is that unlike almost every other restaurant in Eastwood, it isn’t situated on ground level. Then, when you go up the quiet flight of stairs, the first thing you see are big (and slightly mysterious…) wooden doors. And the inside is so dark that it’s difficult to tell whether they’re open or not. But the inside is really pretty- definitely very ‘restaurant’ style!
We walked in to notice that we’re the first ones there- which is sort of surprising considering it was almost 1 o clock in the afternoon. The waiter takes us to a table turns on the light on the rangehood-like-thing. It’s so cool! We were given a heap of menus to choose from- a lunch menu, a normal menu, a BBQ menu, an all-you can eat ment etc. etc. but of course, we took the most economical option and went for the lunch menu. For $16.80, we got a three course meal- and appetiser and main (which we could choose from the menu) and dessert and a pot of green tea!
Complimentary Radishes
The complimentary radishes were one of the highlights of this meal. If they were on the menu as a dish, we’d probably order it. They are slightly cooked and covered in a really light sauce. They aren’t very flavourful (there was still a strong radish taste) but tasted great!
We ordered the Beef Takati as we had no idea what it was and I thought it’d be fun to try. Turns out, it was raw beef in a sauce which was a bit like soy sauce and vinegar mixed together. It was scary eating raw beef (you know, food poisoning etc. etc.) -it tasted okay but we definitely wouldn’t order this again.

The sashimi salad rice was a big disappointment. The rice is hot- it had steam coming out of it. And the sashimi? Well- all you can see in the photo was all there was. Sharing this between the three of us, we each got about 2 or 3 pieces of sashimi each (and they were SMALL pieces). And since the rice was hot, the sashimi warmed up really quickly. And warm sashimi does not taste good at all. And i don’t think it’s healthy either! There was no dressing, but it did come with a sauce which didn’t really go well with it and was hot (spicy hot that is). Without the sauce, the salad tasted flavourless but with the sauce, it just didn’t taste quite right.
Sakae Yakiniku HouseLevel 1, 6 Hillview Road
Eastwood NSW 2122
Phone (02) 9874 2277