Yamagen Japanese Restaurant

Expensive, poor authenticity- avocado and lettuce salad is not Japanese, scampi was not tempura but panko, toothfish was overcooked and chewy, ordered sake hot and received room temperature - omakaze menu was overpriced - overall we were very disappointed after previous excellent meals there.

Excellent service and food!

Great sashimi. Attentive staff.

A delightful experience! The food was delicious and beautifully presented. Certainly well worth the cost. For anyone who loves Japanese food this is a restaurant not to be missed! Highly recommended!

Absolutely beautiful food every single time we go. Favourite restaurant ever! We drive from Brisbane just to eat there and straight back. It is never disappointing. Wish We lived closer so that we could go more often. Great value for money.

This restaurant was amazing! The food was so beautiful and delicious with an amazing menu and range of Japanese cuisine. Service was also very good and didn’t take very long for all our food to arrive. Overall a great meal.

Fantabulous spangly magnifico

We loved the food at Yamagen. So much flavour. Our waitperson was very friendly and informative. I have a booking to come back in a couple of weeks and I am looking forward to it.

Really good. Need to close doors in winter is the only complaint. Food awesome

Went here for our engagement celebration. Staff were lovely. Gave us a free celebratory drink. Food was absolutely delicious. Sashimi was fresh. Scampi was my favourite. Would recommend to everyone!

We found the waiter and the food quality excellent and due to uncertainty with the drinks menu we went with the sake flight and was presented with an informative and excellent match to the meal. We had the mid range degustation menu and thoroughly enjoyed the quality of the ingredients and presentation. Will certainly visit again.

Booked a tablet but still need to wait for another 10 mins. Food were really nice. Most of the staff were friendly. Just wish all those set menu would included dessert as well. We enjoyed our night there - thank you for the experience and we will definitely go back next time.

The restraurant was lovely the only thing I didn’t like was the music annoying and the same beat more calmer music or none at all would have been better

We went last night with my family, while we wating to take us to the table(15 minutes) I was observing the barman preparing cocktails, he was keeping touching his hair at least in 15 minutes 8 times! From 7:52 pm. Never washed his hands, kepping touching every bottles, glasses, screen tablets for enter the orders go to talk to a group of 3 ladies a quite few times with the attitude look at me l am working at this place l am a king! But never washed his hands! Check on your security cameras not a professional barman for this beatifull restaurant. The chefs and the waiter who helped ud through the night they were really professional and polite!. I could see the chefs cooking with passion, the food was delicous! fantastic presentation of the plates and the service was spot on! Just the young ladies serving food in the dress shoud show more personality one true smile will change their life too customer will be happy to tip them more! But they looked like there were at a funeral! Too serious l understand every human been has bad and good moments! By the way the rest was very good! Just educate the barman don't punish him, just give him a chance to him to learn from mistakes! Thank you

Yummy food and great service...will definitely go back there again.

Exceptional EVERYTHING! Great for different dietary requirements (I have Coeliac Disease), great wine, amazing staff, great vibe. Perfect.

The place was recommended by friends. We had multiple dishes from the sushi platter and scampi to pork skewers and wagyu tartare (which was my favourite) The food was okay, rather nice, but for the price, l was expecting to be wowed and we weren’t. The ambiance and service was good, and the wine selection extensive. I would not visit again however.

AMAZING!!! This is by far one of the best Japanese food I had on the Gold Coast. Very well presented, menu with original dishes and absolutely divine taste, very quick and efficient service. Staff was very welcoming and caring. I strongly recommend it and I will return as soon as I get the chance to :)

Delicious food. Excellent service.

The food was great, but our waiter was terrible, he was a really young kid. It took ages for us to order and especially our drinks. Then we only got two as we didn't even receive our third. Was disappointing as was our 15 year wedding anniversary and wanted it to be special and we came out really disappointed.