Kenzan

About Us

Kenzan is a Collins Place institution — a lower-ground Japanese dining room that has served Melbourne CBD since 1981, named for Edo potter Ogata Kenzan and run today by owners including Kazu Murayama, Yuki Munehiro and Boeing Cho with a brigade of Japanese-trained sushi chefs. Enter from Collins Street or Flinders Lane into a carpeted, lantern-lit room with a 12-seat sushi bar, main dining floor and shoe-off tatami private rooms ($20 room fee per room, two rooms for groups of six or more). The menu spans lunch sets Gozen and Korin on weekdays, à la carte sushi and sashimi, hot and cold entrées, and tableside nabe ryori — shabu shabu and sukiyaki cooked in front of you — plus seasonal specials, an extensive sake and wine list, takeaway by phone (no hot-pot takeaway), and ResDiary bookings up to six weeks ahead. Time Out (2023) calls it one of the city's true culinary institutions; AGFG lists it as a Chef Hat–awarded destination for authentic Japanese dining.