14 Rheinland Place, Colombo 03
This place has closed down
You've heard of Sri Lankan Chinese food, but Sri Lankan Japanese? Well it exists and using the island's abundance of fresh sea food, Sakura has been serving up consistently good and affordable Japanese dishes since 1983.
Address
14 Rheinland Place, Colombo 03
Directions
From Galle Road, it's the left turn just past Alfred Place (Durdan's Hospital). Rheinland place is on the sea side.
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Cafe Nihonbashi
Colombo's beloved sushi restaurant is now in Kandy.
Salmon & Maki
The tiniest Japanese resto that gives you value for money.
AOBA (One Galle Face)
A Japanese Bar in One Galle Face.
I absolutely love this place. The food is great for the price, but it's ambiance that takes the cake. And it's great to walk into a restaurant in colombo that isn't drowning in its own faux-sophistication, or in the case of nihon bashi pseudo-Zen .
Naniyori (Steamboat's Japanese offering), is now consistently good enough to be real competition for Sakura. They are less expensive too.
This used to be the best place for affordable Japanese food. Quality is ok. However, the sashimi sushi are not the freshest at times; especially the Ika is dodgy most of the time. The katsu-don is the best and most reliable dish. Naniyori sashimi and sushi are very much better… and the prices are amazing!
Buthaniku豚肉 means pig's meat, so you're telling me you're the only restaurant in the world who serves Halal pigs? Well done
Very Very disappointed :-( Staff was almost rude, place is very run down and food really was average. Yes value for money but who wants to by cheap price for cheap food ?!
Anyone wants to tryout what Japanese food is like, I think, it's best to go to Sakura and try dining-in, the Sushi / Sashimi assortment they have for Rs. 900+
Used to be good but in the last couple of years the quality of food and the place itself has deteriorated alarmingly. We went to dine in and could stand the musty/cockroachy smell. Another seating area close to the toilets was worse. So we asked that the food to be packed up to go instead. Even the glasses were dirty. Food was only so so. Katsudon being nice and the Sashimi not so much.
This place is slightly cheaper than some other good Japanese restaraunt. However the service was poor and need a new renovation. Watch out when you pay your bill, the staff would charge you a 10% service charge then charge you all the taxes including the service charge. So you are paying another 13% for your service charge. We highlighted this to the supervisor but they just said this is the common practice. Never return!
Yes, as you say it's probably a Sri Lankanized japanese. I visited in Nov 2014, may be things have improved now but according to what i saw back then, they really need a good interior make over. I happened to visit a similar restaurant in Shanghai (China) and found the same foods are priced lesser and quantities were bigger per plate. So value for money wise, I would warn you against going to this place. Not all of us get the chance to go to Japan, but if you get the change to travel to Singapore/China etc, please try a Japanese Restaurant there. So, go to Sakura only if you desperately want to try out Japanese food. :)
Went there on Saturday and very disappointing in the service and the food. This used to be one of our all time favorite spots but was sadly disappointed.
the Japaneses tea was cold, they didnt have most of the sushi and the ones we ordered we very small, literary tiny. after we complained we end up getting the next batch which were almost the size of oreos… the main meals were very bland and dry. very sad !
Date: 23/08/2016
1 x Chicken Katsudon 1100
1 x Miso Shiru (Soup) 350
Total with tax + SC 1450 (13-14 AUD)
Katsudon was better than Tsukiji Uoichi's (http://goo.gl/JzGzKW), although the meat was cooked the exact same way.
This place is quite EXPENSIVE. 1100 bucks for a small Chicken rice bowl is IMO kind of daylight robbery. The place seems run-down a bit. When I went at around 7:30 in the night there was NO ONE else. It was deserted and was kind of odd eating all alone in a restaurant.
I don't think I will be going to Sakura very soon.
The Rheinland Place venue has now shut down, but they are supposedly re-opening in Havelock somewhere. Does anyone know the new address? Thanks
3/5
JohnTEC
Rated 3/5