Nagomi Bento — Bris­bane CBD

Some­times I envy the way the Japan­ese and Kore­ans pack­age up their lunch-time meals into fill­ing bun­dles of deliciousness.

The ben­e­fit of such set-ups is that:

1) Dif­fer­ent parts of the meal are kept sep­a­rate for max­i­mal visual appeal and freshness

2) There is lots of vari­ety in the foods/textures/tastes that you can eat in the same meal

3)It’s super cute.

Nagomi Bento, in the Bris­bane CBD along the trendy Eagle St Pier precinct, spe­cial­izes in these super-awesome Japan­ese style lunch boxes (“bento”, but per­haps more refined than the pic­ture above)! The menu also fea­tures fresh sushi, don buri (rice bowls) and assorted Asian inspired sal­ads (such as teriyaki chicken salad, shi­take mush­room & tofu salad etc).

Nagomi’s web­site is easy to nav­i­gate and well designed, mak­ing it the first port of call for infor­ma­tion regard­ing their menu and ethos. Accord­ing to their site, the ten­ants of the estab­lish­ment include: fresh­ness, afford­abil­ity and effi­ciency (in terms of speedy ser­vice, health­ier dishes as well as envi­ron­men­tally achieved, for exam­ple, by using recy­cled, biodegrad­able packaging).

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Indeed, the ser­vice at Nagomi was excep­tion­ally quick and at the same time the food was deli­cious, fresh and pretty authentic.

The ambiance is nice with river glimpses and clean, mod­ern tables. The major­ity of seat­ing is out­side under­cover, how­ever there is also a lim­ited amount of tables indoors too. Dur­ing sum­mer, it does get slightly hot din­ing out­side. How­ever, it seems that Nagomi is well equipped for win­ter trad­ing, with ceil­ing mounted heaters; enough to take the chill out of al fresco dining.

What We Had?

Sushi selec­tion box ($7.00)

Cal­i­for­nia roll, teriyaki chicken, sesame chicken, raw spicy fish roll, cooked tuna and may­on­naise roll. It was indeed great vari­ety of sushi and the por­tion size for the price was good.

Teriyaki chicken bento box ($12.90)

great value and lots of vari­ety. Came with grilled teriyaki chicken with plenty of teriyaki sauce, two crab cro­quette (fried potato and seafood balls), two gyzoya (pan fried Japan­ese dumplings), salad, potato mash and a bed of rice gar­nished with pink, crunchy diakon radish and peas. The serv­ing size was decent and pro­vided plenty of dif­fer­ent flavours and tex­tures between the crispy salad, the pan fried gyzoya, grilled chicken and the fried croquettes.

Our thoughts

Not just your aver­age CBD cor­ner sushi store, Nagomi takes fast, afford­able Japan­ese din­ing to the next level. The food was deli­cious and the ben­tos pro­vide just that lit­tle some­thing dif­fer­ent which sep­a­rates Nagomi from other sushi take away stores. The fan­tas­tic river­side loca­tion adds a glimpse of water views and the staff are both atten­tive and effi­cient. Couldn’t ask for much more!

By: Alexan­der Look

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Details

Nagomi Bento

Shop 7, Eagle Street Pier, 45 Eagle Street, Bris­bane QLD 4000

3229 6886

Mon – Fri from 11.30am | Fri from 5pm

nagomibento.com.au

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