Tantalise tastebuds with modern Japanese fare at Raku Dining on Bunda Street in Canberra. Combining the precision and art of Oriental cuisine with the vibrant energy of Mod Oz dining, Raku is all sleek lines, pale wood tables and stools, mixed with glossy tiles and floor to ceiling glass windows, to create a chic and trendy ambiance. Best described as art on a plate, be prepared for starters such as rhubarb salted edamame, or soft shell spider crab tempura with kimchi mayonnaise; before choices like South Australian albacore tuna tartare with wasabi miso and a crispy rice cracker. Be enticed by robata grill options including chicken skewers with shallots and yakitori sauce, or 400-day grain fed Wagyu sirloin marble with herb salt, ponzu and wasabi, teamed with duck fat confit potatoes.
