Heirloom restaurant review

Christmas is around the corner! As always, this is the busiest time of the year for businesses like restaurants and retailers to attain their profit targets before they close out the year. And for us, it’s the time to catch up with friends and family! I recently attended a pre-X’mas lunch with some ex-colleagues at Heirloom. This was my first visit to this restaurant and I’ve planned for another X’mas catch up at the same place again due to its nice ambience and of course, the food. 

Heirloom is a modern Japanese Izakaya. A Japanese Izakaya is like a pub where food are served to accompany the drinks. Izakaya is a casual place for after-work drinking in Japan. Located on Bourke St, Heirloom is quite a big restaurant with a high ceiling that makes it looks airy. The design of the restaurant is modern and simple. There’s a bar at the centre of the restaurant and the place is decorated with Japanese embellishments. 

There is quite a selection of dishes from the lunch menu and there’s also a daily lunch special for $14.50 each day. What a deal! Having said that, Heirloom only serves lunch on weekdays. In the end, I ordered a Teriyaki Salmon which cost $18.50 from the lunch menu. It came with truffled mashed potato, kobachi, salad, miso soup and rice. The portion was surprisingly big. I have never had a salmon slice as big as this when dining at other restaurants. The lightly seared salmon was placed on top of the truffled mashed potato coated with teriyaki sauce. How pretty!

Taste wise, the mashed potato was heavenly. It was the finest mashed potato I have ever had. The salmon which was perfectly cooked was superb! With the mashed potato, mushrooms and a layer of teriyaki sauce, the salmon dish was yum. This wasn’t the usual teriyaki salmon but a fusion version of the teriyaki salmon dish. Although the main dish was a star, the sides were pretty average and the rice was a tad dry.  

The daily lunch special on that day of our visit was the Wagyu beef burger. It looked good and was generous in portion. According to one of my ex-colleagues, it tasted great too. 

To me, Heirloom’s dining environment and food were excellent. The lunch menu is good value for money. It was an enjoyable pre-X’mas lunch catch up with old colleagues over yummy food at Heirloom.