Izy.Aki

Izy.Aki Little Izakaya serving an ever changing “kappo Omakase” with a focus on Yakitori and Yakiniku.

19/06/2026

In Sydney, every season leaves its signature.

Summer arrives with brightness. Autumn with depth. Winter, with truffle.🧆

For a few fleeting months each year, its aroma fills the room before the dish reaches the table. Earthy, delicate, and impossible to mistake.

✨At Izy.Aki, we follow the rhythm of the seasons, allowing ingredients to appear when nature intends them to. Not sooner. Not longer.

And winter, for us, tastes unmistakably of truffle.

Experience it as part of Izyaki omakase:
✨ 6 courses — $125
✨ 10 courses — $210
📅 Tuesday to Saturday | 5PM–10PM
📍Limited seats. Book ahead — we fill up fast.

Hit the 🔗 in bio to reserve your seat.

16/06/2026

The chef moved carefully behind the flames 🔥 while the room filled with soft conversations and familiar laughter.

Every plate arriving at the table carried more than flavour—it carried intention, warmth, and a reason to stay a little longer. ✨💖

Experience it as part of Izyaki omakase:
✨ 6 courses — $125
✨ 10 courses — $210
📅 Tuesday to Saturday | 5PM–10PM
📍Limited seats. Book ahead — we fill up fast.

Hit the 🔗 in bio to reserve your seat.

There are dinners you forget by the next morning.🌌And then there’re evenings like this—where every flavour, every conver...
13/06/2026

There are dinners you forget by the next morning.

🌌And then there’re evenings like this—where every flavour, every conversation, and every quiet glance at the performance across from the marble table stays with you long after the night ends. 🥂✨

Experience it as part of Izyaki omakase:
✨ 6 courses — $125
✨ 10 courses — $210
📅 Tuesday to Saturday | 5PM–10PM
📍Limited seats. Book ahead — we fill up fast.

Hit the 🔗 in bio to reserve your seat.

11/06/2026

The evening began with hunger, but it ended with something more.

A favourite dish discovered. A deeper conversation shared. A moment that felt almost cinematic.

Experience it as part of our omakase:
✨ 6 courses — $125
✨ 10 courses — $210
📅 Tuesday to Saturday | 5PM–10PM
📍Limited seats. Book ahead — we fill up fast.

Hit the 🔗 in bio to reserve your seat.


That’s what we hope you leave with at Izyaki.

08/06/2026

18 seats at a marble counter. No curtain between you and the kitchen.

Watch the hands that feed you — precise, unhurried, certain. There is theatre here, but none of it is performance. At Izyaki in Paddington, every movement is intention. 🥂

Experience it as part of our omakase:
✨ 6 courses — $125
✨ 10 courses — $210
📅 Tuesday to Saturday | 5PM–10PM
📍Limited seats. Book ahead — we fill up fast.

Hit the 🔗 in bio to reserve your seat.

05/06/2026

In Japan, the persimmon is known as the fruit of the gods.

Our Kaki Sour draws from that story, transforming its sweetness and symbolism into something layered, textural, and deeply expressive. A meeting of Nikka From The Barrel, Katsura Touge shochu, lacto-fermented persimmon, Yellow Chartreuse, and egg white.

A collaboration between IzyAki and Mètafora.
A glass raised to good fortune. 🍊🥃✨

Now pouring in IZY.AKI Paddington,Sydney.

Experience it as part of our omakase:
✨ 6 courses — $125
✨ 10 courses — $210
📅 Tuesday to Saturday | 5PM–10PM
📍Limited seats. Book ahead — we fill up fast.

Hit the 🔗 in bio to reserve your seat.

03/06/2026

The menu changes before it can become familiar.

A fish reaches its peak. A season quietly turns. An ingredient arrives and, before long, is gone again.

At Izy.Aki in Paddington, there’s no menu to follow. Only 18 seats facing the counter and a nightly expression of what we believe is worth serving that day.🥂❤️

No 2 visits are ever quite the same. 😉

The best ingredients rarely wait.

Experience it as part of our omakase:
✨ 6 courses — $125
✨ 10 courses — $210
📅 Tuesday to Saturday | 5PM–10PM
📍Limited seats. Book ahead — we fill up fast.

Hit the 🔗 in bio to reserve your seat.

01/06/2026

A cocktail menu rarely begins with a recipe.
It’s sometimes it begins with a conversation.

Over the past months, we’ve been working alongside Métafora, exploring flavours, memories, and the spaces between Japanese precision and modern cocktail craftsmanship.

The result is a collection of drinks created exclusively for the counter at IZY.AKI.

Together with our dishes, they’re designed to accompany the journey that happens across the counter every night.

Introducing the new IZY.AKI × Métafora cocktail collection.

Now pouring in IZY.AKI Paddington,Sydney.

Experience it as part of our omakase:
✨ 6 courses — $125
✨ 10 courses — $210
📅 Tuesday to Saturday | 5PM–10PM
📍Limited seats. Book ahead — we fill up fast.

Hit the 🔗 in bio to reserve your seat.

28/05/2026

There’s always one course that does it.

The room goes quiet for Izyaki’s wagyu— the dish that arrives mid-journey and warms the temperature of the whole evening.

The part we love most about the counter at Izy.Aki, Paddington: even after 4 years, with no menu on table, guests still sit down not knowing what’s coming. Somehow, something surprises them—yet there’s always that one dish they’ve been waiting for.

Experience it as part of our omakase:
✨ 6 courses — $125
✨ 10 courses — $210
📅 Tuesday to Saturday | 5PM–10PM
📍Limited seats. Book ahead — we fill up fast.

Hit the 🔗 in bio to reserve your seat.

27/05/2026

One of the best dining experiences in Sydney. It is incredible value for money, but I’m just not one to gatekeep.
Darren and his team serve what I’d describe as phenomenal Australian produce with a French and Asian influence. Every single dish is absolutely delicious. Darren is a true master of his craft; you can taste the pure passion, precision, and intention behind everything he creates. His ability to elevate ingredients into plates that are both comforting and incredibly sophisticated is unparalleled. The creativity, attention to detail, and balance of flavors are unmatched. Dining here isn’t just a meal—it’s an exceptional experience that stays with you long after the last bite.

25/05/2026

The first dish arrives before you’ve said much.

You’re still settling in. Still reading the room. And then this — bluefin tuna chutoro beneath miso-roasted cherry tomato and sour cucumber. Wintering on top with shaved foie gras. ❄️🍣

It’s the quietest possible way to say: pay attention.

Every counter seat at Izy.Aki begins here. With something cold, precise, and a little unexpected. The rest of the night follows from this moment.

Experience it as part of our omakase:
✨ 6 courses — $125
✨ 10 courses — $210
📅 Tuesday to Saturday | 5PM–10PM
📍Limited seats. Book ahead — we fill up fast.

Hit the 🔗 in bio to reserve your seat.

Address

362 Oxford Street
Sydney, NSW
2021

Opening Hours

Monday 5pm - 10pm
Tuesday 5pm - 10pm
Wednesday 5pm - 10pm
Thursday 5pm - 10pm
Friday 12pm - 10pm
Saturday 12pm - 10pm
Sunday 12pm - 10pm

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