Sokyo
The Darling, 80 Pyrmont St, Pyrmont NSW 2009, Australia
Restaurant
•Why you'll love Sokyo
- Offers eclectic and versatile event spaces complete with Japanese arts and designs.
- With an exquisite Japanese menus and serves both local and international drinks.
- Sydney’s best DJs and bands - take your event to the next level with our entertainment options.
Award-winning chef Chase Kojima draws on his Japanese training to create an impeccable union of traditional craftsmanship and contemporary flavours that are sure to delight your guests. Where Ritual Meets Art.
Sokyo features slick black polished wood, dark modern tones and fish-scale textures. This hyper-modern Japanese theme is carried through to oversized anime graphics placed over the main bar. Sokyo is located within the lobby of The Darling hotel and is the ideal venue for a private dining experience for up to 100 guests in the main dining room. Our refreshed menu and interiors take the Sokyo experience to new heights, complete with a sunken dining room and bold, rule-breaking Japanese calligraphy.
For exclusive use of Sokyo, pre-event canapés may be served around the stunning lounge and bar area prior to moving through to the main dining room to be seated. The private dining room, complete with its design features, reflects a modern interpretation of Japan. The room caters for up to 50 guests at restaurant round tables or 40 guests theatre style.
Sokyo also offers a Japanese-influenced breakfast, perfect for a small morning meeting. With so much on offer, it's no wonder why Sokyo continues to receive excellent reviews!
Sokyo Function Rooms
Semi Private Dining Room within a Sashimi Restaurant
With its own fusion of uber-cool ambiance and eclectic energy, this resturant is an experience unlike any other. Chefs use the finest local produce to create an imaginative menu of sashimi, tempura, and melt-in-the-mouth meats cooked over t...
Sunken Private Dining Room
With its own fusion of uber-cool ambiance and eclectic energy, this resturant is an experience unlike any other. Chefs use the finest local produce to create an imaginative menu of sashimi, tempura, and melt-in-the-mouth meats cooked over t...
Sashimi Restaurant -Main Dining Room
With its own fusion of uber-cool ambiance and eclectic energy, this resturant is an experience unlike any other. Chefs use the finest local produce to create an imaginative menu of sashimi, tempura, and melt-in-the-mouth meats cooked over t...
Bar and Lounge
Sokyo’s bar and accompanying area is ideal for intimate cocktail gatherings. At Sokyo Bar you'll discover an atmosphere that always surprises. Your bartender will match wine, sake and cocktails to the exotic Japanese creations by Chef Chas...
Reviews for Sokyo
Zilvia Cheng
Completely disappointed. The food was bland and exhibited no culinary skill whatsoever. With a set menu at $200pp, serving dry overcooked barramundi caked in excessive tempura batter, mediocre flavourless king prawns decorated with mere pickles from a jar, unseasoned and chewy flank steak, and a sushi platter that tasted no different from something ordered from a chain sushi takeaway, not even the dry ice for cheap theatrical effect could offer any redeeming qualities for this sordid meal. To add to this experience, we were a large party, and these dishes were all on share plates that we had to awkwardly grab from the middle of the table. It’s a good thing I liked the people I was sitting with. For two or three people this is acceptable, but for tables of 6-8? Now I also ran the risk of dropping overpriced food on the table, or we had to pass the dishes around like we were at a home dinner party. God forbid we dropped anything, as every bite counted because of how incredibly little we were served. The staff were continually telling us to sit down as we were mingling across our tables so they could serve; this made us feel like primary school cattle. They were share plates, there was no necessity for us to be in our seats. We will eat when we eat. We booked the function room for a reason. For what we planned as a celebratory evening, while the venue was decent, the experience offered by Sokyo was underwhelming and disappointing. Please do yourself a favour and go to any of the hundreds of other excellent Japanese restaurants Sydney has to offer.
Renai Huston
We had dinner at Sokyo Brisbane last night and we were beyond impressed, not only by our waitress Mia who was so knowledgeable about the menu, but the food was also exceptional. We went with many of Mias recommendations and we were not disappointed. The atmosphere and ambience was just beautiful and we will be talking about it for a long time to come. Thank you again and we will definitely be back.
Troy Bright
Remarkable!!! The most incredible Japanese food we’ve eaten. Service was incredible - very attentive, polite, professional. Decor and ambience were lovely. Highly recommend, because we certainly will be back!
Kai Lun
Overpriced food with inattentive service. Really wanted to like this place but sadly disappointed. Sushi was made with minced raw salmon and rolled messily and unevenly - some slices have double the amount of rice on it than others, some rolls unravelling on the platter. Service was inattentive and haphazard. Plates were not cleared away, leading to awkward situations where we had to stack and move plates away ourselves. Certainly not the kind of service that begets a $140pp degustation experience. Charged $6 per person for still water which wasn't advertised. In Australia, it is certainly customary for still water to be free and even if not, pricing should be open. Bit of an unpleasant surprise finding an extra charge at the end of the night which ultimately rounded off a subpar meal. I left hungry There are many other Japanese restaurants well worth your money to dine at in Sydney for sure.
Nancy Chu
It’s been awhile since my last time here. A little disappointing on knowing the rules had changed for casino guest membership discounts. We had 5 people and upon asking for the bill presenting our platinum membership card we were told there is no discounts. Because we had 5 people on the table. The max pax for each table to get the discount is 4 people. Which we were like you should at least tell us when we came into the restaurant. I must say the service wasn’t friendly at all. It seems to me that the people who was working at the restaurant was quite miserable which you can see on their faces and body gesture. If I had to pay full price I’d rather take my money and spend it at a better restaurant.
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