Yakiniku Like Review: Popular Japanese Yakiniku Restaurant For Solo Diners Opens In Singapore

Despite starting up in Japan two years ago, the popular yakiniku chain now has 30 branches across Asia, and is arriving in Singapore on 3 February 2020 , with its first outlet at Paya Lebar Quarters . This cute-looking grill is designed pretty well, and sticks through to its promise of not drenching my t-shirt with the wondrous smell of barbecued meat.

Food at Yakiniku Like Prices start from $8.80 for a set meal that comes with meat, rice, soup, and a choice of kimchi or salad. The set menus are priced per to the portions of meat, and there are a few meat sizes to choose from.

The restaurant recommends 150-200g of meat for regular eaters and 100g for small eaters. The meat is served in a pool of the house special soy sauce marinade, which was a little surprising.

Still, I have to admit that the meat looks pretty impressive, and it comes with generous streaks of fats that made our tummies rumble even before we cooked the beef. The meat was decent, but did not have the coveted melt-in-the-mouth texture that was expected of A4 Wagyu.

It’s easy to get spoilt for choice, but I thought that the garlic soy sauce was great in giving a sharp kick of savour to the meat. We also got a chance to try the Like Set 250g ($19.80) , which features beef tongue, skirt steak, and beef short plate. It’s quite a good variety of meat for the rate we were paying, and each cut of meat gave a good variance in texture and savour.

The beef was also sliced pretty thinly, and they seem to be a little thinner than the standard yakiniku cuts. A la carte options are also available, and that’s where we got the chance to try some items that are not available on the set menu. Searing all the fats under the hot grill sealed up all of its juicy goodness, and my dining companion and I both unanimously agreed that this was the best meat in the house.

Ambience at Yakiniku Like There are only 42 seats in this cosy little restaurant. I was busy looking for cutleries, and the friendly service crew were quick to direct me to a drawer underneath the grill that was stocked full of chopsticks, wet wipes, and napkins.

I would expect this restaurant to be quite popular in the upcoming weeks. The restaurant is also offering an opening day promotion on 3 February 2020, where diners can get the Karubi Set at a discounted price of $2.90++ .

This set will be available from 5pm onwards, and is valid for the first 290 customers only.