Uminono

Back to basics: UMINONO AT HOME

Hey everyone!! I hope you are doing well!
Just touching base to say that we are still alive 😂

Demolition at the shop is done and the new structure is coming into shape 😊

The boys are enjoying some good time off, I have been napping and surfing a lot… aaaaaannnd I am bored now!

3 weeks away from fish and knives was too long!
Yesterday was our first omakase at home in a very long time!!

I have been missing that, this is how Uminono started in 2018 and pretty proud to see where WE are now!

Anyway, until the shop is ready, to keep us busy and to add a bit of “beurre dans les épinards” I am back with private Omakase at home 😃

How does that work?
About 16 courses, your home, your friends, your drinks and us.

•6 to 8 people
•$300 / person

Get in touch with your date, address and number of people for bookings 😉

Any questions?

Ps: we don’t cater for vegetarian / vegan 🙃

And that’s it! Yesterday was our last day until reopening our brand new sushi bar in April!

Thank you to everyone who ordered this week, very grateful for your support, we have been sold out pretty much every day!

Those coming weeks are going to be intense but we are ready for a good break after that 🏄‍♂️😴

I will keep you posted with pictures along the renovations 😉

Cheers
Nono & the team

Some nice words about about yesterday in 😊

The original Omakase Box 🤙

In this one: big eye tuna akami, otoro, Hiramasa kingfish, , snapper, aji, Paradise prawn, Hokkaido scallops, anago…
Lot of dry aged fish, kombu marinated, slightly torched, and all our creative toppings and oils 👌

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We are back at work tomorrow!

SAME DAY ONLINE ORDER is now a thing if I said it enough 🙃 (3hours notice)

If you are wondering “humm… should I get a chirashi this week?”
I can tell you “Yep, absolutely!” and that’s the best $45 you will spend this week 😊

If you scroll to the 2nd pic, you will see one of our very fashion tote bags. Premium printing on one side and embroidered on the other side.

I may have ordered too many merchandising 😅
So if you want to help us make some room before our renovations (and shop in style), feel free to check the website for the available merch 😎

One more thing, we will be closed for business on Thursday 26th January.

Cheers
Nono

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Dry aged yellowfin tuna.
One of the best yellowfin we had… maybe ever?

But also the first tuna we received in weeks.
Some of you might have noticed that we didn’t serve any tuna lately.

The reason is very simple: either no tuna available at all or only poor quality available. And as you know us, serving a low quality tuna isn’t even an option 🙃

Some days it’s a bit frustrating but then it push us to use other quality ingredient and be more creative 😊

Actually it reminds us how lucky we are when we have some of the best seasonal fish on the chopping board and that we should appreciate the efforts from our supplier to source the best for us 😉

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🌈 So what’s going on at Uminono??

Well we are pretty much 1 month away from starting our renovations.

This isn’t sure yet if we will be open for Valentine’s Day, we might start the demolition few days before 👷‍♂️

We will be closed during the whole time of renovations.

IF we open on the 14th February, there will be a special box available 💌

What is sure (well from my plan at least…) is that we will be opening for dining in April!!

We will be serving our Omakase Express for lunch, 12 seats only (at the counter).

Good wines and sake, good food, good people… what else do you need? 😃

I will be looking for 8 people to test / taste our omakase before our official opening… stay tuned 🤫

And also, we are now on the hunt for a sushi chef to join the team, so pass the word around if you know someone 😊

Cheers
Nono

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This is it, last straight line for 2022!!

We still have some pick-up availability for tomorrow Thursday.

Online orders are SOLD OUT for 30th & 31th. We might release extra availability on the day, check the stories 😉

Next week trading days:
01/01 CLOSED
02/01 CLOSED
03/01 CLOSED
04/01 CLOSED
05/01 Open and back in business as usual.

Don’t miss your chance to order some delicious sushi in January, because we will be closed for 6 weeks from early February.
After that, we will be pumped and ready for some action in our new sushi bar 😃🤙🤙

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Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Happy holidays to all of you!!

Whatever you celebrate, I wish you all a great time with your loved ones and warm thoughts for those that can’t be with you today.

Very grateful for a successful yet challenging year (business and personal).

I am specially happy that my team (me included haha) can enjoy Christmas Day out of work and be with family & friends.
It’s a beautiful day to sit back, relax, appreciate what we have done so far and enjoy life☀️

Thanks to all of you for your support and enjoying our sushi!

Thanks to my team .abry for your dedication at work EVERYDAY

Thanks to my supplier for always making sure that we get the best products available

I am really looking forward to showing you Uminono in April after our renovations 🙌

Also you might have seen that our Insta is a bit less active lately. Just very very busy all day in the kitchen + planning the renovations. And I won’t lie, it feels good to take a break from social media once in a while 😁

Happy holidays, love you all 💛
Nono

Today we received our new plates from

They are hand made in Japan and most importantly they look awesome 😎

This one is specific for nigiri, which you will enjoy at lunch for our Omakase Express.

I love the pebble look.
It actually remind me a lot of my hometown where the beach is covered by those large pebbles, nicely rounded & polished by the sea.
You hate walking on them but still love looking at them haha!

On the plate?
Spanner crab nigiri with ses
ame, dashi, lime zest, roasted spring onion oil & ikura.
It’s my new favorite nigiri 🤫

We are now entering the (very) busy part of Christmas season.

This Friday we are exceptionally closed for a private Christmas function off site. So please make sure to order for the rest of the week to avoid missing out 😉

24th December is already fully booked for takeaway boxes but there is still some availability around those dates.

Cheers!

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🎄Our Christmas box for 2022!!!

Starting tomorrow
Some of the highlights:

•Whole local crayfish tail & homemade crayfish mayo
•Whole abalone (VIC)
•Spanner crab, spring onion, dashi soy sauce & sesame (nigiri)
•Anago (imported from Japan) & our yuzu sticky sauce (nigiri)
•Fatty tuna, sesame & ikura (hosomaki)

⭐️ And now another news ⭐️

There is a small revolution in the Uminono world… from now on, you can ORDER ONLINE SAME DAY with minimum 3 hours notice. (Until sold out)

Trying to make your life easier here, hopefully we don’t mess it up 😂

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This is not a picture for a “Uminono Calendar” 😂

Yesterday I put the name on the door and finally today we managed to fixe the lightbox.
Who would have thought that sticking a logo could be so stressful?!😅

You can’t miss us now!

So happy and proud to see my logo, my brand outside my own shop.
I started Uminono 4 years ago, and I would have never expected to have my own shop, a team of 3 amazing chefs working with me and so many people supporting us (talking about you guys)!

If you haven’t heard, we are still doing takeaway only at the moment.
We are renovating our shop in February and should be ready to welcome you in April for a proper dining experience.

In the meantime, Christmas is in 25 days!
Our special Christmas box for 2022 is now available online (pickup starting Friday 2nd).
There is also a whole CHRISTMAS SECTION on the website 🎄🎅

And if you have been courageous enough to keep reading until here, you will know that our online pre-order for whole December is opening just now.

Don’t miss it 😉

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We’ve got some good fish this week!
Well actually every week 😂

Bluefin tuna, started dry aging this morning.
Swordfish aging since Saturday.

Should be on point from Thursday 👌

Another day another 🍣 box

Sold out on Saturday guys, running at full capacity 🚀

Still few availabilities for tomorrow though. You can order online until midnight or give me a call in the morning 😉

We have a new sushi chef starting on Tuesday! Hey Greg 👋
So soon we will be able to increase our capacity.

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Craving for a chirashi bowl this week?

We will be ready for WALK-IN ORDERS but better safe than sorry, pre-order online or give us a call in the morning 😉

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Would you like to eat your sushi box on site?

As you know, we now have quite a big space and it’s a bit sad without people around 😅

So we thought about giving you the opportunity to pickup your box and stay with us to eat here.

There is just 14 seats, no booking possible. So first in first serve basically 😊

No change in our pre-ordering system but we would also do walk-in chirashi.

Plus we are not far to receive our liquor licence champagne 🤞🥂 🍣

Let me know what you think, that’s our workplace but this is “your” restaurant after all, you are the one to enjoy the place 😊

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Feeling like having some good sushi this week??

You can easily pre-order online up to 2 weeks in advance and until midnight the day before.

Or give us a call for same day order 😉

Have a good week guys ✌️

Just 2 days in our new kitchen and honestly things are way easier in a bigger space!
Who would have thought??

If you forgot to pre-order, you can give me a call in the morning for same day pickup 😉

We will do our best to accommodate.

Cheers 🤙

Is it one of your favorite??

Otoro box (imported from 🇯🇵)
9 otoro nigiri topped with our smoked soy curd & 9 fatty pieces of maki.

And soon available as a tote bag 😎

See you at the new shop from tomorrow!! That’s quite a big moment for me 😊

The new kitchen is HUGE so bring it on with the orders 🤙🤙

Just to remind you, we are still TAKEAWAY ONLY :)

Our new shop is nice and spacious but just not as I want to received my dear guests (you 😉).

We will be doing some renovations in February AND THEN you will be able to sit at a proper sushi counter.

Slowly but surely we are getting bigger and stronger. And this is all happening thanks to you guys 🙏

There is no investors behind Uminono, it’s just us working hard and reinvesting every cents into the business to offer you something very special 🙌

I can’t wait to see the final renovations, I think you will love it 💛 and I truely believe it will be something different in Melbourne.

24 CHATHAM ST, PRAHRAN VIC

Yep, that’s the address of our NEW SHOP and we are MOVING there from TUESDAY😉

But hold on! The new shopfitting is not done yet so don’t get too excited 😅

Let me explain what’s going on:

Sooo… I was expecting to have our new restaurant ready by November the latest. It turns out that it couldn’t be ready before February at best. (Major delays all over building industry)

The coming months are extremely important for the business and I couldn’t take the risk to be shut down for too long.

SO! I have decided to report the construction to late February and have everything ready for April🤞

In the meantime we will be focusing on serving you the best sushi boxes for takeaway!

This isn’t happening as I expected, but we (the team) have to adapt, deal with the situation and take the best out of it.

This is the beginning of a new exciting adventure and big challenges!

Oh and on another note, a new sushi chef will be joining the team very soon 🤙

Special uni chirashi 🤯

AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW
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Short spine uni A grade, Ikura, Ama ebi, fatty tuna tartare, confit egg yolk, premium nori…

A chirashi just like I had for breakfast at the Toyosu Fish Market with 😋

We are in the best time of the year for uni. I can tell that they are even better than what I had in Tokyo 2 weeks ago 🤫

And off we go! 🫡🤙

See you in October everyone!
I will keep you updated with the shop.

Also I might post about my trip in my stories (specially food 😎) I am sure a few of view will enjoy to see what’s happening over there.

A bientôt!

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To finish our two last weeks before flying to holidays, we will have a special box available from Tuesday until our last day Thursday 18th August. (Yes we changed the date😅)

It will be name the FAREWELL BOX (it makes sense I guess 🙃)

There will be no limited quantity on this one and we keep it at a fair price so that many of you can enjoy :)

More information later tonight and available for pre order tomorrow 12pm 😉

One of the piece I love in this special box:
Bluefin tuna marinated in soy & yuzu, with chives between the rice and tuna 🤯

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Alrighty guys, this week marks our last lunch service at our Greville St address.

But before going on holidays, we are still doing our take away boxes and trust me that we are going to push the limit until Friday 19th August 7.01pm 💪 (I have a new shop to pay now 😂)

So from next week we will be able to increase (a bit) our daily production.

If you didn’t hear before: 📣
we will be CLOSED from 20th AUGUST until EARLY OCTOBER.

I hope your week is going smoothly so far, see you soon 🤙

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Busy week in the kitchen and not much time to make nice pictures… So just going through my pictures and found something to post to keep the algorithm happy 😅

Anyway I know you enjoy the view of good sushi!

Which get me to ask, NEXT WEEK SPECIAL:
how about a box for two, nigiri only?

I already have some FATTY SWORDFISH ageing in the fridge which I plan to marinate with YUZU & OUR SECRET SAUCE 🤫

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box in the sky 🛩

You know it’s time for a break when your sushi travel more than you did in the last 3 years 😂

Next week (fully booked) is our last week of doing lunch. Our friends from St Edmonds Cafe are back in business with the best coffee!

DO NOT FORGET TO ORDER before our long break.

19th AUGUST will be our LAST DAY of trading guys, after that: Ciao bye bye 😘🏝☀️😎

If everything goes well, we should be able to reopen early October from the new venue… so see you in November 😅😂

No seriously we will be back in October to matter what!
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What’s going on at Uminono??
Time for some update 😉

As you know, we have a new venue (really close from our current address). Big big thank you for all your encouragement messages, I haven’t been able to reply to all (sorry!!) but trust me that I have read each one of them 🙏

While I am planning to open the new venue early October, we are also flying to Europe on the 21st August for holidays (OOH WEE!!).

So 19th August will be our LAST DAY OF TRADING . After that we will completely stop operating from St Edmonds Cafe.

Uminono will RESTART early OCTOBER.

Talking about St Edmonds Cafe (you know the people with who we share the space), they are back in business at the end of the month. Sadly we will stop our chirashi lunch and focus on takeaway only due to space matter.

Those are very exciting (stressful) times!
The sushi bar’s design is on progress & the search for a new sushi chef seems to be successful 🤙

I will share some pictures of new venue when possible.

In the meantime I am trying to maintain our Instagram attractive, but seriously this is a full-time job and hours are missing in my day 😅

Don’t hesitate to tell me what you would like to see more often or not on this page, I will do my best 🫡

In final: ONLY 6 WEEKS LEFT to order from us!

Cheers,
Nono
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Next week special: the shellfish box is back 😎🤙

(Very) limited quantities

See you at 12pm on the website for pre-order.
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Ama Ebi aka the sweet prawn is back for next week special.

You have been many to ask about it, so get ready for another round of the SHELLFISH BOX next week 😃

It’s in the title, we are hiring!

*EXPERIENCED SUSHI CHEF WANTED*

This isn’t a secret anymore that we will be moving to our very own venue in October (🤞).

So the team and I are looking for an experience sushi (nigiri) chef to join us in this adventure.

What’s on the table for you??
•Attractive salary
•Day time only
•40h / week (Typical day would be 9am - 5pm or 11am - 7pm)
•Sunday Monday off
•Work with the best quality seafood only
•Serve guests straight at the counter (they are always lovely people 😘)
•Work in a new kitchen
•Be part of growing brand
•Be part of a great team (Remi & Yuki are alright 😅) and work in a stress free environment.

To make it clear: good food, good people, good money, good life.

What we expect:
•A big smile, someone happy to be at work
•Willing to provide excellent food and service to guests
•Attention for details (experience in fine dining is a bonus)
•Someone that enjoy talking with customers
•Open minded
•Passionated

If that’s a match, swipe right and send me an email: [email protected]

PS: the new team member will have to jump from a plane 🪂 with us at the next staff party. Now that it’s said, we have to do it .abry 😂

Long time since I showed my face so here I am!

Another week of getting smashed at work and we like it 💪 so thanks for all the orders!

🤫 Some very exciting news coming up the last days but nothing I can really tell you for now… be patient you will love it!

Truffle season is starting but we will wait 2 more weeks until it reaches the best flavours.

You didn’t ask but yes I said goodbye to the long hair this week 💇

Another thing you didn’t ask and that I am not being sponsored for (but I wouldn’t mind 🙋):
is doing an amazing non-alcoholic XPA beer. We have it on the menu and I totally recommend it to go with your chirashi at lunch!

Next special: anything you would like to see on the menu??

Otoro from Australian bluefin tuna 👌👌

More bluefin arriving in our kitchen tomorrow. We will start serving it on Tuesday after few days of dry ageing.

Tomorrow we will be exceptionally closed for a special event out of our shop. I will show you in the stories 😉

Friday is your last chance to pick-up some sushi for this week (jus few availabilities).

Saturday is SOLD OUT.

Next week? Another SPECIAL BOX on the way 🤫
I will try to maintain a special each week, apparently you like that?!

Alright guys, the LIMITED EDITION SHELLFISH BOX is available on the website now!

12 nigiri sushi & 8 pieces of hosomaki:

•Long spine uni (TAS) & crushed pine nuts
•Lake Entrance calamari (VIC) & prawn oil
•Ama ebi (sweet prawn WA) & lime zest
•Smoked Paradise prawn (New Caledonia)
•Hokkaido scallop (Japan) & burnt orange
•Scampi (NZ) & miso sesame paste
•Hosomaki ama ebi (sweet prawn WA), roasted cashews & spring onion

As I said, limited to this week and limited quantity 😉

Dry aged nigiri glazed with our secret sauce 🤫
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Thanks, have a nice weekend everyone ✌️

A lot of new faces around and I often forget the obvious: not everyone knows HOW IT WORKS!

So first welcome to the new people 😉

We are mainly doing sushi boxes for takeaway. All our boxes are available for pre-order via our website (link in bio) with minimum 1 day notice.

Once you get online, it’s super easy: select your boxes, at checkout select a day & time for pick-up, then process online payment et voilà!

You can pick-up Tuesday to Saturday, from 11.30am to 7pm.

To FIND US? That’s the tricky part for 1st time visitors 😂
Follow Google map’s instructions, we are located inside the cafe St Edmonds in Prahran. So if you if see two French guys making sushi, don’t be shy and come in… that should be us.

Our daily production is limited simply to maintain a high quality and because everything is freshly made just before pick-up. Many days get SOLD OUT quickly so better to order few days ahead.

Did I miss something? Let me know!

Cheers, Nono

It’s tuna season and I’m all over it!

What’s happening this week?
Lunch is fully booked buuut we have some availability for the boxes 😉

Still few spots for tomorrow and Thursday, the rest of the week is already nearly sold out so don’t miss your chance if you are planning a Netflix & sushi lazy evening 🙃

Head to the website (link in bio) to pre-order your box(es ??) and pickup at our shop in Prahran.

Also truffle season is around the corner…

See ya ✌️

If you had to choose 1 fish only??

I go for no question 🫡

And ours is always dry aged 🤫

Nice cut of otoro from today 🙌

Question: if we introduce an “Express Omakase” for lunch at the counter… are you in for it? 🤔 As much as for the chirashi??

Let me know, truth can hurt but I am tough as a nail (not 😂)