GoGo Sushi

GoGo Sushi — safe to eat there, great for a quick bite but there are better sushi places around Melbourne. I mean much better. Sushi is like an art, there is much more to it than just mixing the right ingredients together. On the other hand, having these ingredients sourced from the right places does make a difference but adds $$$. The competition is fierce in this particular business niche, so I understand them but somewhat disagree. Sushi is special and when I feel like a good sushi, I go elsewhere.

This was my first time at a sushi train, and we’d just stopped off to grab something quickly.
Like the other bloke mentioned communication between us and the staff was a problem: couldn’t understand us, we couldn’t understand them.
The food was ok, but seemed to have been out for a while. Although this is my first sushi train, the pricing seemed quite reasonable.
There’s nothing particularly wrong with this place, but I’d be looking for other options first.

It’s Sunday night, I’m heading home after drinks and I’m feeling quite hungry actually. Now, I generally crave for a burger and fries after a night drinking but not tonight for some reason. Tonight I feel like Sushi — Oh GoGo Sushi on Swanston is still open. Wait… Whoaatt… They have a Sushi train? I’ve never been to a place that has a Sushi train before but I know I love them! Perfect find then, let’s do it.
I walk in and take a seat, the staff are welcoming and very nice but they seem to find hard to understand me so I end up having to repeat myself a before they finally get it. I know I have quite a strong french accent but surely, I can’t be that bad, can I?
Anyway, I start to pick and grab the things I want and they are quite nice — the spicy prawn roll, the tuna roll, the fresh salmon roll… Hang on. $ 3.50/plate? Really? But the portion sizes are quite small. I’ve had 5 plates and I feel like I could have a few more…
2 – 3 rolls @ Sushi Sushi would have filled me up on any occasion and I would only have been set back around $ 9.
No that’s it, enough. That’ll do.
GoGo Sushi is ok — not the freshest Sushi I’ve had and, personally, I find it quite pricey especially when you look @ the portion size-​to-​price/​plate ratio…

My accountant has banned me from going to GoGo sushi. All that yummy food passing me on a conveyor belt proves too tempting for my greedy little hands. It is certainly not expensive at $ 2 – 5 for each dish, but when you just have to try every different thing on the sushi train and then go back for seconds and thirds of the ones you absolutely loved (and there are always many) your wallet wears thin pretty damn quickly. The servings are also pretty tiny.
My favourite dish is the scallop sashimi. But most of the dishes are fresh and interesting. I definitely wouldn’t go here for a night out, or even to meet up with a friend. So I don’t end up going to this place often, as most times I prefer to just get takeaway sushi from the many other places scattered throughout the city. But the times I do go to GoGo, I do wonder why I don’t go more.

This Japanese sushi train in Swanston Street might be onto a good thing by making all of their dishes $ 3; so worth coming out to lunch for; however the service isn’t always the best. It is sometimes difficult to grab the attention of one of their staff for a miso soup and/​or for something to drink, and when the miso soup comes out it isn’t anything special or memorable; for me anyway. Disappointing. I thought I discovered a good sushi train in Melbourne, only to be out there still trying so hard to work this out.
Their sushi is quite delicious, although the serving sizes are way too small and stingy; and although the rice is fresh and flavoursome; it overpowers the flavour of the core ingredient on any given sushi place such as the tuna or the salmon; depending on which sushi plate you pick up. Nothing spectacular, just plain ordinary. This is where Sydney is a bit more advanced than Melbourne on the eating out front I hate to say. In my opinion, sushi is much nicer, generous and flavoursome than Melbourne’s sushi. It is disappointing to have to wait a month every time to enjoy a quality sushi train experience and enjoy a bunch of fresh sashimi on a plate with the freshest wasabi.

Conveyer belt sushi is quite a novelty in Melbourne. The fun of seeing my food roll passed me was overshadowed by the fact that whatever I finally picked up was rather ordinary. The options on offer are also rather plan, stereotyped everyday sushi and sashimi items. The takoyaki was alright in flavour but it wasn’t hot when I picked it up from the conveyer belt. It’s best to just put in an order for any hot food and have it made fresh.