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Takumi is the place to visit if you are in the mood for a culinary masterpiece. This Melbourne Japanese restaurant is the best of its kind. Not only is the food of tremendous quality, but the location and design of the restaurant makes a relaxing and pleasurable atmosphere.

Being the only Japanese restaurant in Melbourne that serves Wagyu beef, you can rest assure that it will be great. If you don’t know what Wagyu is, it is a top grade cut of beef. It is so tender and juicy, it can almost melt in your mouth. Being an expert in Wagyu, this beef is offered in many dishes in the restaurant. Many customers enjoy it as a burger, grilled and marinated with Sukiyaki sauce. If you do not fancy having burgers, give the Wagyu Yakiniku lunch set a try. The beef is served raw and is cooked on a tableside grill. It is also served with vegetables and a complimentary glass of beer or wine. Not only does this taste flavorsome, but being able to see it prepared is an great experience.

This Japanese restaurant may specialize in Wagyu beef, but that is not the only delicacy it has to offer. Frequent lunch visitors also love the bento box. The restaurant offers a few selections on the main entree for the bento box. A popular Japanese entree is Gyoza. These pan fried dumplings are exceedingly good and addictive. I promise you cannot eat just one. If you are in an adventurous mood, order yourself the Unagi Bento Box. Unagi is smoked grilled eel and is a very popular and delicious Japanese restaurant dish.

The decoration and lighting of the restaurant has a very zen-like feel. You will feel right at home when dining here. The sleek and comfortable high back chairs and subtle decorations have a tranquilizing affect and lets you to feel like you are having a quiet meal at home, even though you are in the presence with other people.

Overall, Takumi is a great Japanese restaurant. From their delicious menu offerings, to the many different Saki choices, this Melbourne Japanese restaurant is number one on my book.

In part due to the depression ski sales went down last season.

This is even with good early sales and superb snow.

This fall in numbers comes after 5 years of successive growth within the ski industry, and the numbers reduced from one million in 2008 to under a million last season.

Perhaps due to holiday makers giving their annual ski break a miss, and other skiers who’d ordinarily have 2 skiing holidays, only had the one.

A fall of 15% was felt by the independent travel sector with several low cost airlines reducing the no. of airplanes to some destinations.

Some tour operators saw the numbers going down by about the same amount.

However, the leading companies market share rested at 70% and the French Alps remained the favourite holiday destination with around 37% of holidays.

Due to this several large operators reduced the total number of luxury chalets they operate this winter.

The catered chalet markets will witness a fall in clients because catered ski holidays cost more in terms of staff and lease when it is unsold.

It remains unlikely we will witness the type of last minute deals that were up for grabs last year.

And costs are expected to rise, costs are unlikely to rise substantially.