Tokyo Terrace is Fitzroy's New Japanese-Inspired, Musician-Run Rooftop Kitchen Pop-up

If you've ever been to Japan, enjoying a taste of the country's delicious cuisine as often as you can is likely one of your highest priorities. Even if you haven't, if you've ever picked up a hankering for edamame, karaage or katsu, that's an urge you probably share. Melbourne musicians Neddwellyn Jones and Pete Spark know how you feel. After their own overseas jaunts unleashed some serious culinary and cultural love, they've set up a pop-up ode to the flavours of Tokyo.

Atop Fitzroy's Labour In Vain Hotel every Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening until April 2, Tokyo Terrace is serving up izakaya fare — aka food that'll make you feel like you've been whisked away to another place, and tastes even better when paired with a frosty brew. That includes the aforementioned bites, offered up as sea salt-sprinkled delights, extra-crispy chicken morsels and in two types of burgers (eggplant and chicken), respectively. Also on the menu: renkon chips served with your choice of kewpie, plus cucumber salad.

That should be enough to send you flocking to Brunswick Street over the next month, particularly if your idea of a great weekend feed involves an affordable Japanese meal (with prices ranging from $4 to $14) in a rooftop garden with city views. And, in great news for anyone keen for more, the short-term eatery is just the first in Jones and Spark's planned series of similar ventures.

Find Tokyo Terrace atop the Labour In Vain Hotel, 197a Brunswick Street, Fitzroy from 6pm to 9pm Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays until April 2nd. For more information, visit their Facebook page.

Images: Darren Gill.