Just Open: Tetsujin sushi train and Japanese barbecue, Emporium, Melbourne CBD

Rocket up the exclusive elevator to the fourth floor of the Emporium and enter Tetsujin, a sci-fi industrial space with robot murals and floor-to-ceiling windows framing the rooftops and cooling vents of Melbourne's dense cityscape.

The latest venue from David Loh (ShopHouse Kitchen, Dessert Story, Rice Workshop, Food Republik, Yokozuna), Tetsujin is bisected into a darker room where a bar and barbecue-your-own rules, and a gleaming white room where white neon circles hang above the sushi train.

If you're pressed for time, saddle up at the train and cherry-pick a few classic bites ($3.30 each).

If you've got a little longer, you can order a range of meat sets, such as pork belly, and hit the Robata grill, or go a la carte where the menu sprawls across Asia, from bibimbap to bao.

The drinks list shines a spotlight on sake and fun cocktails.

Open Mon-Thu & Sun 11am-11pm; Fri-Sat 11am-midnight.

Level 4, Emporium Melbourne, 295 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne CBD, 03 9663 9993 (enter via Caledonian Lane), tetsujin.com.au