All-you-can-eat Japanese restaurant Okami opens in Marrickville

If you thought all-you-can-eat is the domain of US hotdog-eating contests and last century Chinese buffets, then steel yourself, Sydneysiders. Okami just rode into town.

The Japanese restaurant opened on Illawarra Road in Marrickville on August 19 after testing its wares in Melbourne.

This is how it works. With a puzzlingly exact price tag of $34.80 a head, "diners can choose up to 30-40 dishes to share", an Okami spokeswoman explains. "The restaurant scales the dish size depending on the group so there are no average dishes per person. Guests can eat as much as they can during the seating."

Customers get two hours to climb the summit. Ironically, it's the same amount of time runners long considered the final hurdle to break for the marathon.

The menu sounds OK, with sushi platters, karaage chicken, agedashi tofu and chawanmushi, a velvety steamed custard, on offer.

Okami has aggressive plans to open 10 to 15 Sydney restaurants by the end of next year.

Let the eating games begin.

Open lunch Sun; dinner Wed-Mon.

Shops 6 & 7, 359 Illawarra Road, Marrickville, okamirestaurant.com.au