Kanpai Restaurant

301 Palomar St, Chula Vista
(619) 426-1200

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its.me.lil.t *

Authentic and delicious 😋

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Itay zaober

Good food

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Luis Guerra

All food that we tried was great. Service is great.

Food: 5

Service: 5

Mellyssa Diggs

First time in this restaurant. Excellent service. Polite and have been looking for an authentic place for a while now.

Arigato gozaimasu 🫶🏽

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

lola patricia aguiar

The atmosphere is tranquil and warm. Nice place to come have a quiet evening with your loved one. 💋💋💋💋💋

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Utku Baran

Everything was great, very friendly and authentic Japanese restaurant.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

86 47 Bone Spur President

Updated June 29, 2025. Curry Rice is so comforting.

Update 9 May 2025.

Still has great food. Updated menu includes more items.

I remember drinking Calpico when I was much younger. I just had to get it with my meal.

They have authentic Japanese food. The ramen dishes are very good.

I attached the hours of operation.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Champon

Kay Neb

This restaurant is not authentic Japanese food. It’s owned by the Korean people. Foods are not that great!
Their service is terrible. Waitresses are old Japanese ladies who are not very nice.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Gladys Marin

This restaurant is such a great find. The food is delicious, the meals are well orchestrated and the prices are great. The staff is kind and so agreeable.

I ordered a combination plate for $15 which comes with chicken, vegetable tempura, rice, miso soup , salad and sushi. I love the vegetable tempura.
The atmosphere is so cute, I love the Japanese car drawings and decor.

Hot spot for sure !

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

DJ Lee

Ordered black hog sausage and fried squid legs for app. Spicy ramen and spicy champon. Snow crab roll and toro roll.

Extremely disappointed about service and portions. Long wait to be seated and for your orders which is to be expected. But orders coming out of sequence is not nice. First served fried squid legs which was good. (Small portions) and then the ramen and champon. My girl ordered ramen and said it didn’t come spicy and the pork broth tasted foul so I tried it and tasted something was off. It was way too much porky taste as you take a sip of broth. Never had that kind of taste before from spicy pork broth ramen. I asked waitress if you could take this off check and she flat out said no and gave excuses like it was only supposed to be mildly spicy (had no spice at all); even after I said i would order another champon because i did like it.

Two rolls I got. after ramen and champon. What a joke. It almost feels dishonest for them to serve these portions. Finger sized rolls 6 pieces for $15 each. I wouldn’t bother ordering anything from the chef’s special menu off of handwritten A4 paper menu sheet.

And then came the black hog sausage at last. Which is an app…All of this for total $92 including taxes and green tea macaroni ice cream.

My heart told me i should not leave any tips but my head told me everyone is having it tough these days so I left 15% tip feeling so dissatisfied. I’m shocked at waitress who refused to take the ramen off check and further investigate quality. At her stone cold face like I was not being fair.

I won’t be returning. Please improve your customer service and portions of menu items. You seem to have loyal base when I read other reviews but surely won’t be getting new customers with these practices.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 2

Alan Duke

Authentic, tasty mom and pop Japanese food.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Luis perez

Family .good food. good services

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

nora atpcs

Food is delicious. Service outstanding. Try Spicy Champon- Bento Boxes and Specialty Rolls.

Wheelchair accessibility: Yes

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Chanpon, Sesame Chicken and Egg Roll Combo, Spicy Ramen, Gyoza, Rice or Miso Soup, Edamame, Roll, Dragon Roll, Kanpai Special, Crunchy Roll

Veronica Scofield

Secound Home for me in food ?

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

beernfoodgeek

Ramen is always a good choice here among other dishes. Tried the chicken wings but they weren't really for me. Always a good time at Kanpai.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Spicy Ramen

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