Izakaya Akatsuki - Hand-crafted Udon Soba

I highly recommend the Mentai Cream Hot Pot. The creamy dashi broth is flavorful and tasty, perfect for sharing between 2-3 people. It comes with generous amounts of mentaiko, tofu, mochi, cabbage, mushrooms, pork belly and chicken. It's so delicious!

Another recommended dish is the Salmon & Ikura Kamameshi aka cast iron pot. Their udon dishes are good too. The noodles are made in house daily.

When u arrive, they always ask if you have a reservation. We have done walk-ins many times and were seated right away. I would suggest making a reservation for weekends and holidays, just in case.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Very nice and friendly service! We came with a large group after reserving a private room. We ordered a bunch of items but my favorites were the sashimi platter, grilled beef tongue, gyoza, and house hot pot. All their udons were good I'm just not a huge udon fan in general. But I did prefer the original umami maze udon over the spicy miso udon.

Salted pork belly, grilled salmon cheek, yuzu yellowtail, spicy crispy tofu, takoyaki, and tempura were all standard. Fries were too salty for me, probably the only item we ordered that I wouldn't recommend. All their desserts were not bad but nothing crazy.

They accidentally spilled soy sauce on my friend's sleeve but where extremely apologetic about it and helped her clean it as well as giving her 3 complementary desserts!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

We love this place it's very mom & pop style Japanese restaurant. Food is always delicious and service is exceptional. Hidden gem in the South Bay.

I had been a customer at this location when it was Sanuki No Sato, and this was my first visit since it changed. The izakaya menu selection was limited, and the food did not live up to my expectations.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 3

Love this gem of an authentic Japanese restaurant! Vibe is homey, staff are very friendly, and food is delicious and fairly priced. We got the mentaiko motsunabe and it’s one of the richest soups I’ve ever had. It’s enough to feed 4 people!! Portions are very generous. Definitely will come back!

Came on a Sunday night and surprisingly no wait!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

I made a reservation for 5. When we got there they told us no table was available for 5 so we would need to sit in the private room but we would have to pay 20% more. Ridiculous! It is their problem, not ours. Our reservation was for a normal table in the regular dining room. Not our fault that no tables were available. They should not have accepted my reservation if that was the case. We complained and they changed their minds. The private room was nice but there were a lot of gnats which was very irritating. The staff was nice, the food was just ok, the tempura had too much batter, they got our order wrong and when I asked for a glass of white wine I was told they didn't have it, today. It was the weirdest experience I've had at a restaurant. We don't intend on going back.

The post Thanksgiving Day holiday had our family craving Japanese cuisine, and led us to this restaurant. My kids are familiar with this area and said this might be the fourth business at this location.
Th menu says each customer will please order one item per person. We went beyond that I think!
We tried the Japanese house Akatsuki special hot pot : your choice of broth, fresh made udon noodles and meatballs, slices of pork, tofu, mochi, Napa cabbage and enoki mushrooms. Extra charge for additional broth. Hot pot is served on a butane powered stove. We got yuzu salt broth - their version I quite better tasting than other hot pot style places.
Got this dish plus additional udon set (noodles, spring onions, tempura crumble and egg or risotto set (it’s really just rice, comes with seaweed and cheese (poured broth over the dish to make the risotto).
I got the Nabeyaki Udon ( broth, udon, fish cake, two shrimp tempura, chicken and poached egg. I enjoyed this dish too! Hearty broth and great chew on the noodles. Served in an iron pot - stayed hot throughout my meal.
The Kamameshi bowl takes 30 minutes to come out ; hot ceramic bowl with rice and salmon- their version salmon got overdone but the rice itself was flavorful.
Brothless Maze Udon had ground pork, spring onions and other herbs plus poached egg.
Salmon chazuke is served with its own little pot of broth to pour over the dish.
Spicy umami Maze udon had kimchi added.
Ended with Japanese mochi ice cream split and a Japanese’s cake roll .
Serves cocktails, beer and sake.
Attentive waitresses and servers.
Fried Gyoza appetizer came out midway through: 17 pieces (the next size only has 6).
Overall solid food offerings.
Unfortunately the first table by entryway had plastic and blue tape overhead- some kind of plumbing issue a few weeks past was posted on their facebook page.
Several other dining areas, some with Japanese style low table seating (adapted for Westerners by having a lot of legroom underneath.)
High chairs not advisable because a lot of dishes are rough to table piping hot!
Lots of parking.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 4

Only ordered the mentai hotpot. Totally ruined the mentai. It looks so good before cooking, but hotpot and mentai don't go together well. After cooking, it just tastes like boiled meat soup

Food: 3

The food was delicious, and the atmosphere was quiet, but the chair was fixed, so it was uncomfortable.

Great place to come after work! Authentic and welcoming. Home family vibes. Highly recommend!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Delicious and legit Japanese restaurant for your craving!

I had:
1. Mentai Cream Hot Pot
2. Salmon with Truffle Oil
3. Yellowtail Jalapeño
4. Japanese Chili Fried Chicken Wing
5. Crispy Winged Gyoza
6. Spicy Crispy Tofu
7. Salmon Ikura Kamameshi
8. Yuzu Sour
9. Okinawa Sour

Great.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Celebrated the year with colleagues at this amazing izakaya! We used one of the private rooms to have our celebration, so we were able to talk with little disruption from other patrons.

The assortment of delicious appetizers and entrees made this place a future go-to spot for dinner. Every dish was cooked well with high-quality ingredients. I even liked the ika and tako, even though I usually don't order squid or octopus when there are so many other fresh options available.

Staff is very polite and helpful.

Both the udon and ramen noodles are excellent options, although you can't go wrong with any of the dishes on the menu.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

We were the second and separate party of 16 at dinner last night, but you never would’ve known because service was never lacking and all of the food (and there was a lot of food!) was fantastic! We’re going to come back w the family soon. Thank you!!!

Udon noodles were amaaaazing!! Quiet, clean, and the staff was great