Octopus Japanese Restaurant

925 El Camino Real, Menlo Park
(650) 600-8794

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Shaheen Ghiassy

A sushi restaurant above any other type of restaurant should have clean facilities to demonstrate their dedication to health and safety since they serve raw food.

Worryingly, the bathrooms at Octopus Japanese Restaurant are just merely disgusting. And this isn’t just the type of dirty in a way that any bathroom can get dirty after a day of abuse.

This is years of grime build up on the walls and doors. The buildup of dirt on the door handle and walls is truly next level gross. Does the chef/owner just not care? Did the thought ever cross anyone’s mind to wipe down the walls and door to display some pride in your restaurant?

I’m not even a clean freak. My wife thinks I’m dirty. But the facilities here are beyond the pale and need to be addressed.

P.S: The Salmon Don bowl looked like it had been cut with dull scissors and was far from fresh. Gross

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 2

Service: 5

W T

Restaurant is clean, staff is way cool and friendly, and the food is top tier! Very impressed with the quality of food and service. Got Dane’s Special and the chicken karaage - the karaage was done in a new fashion – added crunch, smaller pieces, all while just as much meat as you could expect in your standard order of karaage. And Melting Albacore was a unique, tasteful experience. Overall great place and would go with my friends again!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Clarence Yeung

Rice was sour to a fault

Food: 3

Sameera Prasad

Ordered the chef’s special nigiri. Some fish were fresh, some seemed stale/not the best quality.
It was a Hit or a miss!
Tuna , hamachi Hit

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 4

Vincent Lee

Fresh fish, great variety of rolls, and a cozy vibe. The service is always friendly and the owner always recognizes us and remembers our orders. Definitely part of our go-to dinner rotation.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Liz

I’ve been coming here monthly with my boyfriend, and it’s become one of our favorite dinner spots. The fish is always fresh with plenty of roll options to choose from. Service is warm and personable, and the owner makes you feel like a regular. Definitely a hidden gem that always exceeds our expectations!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Ck Rose

The food was great!! We really enjoyed ourselves. I ordered the udon with the tempura. But the tempura came out later but the server didn’t say a word when she brought the udon. She could have let me know that it comes out separately. Otherwise everything else was great.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

Dante Guevara

This is hands down the best sushi spot I’ve ever been to. They know me by name because I’m there every week now. The staff is awesome and the chef is amazing. You can tell they only use fresh fish and that they are passionate about serving you the absolute best sushi. I could be having the worst day in the world but if I come here, grab some sushi, and have an ice cold Sapporo it brings me right out of my funk. After Octopus, you’ll realize you’re just wasting your time and money at the other spots.

Parking: There’s about 20 parking spaces right behind the restaurant. Too easy to park.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Miso Soup, Sushi, Hot Sake

Mav M

Fried octupus is great! Good variety of rolls.Udon and sashimi is ok.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 2

Recommended dishes: Sushi

Lukas Voesenek

Very reliable, tasty food, super kind service, fast and very chill relaxing vibe eating in

Sourav Anand

Placed a pickup order via doordash but had to wait 15 after arriving at the store. Doordash said it should be ready between 6:08-6:18 and i arrived by 6:18, only to be told that its not ready and why did i arrive until they said its ready on the app. I left work according to the pickup placeFurther more instead of apologizing, they were telling me that its rush during evenings and were telling me its my fault that I arrived on time before checking the app, and i even showed them the app says that its time for pickup. When i asked why do they not increase their estimate on doordash, i was told that if they do that then no one will want to order from there which essentially means they would rather lie to customers and make them wait instead of giving proper estimate.

Service: 1

Matt Mendez

I love this restaurant. It's delicious! It's a bit cramped but other than that it's incredible.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Asianman classified

The food was amazing and the service was great!

Gunjan Jha

Good food however crowded seating

Daniel Ryu

Authentic and great tasting Japanese cuisine

Parking: Parking is in the back.

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