Gochi Japanese Fusion Tapas

Always in my favourite Japanese restaurant list. Perfect food and service.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Single most delicious Japanese spot in Bay Area.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Okonomiyaki, Tempura

Make sure to get a reservation. This restaurant is popular and walk in would take 30 to 45 minutes to get a table.

Food is so so. More on the salty and greasy side. The pizza is pretty much all cheese, chicken eggplant is too salty, clay plot rice has too much rice and not enough fish. Miso soup is very good tho.

Not cheap, but a good atmosphere.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 2

Service: 4

some interesting, creative and pretty tasty fusion

Really tasty Japanese food - we will be back!

Top dishes for us were the carpaccio, unagi meshi (small was plenty and allowed us to try more dishes), veggie tempura, and daikon salad.

I liked the renkon hasamige and am happy we tried it, but probably wouldn’t get it again unless I were craving lotus root. The hiyashi tomatoes were good but pretty much just sliced tomatoes.

The uni on a fried rice ball can be skipped. The lychee soy milk sorbet was really strong in lychee flavor - refreshing but not as balanced as the rest of the food.

The staff was very nice but did seem pretty stressed and stretched thin.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 3

Gochi is always right. From my opinion, this is better than the one in Cupertino.

Sublime food. Superb combination of flavors.

Great service. Attentive and full of smiles.

Unassuming restaurant. Packed to the gills.

It’s a cult favorite. Once you’ve enjoyed these flavors, it’s hard not to get addicted to it and find it normal.

The eel clay pot rice is to die for and their most popular item.

Fusion as fusion should be.

Parking: Large number of free parking spots right in front.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Great sashimi!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Japanese claypot rice and Japanese homemade tofu are pretty good, but the beef tongue is a bit hard.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

Capacio is great, fresh and savory. The clay pot rice with salmon and roe is also very impressive. Highly recommend.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Food was way too garlicky and barely had any other taste. Spent $147 overall and left feeling hungry and disappointed.

Very limited gluten free options. Nice fusion food, really like the match crème brûlée. Staff are busy rushing about, sometimes hard to get attention. Made for family style.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Green Tea Creme Brulee

All good! AC is not strong…

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

A mix of the United States and Japan, more American style and a bit greasy
All seafood has nothing to do with freshness. Fish/scallops/sea urchins don’t have a strange smell, but they don’t taste delicious either. Even if the octopus is spoiled, they dare to serve it. It tastes as bitter as drinking pesticide.
There is a claypot eel + chazuke rice, which is very strange and not bad to eat, but the taste is not as good as the serious chazuke rice or claypot rice.
The service attitude is good. The environment is dark and cramped. The food is one star for the claypot rice. The rest is useless.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 1

Service: 5

Excellent atmosphere, exceptional service, but food was average. I must have expected too much. The soboro clay pot was not very flavorful yet salty. The pork used in Tonkatsu (it's called something else) wasn't fresh (had the light smell to it), and Kanpachi Carppacio was served warm (maybe this is intentional). Nasu Curry Pizza was good but nothing special.

I think it's a decent spot if you are looking for an Izakaya experience or a casual meal, but I don't recommend for a special occasion.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Nasu Curry Pizza, Claypot Rice