Kotobuki Japanese Restaurant

Kotobuki is not authentic Japanese food. One of the taller female servers is inpatient and start to clean up in 30 minutes we set. Living in Montclair village for close to 20 years, this experience is one of the worst. Do not try if you can tell the difference in Japanese food.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 2

Service: 1

I take-out here once a week and the staff is amazing. My family’s orders are always correct and the food is consistently delicious. I’ve been coming here for over 5 years and I still look forward to weekly sushi night from Kotobuki.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

This place is amazing. Some of the best Japanese food around. Favorite dishes: karage, blue Hawaii, and the caterpillar rolll. I'm definitely interested in trying their vegetable tempura. I kept seeing people order it, and it looks special.

Excellent food, friendly and generous service. Love this place!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Love this place. Tasty teriyaki chicken is my favorite. I get extra to make lunches for later.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

I took my daughter out to dinner eat here for her 16th birthday. I mentioned it was her birthday and they brought us fried ice cream on the house. We are also not super familiar with Japanese customs and culture, and they were very patient as they explained how you are supposed to eat certain foods. I got the beef Ramen and my daughter got Udon, we shared some Gyoza and Tuna rolls! Excellent experience.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Fresh sushi and tasty dishes. I would recommend it every day, twice on sunday!

I love this place. It has amazing food and can be useful for casual and fancy events.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Miso Soup, Sushi, Roll, Gyoza

Sushi is good. Pork katsu in Doubri is soggy with egg.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

This neighborhood sushi spot has upped its game. We were delighted to see some new dishes on the menu. The “happy spoons” and thinly sliced albacore were great and the sushi rolls generous yummy and satisfying.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Miso Soup, Tuna, Sushi, Roll

This might be one of our new spots in Montclair Village!

To preface, when we first moved to the east bay we ordered delivery from this restaurant our first night in our new house and were a bit disappointed, so we effectively left it off our list of places to go… this was our mistake!

The restaurant is no frills, but there’s seating for bigger parties and partitions between tables so it feels roomy. There’s a huge TV broadcasting sports events too.

We happened to go on “customer appreciation night” and were thoroughly surprised by the amount of complimentary dishes they brought to our table. I was already close to full with all this free dishes! I ordered the cold soba dish and that was really good. It even comes with a full order of tempura… we ordered some other small dishes for the kids as well. Overall, we were really impressed by the food and the service; our waitress was so friendly.

We’ll definitely be coming back here for meals!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Edamame

They had an amazing spread of free sushi, chicken and tempura for customer appreciation day today! ?

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Prices at restaurants have gone up dramatically over the last few years as everyone knows. This is one of the few where I still feel like I'm getting my money's worth. The service is very good, the food is better, and even the ambience, specifically the music, is excellent. Yes, they have recently raised prices, but even then, I know I'd pay the same amount for a lot less in most other restaurants, whether we're trying new ones or our old favorites. I don't feel like just a mark when I go in to Kotobuki. We will be coming back again and again and bringing friends whenever possible.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

They treat us well and feed us lots of good sushi! ? ?

Vegetarian options: Usual veggie rolls, miso soup and fried tofu

Kid-friendliness: Tv's and spacious seating for kids

Wheelchair accessibility: Ramp & button to open the door

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Miso Soup, Sushi, Edamame

Was good food and pricing until they increased the price on my entree by 25%

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 2