Yakyudori

4898 Convoy St #101, San Diego
(858) 268-2888

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Ramon Deavila

Delicious food. Great service. Keep up the great work!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Marcus Silva

Food was decent but I’m giving 2 stars because we found a hair in our ramen and they charge 1 dollar for lemons 🫨

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 4

Rossio Palacios

This place is so yummy and authentic

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Fried, Yakitori

Eduardo Arguello

Great food, fast service once seated. Good atmosphere.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Teriyaki Yakitori Bowl, Yakitori

Gary Piazza

Yakitori is one of my favorites when it comes to dining. I had high hopes for Yakyudori, but I'm afraid it fell a bit short in execution. All of the skewers I ordered were off the charts when it came to salt, and I love salt. Flavors were decent...but the salt kept me from really enjoying the skewers like I wanted to. Which is really too bad, because the skewers were cooked perfectly. Ahi tuna was my favorite dish and I found it to be perfect in every way. Octopus sushi was a bit tougher than I would have liked and the heavy wasabi flavor sometimes overpowered it. Soba noodles were a bit soggy and and overcooked.
As for the ambience, typical seating arrangement for a relatively small place, and tables were clean. The music coming from the kitchen was only playing to serve the staff and not the guests. Rap music probably not the right selection for an establishment like this.
Staff was kind, and service was quick, but a lot of personal chit chat going on.
I would have liked to try the ramen, but will probably pass on a second visit. I was solo and spent about $80 dollars with only water to drink. Value, I'm afraid, just wasn't there.

Parking: Pretty tight space. Will have to get creative with parking.

Wheelchair accessibility: Is wheelchair accessible.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 3

Recommended dishes: Pork Belly Yakitori

Delta

Cute little beer joint with japanese barbecue options and small plates. Open late until about 11.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Yakitori

JORGE GOMEZ

Food was really good, probably a 9 outta 10, beer Orion was delicious.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Pork Belly Yakitori, Tonkotsu Ramen Only Noodles and Broth, Yakitori

sober insanity

Staff was nice very helpful they need to update their menu my friend and I drove really far to try a cake they advertised but no longer make.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 5

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Update: my next few visits were so-so. Greasy tablets, sticky surfaces, food wasn't as great as my first few times, servers seemed apathetic, etc.
One of those places where you can get an "authentic" (without sounding pretentious) izakaya experience - very good service and order delicious, actual Japanese food - not "fusion" trash - and drinks from a tablet.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 3

Recommended dishes: Karaage Fried Chicken, Teriyaki Yakitori Bowl

nikki likens

Amazing food and atmosphere one of my favorite places 😄

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Juan Montano

Worst service ever, waited for an hour and they erased our name ! We had a 8 months pregnant with us, they were rude and not helpful, I would have left . .. food was just ok, not worth the bad service

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Ignacio Chimal-Herrera

Price was kinda expensive for the amount of food you got . Wasn’t personal at all, had questions about the sauces they had and he just pointed to the i pad . Honestly i wouldn’t come back .

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 1

Recommended dishes: Bacon Wrapped Asparagus, Pork Belly Yakitori, Beef Yakitori, Yakitori

Todd Harpenau

Love this place. Lots of tasty options that you can order in small plates as you go.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Karaage Fried Chicken, Roast Beef Tataki, Pork Belly Yakitori, Yakitori

Jacob Thrasher-Watson

The fried chicken was the star.og the show.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Fried Wings Nagoya Style

Ricardo Oliva

I had the ramen here and karaage bowl and it was good.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

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