There was delicious sashimi rice bowl and soba.The soba soup was a little salty, but it had a Japanese taste.The sashimi was also good.There are Koreans and Japanese. A restaurant with a high reputation.However, if you are a solo traveler, you may need to be a little careful as there are few seats for one person.I originally went to eat Japanese curry, but note that this is only available for lunch...
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Henry Chan
Small restaurant.Recommend making reservationsParking: Planty of free parking in front of the restaurant
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Grilled Beef Tongue
daisy yu
Overly rated. Food was ordinary. Understaffed. Restroom stocked with boxes. Terrible experience.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Fan joshua
Ordered tonkastu curry over rice. The outside of pork is crispy and inside is soft. Really delicious.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Yongjin Cho
Decent Japanese food with a variety of different menus and it was quite authentic. Feels like the fish and seafood are not fresh (texture feels like well-defrosted one) enough and the portions are quite small. The atmosphere and service were great.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Agedashi Dofu, Saikyo Black Cod a La Carte, Hamachi Carpaccio
K Shin
One of the best Asian restaurants in Bay Area
Andrew Nam
best foodBeef udon for lunchIn the evening, you can eat all kinds of delicious food.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Andy Lin (Andrew)
Kid-friendliness: Kid utensils and serveware is available. Highchairs too.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Cold Soba with Side of Tempura, Salmon Chazuke, Chirashi Bowl
Kate Liang
Delicious food and friendly staff.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Monica Choo
Subtle but authentic flavor of all fish and vegetable. Excellent all
Stopped by Leichi since it is close to me now that I've moved. Made a reservation a few hours before.Two of us ordered:-tako wasa $9, pretty good appetizer-sashimi 6 kinds $35.50, decent variety-nankotsu $9, chicken cartilage, really enjoyed it-nasu dengaku $9.50 egg plant, definitely avoid, almost too saucey to eat-tongue grill $15, fun to have a grill come out. Tasted ok.Overall decent meal. Will want to try their treasure box in the future.Parking is easy to find in the plaza.
Yi-Hsiang Lai
I ordered their assorted sashimi bento. The food is decent but to me the portion was a bit small compared with the price, but it might be because I ordered sashimi. I looked at other bento dishes and the portions looked right. The ingredients are really good though.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Jelly2 Tasty
QQ-iest housemade udon since my go-to homemade udon place in Gardena closed down back when I lived in L.A. pre-pandemic. Little thinner than my favorite kind of udon, sanuki udon, though.Most everything we tried was good, except the sushi. But we didn't follow my golden rule of sushi: "Don't get sushi at an izakaya; get sushi at a sushi bar." Most of their raw fish is very fishy. I did like their mackerel box sushi but that's a fishy fish to begin with. I recommend Sushi Jin, or if your pockets aren't that deep, Nori Nori or Takinori.Many of Leichi's sushi-adjacent raw seafood dishes are good, though, like my favorite, their Hokkaido scallop-Hokkaido uni special, called the Hokkaidon, or their non-Hokkaido hotate-uni appetizer, but that's more of a crudo than sushi since it has no shari (sushi rice) and a non-traditional basil sauce. The vinegared octopus and scallops were great too.Of their hot food, their tofu made out of sesame is something we've never had before, and aa very good. Reminds me a bit of Burmese yellow pea tofu in that it's thicker and less creamy than regular tofu.We also liked most of their steamed/broth fish dishes, especially the tai chazuke with creamy sesame tea.The simmered gindara was way too sweet but perfectly cooked. If you like or don't mind sweet savory this was great; for us the sauce marred an otherwise perfect piece of fish. To paraphrase Iron Chef, "I feel sorry for the fish."Also, their desserts are to die for! The couple next to us our last visit left to get dessert elsewhere and I think they missed out.The hojicha panna cotta and the soba pudding were both delicious, not too sweet. The panna cotta is soft, smooth and topped with crunchy puffed millet. The soba pudding is thick, dense, topped with crunchy buckwheat, on top of a secret layer of soupy, thin caramel sauce. The yuzu sorbet is a nice balance of tangy/sour and sweet, and topped with slightly bitter zest. Their green tea ice cream and lychee sorbet are fine but don't hold a candle to the others.Things I didn't like or didn't try:I haven't gotten their wagyuu because I'm very picky about wagyuu. I've had all sorts of wagyuu from real Kobe to the ultra-rare olive-fed wagyuu that only slaughters like five cows a year, and as Criwd Cow members we have a freezer full of A3-A5, so I don't get wagyu where they can't tell me the exact farm it came from.I didn't care for their shrimp cake (ebi shinjo) or ebi baguette. Their yuba dish was also too salty and swimming in sauce.The tongue steak was a bit chewy because it's cut so thick. Tongue is better sliced thin due to its texture.We keep trying to order the konowata (sea cucumber liver) but they're perpetually out of this.It helps to have reservations as it can get very busy.At the seats near the bathroom you can smell the scent of old piss wafting around you.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Chawan Mushi, Grilled Beef Tongue, Houjicha Panna Cotta
Sophie Litton
Great Izakaya spot in Santa Clara! My bf and I came here during lunch time with a reservation on yelp. The spot is hidden in the corner of a plaza near the popular brunch spot Bloom.We ordered the Hotate Uni ( Hokkaido w/ uni) , Harasu (grilled salmon belly), the lunch bento w/ grillwd mackerel and of course the housemade soba noodles. Stands outs were definitely both fish dishes as well as the soba noodles! Both fishes had that crispyness that mark a good izakaya and the soba noodles had a great firm texture and nutty taste.Service was kind and efficient. Note if you are looking for skewers, you may want to save this spot for another day as they focus more on small plates. However if you are looking for great homey spot with izakaya plates, I recommend this spot!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Cold Soba with Side of Tempura, Mackerel
Elizabeth Y
Food was great, but sadly the service was not.Arrived 5:30 pm on a Saturday night and they accepted my party without telling us that there was a reservation for the same table at 6:45. They served us our last dishes at 6:30 and, at the same time, told us we would have to finish everything in 15 mins and leave.
There was delicious sashimi rice bowl and soba.The soba soup was a little salty, but it had a Japanese taste.The sashimi was also good.There are Koreans and Japanese. A restaurant with a high reputation.However, if you are a solo traveler, you may need to be a little careful as there are few seats for one person.I originally went to eat Japanese curry, but note that this is only available for lunch...
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Small restaurant.Recommend making reservationsParking: Planty of free parking in front of the restaurant
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Grilled Beef Tongue
Overly rated. Food was ordinary. Understaffed. Restroom stocked with boxes. Terrible experience.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Ordered tonkastu curry over rice. The outside of pork is crispy and inside is soft. Really delicious.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Decent Japanese food with a variety of different menus and it was quite authentic. Feels like the fish and seafood are not fresh (texture feels like well-defrosted one) enough and the portions are quite small. The atmosphere and service were great.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Agedashi Dofu, Saikyo Black Cod a La Carte, Hamachi Carpaccio
One of the best Asian restaurants in Bay Area
best foodBeef udon for lunchIn the evening, you can eat all kinds of delicious food.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Kid-friendliness: Kid utensils and serveware is available. Highchairs too.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Cold Soba with Side of Tempura, Salmon Chazuke, Chirashi Bowl
Delicious food and friendly staff.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Subtle but authentic flavor of all fish and vegetable. Excellent all
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Restaurantji Recommends
Stopped by Leichi since it is close to me now that I've moved. Made a reservation a few hours before.Two of us ordered:-tako wasa $9, pretty good appetizer-sashimi 6 kinds $35.50, decent variety-nankotsu $9, chicken cartilage, really enjoyed it-nasu dengaku $9.50 egg plant, definitely avoid, almost too saucey to eat-tongue grill $15, fun to have a grill come out. Tasted ok.Overall decent meal. Will want to try their treasure box in the future.Parking is easy to find in the plaza.
I ordered their assorted sashimi bento. The food is decent but to me the portion was a bit small compared with the price, but it might be because I ordered sashimi. I looked at other bento dishes and the portions looked right. The ingredients are really good though.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
QQ-iest housemade udon since my go-to homemade udon place in Gardena closed down back when I lived in L.A. pre-pandemic. Little thinner than my favorite kind of udon, sanuki udon, though.Most everything we tried was good, except the sushi. But we didn't follow my golden rule of sushi: "Don't get sushi at an izakaya; get sushi at a sushi bar." Most of their raw fish is very fishy. I did like their mackerel box sushi but that's a fishy fish to begin with. I recommend Sushi Jin, or if your pockets aren't that deep, Nori Nori or Takinori.Many of Leichi's sushi-adjacent raw seafood dishes are good, though, like my favorite, their Hokkaido scallop-Hokkaido uni special, called the Hokkaidon, or their non-Hokkaido hotate-uni appetizer, but that's more of a crudo than sushi since it has no shari (sushi rice) and a non-traditional basil sauce. The vinegared octopus and scallops were great too.Of their hot food, their tofu made out of sesame is something we've never had before, and aa very good. Reminds me a bit of Burmese yellow pea tofu in that it's thicker and less creamy than regular tofu.We also liked most of their steamed/broth fish dishes, especially the tai chazuke with creamy sesame tea.The simmered gindara was way too sweet but perfectly cooked. If you like or don't mind sweet savory this was great; for us the sauce marred an otherwise perfect piece of fish. To paraphrase Iron Chef, "I feel sorry for the fish."Also, their desserts are to die for! The couple next to us our last visit left to get dessert elsewhere and I think they missed out.The hojicha panna cotta and the soba pudding were both delicious, not too sweet. The panna cotta is soft, smooth and topped with crunchy puffed millet. The soba pudding is thick, dense, topped with crunchy buckwheat, on top of a secret layer of soupy, thin caramel sauce. The yuzu sorbet is a nice balance of tangy/sour and sweet, and topped with slightly bitter zest. Their green tea ice cream and lychee sorbet are fine but don't hold a candle to the others.Things I didn't like or didn't try:I haven't gotten their wagyuu because I'm very picky about wagyuu. I've had all sorts of wagyuu from real Kobe to the ultra-rare olive-fed wagyuu that only slaughters like five cows a year, and as Criwd Cow members we have a freezer full of A3-A5, so I don't get wagyu where they can't tell me the exact farm it came from.I didn't care for their shrimp cake (ebi shinjo) or ebi baguette. Their yuba dish was also too salty and swimming in sauce.The tongue steak was a bit chewy because it's cut so thick. Tongue is better sliced thin due to its texture.We keep trying to order the konowata (sea cucumber liver) but they're perpetually out of this.It helps to have reservations as it can get very busy.At the seats near the bathroom you can smell the scent of old piss wafting around you.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Chawan Mushi, Grilled Beef Tongue, Houjicha Panna Cotta
Great Izakaya spot in Santa Clara! My bf and I came here during lunch time with a reservation on yelp. The spot is hidden in the corner of a plaza near the popular brunch spot Bloom.We ordered the Hotate Uni ( Hokkaido w/ uni) , Harasu (grilled salmon belly), the lunch bento w/ grillwd mackerel and of course the housemade soba noodles. Stands outs were definitely both fish dishes as well as the soba noodles! Both fishes had that crispyness that mark a good izakaya and the soba noodles had a great firm texture and nutty taste.Service was kind and efficient. Note if you are looking for skewers, you may want to save this spot for another day as they focus more on small plates. However if you are looking for great homey spot with izakaya plates, I recommend this spot!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Cold Soba with Side of Tempura, Mackerel
Food was great, but sadly the service was not.Arrived 5:30 pm on a Saturday night and they accepted my party without telling us that there was a reservation for the same table at 6:45. They served us our last dishes at 6:30 and, at the same time, told us we would have to finish everything in 15 mins and leave.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 1