On May 11, a Monday’s Day weekend, my family was turned away as walk-ins, which we understood. However, my 6-year-old daughter urgently needed a restroom. The waitress dismissively told us to use a restroom ‘by the parking lot’ without clear directions. We searched multiple lots and found no open restrooms. When I asked for clarification, she vaguely mentioned a UPS store but was unhelpful and rushed. This was incredibly frustrating, especially for a child’s emergency. We ended up at another restaurant to use their facilities and eat. Due to this rude interaction, we won’t return.
Sarah Bouzid
By far the best & most authentic Japanese restaurant we've been to! Love everything: the food, the atmosphere, the team. Highly recommend!
Eric DeAratanha
Food was high quality. Portions minuscule, prices high. Barely fed myself for $100. The table was sticky and not clean. The air was thick with burned food smoke. No ventilation…
Servers were kind. But They charged for water?! Overall very disappointed. Would not return for any reason.
They were very nice though…………. But still not coming back.
Jaime Felix
Enjoy the slow moments and dining experience with authentic Japanese flavors here. Chef Suzuki is a master chef. They have been around 10+ years and have loyal customers. Make reservations as it is a small setting, you are not likely able to just walk-in.
Here is what I tried and I recommend them as representative and rare dishes in the Bay Area: mentaiko isobe maki assorted tempura karasumi zosui amaebi, otoro, uni nigiri tomoshichi nigori junmai Saba no aka-miso ni hirame sashimi purin w/ a candle for a bday
On the menu, it says you have to be invited to try a omakase experience from the chef. Somehow, someday I will get there.
Chris Arns
I absolutely love this place. The chef and servers are all very nice people. They were willing to accommodate a modification to a dish, which is now the only thing I ever order because it’s so delicious. Cannot recommend them highly enough.
Vikrant Batra
Best Japanese in California. Period.
Xue Family
The food is way over priced. The veggie tempura is not crunchy, very saggy, portion is very small, every vegetable piece cut into very thin slice, 1 slice of carrot cut into a few carrot rings.
Sean Chen
mid and below foods, expensive and messy place.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 3
Christie Zhang
Authentic Kansai ( west Japan) style food. Not your typical sushi place.
There is nothing particularly amazing about it. The store is a bit hot and the prices are as high as other Japanese restaurants.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 5
Laura Hamilton
Walking by, we were intrigued and decided to stop in. Didn't know what it was about. It looked like a coffee shop and had a sign for a brewery on the side of the building. Surprise, it's a Japanese restaurant! We got the tasting menu for 2.A lot of dishes came out all at once, it was slightly difficult to tell what was what. What I noticed first was that the seasoning was off. Everything tasted similarly of dashi, but the dashi lacked flavor and umami. The textures of each dish were too similar. Everything was sort of soft and bland. We looked on the menu to verify ingredients, each dish came out tasting the same as the last.The walls next to us were full of handwritten raves for the chef but honestly, the food was just bland and meh. Nothing stood out. Nothing was excellent. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't flavorful. It needed salt, or crisp elements, or more acid, something different to freshen and excite the palate. Maybe it was the tasting menu we got, but that should be the place to really show off skills.It was also a little odd to be eating Japanese food in what felt like a student bookstore or coffee shop. But if the food was better, that would be fine.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 3
Angchen Yu
Authentic Japanese
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Carmen Q.
Best kaiseki! owner is awesome he made the best fish!! Food is amazing you can taste the food that's not masked by seasonings!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Russell Moore
It’s been a year since I ate here and I still can’t stop thinking about the terrible experience we had.The first time we went here me and my partner had a wonderful experience, but when we came back after the pandemic with friends we were horribly disappointed. We spent over 400$ with no drinks and the 4 of us were not even near full, and one of the dishes felt inedible. The sashimi tasted old, and there was not a single memorable dish. Everyone of us left feeling absolutely dumbfounded and ripped off.I really hate to write this, especially because again I’d like to state that I had a wonderful experience here once before, but the restaurant appeared to go through something during the pandemic.I’m writing this to warn people who can’t afford to be disappointed. Spending what little extra money we had in hopes to make someone’s night special and leaving in extreme disappointment was very upsetting.
On May 11, a Monday’s Day weekend, my family was turned away as walk-ins, which we understood. However, my 6-year-old daughter urgently needed a restroom. The waitress dismissively told us to use a restroom ‘by the parking lot’ without clear directions. We searched multiple lots and found no open restrooms. When I asked for clarification, she vaguely mentioned a UPS store but was unhelpful and rushed. This was incredibly frustrating, especially for a child’s emergency. We ended up at another restaurant to use their facilities and eat. Due to this rude interaction, we won’t return.
By far the best & most authentic Japanese restaurant we've been to! Love everything: the food, the atmosphere, the team. Highly recommend!
Food was high quality. Portions minuscule, prices high. Barely fed myself for $100. The table was sticky and not clean. The air was thick with burned food smoke. No ventilation…
Servers were kind. But They charged for water?! Overall very disappointed. Would not return for any reason.
They were very nice though…………. But still not coming back.
Enjoy the slow moments and dining experience with authentic Japanese flavors here. Chef Suzuki is a master chef. They have been around 10+ years and have loyal customers. Make reservations as it is a small setting, you are not likely able to just walk-in.
Here is what I tried and I recommend them as representative and rare dishes in the Bay Area:
mentaiko isobe maki
assorted tempura
karasumi zosui
amaebi, otoro, uni nigiri
tomoshichi nigori junmai
Saba no aka-miso ni
hirame sashimi
purin w/ a candle for a bday
On the menu, it says you have to be invited to try a omakase experience from the chef. Somehow, someday I will get there.
I absolutely love this place. The chef and servers are all very nice people. They were willing to accommodate a modification to a dish, which is now the only thing I ever order because it’s so delicious. Cannot recommend them highly enough.
Best Japanese in California. Period.
The food is way over priced. The veggie tempura is not crunchy, very saggy, portion is very small, every vegetable piece cut into very thin slice, 1 slice of carrot cut into a few carrot rings.
mid and below foods, expensive and messy place.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 3
Authentic Kansai ( west Japan) style food. Not your typical sushi place.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Buri Shabu, Sushi Night, Poached Pears, Clay Pot, Chefs Choice Sashimi, Egg Zosui, Kani Croquette
Great authentic food and hospitality.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
There is nothing particularly amazing about it. The store is a bit hot and the prices are as high as other Japanese restaurants.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 5
Walking by, we were intrigued and decided to stop in. Didn't know what it was about. It looked like a coffee shop and had a sign for a brewery on the side of the building. Surprise, it's a Japanese restaurant! We got the tasting menu for 2.A lot of dishes came out all at once, it was slightly difficult to tell what was what. What I noticed first was that the seasoning was off. Everything tasted similarly of dashi, but the dashi lacked flavor and umami. The textures of each dish were too similar. Everything was sort of soft and bland. We looked on the menu to verify ingredients, each dish came out tasting the same as the last.The walls next to us were full of handwritten raves for the chef but honestly, the food was just bland and meh. Nothing stood out. Nothing was excellent. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't flavorful. It needed salt, or crisp elements, or more acid, something different to freshen and excite the palate. Maybe it was the tasting menu we got, but that should be the place to really show off skills.It was also a little odd to be eating Japanese food in what felt like a student bookstore or coffee shop. But if the food was better, that would be fine.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 3
Authentic Japanese
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Best kaiseki! owner is awesome he made the best fish!! Food is amazing you can taste the food that's not masked by seasonings!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
It’s been a year since I ate here and I still can’t stop thinking about the terrible experience we had.The first time we went here me and my partner had a wonderful experience, but when we came back after the pandemic with friends we were horribly disappointed. We spent over 400$ with no drinks and the 4 of us were not even near full, and one of the dishes felt inedible. The sashimi tasted old, and there was not a single memorable dish. Everyone of us left feeling absolutely dumbfounded and ripped off.I really hate to write this, especially because again I’d like to state that I had a wonderful experience here once before, but the restaurant appeared to go through something during the pandemic.I’m writing this to warn people who can’t afford to be disappointed. Spending what little extra money we had in hopes to make someone’s night special and leaving in extreme disappointment was very upsetting.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 3
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