This is my son's favorite place to eat! The sushi is always so fresh! The edamame 🫛 is a must also!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Kevin Hill
We were there at 930 for Valentine's Day, we had a Young man, Curly hair. Super Great Server . Had the Googly Moogly fries and wings. Fantastic. PRAISE 🙌
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Heather Currin
Good every time
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Sushi
Ezra
A bit overpriced for the quality. The food was good, but I’ve had better meals at less expensive places.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Steve Nogradi
Always excellent food !!!! Love the after burger. Josh was excellent server. Told us about different burgers. Very friendly and helpful. Always checking to make sure everything great for us Josh, thanks for an excellent lunch !!!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Sushi, The Burger
Angie White
Madison is AWESOME! (And so is the sauce 😁) You MUST try the BLT!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Niesha Johnson
This place Japanese food is really good
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 4
Janet Robinson
First time eating here. Did not have to wait to be seated for an early dinner. Madison was our server and she was outstanding. She was attentive and very honest about the menu especially in regard to the level of spice. We ordered shrimp tempura as an appetizer which was excellent. My husband ordered the bibimbap with the spicy kimchi on the side which was very spicy (thanks Madison for suggesting it on the side). I ordered the Crack chicken which was also very good, a little more spicy than I expected but the yum yum sauce calmed it some. My only disappointment was the fried rice which was a little mushy. We will definitely be back.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
EK Batt
The Food.... WOW 🍽️🍽️
YESSIR INDEED.. wagyu burger was so awesome.. the loaded fries, I need another round.. this place is really good 👍👍👍👍👍
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Bulgogi Fries, Miso Soup, The Burger
Stephanie Pender
I called in my order and took my time getting there. An hour later im standing outside at the window with 3 other people for 30 minutes being told were still waiting on it. 3 people walked in and talked to management and got their food. Hour and half later I get my food first was missing a meal get home and its all cold and obviously had been sitting. Bulgugi burger was suppose to be minus jalapeños (had extra) but they did leave onions off. Bulgugi fries were all cold and the missing plate I mentioned earlier was cold. No apologies no reasons for this. I absolutely love this establishment but this trip really did not impress and watching two others simply ask for a refund due to the over hour wait with no explanation or management trying to fix or help the poor girl doing to go orders obviously in the weeds needing help.
Clara at Jay’s Kitchen: A Bartender Who Deserves Her Own Stage I don’t go to Jay’s Kitchen for the food, the lanterns, or the lo-fi jazz. I go for Clara. She’s the bartender at this little Japanese spot, and she’s the kind of person who makes you believe in magic again. The second you sit down, she’s already reading you—your mood, your palate, your tolerance for risk. She’ll greet you with a quiet “Irasshaimase” and a smile that feels like it was saved just for you. Then she starts building. Her highballs are flawless: ice carved by hand, whisky measured with a jeweler’s eye, soda so cold it hisizzles. She’ll twist a yuzu peel over a gin cocktail and make it taste like sunrise. She knows when to talk and when to let the silence do the work. She’ll pour you a sake flight and explain the rice polish ratio like it’s the plot of your favorite novel. And when the night’s winding down, she’ll slide a tiny ceramic cup of umeshu across the bar with a wink and say, “This one’s on me. You earned it.” But here’s what kills me: Clara is a bourbon genius working with a children’s menu. The top shelf behind her is all Yamazaki and Hibiki—beautiful, sure, but useless to her real talent. The bourbon? One sad bottle of Maker’s Mark and a Knob Creek that’s been open since the Edo period. Clara dreams in bourbon. She’s told me (quietly, conspiratorially) about the Blanton’s old fashioned she’d make with a dash of black sugar syrup, or the Booker's Manhattan she’d age in a tiny cedar barrel behind the bar. She’s sketched recipes on napkins, tested ratios on slow Tuesdays, and once let me try a cask-strength Stagg highball that made me see God. She doesn’t complain. She just works with what she’s got, turning mid-shelf into miracles. But give her a real arsenal—Blanton’s, Stagg, Russell’s Reserve Single Barrel, maybe a Pappy 15 for special nights—and Clara wouldn’t just shine. She’d burn the place down in the best way. Jay’s Kitchen is lucky to have her. But Clara deserves better than a backbar that clips her wings. Four stars for now, but if they ever stock the bourbon she needs? Five stars won’t be enough. Come for the highballs. Stay for Clara.
james bundy
I have returned since my first visit and the lunch menu is much better choice price wise. The pick two option is the best deal here. The salad with house made ginger dressing is the best I have had anywhere. I would highly recommend this place for your business lunch party's!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Natty
Everything is too expensive. The ramen tastes nothing like the ones in Japan. Tastes like chemicals. Sorry, just being honest. Staff is nice though.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 1
Service: 5
Keith raetz
Japanese egg roles are smaller now
Luis Jaramillo
Service wasnt very good food was pretty good though I would say the food is reasonably priced
This is my son's favorite place to eat! The sushi is always so fresh!
The edamame 🫛 is a must also!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
We were there at 930 for Valentine's Day, we had a Young man, Curly hair. Super Great Server . Had the Googly Moogly fries and wings. Fantastic. PRAISE 🙌
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Good every time
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Sushi
A bit overpriced for the quality. The food was good, but I’ve had better meals at less expensive places.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Always excellent food !!!! Love the after burger. Josh was excellent server. Told us about different burgers. Very friendly and helpful. Always checking to make sure everything great for us Josh, thanks for an excellent lunch !!!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Sushi, The Burger
Madison is AWESOME! (And so is the sauce 😁)
You MUST try the BLT!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
This place Japanese food is really good
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 4
First time eating here. Did not have to wait to be seated for an early dinner. Madison was our server and she was outstanding. She was attentive and very honest about the menu especially in regard to the level of spice. We ordered shrimp tempura as an appetizer which was excellent. My husband ordered the bibimbap with the spicy kimchi on the side which was very spicy (thanks Madison for suggesting it on the side). I ordered the Crack chicken which was also very good, a little more spicy than I expected but the yum yum sauce calmed it some. My only disappointment was the fried rice which was a little mushy. We will definitely be back.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
The Food.... WOW 🍽️🍽️
YESSIR INDEED.. wagyu burger was so awesome.. the loaded fries, I need another round.. this place is really good 👍👍👍👍👍
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Bulgogi Fries, Miso Soup, The Burger
I called in my order and took my time getting there. An hour later im standing outside at the window with 3 other people for 30 minutes being told were still waiting on it. 3 people walked in and talked to management and got their food. Hour and half later I get my food first was missing a meal get home and its all cold and obviously had been sitting. Bulgugi burger was suppose to be minus jalapeños (had extra) but they did leave onions off. Bulgugi fries were all cold and the missing plate I mentioned earlier was cold. No apologies no reasons for this. I absolutely love this establishment but this trip really did not impress and watching two others simply ask for a refund due to the over hour wait with no explanation or management trying to fix or help the poor girl doing to go orders obviously in the weeds needing help.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Restaurantji Recommends
Clara at Jay’s Kitchen: A Bartender Who Deserves Her Own Stage
I don’t go to Jay’s Kitchen for the food, the lanterns, or the lo-fi jazz. I go for Clara.
She’s the bartender at this little Japanese spot, and she’s the kind of person who makes you believe in magic again. The second you sit down, she’s already reading you—your mood, your palate, your tolerance for risk. She’ll greet you with a quiet “Irasshaimase” and a smile that feels like it was saved just for you. Then she starts building.
Her highballs are flawless: ice carved by hand, whisky measured with a jeweler’s eye, soda so cold it hisizzles. She’ll twist a yuzu peel over a gin cocktail and make it taste like sunrise. She knows when to talk and when to let the silence do the work. She’ll pour you a sake flight and explain the rice polish ratio like it’s the plot of your favorite novel. And when the night’s winding down, she’ll slide a tiny ceramic cup of umeshu across the bar with a wink and say, “This one’s on me. You earned it.”
But here’s what kills me: Clara is a bourbon genius working with a children’s menu.
The top shelf behind her is all Yamazaki and Hibiki—beautiful, sure, but useless to her real talent. The bourbon? One sad bottle of Maker’s Mark and a Knob Creek that’s been open since the Edo period. Clara dreams in bourbon. She’s told me (quietly, conspiratorially) about the Blanton’s old fashioned she’d make with a dash of black sugar syrup, or the Booker's Manhattan she’d age in a tiny cedar barrel behind the bar. She’s sketched recipes on napkins, tested ratios on slow Tuesdays, and once let me try a cask-strength Stagg highball that made me see God.
She doesn’t complain. She just works with what she’s got, turning mid-shelf into miracles. But give her a real arsenal—Blanton’s, Stagg, Russell’s Reserve Single Barrel, maybe a Pappy 15 for special nights—and Clara wouldn’t just shine. She’d burn the place down in the best way.
Jay’s Kitchen is lucky to have her. But Clara deserves better than a backbar that clips her wings. Four stars for now, but if they ever stock the bourbon she needs? Five stars won’t be enough.
Come for the highballs. Stay for Clara.
I have returned since my first visit and the lunch menu is much better choice price wise. The pick two option is the best deal here. The salad with house made ginger dressing is the best I have had anywhere. I would highly recommend this place for your business lunch party's!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Everything is too expensive. The ramen tastes nothing like the ones in Japan. Tastes like chemicals. Sorry, just being honest. Staff is nice though.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 1
Service: 5
Japanese egg roles are smaller now
Service wasnt very good food was pretty good though I would say the food is reasonably priced
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 2
Loading...