Yuraku Japanese Restaurant

Super slow service and rude server. Food was great

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 1

Cute place and the bento box beef teriyaki is amazing!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

After dining at Yuraku a dozen times over the past half year, I can say that every experience has been consistently top-notch. The karaage chicken appetizer is amazingly crispy and the slices in the chirashi are both generous and deliciously fresh.

I've brought business partners and loved ones here on multiple occasions and every visit has been a delectable delight.

Parking: Go up the street towards Nash and there's generally ample street parking.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Sushi & Sashimi Mix

Mushroom soup with NO MUSHROOMS is DIABOLICAL. I don’t even feel like going back to get mushrooms. I just won’t bother going back.

Food: 1

The portions are huuuge! The mushroom soup is savory and salty; very delicious. The miso is great, too (hot, salty, savory, comforting). It is in a lovely contrast to the salad they also serve (it’s gingery, peanut-y, cold, crunchy, refreshing).

The udon vegetable dish had amazing noodles and a yummy sauce, but some veggies were under/overcooked or bitter. Not the yummiest! Some were already cooled with the rest of the dish remaining quite hot. But it was okay because the truly enormous serving size made it very cost effective and the noodles/sauce were redeeming.

Dessert was soooo good and the portion again was crazy big! Gigantic servings here, y’all. Like easily one entree could feed 2 (certainly). Some could probably split it between 3 people. The raspberry whip cream was special.

It was really fun and scrumptious. I’m not usually big on fried things, but the fried ice cream was so good. The outside was crunchy, but some parts were soggy from the chocolate sauce (which personally I like!!) and the ice cream was good.

Our waitress was lovely! She said I looked like Luna from Harry Potter 🥰 She was very attentive and kind. Bubbly and easy to like. Great service!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: House Salad, Chicken Katsu

Portions are very, very generous. Chicken katsu is very good, but could have used more sauce and much more rice. Vegetables were a little bland. Highly recommend the snowy roll!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The food tasted fine last night, but there was a tiny piece of hard plastic in one of the rolls. I didn’t think much of it until this morning at 5am, when I started having stomach pain, and the worst food poisoning of my life.

Food: 1

Good sushi option for the neighborhood. Plenty of seating options.

Good quality fish and comes in a boat! Enjoyed the spicy Yellowtail, tuna avocado, hot fuzz, what a match, and sashimi salmon toro.
Must have : Tuna nachos are amazing!
Can skip - Gyoza: good but overly deep fried

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Our go to place for sushi in DC/DMV, if only I could give more stars. My wife and I have been here no less than 10 times in the last year, and have always been met with excellent food and outstanding service. My wife doesn’t eat much, so we usually like to order a few nigiris and share the omakase. The head chef is amazing in that he’ll split each sashimi/sushi serving in the omakase course in half so we can share it equally. They can also adjust the fishes served if you have any allergies or dietary restrictions. Our favorites here are the Japanese uni, scallop and madai. The ootoro and chuutoro are also exquisite and they make temakis with these cuts and a special poke sauce that are to die for.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Sushi & Sashimi Mix

Absolutely the WORST dining experience I’ve ever had. I came here with high hopes to celebrate my 3-year anniversary with my partner, and Yuraku completely ruined what should have been a special evening. The food was disgustingly unfresh—in a Japanese restaurant, where freshness is everything! How do you even mess that up?

The dishes were tasteless and borderline inedible. The moment I realized the food was bad, I wanted to walk out, but we stuck it out, hoping something would improve. Spoiler alert: it didn’t. Not the food, not the service, not the atmosphere—nothing!

This place is an absolute disgrace. Save yourself the disappointment and your money. I wouldn't wish this experience on anyone, especially on a day that’s supposed to mean something. Avoid Yuraku at all costs.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Very bad customer service

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Open late(r, compared to some others). Friendly staff. Good food.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Amazing service and really liked the sushi rolls!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Nice place and good price.

Loved the food, big portion of crispy pork katsu, and the sushi was so delicious. Got the fatty toro and the eel(?) dragon-like roll. Would come here again!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5