Japanese Restaurants in Rutland

“We absolutely love Tokyo house! We've never gotten a bad meal here. If you're expecting lightening service this isn't the place for you but it is always worth the wait“

“there food is so. good“

“As I have mentioned in the past (harp on even), dining out is about food AND vibes. The best thing I can say regarding the vibe at East Asian Cuisine is: bring your own. Because, WOW. Situation here is dire my friends. The woman at the host stand probably should consider a line of work other than one where you deal with the public. YIKES.

I arrived at about 1:30pm on a Wednesday, which is an “odd,” in between time. All I’m going to say is that East Asian Cuisine might want to consider taking a little time out between lunch and dinner service. Might potentially boost morale…

Anyhoo, there was a deserted, empty bar beside a dark and closed up sushi bar on the wall beyond the unwelcoming host stand. The TV was on at the bar, so I asked if I could sit there. No. Epically unhappy host began leading me across the large, center dining room, which had ALL THE LIGHTS TURNED OFF, to a row of booths along the opposite wall, where the lights were on, but not all the way up. Very dark. But! The front wall is all windows. Host began leading back into the darkest bowels, away from the windows and the light. I asked to sit near the windows where there was some light.

Oh. Wait. I forgot to mention that there were 2 other diners in the entire place. Multiple empty booths at the window…

She begrudgingly sat me at a booth with actual, natural light.

The menu is huge and has sushi and Japanese kitchen items, plus all the American Chinese food. Which is what I was there for! There are also lunch specials.

I decided to order two full sized items: Shrimp Pan Fried Noodles (mostly there are not really any descriptions on the menu, so I asked if it had veggies in it, my waiter assured me it did) and Eggplant with Garlic Sauce. Because I couldn’t resist. I. Love Eggplant.

Okay, legit? Portions are enormous. And I know from huge portions. LOL Snaps to my waiter for not trying to dissuade me from ordering way too much food. It is 100% my god given right as an American to over order when I dine out. Also definitely a personal goal of mine. Every time.

Food is GOOD here. Veggies are all fresh and perfectly cooked. Shrimp were HUGE and also perfectly cooked. The Eggplant was DELICIOUS.

Once you’ve got high quality ingredients (which they DO here with what I had!) the thing about Chinese American food is the sauces. Your sauces need to be delicious. I only had two, the Garlic Sauce (definitely delicious) and the sauce on the pan fried noodles (I’m not sure what it’s called, but it’s more on the sweet side). My only criticism is the sheer volume of sauce on those noodles. It was BONKERS. LOL The noodles were excellent, but they’re fried crispy and then someone poured like half a gallon of sauce on them, so they were swimming and losing the crispy. Which forced me to eat them as fast as I possibly could. Honestly not the best approach. Still fun tho.

Obviously, maybe, I could not finish the Eggplant in Garlic Sauce at lunch. But I did about 6 hours later at my kitchen island…“