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Food : 5/5 Price : 5/5 Service : 5/5 Ishoni Yakiniku is definitely one of my favorite place for good Wagyu. It is hard to find Japanese Wagyu in the states due to trades and what not. Ishoni does not disappoint with good Wagyu selections. The A5 Ribeye is probably my favorite thing to get. Granted, it is not for single person consumption, but man, it is just amazing! 100% recommend sharing that with at least 1 other person. The fat that melts in your mouth in such sweetness, it is awesome! The cow tongue, great tenderness, and excellent flavor. Honestly, one of the best Japanese restaurant around town. As mentioned, it is hard to find real Japanese Wagyu in the states, the price is honestly very good. It definitely is not as great as if you were at Japan, but still not a bad price point for having the experience here on the state side. The A5 is certainly the most expensive thing on the menu rating at $160/lb or $10/oz. The last 4 times I’ve been there, they were roughly 10 oz cut at most. The staff is always friendly, and relatively fast. Considering there only about 8 grill going at any given time, staff is able to pay closer attention to everyone. There is a time limit which IIRC is 90 minutes. However, unless you’re in an Izakaya in Japan, once you’re done eating, you leave. The location is a little small, but that’s okay that it’s similar to lot of shops in Japan as well. 100% recommend Ishoni!

Okuda New York – Menu with Prices – 458 W 17th St, New York

Congratulations to Chef Okuda for the Michelin star 2019, the restaurant definitely worths the prize, a very solid 5-star. It’s definitely one of the best Kaiseki in town. The spot located in Chelsea, where the atmosphere is elegant, the place is clean and quiet. All the settings are exactly the same as those authentic Japanese Kaiseki places I’ve been to when I visited Japan. Side topic, the waitresses wearing kimonos, very professional and traditional! Okuda offers the 8-course Omakase, with extra appetizers, desserts and soups. Starting from two appetizers, monk fish with fluke and lobster with scallop, I’ve never had this kind of dish before, I conceive them as innovative, that also incorporate some western high-end restaurant features. Then comes the snapper soup, with raddish, fresh and yummy. Another highlight is the sashimi plate Okuda offers, my favorite – Japanese squid with salt which you can feel a little stickiness and softness, so nice!! The other yellowtail sashimi is also terrific (with three pieces!!) The last part is the authentic Japanese Kaiseki dishes, such as rice topped with fish, Golden eye snapper with sweet potato and ginger, Shabushabu with Wagyu, oyster rice. Admittedly, all are awesome! The best dish must be the hairy crab with Hokkaido uni, the crab meat together with sea urchin, the most wonderful thing in the world. All the seafood they offer are fresh and directly from Japan, love that. For desserts, Japanese strawberry and milk ice cream are offered. The strawberry is sweet and juicy Asian strawberry, reminds me of the fruits I had when I was in Asia. If you want to experience the real Japanese Kaiseki in town, then JUST GO THERE! You will never regret the experience, and it’s absolutely real Japan style.

Takohachi Japanese Restaurant Menu with Prices 3249 Columbia Pike, Arlington

Little about me: I’m Japanese American who speaks the language and cooks Japanese food at home. I rarely review Japanese restaurant since many places don’t serve traditional Japanese cuisine, and when restaurant is authentic, a lot of the time it is hard for me to take my two very young kids along to eat since they are considered “high end” and kids are not really welcomed. Owner of Takohachi also owns the Japanese style yakiniku shop Satsuma, in Bethesda. Satsuma has been a great addition to DC area’s Japanese community and everyone was excited when it opened up. So we were equally excited to have a new restaurant by the same owner opening up in NoVA, and our family has been frequenting here since the opening. Takohachi is not a yakiniku place (sorry if I lead you on). But they do have the famous dollar a piece sushi and a pretty good ramen, which my son loves. And menu has been well thought out and are reasonably priced. Especially the lunch time menu has a great price point! Many items on the menu are typical Japanese food that everybody eats in Japan. But what’s important is that they are done right. My family tends to do rolls and sushi plus couple of small plates here, but for the full Japanese meal experience, try foods like tonkatsu, chicken karaage, nasu dengaku, and also the specials they have. Oh and do try desserts too! The house made sweets are awesome. If you have kids, this restaurant is spacious enough for you to roll in with a baby stroller (as long as it’s not crowded) and that is something I LOVE. There is high chair and the bathroom is pretty clean. Parking is free too. To be fair, yes you can get a better sushi somewhere else. But you will be paying A LOT MORE. I take this quality and price any day. And yes, there are other ramen shops out there that may serve something better, but again the price! I think the restaurant has something for everyone, since they do offer a lot of “typical” Japanese food people expect, though I hope people will try something new rather than settle with chicken teriyaki or eel donburi. If you want to go to a Japanese food place that is authentic, without the huge price tag, Takohachi is the place to go. Order something new and experience “home style” cooking of Japan ?

The Lonely Pine Steakhouse – Menu with Prices – 6085 Montgomery Rd, Cincinnati

Want great steaks, a casual atmosphere and prices that won’t break the bank? Then this is your steak place and you should check it out ASAP. We went to dinner around 6 pm on a Friday night. Though they do not take reservations we were able to be seated immediately. The service was great along with an inviting atmosphere. Now let me get to my favorite part… the food! We ordered a 16 oz Cowboy with mushroom and garlic butter, 8 oz Ohio Wagyu fillet, potatoes, seasonal vegetables, bread basket with tallow-butter curd, 1 large scoop of Aglamesis Bros Banana Chip Ice cream and the Triple Citrus Crème Brûlée. Everything tasted fantastic and I couldn’t stop thinking about my Wagyu fillet. I felt like I was flying and in an emotional state of pure bliss!! Only fantastic steaks make me feel this way, so yes, it WAS DELICIOUS! The Cowboy was a flavor bomb, dry aged for 30 days and cooked to perfection. The Ohio Wagyu tasted as expected; tender, lean and wonderful. If you are a garlic or mushroom fan, I recommend to pay the $3 extra dollars for these butters. Definitely worth the calories. As for everything else we tried, they were great. The other big highlight was the ice cream. It tasted like a frozen chocolate banana (one of my favorite desserts). Honestly, this was one of the best scoops of ice cream I have ever tried. If you’ve never tried Aglamesis Bros ice cream, you must order this as dessert. With all of this food, our meal came out to be around $80 dollars per person. However, we splurged on this meal. If you come here and order a side with two steak entrees you can easily lower this cost to around 40-50 dollars per person depending on what you order. The 8 oz Wagu fillet was only $29 dollars! Come here and enjoy yourself without worrying about making this a formal affair, while still being able to enjoy quality food.

Kappo Sui Restaurant – Menu with Prices – 20070 Santa Ana Ave, Costa Mesa

This place has the best authentic Japanese food I’ve had in years. Years. It’s the kind of place a homesick Japanese person could visit and break down crying. For this reason it’s worth getting a reservation, and worth the extra pennies. The menu had many dishes I haven’t seen since I lived in Japan. I ordered komatsuna with atsuage, a spinach-like leafy vegetable with pre-fried tofu splashed with bonito broth seasoning and topped with finely cut nori. Just seeing it nestled in an assymetrical leaf-shaped dish made me happy. My spouse ordered eggplant simmered with duck. Both dishes were prepared carefully, and tasted just like what you’d get in Japan. Bonito, soy sauce, sugar, but not overpowering the flavors of the meats and vegetables. These are the kinds of dishes Japanese businesspeople might order with alcohol for an informal meeting. Our party also ordered a shrimp pancake served with tartar sauce, vegetable tempura, udon, and sushi. The tempura had a slightly heavier batter than what you might find at a tempura-ya in Japan, but lighter than most other Japanese restaurants in the US. They included authentic ingredients such as a green shiso leaf and fresh lotus root, old friends I don’t get to see often. The sushi was amazing. The fish, crab, etc. burst with flavor and melted like butter in my mouth. And the rice was perfectly cooked. It held together as either nigiri or maki, and even odd individual grains left in the soy sauce were delicious. (This is pretty rare.) This is a special place I would take a friend who really knows Japanese food, or who wants to learn about what people in Japan eat. If I make it back next time I’m in town, I’d love to order mozuku (seaweed), grilled mackerel, and other items on the menu.

Bento Sushi – Menu with Prices – 155 Clarke Rd, London

ol so if youre in the east end and want sushi this is like a tiny japanese restaurant in a grocery store but WOW that rice be puffy and perfect. i ate the family size

Gyu-Kaku Japanese BBQ Menu with Prices 14506 NE 20th St #2, Bellevue

Worst Gyu-Kaku service I’ve ever been to. I’ve been to Gyu-Kaku in Japan, Hawaii, and Orlando. The 2-star rating is for the service and the price- not the food. The food was excellent. It didn’t stray away from Japan’s yakiniku. Obviously, Japan’s is the original and therefore will always be better. However, the food was still delicious here. We made reservations for my birthday here for a party of 11. We ordered the “Shogun” (it says it’s good for 6 people), so we ordered two sets of those to cover for the amount of people we had in our party. We ended up having two servers for the night. Our original server kept forgetting to come back to give the rest of our party what he came back to serve. First, it was the water- he came with eight glasses. He said he would come back for the other three, but we ended up asking another person. He did it again with our hot teas that we ordered and with the miso soup. The food was also slow to come out from the back kitchen, which we don’t understand because it’s not like they had to cook it for us. There were LONG pauses in between each appetizer and meat servings… my family and I were getting hungrier and hungrier by the minute. Each serving size was not really enough for 11 of us. We each received one or two pieces for each meat type of the Shogun. After our third meat, the servers randomly switched, which we thought was SO inconsistent and inconvenient. Our new server apologized and said the other guy clocked out. Like. What the heck? Who does that? Who says that to customers? He came out with our fourth type of meat. Then he said, “That’s all you ordered right?” I was like…… uhhh wtf no! We ordered TWO Shoguns! We were still missing more meats… and vegetables! He said, “Oh. Let me double check.” Ugh. Lack of communication between the employees there. It was really horrible. The waiting, the service, OH and they told us that they were out of filet minon so they substituted it with prime New York steak. I don’t know how prices work when it comes to meat, but I really hope they’re comparable cause that’s messed up on how much we were spending to get the lack of quality service for everything we were already experiencing. Also, tip: Ask the customers if they want their vegetables before the meat. My family didn’t like how the vegetables were served last after all the meat; it didn’t make any sense to us. Also, Four/Five of us downloaded the Gyu-Kaku app to redeem a free meat order. It’s too bad our server only said we could redeem one person’s rewards. I mean. There was twelve of us. Why not?! It was my birthday too anyway. Just beware to everyone else trying to do the same! Stingy service. Gyu-Kaku in Bellevue, your employees need to take a trip to Japan and learn what customer service truly means. I’ve lived in Japan, so I feel that the service here (at a Japanese restaurant originating FROM JAPAN), is a disgrace to the country. Don’t know if I’ll be coming back after that. It’s too bad there’s only one Gyu-Kaku in Washington state.

California Roll & Grill – Menu with Prices – 1725 Santa Clara Dr #105, Roseville

On Friday accompanied with my boyfriend, we came for dinner. I ordered the Beef Teriyaki/Gyoza Bento Box which comes with fresh tasty orange slices, a Green Salad with House Dressing and Miso Soup. The sweet teriyaki sauce against very flavorful beef soaked into white rice was a delectable combination and the gyoza was delicious as well! The salad paired with their dressing was so good and creamy I asked the waitress what’s in it, but I think she couldn’t tell me because it’s a secret recipe. The miso soup had a nice amount of soft tofu and the broth was delicious and warming to sip! The portions were large and I had to ask for a to-go box, because I was stuffed! My toddler really enjoyed my leftovers I brought home! * A brief history of Gyoza(Japanese pronunciation jiaozi) Theirs a reason why potstickers which have a history of their own, look similar to gyoza. When Japan invaded China in the 1930’s the Japanese soldiers learned from the Chinese how to make the jiaozi dumpling, being frequently exposed to the food with it’s widespread popularity there. When they arrived back to Japan in the 1940’s they taught their families how to make them and they eventually became a national food with some minor changes to the dish! I would recommend dining at this Japanese restaurant known for their of course California Rolls and Bento Boxes, I know I’ll be back to try their secret menu!

Yoshida Express Menu with Prices 611 Tunnel Rd, Asheville

My teenage son who loves Japanese food asked me if we could find somewhere in Asheville to grab Japanese so we stopped in at Yoshida Ex. We usually eat at Kobe in Waynesville which I highly recommend. I ordered what I usually order from Kobe here at Yoshida only to be made to feel like a fool by the guy at the register smugly taking our order. Literally made fun of me for thinking that I would get mushrooms with my hibachi steak and I told him I had gotten mixed up with how Kobe makes hibachi and then he laughed and made fun of me for how I pronounced Kobe saying it’s pronounced Ko-Bay and that it’s not Japanese but Chinese food (he was wrong) this is my experience of this restaurant up to this point and I haven’t even seen my food yet and quite honestly don’t even want to. We ended up not walking out the door after being disrespected by this guy for no reason at all and we ate our meal. Roughly $12 per person. The next weekend we went to Ganko on Bleachery Blvd right down the road. We were welcomed with a very warm greeting by no less than 3 members of staff upon walking in. Super friendly table service at Ganko which Yoshida doesn’t offer, Yoshida sits your plate on the counter which is fine in itself if the service is friendly. I’m not an egotistical person and being treated like a king isn’t what I expect but being laughed at in front of my children while we’re trying to decide what to order is almost cause to get a flat nose, I will not be back to Yoshida ever. There’s too many other better options within a short drive.

Sushi Shibucho – Menu with Prices – 590 W 19th St, Costa Mesa

I moved to the neighborhood. Found Shibucho..was closed that evening. Made a point to go there. The counter was full so I got the table. Since I was ordering from table. Decided not to have nigiri sushi. Not the same when you order a plate of sushi combination. Comments. 1. They don’t have a waitress that understands Japanese food, she is efficient but no presence to seat or take orders. Just handed me a piece of paper and pen to fill in. 2. Water is not filtered well. Top Japanese restaurants have good filtered water. Affects everything., miso soup etc 3. Ordered chirashi sushi order. Price reasonable $21.00. Rice..not so great. Too mochi like. I.e. Heavy rice…Not enough rice vinegar. The fish on was ok. rice preparation is the basic measure of good sushi. 4. Ordered negi toro. But tekka maki ..but what I received was badly made tekka ..just maguro and rice rolled. $10.00. I was shocked…price was half of my chirashi and badly made. In Japan you could not serve like this. Sorry.. Because waitress not trained to understand Japanese food. Did not ask whether I wanted Japanese tea..older Latin lady. I will drive to Koi sushi or Shunka sushi for my sushi fix. Disappointed. Lastly..They knew I wanted the counter. As people left the counter. No offer for me to move ..

Yukashi Japanese Cuisine – Menu with Prices – 643a Mt Pleasant Rd, Toronto

Came to Yukashi for the 9-course omakase dinner. After reading the great reviews, I came with high expectations, but wow, everything from the food, atmosphere, to service surpassed my expectations and blew me away. I highly recommend booking a table at the bar to get the full experience seeing Chef Izutsu meticulously prepare his culinary masterpieces. He is truly a Japanese masterchef! Having been to numerous excellent omakase restaurants in the city, I would have to say Yukashi is in a league above. The o-toro I had here was the best I’ve ever had, even better than the one I had at Yasu and Zen, and on par with the best I’ve had in Japan. Chef Izutsu cuts the fish into cubes (kaku-zukuri) instead of traditional rectangular (hira-zukuri) slices to improve the texture and lets the fish warm up to room temperature to let the full flavour from the fat be accentuated. Even common dishes like chawanmuchi (steamed egg) and tempura, were elevated to be far more unique and sophisticated than what I’ve had at other omakase restaurants like Solo and Aoyama. The thinly sliced Miyazaki A5 wagyu beef served with uni and foie gras and freshly blow torched at the table is as decadent as it gets. The three ingredients harmoniously compliments each other so well, I can’t think of anything to add or change to make this dish better. This dish has enough fat and cholesterol to make my cardiologist frown, but if he tasted the dish, I’m sure he would understand. Although I thought the single slice of melon for dessert was a little basic and not in line with the rest of the intricate dishes, I was completely satisfied after tasting the sweetest melon I’ve ever had in my life. Chef Izutsu explained that he imports the melons from his Japan hometown. He explained how they cut all the melons from the tree except a single one to allow all the nutrients to be concentrated in that single melon, resulting in such an exquisite treat and undoubtably a very expensive melon. At $150 per person for the base omakase meal, it is slightly more expensive than other places. But given the quality of the ingredients used and the labour of love put into each dish, I would say this meal is a bargain. Although dinner lasted almost 3 hours, watching chef Izutsu work his magic made the time just fly by. What a dinner and show! After the meal, chef was gracious enough to share some stories from his past, entertaining us until the very end. One of the best omakase meals I’ve ever had! Will definitely be back!

Fill Bakeshop & Creamery – Menu with Prices – 1767 Newport Blvd, Costa Mesa

We were pretty excited to see that “ponde ringu” Mochi donuts we’re available in SoCal since it’s one of our favorite snacks in Japan, from Mister Donut. We did the hour drive down to Newport Beach to see what was up with these, and how it compares to Japanese Mister Donut. Overall they’re pretty dang close. They definitely captured the right amount of chewiness and overall didn’t taste too sweet (like Mister Donut). Fill has it’s own take by putting on different glaze toppings to give them unique flavors. The one thing I was missing from Fill is a simple glazed Mochi donut. Overall, while good, I didn’t think the various flavors were anything outstanding and that only made me wish they did a simple glazed even more. The highlight for me was the matcha-White chocolate, since I love most anything matcha and the icing they use def had a clear matcha flavor. I also liked the strawberry icing donut. Very strong strawberry flavor which was nice. My next favorite was the milk and cereal. This was the closest to a plain glazed and I suppose if you take off the bits of captain crunch it would be a plain glazed. The other flavors were fine (guava cheesecake, coffee and cream, coconut) but I probably would just stick to the other three if we’re down here again. The biggest difference to Mister Donut in japan is the cost. These donuts are 2.60 each ($33 for a dozen after tax – whoa!!!), Mister Donut is about 1.25 – $2 (for the fancy seasonal filled Mochi donut) but obviously if we’re not in Japan, Fill will give us our “fill” of tasty Mochi donuts. Worth checking out for sure if you’re homesick for Mister Donut ã?ã?³ã??ã?ªã?³ã?°

Angus Meat Market – Menu with Prices – 3742 Sepulveda Blvd, Torrance

I custom ordered some A5 Japanese Wagyu from them. OMG, best thing ever. Japanese rating system goes from C to A on meat quality, 1 to 5 marbling. A5 being the best. For reference, Kobe beef is generally starts at A3 to be considered Kobe. This meat is beyond heavenly. The store owner, nice Korean guy, was great. He gave me advice on how to best cook it, and talked to his butcher to make cut it in a certain way. I had it sliced thin, but thicker than a shabu shabu to survive the grill for 2 seconds, but thin enough to be shared as dessert meat with my friends, given how expensive A5 is. Doesn’t take much, just light salt, a quick sear on both sides, and a dab of real wasabi, this is easily the best beef I’ve ever eaten.