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| - I want to start off by saying that this is the first Japanese restaurant here in vegas where I have seen "fake food" (food sample displays) displayed in front of the restaurant. You see it often in California.
This place took over izakaya cocokala and has been open since April of this year. Indoor now mimicks that of an open kitchen much like most places that feature homemade noodles.
This place is great for lunch time; combos are pretty filling and reasonable.
We both got the cold udon with broth with mentaiko and kitsune, mine was a mini. I got the pork bowl since they didn't have shrimp for the tempura bowl and my partner got the salmon poke bowl. For dessert we got the Japanese ice cream sandwich
-The pork bowl was bomb and i was glad I ended up having to choose it. The pork was suuuuper tender. I'm pretty sure it's kakuni, braised pork belly. The sweet soy sauce was not too sweet like teriyaki sweet and it tasted more on the savory side.
-salmon poke bowl wasn't that great, the cubed pieces of salmon were tiny! As in 1 cm cube small! It didn't come with much either. Salmon was good though, fatty and fresh. It comes as a rice bowl. I wasn't fond of the sauce.
-cold udon was refreshing and average but tasted on the salty side; this was without mixing the mentaiko into the soup. The kitsune fried tofu was seasoned so nicely, loved it. I wasn't too crazy about the noodles, being homemade, they were just okay to me but I'm like that with udon. I would prefer cold udon/soba at another location.
-the daily salad was the least fav of the meal. It was seasoned seaweed with tons of sesame seeds and lotus chips. I couldn't eat it but the bf did not like it
-ice cream sandwich
I was expecting bread lol but this sandwich was comprised of two pancakes! I was definitely surprised, you need utensils for this one. In between was a scoop of vanilla and a scoop if green tea ice cream. The green tea ice cream was quite bitter, but it was a good balance to the vanilla. Overall it was more than enough for two to share.
We had two servers that waited on our tables and the Japanese lady seemed inexperienced but very nice! I asked for no sesame seeds and green onions but my food came out with both lol.. I still ate it without complain. The daily salad also came out after all our food was served.
Service, though it was not busy, was quite slow like when we were waiting to order. Food took a while as well especially the dessert which was peculiar. No refills were offered/made ):
I'm sure service will improve the next we come at least I hope. We weren't in a rush today but sometimes the wait can get a little frustrating when you don't expect it especially at a place dishing out noodles and bowls. I can say that I prefer this place over Monzo
We'll be back to try the fusion noodles for sure!
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