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| - Saw pictures of this place via Instagram and I had to make my way to get me some katsu!
Located on 33rd SW, the restaurant is in Richmond shopping mall but I had no idea that this is what the strip mall area was called. We parked on the street directly in front of the restaurant as we did not see any designated parking areas and did not want to get towed/ticketed in case the parking lot was private.
The restaurant is small and homey, and has lots of cute little decorations. It was basically empty when I visited, but I predict that once people hear about it more, it will fill up and reservations may be a good idea as there is limited seating. We made resos to be safe and they had our table set up for us upon arrival.
Service was great with lots of friendly servers who offered help if needed.
We ordered a variety of dishes to get a taste of everything; lotus root salad, tenderloin katsu, cheese katsu, okonomi katsu, potato croquette with curry, kitsune udon, and the cream curry udon. All the mains were served with a side of rice, salad, and miso. The menu is simply laid out with pictures.
My favourite dish here was the tenderloin katsu - the meat was definitely much tender than the meat used in the okonomi katsu and the cheese katsu. For visual purposes, the cheese katsu looks very impressive but being the priciest item on the menu, I was not extremely wowed. The cream curry udon was interesting with the cream potato on top, and I would have loved this dish if it was served piping hot instead of lukewarm. The potato croquette and curry was also a good dish, and I thought it was a good amount of food and good value. The kitsune udon was good but nothing to write home about. I enjoyed the salad and the dressing which seemed like a homemade dressing with yuzu.
If I had any advice for the restaurant, I would love it if they could step it up and serve all the food hotter. Not sure if everything just cooled down while waiting to get everything together, but nothing was "wow-this-just-came-out-of-the-fryer" hot. I think the udon dishes, especially, would taste much better if they were served hot. I took a star off my rating for this, but hope it can be easily fixed in the future and the place would be a full 5/5.
TLDR? Parking in front, they take resos, best dish was the tenderloin katsu and overall really good! Try this place out if you have an urge for delicious deep fried goodness :)
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