This place is very very busy, but it's well worth the wait. I just wouldn't come here when you are ravenous, because the smells coming out of the kitchen will make you want to steal the food right out from under the other patrons.
The service is prompt, but since the food is served tapas style turnover can be a little slow. Here's a run down of what we had.
- skewers of chicken glizzards, chicken hearts, beef tongue, waygu beef
- osaka chan han
- osaka omlette, cheese mushroom pork belly
- vinegar mackeral
- clam sake soup
- fried chicken knuckles
- octopus balls
- japanese moutain yam with mentai
As you can tell there is a mountain of choice here and it's not your usual bento box and sushi. The vinegar mackeral and fried chicken knuckles were the instant hits, however the skewer of glizzard were the surprise of the night. The glizzards had intense chicken flavour and a very firm, but pleasant chew. I have no complaints about all the other dishes and it was definitely hard to pick just a few to talk about (this review would be chapters long if I did).
Izakaya Ju is definitely a solid pick, especially in Markham when all the other good izakayas are all downtown.