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| - With so many izakaya places in town, this is probably my least favorite. Selections are not as big as other places and they were even out of a few things on the menu when we went.
First of all.. maybe it's a bad day at the restaurant, but they have to get their AC fixed! My friend and I were literally sweating while eating our dinner. The server saw me faning with my menu, she was kind enough to move us to another table with a better location with the ac. We did feel the air move at the new table (one of the booths), but the air was not cold and minimal. That made the dining experience not very enjoyable if I had to wipe my forehead while eating...and I wasn't in Asia eating street food.
Service was great, with 4 or 5 servers in the little restaurant, they were all very nice and come refill your drinks and take away your plates.
Food is ok. Solid 3.5 stars. The chicken thigh skewers were perfectly grilled; the pizza one...well, guess it's our fault to order pizza skewer at a Japanese place; chicken wing was meaty and nicely flavored; grilled whole squid was done perfectly, not too charred to make it ika jerkey, just the right amount. I wish they give you more ground ginger on the side (like Ichiza does) instead of more of that mayo sauce.
Tried 2 cold dishes, the sashimi carpaccio and their version of tuna tataki. Sashimi carpaccio is 2 stars at its best. It's a combo of halibut and salmon, I think they dressed it with some kind of oil on top instead of just ponzu type of dressings.. it made it pretty oily for my taste, especially the salmon was already a belly cut with extra fat. And again, didn't feel the dish to be very refreshing because it wasn't very cold... again, maybe I was just hot from the lack of AC in the restaurant. Seared tuna tataki was much better, with a huge amount of red onions on top, although flavors were great and the right amount of dressing, wish the star of the dish would be more of tuna itself instead of red onions. It's hard to find the tuna under the huge pile of onions. Needless to say, both cold dishes were not my favorite of the meal.
Chicken karaage... I think they need to cut the pieces smaller, either bite or 2-bite size like other izakaya places. They were huge pieces, 4 in an order, I felt like I was eating the chicken tenders from Cane's. Although flavors and breading were pretty good, the size was just way too big and made it kind of gross... I had to double check every bite to make sure the inside of the chicken was fully cooked since the pieces were huge.
Dessert: They didn't have the matcha soft cream, I was looking forward to try it. Tried their Honey Toast because who doesn't love some Honey Toast, right? Who knew you can screw up honey toast. It was overly sweet....not sure if they were using extra honey or bad kind of honey, it's too sweet for my taste. And they had to dust powder sugar on top to make it "prettier?", like it's not sweet enough, we need extra sugar on top. The vanilla ice cream was probably a very cheap kind... it's SO WHITE, like hospital white and not very natural taste. So, definitely would not order honey toast if I ever come back here.
Overall, it was a decent meal, most dishes were tasty, but nothing memorable. My friend and I love Japanese food so was really looking forward to try this new spot. Unfortunately I don't think I'd want to come back here. With their limited selections of izakaya and overall taste of the food, i know I'll have much better experience at other places, unfortunately.
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