Top Japanese Restaurant in Cerritos
Sake2Me Sushi - Cerritos
11454 South St, Cerritos, CA 90703, United States
This place is busy but if you use Yelp to reserve on the waitlist it’s not bad at all. I was really looking forward to this place after the raving reviews. Services were above average. A good range of food options, no soft shell crabs and raw shrimps and tea costs $3.50/pp. Lunch was $31.99 or $32.99 I forgot.I only gave it 3 star because the quality was fish was meh. I am not used to AYCE but both my partner concluded that we prefer to dine at finer restaurants next time since the bill came out to be about the same from other more authentic Japanese restaurants. ($90 after tax and tips including tea).
Kabuki Japanese Restaurant
11431 South St, Cerritos, CA 90703, United States
I dont know how to tell you this, but........Ive got crabs! Ive got crabs! And, its all good :)BIRTHDAY MONTH=BIRTHDAY COUPONS=HAPPY RODNEY$15 credt on the Red Mask card.By crabs, I meant the the softshell crab appetizer.Crunchy, decadent crab. Couldve sworn there was more crab last year. Nevertheless, yummy & delightful. A bit on the oily side, though.Yellowtail roll.Simple but effective. Sweet, clean-tasting yellowtail in a roll. All those omega-3s turn me on. Smear a lil wasabi on it, along with a soysauce dip - its a beautiful thing.I like how soy sauce is now in these waste reducing bottles. Waste not, want not.Service was good & the ball games were on the TVs. Music was random as I heard everything from KrissKross to Taylor Swift.Parking can be hard to come by, so you may have to walk a bit.Recommend!NOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM
Gyu-Kaku Japanese BBQ
11324 South St, Cerritos, CA 90703, United States
Love this place, when I was here I was planning my next trip already!... Fun idea and perfect for all occasions. Parking in rear if front parking is crowded. Seconds away from the 605 freeway. Decor is nice and calm inside. Seems like it can get crowded fast maybe a reservation is the best way to go! Japanese Restaurant??.... Who knew I would actual like it?... The idea I cooked the food made it so much more enjoyable for me. I havent ate Chinese or Japanese in a few years. #Good Eats!
Katana-Ya
10544 San Pablo Ave, El Cerrito, CA 94530, United States
This Japanese restaurant has been running in El cerrito for years and is one of those establishments that all locals know about and go to. The restaurant is located within a small shopping center and is next to a popular Japanese grocery store. The food at Katana-ya is good and flavorful. They have a variety of Japanese dishes from noodles, rice, sushi, and sashimi. The menu is extensive and has actually been reduced down to a more manageable selection. This time we came here with the family for a Friday night dinner to celebrate the start of the weekend and to take the kids out since we didnt go out anywhere for summer break. We started with a chicken Karaage which had a nice crunchy outside and a soft tender inside with lots of flavor coating. There was a plum sauce to accompany the dish as well and it gave the chicken a nice tangy taste to cut the fried taste a bit. All of our entrees came with a salad and Miso soup. The salad was delicious and fresh with a really nice mayonnaise based dressing. The Miso soup was flavorful but a bit salty for my taste. For my main dish I ordered a Katsu-Jyu which is a deep fried pork cutlet over rice with a dashi sauce and egg over rice. It came with a potato croquette and a little dish of pickled vegetables. The Katsu-jyu was good and savory. The pork cutlery was tender and went well with the egg and rice. The marinated carrots that had the dashi sauce was a bit salty. We also had beef sukiyaki which looked like it had vegetables, glass noodles, beef and some other ingredients all cooked in a flavorful soupy sauce. My son had the beef udon which came in a nice cast iron pot. I didnt try it but he said it was really good. My daughter who has an expensive taste ordered the sushi and sashimi dinner set. Im guessing it was pretty good because she ate the whole thing.Overall the food was good. The service was excellent and the wait staff were very attentive. The atmosphere was really nice, calm with a touch of cozy warmth and relaxing instrumental music piping from the speakers. I would recommend this place for a nice quiet japanese meal.
Nori Roll
10178 San Pablo Ave, El Cerrito, CA 94530, United States
Nori Roll,Tonight I made an Uber Eats order for my hungry wife whos nursing our 6 month old baby at 5:44. The estimated delivery was 7:07. At 8:30, the order still hadnt arrived and there was no update of any sort. They didnt give clarity whether the order was forgotten on the restaurants end, your end, but I hope that you will switch services from Uber Eats for the following reason:After calling customer service to check the order, we were told the order was cancelled and despite my wife and I hungrily waiting for three hours, customer services advice was to reorder through Uber Eats and sorry for the inconvenience. After speaking with the supervisor, we were told that we could receive a refund of the delivery fee on our reorder, but to receive that refund of a few dollar delivery fee, we would have to call customer service back. The lack of value of the customer experience was frankly shocking and the inability to offer more than a few dollars for the low quality experience, waste of our time, and barrier to even accessing a few dollar delivery fee refund was insulting.
Umaya Ramen
11318 South St, Cerritos, CA 90703, United States
One of the worst Japanese Bar/Restaurants I have been in.Service is the only reason I gave them 1 star.1. Ordered Spicy Garlic Edamame as an appetizer. The edamame arrived smelling like burned, is because was burned, on top they added this mix of garlic/chili pepper powder to the already dry and burned edamame. I should have taken a picture. Just tried 1 and it was so bad tasted like frozen/burned. just told the guy you can take that away. He probably didnt understand me, because he left it there.2. Ordered their famous Umaya Ramen there was no texture or any presentation which really should have looked like the pictures from the menu, they placed a thin plastic spoon on top, I guess they thought (white guy, alone looks kind a distracted, lets give him our left overs). The noodles were fine even though the amount was not even half of the bowl, the broth tasted alright, I think the best part was the boiled egg, but when I looked for the pork tonkotsu I was impressed. If you have seen Gordon Ramsey from one of his episodes where he stands his meal a pork chop in the table it was almost the same, this tonkotsu was frozen and I am sure they just defrost it in the microwave and dumped it in the ramen. If I have eaten that I am sure could be sick in less than 1 hour. Now I remember the reason why I prefer to cook at my place. I hope they get fine for risking people health.Total lost $25 ($7 edamame and $15.50 ramen + Tax). First and last time coming to this place. Good Luck
Yasai
12751 Towne Center Dr, Cerritos, CA 90703, United States
0n 2023-02-05Its still an amazing store. Also, the stores policy is to stay ahead of the times. The level of satisfaction is high. This is a highly recommended restaurant if you are in the area.---Even now, it is a Tremendous Shop just like Before. Then their Restaurant Policy is Ahead of Trend. You get Satisfaction on High Percentages.When you are around this Area, I really Recommend this Small Restaurant. ^^On 08/04/2022This Restaurant is very Good for Taste and Quantity. My Order was for TO-GO so I didnt note its Volume!! I ordered Beef Teriyaki Plate. When I opened a Box at Home, I was very Surprised because there was a very BIG QUANTITY TWO KIND of SALADS!! And also, they prepared a VEGGIE SKEWER!! Then I should write that they SERVE COLD, CRISPY, & FRESH SALAD!!About Beef Teriyaki, I ordered Separated Teriyaki Sauce because I would eat Later. Even without Sauce, Beef was Marinated very Well so Meat has Taste. I hope A LITTLE MORE JUICY it was the PERFECT!! However, I am really satisfied with this Restaurant, Yasai. It means Vegetables in Japanese. I can find very a Nice Restaurant from Google Maps Information!!---Surprised ?!! ️ Its so good!! It was a shop that felt like ️. The dish was satisfying in both taste and quantity.
Yoshiharu Ramen
11533 South St, Cerritos, CA 90703, United States
Let me begin by saying this is the second time that I have been at this restaurant. The first time was amazing. This time it was so horrible that I will not be going back and will be advising others to stay away a from this place.The hostess/waitress was great, very sweet and I can tell she was over worked. This issue was with the timing. Firstly, all people at a table should receive their food at the same time, give or take a few minutes. There should not be 30 minutes in between each plate! I was on the side where I could see the chefs moving. There was no communication between anyone. The sushi chef took 30 minutes to deliver 4 plates. 3 of which were from a table that was there long before my table. Im watching the sushi chef and he has the menu! He doesnt even know what hes making! He shouldnt be left alone on a busy Friday night if he doesnt remember menu items. To top it off, he wasnt even wearing gloves, which I didnt even notice till I was halfway through eating my rolls!My partners food was all cold by the time my rolls came out, the waitress apologized and said they only had one sushi chef. Staff appropriately for the day, and dont but the slowest person on the busiest night. Thats basic restaurant management. They MICROWAVED my partners food! We didnt dare ask it to be made again, we wouldve been there for hours.So disappointing, dont come here. Avoid at all costs on weekend nights.
Sushi Sho
10749 San Pablo Ave, El Cerrito, CA 94530, United States
Sushi Sho was always my favorite place for sushi when they were located on upper Solano Avenue. I have not visited their new location, which opened after a long pause in between., as I have moved away from the Bay Area. Aki-san is a master sushi chef, albeit a bit eccentric, and will not settle for anything less than the best quality and dining experience. As he is the only chef preparing food at the counter (with his wife helping out with other chores), Aki-san would rather turn away customers than have them waiting too long. This is why you may see empty spots and yet be turned away. But believe me, you will not find better, fresher fish more expertly prepared sushi and sashimi than with Aki-san. Two dishes that stand out, beside all the others, are the Usuzukuri sashimi and the Chawan mushi, a custard with bits of fish and a ginko nut, and probably the best one Ive ever had. Lastly, if you ask nicely, you can probably get tamaki (hand roll) sushi, even though it isnt on the menu. Sushi-sho is about enjoying the intimate experience (and the food, of course). You will not find another place like this anywhere.
Yoshio Sushi
10889 San Pablo Ave, El Cerrito, CA 94530, United States
Very nice Japanese sushi restaurant with a cozy warm atmosphere. The restaurant is not very big and only holds a few tables but the waiting didnt take too long. We went on a Saturday night at about 8:30 closer to 9pm and it wasnt that busy. We waited perhaps 15 minutes before we got a table for a party of five. The menu had all your standards plus some others so its never going to be boring, as you can always come back and order something different. We ordered the signature Yoshio roll, The El Cerrito roll, a Natto Maki roll, kaarage chicken, dinner combo set with california rolls and sahimi, and beef udon soup. The rolls were good and very fresh. I liked that the rice was not hard and had that fresh taste and seasoning. I loved the chicken kaarage. It was super crunchy and soft with tons of flavor. I highly recommend getting this. The beef Udon was good too but I only took a small sampling of a vegetable since my son doesnt like to eat it. The prices on the food were pretty fair and much better than buying our usual small trays of sushi from yaoya-san, which arent as fresh and are much smaller in size and quantity.One of the great things about this restaurant is that they open until midnight, so you can get a great bite to eat in the middle of the night. We did experience one negative which was the easier forgot my order as I watched everyone getting theirs and almost finishing I asked the what if my order was coming soon and he went to check and said it wasnt put in the check.... but the good thing is that within 5 minutes he brought me my roll that he asked the sushi chef to expedite for me.Overall, we will be coming back again to eat here. So far, this is one of our favorite spots for sushi.9/30/23 update. Went here at 9pm for late night Saturday dinner. Only waited a few minutes while the staff cleaned a table for us. The waiter was very nice and attentive. We ordered our usual chicken Kaarage, teriyaki beef udon, dinner set, Yoshio signature roll, sukiyaki, and s California rolls. Good was good and going. Happy to keep coming back here.12/16/23Came here to have dinner at our favorite local sushi place. This place is great as always. Tonight, we waited less than 10 minutes to get a seat. Service was fast and the dishes were coming in fast as well. Food was tasty and fresh .2/23/24 update: End of Presidents holiday week treat for the kids and a day of hard yard work. Ordered a White Tiger sushi roll and the rest of the family ordered the same stuff as before. The White Tiger took was really good and came in a bit warm since the tuna was grilled. The rice was fresh and the shrimp tempura in the middle was crunchy and delicious. The whole thing was delicious with the sauce they put on.One thing to add as a precaution. When we received our bill, we noticed that they automatically added a 15% service charge to the bill. If we didnt notice it, we would have paid another 15% on top, not knowing that it was already added. They should put up notices telling people of the optional charge. This automatic charge put a sour taste in my mouth...