Top Japanese Restaurant in San Pablo
Kuriya Japanese Kitchen
809 San Pablo Ave, Albany, CA 94706, United States
Great new Japanese restaurant on San Pablo in Albany. We had dinner tonight and were seated immediately by a window. Service was prompt and friendly. We started with takoyaki and then enjoyed the black garlic ramen and tonkatsu curry. Delicious food well prepared. Nice pleasant and calm atmosphere. We highly recommend!
Silver Ocean Restaurant
3340 San Pablo Dam Rd suit F, San Pablo, CA 94803, United States
A solid Chinese / Japanese restaurant with reasonable prices. Everything we had was good, though I dont think that anything stood out as being exceptional. I would definitely reorder the lemon chicken which our picky eater enjoyed.
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.
Yo Sushi
1107 San Pablo Ave, Albany, CA 94706, United States
Excellent casual Japanese restaurant with very reasonable prices! You get more bang for your buck compared to sit-in restaurants of Japanese quality. There is no wait staff. You order your food at the counter and then go find a seat and it will be brought out to you.
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.
Happy Ramen and Sushi
1907 San Pablo Ave, Pinole, CA 94564, United States
Very good food. Very clean restaurant. Kind of on the expensive side, but you get what you pay for...Great Japanese fair.
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.
koi sushi
13501 San Pablo Ave suite h, San Pablo, CA 94806, United States
Probably the best Japanese restaurant in San Pablo, however, the waiter is umm...
Mujiri
6501 San Pablo Ave B, Oakland, CA 94608, United States
Japanese restaurant but no Japanese workers. But the flavor was way better than any Japanese restaurant. Highly recommended
Shinmai
1825-3 San Pablo Ave, Oakland, CA 94612, United States
A delightful, elegant, Japanese restaurant on San Pablo in downtown Oakland. This is a beautiful, sophisticated restaurant specializing in ramen. It also has delicious appetizers and very tasty cocktails. We had the oysters for appetizers as well as the fried chicken. We also had several versions of the ramen including one vegetarian and two tonkatsu, one spicy with duck confit. All were delicious. The desserts are an unexpected treat. Chocolate truffle and panna cotta.