I had heard plenty of good feedback on this Japanese restaurant in San Francisco near the Golden Gate park so I thought I’d try it out while visiting.
1283 9th Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94122
They have sushi and noodle soups so we tried a bit of both worlds. I didn’t write down the price of each dish but the total (two noodle soups, the two small salads that came with them and a plate of sushi) was 26.70 dollars total. The nearest soup is a Shoyu Ramen (soba), I forget exactly what the other was (was udon, though):
They came with two small salads:
And the plate of sushi was called “Cherry Blossom”:
Overall, I really wasn’t very impressed. I mean, the soups and sushi were about the same level, pretty decent for an “exported” Japanese restaurant, but I found the whole experience fairly unauthentic and while I wouldn’t have expected more from an average Japanese restaurant that I’d walked into half-randomly, that one had been recommended to me as one of the best in town. In that respect, it was clearly disappointing. As a side note, it was pretty crowded and we had to wait for half an hour in a queue, so it all pretty much fell flat. Apart from that, a very fair quality / price ratio for an average Japanese restaurant outside of Japan.
