What has happened to this place? Used to have a competent drinks service, and interesting mix of food at affordable prices. Maybe sticking to Happy Hour is the trick. But, sorry, we're done.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 1
John Osgood
I had not eaten sushi in a while and was excited to eat here. Only open twice a week, my friend and I were intrigued about this restaurant. The wait staff was pleasant. I ordered the unagi, gyoza, my friend had a ramen. The ramen looked good. My homie left stuffed. But, my sushi roll didn't stay together whichmade eating what ordered uneventful. If I am in the area again, I could see going there again if a the group i was with wanted to go there, but idk.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 3
Orion Rainer
My girlfriend and I have been here a few times but never did it end like this. The morning after eating the ramen from this place they were puking until there was only bile for 24 hours. The service is hit or miss over the phone and made my partner violently ill to the point of needing to go to the emergency room. DO NOT EAT HERE!!Wheelchair accessibility: It is not, the doors prevent anyone with mobility aids from entering this "resturant".
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Ana Meier
Disappointing overall, and expensive for what you get.The veggie ramen is mostly corn and cabbage, both inexpensive ingredients but somehow $17 without a protein—adding tofu is another cost and even adding spices that normally come free (chili oil and sriracha) cost $1 each.We ordered a vegetarian roll, which was missing avocado and also had some issues with service.Overall not a great experience, and there are much better places to dine nearby.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 2
Eisen Laucik
Tasty food and good service. There was a hiccup with our giftcard mag strip, which they were not going to accept, but I looked the card value up on line for proof of value, and all went well. Thanks to Manager Yuki!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Negihama and Spicy Hand Rolls, Roll
Dessie DiMino
Vegetarian options: Good veggie ramen and other veggie options
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
ben
Best Izakaya in Portland. I have been coming to this place for years. A small restaurant with friendly service and authentic, delicious food. I recommend sitting at the bar and ordering a couple items at a time while you enjoy some sake or a Kirin. The sake selection is very well curated.The ramen is fantastic, with house made noodles. If you want to try something unique get the salmon broth ramen, it’s incredible. Servings are quite large as well!I adore all their hot offerings, and the hand rolls are great. Not a huge selection of sushi, because it’s not really a sushi restaurant, it’s an izakaya.Please understand they have had to reduce hours and menu since the pandemic, struggling like many other local businesses. Hope to see them return to the full menu soon, so please support this Division Street staple. Enjoy!Vegetarian options: I really enjoy their vegetarian sushi options.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Chicken Karaage, Negihama and Spicy Hand Rolls, Tako Yaki, Butter Corn Ramen, Noodles
Adam S.
I managed to catch them while they were open once. And the food was good. But not, "catch them within the 10 hours per week they're open" good. Lots of other rock solid Izakaya's open normal hours.
Hiley Lynn
Got ramen for takeout, got home 5 minutes later open the bag, the egg is wrapped in plastic wrap, cold and unseasoned, the noodles were in a sandwich bag, again cold. And the broth was lukewarm in a plastic tub, why not just but everything in the tub??
Danielle Long
Not surprised to see they fired their entire staff without warning since I worked at the downtown location in 2016 and certainly didn’t have the best experience.Either way though this place used to be delicious. Post-pandemic they lost all the grilled skewers and replaced the house made beef bo-gyoza with generic frozen gyoza. Now they’ve gotten rid of the chicken paitan ramen and it seems like their house made noodles as well. Even the egg is just a regular hard boiled egg now. The frenchy roll is still really good but it’s not enough to get me to come back.
I'm a single parent and taking the kiddo out to dinner can be a complicated affair for all the obvious reasons. Add some hunger to the mix and being served relatively promptly is vital. Our server neglected to record my kiddos order (udon) and when we enquired after 25+ minutes she insisted we had never ordered it- odd, given we had stopped by *specifically* for the udon. Rather than apologizing and expediting the solution, she doubled down and insisted any error was our fault. Thankfully we had an appetizer to tide us over but the server's failure to appreciate the situation for what it was turned this visit into a fail. Didn't love it.
Brianna Knapp
Great atmosphere good looking sushi. Took us an hour to get apps. Forgot 4 rolls forgot to separate checks. We were patient of course. Than they wanted to give us a credit to come back but at that time it was almost 2 hrs of waiting. Maybe an off night but seems like it was lack of communication. Best of luck guys!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 1
Service: 1
Michael Dobbins
My family who lives in town swore by this place but they hadn’t been in years. We went tonight and it’s just not worth the trip. The salmon didn’t taste or smell fresh. They have a really small sushi menu. They got one of the rolls wrong on the protein and the server wasn’t attentive. There was a very sweet older lady who greeted us so for her warm welcome I’m giving 3 instead of 2 stars.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 3
Bobby G.
I love the interior of this place. Dark wood, the booths, the bar.Lunch special is king here -- sushi & a half bowl of ramen.The Tokyo shoyu ramen is possibly my favorite ramen that I've had anywhere. They allow you to build your own, but the default bowl of noodles, rich soy sauce tare, smoky dashi & chicken broth topped with with the green onion is so simple but so deep. I may detect a hint of citrus and togarashi in the tare.This is how I want all of my ramen.
Cassidy A.
Our favorite thing here was the cold noodles. Definitely the most delicious thing we had. Everything else was pretty much average. Nice staff and atmosphere. Would probably go again if I was in the area to try other things and see if it could get the rating higher for me. But probably wouldn't seek it out on my own.
What has happened to this place? Used to have a competent drinks service, and interesting mix of food at affordable prices. Maybe sticking to Happy Hour is the trick. But, sorry, we're done.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 1
I had not eaten sushi in a while and was excited to eat here. Only open twice a week, my friend and I were intrigued about this restaurant. The wait staff was pleasant. I ordered the unagi, gyoza, my friend had a ramen. The ramen looked good. My homie left stuffed. But, my sushi roll didn't stay together whichmade eating what ordered uneventful. If I am in the area again, I could see going there again if a the group i was with wanted to go there, but idk.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 3
My girlfriend and I have been here a few times but never did it end like this. The morning after eating the ramen from this place they were puking until there was only bile for 24 hours. The service is hit or miss over the phone and made my partner violently ill to the point of needing to go to the emergency room. DO NOT EAT HERE!!Wheelchair accessibility: It is not, the doors prevent anyone with mobility aids from entering this "resturant".
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Disappointing overall, and expensive for what you get.The veggie ramen is mostly corn and cabbage, both inexpensive ingredients but somehow $17 without a protein—adding tofu is another cost and even adding spices that normally come free (chili oil and sriracha) cost $1 each.We ordered a vegetarian roll, which was missing avocado and also had some issues with service.Overall not a great experience, and there are much better places to dine nearby.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 2
Tasty food and good service. There was a hiccup with our giftcard mag strip, which they were not going to accept, but I looked the card value up on line for proof of value, and all went well. Thanks to Manager Yuki!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Negihama and Spicy Hand Rolls, Roll
Vegetarian options: Good veggie ramen and other veggie options
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Best Izakaya in Portland. I have been coming to this place for years. A small restaurant with friendly service and authentic, delicious food. I recommend sitting at the bar and ordering a couple items at a time while you enjoy some sake or a Kirin. The sake selection is very well curated.The ramen is fantastic, with house made noodles. If you want to try something unique get the salmon broth ramen, it’s incredible. Servings are quite large as well!I adore all their hot offerings, and the hand rolls are great. Not a huge selection of sushi, because it’s not really a sushi restaurant, it’s an izakaya.Please understand they have had to reduce hours and menu since the pandemic, struggling like many other local businesses. Hope to see them return to the full menu soon, so please support this Division Street staple. Enjoy!Vegetarian options: I really enjoy their vegetarian sushi options.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Chicken Karaage, Negihama and Spicy Hand Rolls, Tako Yaki, Butter Corn Ramen, Noodles
I managed to catch them while they were open once. And the food was good. But not, "catch them within the 10 hours per week they're open" good. Lots of other rock solid Izakaya's open normal hours.
Got ramen for takeout, got home 5 minutes later open the bag, the egg is wrapped in plastic wrap, cold and unseasoned, the noodles were in a sandwich bag, again cold. And the broth was lukewarm in a plastic tub, why not just but everything in the tub??
Not surprised to see they fired their entire staff without warning since I worked at the downtown location in 2016 and certainly didn’t have the best experience.Either way though this place used to be delicious. Post-pandemic they lost all the grilled skewers and replaced the house made beef bo-gyoza with generic frozen gyoza. Now they’ve gotten rid of the chicken paitan ramen and it seems like their house made noodles as well. Even the egg is just a regular hard boiled egg now. The frenchy roll is still really good but it’s not enough to get me to come back.
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I'm a single parent and taking the kiddo out to dinner can be a complicated affair for all the obvious reasons. Add some hunger to the mix and being served relatively promptly is vital. Our server neglected to record my kiddos order (udon) and when we enquired after 25+ minutes she insisted we had never ordered it- odd, given we had stopped by *specifically* for the udon. Rather than apologizing and expediting the solution, she doubled down and insisted any error was our fault. Thankfully we had an appetizer to tide us over but the server's failure to appreciate the situation for what it was turned this visit into a fail. Didn't love it.
Great atmosphere good looking sushi. Took us an hour to get apps. Forgot 4 rolls forgot to separate checks. We were patient of course. Than they wanted to give us a credit to come back but at that time it was almost 2 hrs of waiting. Maybe an off night but seems like it was lack of communication. Best of luck guys!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 1
Service: 1
My family who lives in town swore by this place but they hadn’t been in years. We went tonight and it’s just not worth the trip. The salmon didn’t taste or smell fresh. They have a really small sushi menu. They got one of the rolls wrong on the protein and the server wasn’t attentive. There was a very sweet older lady who greeted us so for her warm welcome I’m giving 3 instead of 2 stars.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 3
I love the interior of this place. Dark wood, the booths, the bar.Lunch special is king here -- sushi & a half bowl of ramen.The Tokyo shoyu ramen is possibly my favorite ramen that I've had anywhere. They allow you to build your own, but the default bowl of noodles, rich soy sauce tare, smoky dashi & chicken broth topped with with the green onion is so simple but so deep. I may detect a hint of citrus and togarashi in the tare.This is how I want all of my ramen.
Our favorite thing here was the cold noodles. Definitely the most delicious thing we had. Everything else was pretty much average. Nice staff and atmosphere. Would probably go again if I was in the area to try other things and see if it could get the rating higher for me. But probably wouldn't seek it out on my own.