Japanese Food is good. Let's list some restaurants!
Also see sushi
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Fuji Chef - The classic Davis all-you-can-eat sushi lunch buffet. Loud, crowded, popular, and often interminable lines. Very quiet at night, with food quality low to good.
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Jusco - Carved niche as "the other buffet" for those impatient for the Fuji line. Low quality sushi, but also offers dinner all-you-can-eat. Decor is vinyl booths in Star-Trek-Counselor-Troi-green-dress green, left over from previous occupant.
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Manna - Actually a Korean restaurant, but offers many Japanese rolls and tempura plates. Decent bargain for meals.
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Moshi Moshi - Second in quality if Zen Toro takes first place, but certainly first in innovative rolls. However, dinners are not cheap and rolls are rather small. Excellent presentation of all dishes, and lunch plates are excellent deals. Sleek, clean dining room.
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Nobu Hiro - This is the restaurant to go for decent Japanese food at a good price. The lunch buffet is cheaper and mostly better quality sushi than Fuji, though far less variety. Like Jusco they also offer dinner all you can eat on weekdays. However, the regular bento dinners and lunch specials are excellent bargains. Far away from campus and downtown, but in return, minimal wait and crowd noise. Erases memories of the old Nobu joint (what poor food it ended up having, despite earlier glories).
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Osaka Sushi - Sac area chain restaurant. Popular with locals, offering certain happy hour specials. Variety and quality has since been trumped by newer restaurants, but still okay. Presentation and ambience could be improved.
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Sushi Unlimited - a new Japanese restaurant, located where Mirai used to be. Not all-you-can-eat sushi, but lots of sushi choices and other Japanese food. Many reviewers have noted that the quality does not match the price (similar prices to Moshi Moshi and Zen Toro)
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Zen Toro - A new Japanese restaurant in Mansion Square that offers the best quality fish in Davis, and perhaps the most elegant presentations. However, their side dishes have been noted by some to be borderline unservable.
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Davis Oshio Cafe - Just off campus, this is one of the newest of the Japanese restaurants. They are gaining a reputation for good quality to price ratio.
Japanese Food is of course now also sold in most supermarkets in the form of sushi, nigiri, edamame beans, and gyoza potstickers. At least three of Davis supermarkets make their sushi on location:
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Davis Food Coop - in partnership with Mermaid Sushi - downtown
These markets offer good quality sushi at lower prices than restaurants, without the service.
Now go eat! You'll need all that mercury and PCB's someday....
Which is your favorite Japanese joint?
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DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN GET TAKOYAKI?! —TakoyakiMonster
Should we just redirect this to Restaurants? Seems like it's already covered. —BrentLaabs
This should be more like Thai Restaurants. —CarlosOverstreet
2005-10-30 22:37:57 I can make you takoyaki...it's not hard —JeffNakamura
2006-02-20 10:33:06 This has more to do with homecooking than eating out. Does anyone know how to make a good Zaru Soba soup base? I can get the noodles, wasabi and nori at the Nugget, but I'm stuck on making the soup base. Also, if there's any local restaurants that serve good Soba, I'd like to know. —GrumpyoldGeek
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Most Asian grocery stores stock zaru soba sauce base which you can dilute to your preference. Try Kim's Mart. -KenjiYamada
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Yes I did actually! I liked it but I think I still prefer Sudwerk's doppel bock slightly. -KenjiYamada
Thanks Kenji. Get a chance to try Optimator yet? —GrumpyoldGeek
