Tokyo Restaurant

I miss this place so bad. I loved the salmon roe with cream cheese type potato dish they had. And i loved the teriyaki dishes here and the awase miso. Wish i could apprentice here and learn how to cook. Too bad its gone.

I was not impressed by this restaurant. I would have turned away based on the Unilocal ratings but my dining partner insisted that it was good and we should go back and try it. Even he was disappointed at how standards have fallen…
Sake — when the menu only has about 6 sakes, you should probably conclude that this is not a sake type of place, but nontheless we decided to go for a Kizakura Nigori and that was the most disgusting sake we have ever had. Perhaps it went bad due to improper storage conditions but it was just plain nasty. We each took a cup and left the bottle.
Clam Hollandaise –basically a clam sauté. It was delish. Although this dish was good, when it got to our table it wasn’t hot anymore. I know food does not cool off that quickly, unless they cooked it as soon as it was ordered and didn’t bring it out to us until after they served us their lettuce salad and miso soup.
Hotate Kinoko — the sauce is what makes this dish. It consists of baked scallops and mushrooms with some sort of slightly spicy mayo based sauce.
Rib Eye Steak — it looks good, the cut is right, but the quality of this piece of meat was inferior. It was rough and not tender as a rib eye should be. The sauce is amazing and was the only redeeming factor of this dish. It was cooked medium rare as we asked for, it looked medium rare, but when you bite into it, it was like it was cooked well done.
Unadon — the eel dish was decent. It was flavored well and went especially well spices they brought to the table.
Conclusion — the chefs have something going with all the fancy sauces that are to die for, but the quality of the meat they use is not really acceptable. To serve cold clams should be a sin and that nasty nigori sake should be thrown out the window.

Great udon. I like the Dumplings, sushi, wasabi shumai, shabu shabu was really tasty too. I have been going here for years and they never disappoint. A place to eat– utilitarian, not trendy or a place to people watch.

Great service. Food was good quality. This was a authentic Japanese place. A pleasant surprise for sure. The staff was some of the friendliest people in NYC.

Good lunch specials

Have only been here for lunch and both sushi and sashimi are always fresh. I love their wafu salad, the rice wine based dressing is killer. Also their bento box lunch specials are very generous and the variety in them are a good selection.

My husband had a dinner meeting, so I ordered dinner from here, to go, and take up to my hotel. I ordered the Una-​jyu (a la carte), $ 17.75 + tax. The waitress offered hot green tea while we waited, and when it was ready, I paid, left a tip, and left. When I got up to my room and began to eat, I was disappointed that what I had in front of me was just a bento box of rice and unagi. For almost $ 20, are they serious! No miso soup and no tsukemono? I called the restaurant back and asked about the miso soup. Unfortunately, the lady told me miso soup and tsukemono isn’t given for take-​out orders, but had I eaten in I would have received them.

Happened upon this place after discovering that a previous favorite sushi place had shut down. We went for lunch, and it was crowded, which we took as a good sign. We ordered sushi special, miso, and tempura appetizer. Everything was delicious! The miso was average but the sushi was very fresh and some of the best I’ve had in NYC. Tempura plate was kind of small but also good. Definitely give this place a try if you’re looking for some good sushi.

One of the most oldest japanese restaurants in the city. great food and atmosphere.
Waitresses are dressed in kimono when welcoming guests. They have a private room in the back for about 10people. Great variety of menu with big portions.
Recommendations:
*Omu-​rice (2different styles)
*Ramen noodle
*Beef cutlet
*Cold vegetable appetizers
*Sushi Sashimi Combo
*Hire-​sake (fish fin sake which they will lit for you before drinking)
They are open for lunch as well where you can try some japanese style curry which is very good too!

I came here because it was close to a friend’s workplace. He told me a lot of the investment bankers come here so that it should be a good place to eat.
It’s ok. I didn’t like that they didn’t have brown rice:/ The mackerel teishoku I had was really good though.

Not sure, my friend had been before and loved it but it did not feel clean enough for me, although the restroom were better than I expected… also you can peek into the kitchen on the way and it really was a little grubby but perhaps it was just dated. The food was fine and the tea was good, service was perfect.

Stopped in once for dinner one late evening on my walk back to the 6 from Penn Station.
Like the other reviews mention, definitely around half the people in the place are Japanese, speaking Japanese. The waitresses are in kimono which is kind of cute. Place is brightly lit, so not necessarily a very date-​like atmosphere. More a place for settled couples, a solo dinner, or two to four friends in the mood for some pretty good sushi at a reasonable price.
The sushi:
–Fish was fresh, not too large, not too small
–Rice was not overcooked and delicately seasoned
–Preparation was simple but tasteful
–The nori on the included tuna roll was not soggy, soft, or overly-​attached to the rice (one of my big pet peeves with nori-​on-​the-​outside rolls)
Miso was a six or seven out of ten at best.
In short, I got a light sushi dinner that did not disappoint for $ 23, tax and tip included. In NYC, espcially for the area, I call that a win. Four stars might be a little aggressive.

One of my favorite Japanese places for authentic Japanese… Not the über cool yuzu and wasabi infused fusion stuff, or California and dragon rolls. Tako wasabi zuke (octopus with wasabi) or ikura oroshi (salmon roe with grated daikon), gyu-​tan shioyaki (cow tongue salt flavor grill) and men taiko chazuke (rice porridge with spicy cod roe). My family has been going for years, all Japanese staff. So much selection for izakaya type food and always a great list of seasonal specials.
My favorite thing of all is the hire-​sake, which is hot sake with shark fin, haven’t been able to find it anywhere else in the city and it’s actually uncommon in Japan too.
Ate too much with drinks, tip, tax, for about $ 50 per person.

Was walking around the area and deciding whether to eat italian, indian, diner, burgers, or japanese (all pretty much within steps) and decided to step in this restaurant for lunch.
pretty empty inside, but it early lunch service. tea came immediately.
there were no «lunch specials» per se as they just use a completely different menu for dinner. all entrée items came with soup.
we ordered two sushi lunch specials. the menu claims «the freshest fish which changes daily» which is kind of exciting language for a sushi buff, but disappointing when it doesn’t live up.
the fish was good but definitely not great, and as far as the selection, it was 100% standard…2 tuna, 2 salmon, yellowtail, red snapper, whitefish. and i found myself skeptical whether the color of the fish was not enhanced as i’ve had tuna not nearly as bright and richly colored, but much better. nevertheless, I ate up the food. the miso was fine.
Maybe 5 or 10% overpriced for what it is.

I was looking for a bite to eat near my hotel and Tokyo was fairly full of Japanese diners — usually a good sign for a Japanese restaurant. I had green tea and miso soup which was very good, hamachi sushi, spicy tuna handroll, and eel and avocado maki — all excellent. The rice was perfectly done and everything very fresh with delicious flavoring. The wait staff were pleasant but fairly inattentive for long periods even though they seemed to outnumber the tables! It could have felt longer as I was dining alone. In any case, the food is sure to not disappoint, and I consider it to be a great little find!

Sweet little gem in murray hill. Came here for lunch with friends. Got the sushi combo. Super tasty, nice portions. The lunch box looked really good too. One of my dining companions got that and it was ginormious!
The place was pretty packed, mostly japanese folks and a handful of westerners. I would recommend this place for those craving some japanese on the east side. Moderately priced and decent ambiences/​surroundings.

Came here for lunch. Waitress forgot my tea, and I was not informed that my meal came with soup and not salad.
My sushi was ok, but for the price you can get better elsewhere.
My coworkers live for the Chicken Teriyaki. Next time I will have to try that instead.

I had dinner here with my mom one evening, and I’ll admit it… the Japanese atmosphere of the restaurant sucked me in. That and the fact that most Japanese restaurants I’ve been to in the city aren’t run by Japanese people (and this most definitely is) made me think it’d be a good option for a meal.
Well, I was wrong. I ended up getting the salmon, which was cooked fine… except for the fact that it was drenched/​soaked/​any other synonym for ‘completely covered’ in a butter sauce that was way, way too rich. My mom got vegetable tempura bento box, but it cost more than one of the numerous sushi shops around the area that sell the same thing but for cheaper. The service was okay, but the high price of the food isn’t backed up by the quality. Spending $ 40+ for a casual dinner on two people is too much unless you’re getting food that is quite a bit above the average.

This place has the hottest wasabi that I have ever eaten. The tiniest bit sent my head into space. I ended up eating most of my sushi without it.
The sushi was average. Okay if you’re in the area, but nothing to go out of your way for.

LAUGH OUT LOUD – A louder lol. Just to illustrate how cracked up I was to see three lonely reviews filed under Tokyo Restaurant, very much expectedly. Because there were only 2 kinds of clientele that frequented here:
1. Japanese, more Japanese than how un-​Japanese my Japanese BFF was – in other words Japanese people who did’t speak English, who therefore could only wish there had been Unilocal Nippon.
2. Bankers who worked on the nearby blocks, who used to be too busy deep frying their heads wrapped in stock spreadsheets to Unilocal about reality; and currently too busy praying for the pennies to flip on the bottom of the pond fountain.
As neither of the above here I am contributing to 4^th review, and finding some reason for why I existed on Unilocal in the first place.
For starters, waitresses in kimonos do not guarantee good food. Among the sashimi appetizers we had only the ponzu fluke was good; Aji mackerel was chopped into such small pieces, rather than refinery they seemed unimportant in a messy way. And why on salty earth did we have to pour soy sauce on them ourselves? The uni and toro sushi were decent; Ikura wasn’t; sushi rice 2 degrees too vinegary.
Of course it didn’t help with the overall dining experience when I came here to meet some men more creepy than Benjamin Linus.