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Ittyo Restaurant
Category: Restaurants Japanese Japanese [Edit]
1815 Massachusetts AveCambridge, MA 02140
Neighborhood: Porter Square
(617) 354-5944
- Nearest Transit:
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Massachusetts Ave @ Mt Vernon St (77, 96)
Massachusetts Ave @ Roseland St (77, 83, 96)
Porter Square (Fitchburg/South Acton Line)
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- No
- Parking:
- Street, Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- No
- Price Range:
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$
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Wi-Fi:
- No
- Good For:
- Lunch, Dinner
- Alcohol:
- No
- Noise Level:
- Average
- Ambience:
- Casual
- Has TV:
- No
- Caters:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
57 reviews for Ittyo Restaurant
Review Highlights
"Great little place in the Porter Exchange mall."
(in 4 reviews)
"...also had the chocolate frappe with a mochi ice cream on top."
(in 3 reviews)
"Hot bowl of steaming udon in an intense broth."
(in 16 reviews)
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57 reviews in English
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Review from Tunisia M.
Boston, MA
1/27/2012
Been here so many times at one point that the staff surely can recognize me. First exposure to authentic Japanese food in somewhat of a sit down setting and was thus far impressed. Outside is a surface so unassuming, someone who's never been here before might find it tough to believe that inside lies a miniature Little Tokyo. Teriyaki is consistent, as are the milkshakes, tayoyaki, and chicken katsu curry. Came in one day under the weather and probably should have been drinking tea but instead had a milkshake and lo and behold- it seemed to do the trick for a little bit anyway.
Would like to try out the rest of the menu and see if they know me by name now. -
Review from Layla L.
Arlington, MA
Good, relatively inexpensive food here, and the waitress was nice. I burned the roof of my mouth on a vegetable dumpling that was too hot though, so by Yelp logic they clearly deserve one star.... Right?
So that aside, I've tried their frappes (in both chocolate and green tea flavor), and most of the hamburger-related things on the menu (like the fried egg set with rice, and the curry). My friend ordered donburi here once and it looked delicious but I didn't try it.
I believe they only accept cash but since the restaurant is about 10 yards away from an ATM that's not a problem, and they will give you change for your $20 so you can tip them well. -
Review from Kei j. R.
Boston, MA
1/13/2012
I've been coming here 17 years, their consistency of the food is incredible.
The service is always friendly. It' kind of sad they don't have the stars they should deserve. -
Review from Ye P.
Manhattan, NY
1/30/2012
We've been sticking with the Mackerel & Takoyaki since the first time we visited. Had the same thing for 7,8 time and was never bored.
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Review from Huong P.
Boston, MA
5/30/2011
This review is purely on the mochi frappe that my friends and just about everyone was raving about. Coming in four different flavors--green tea, strawberry, chocolate, and one other, we decided on trying out the strawberry. When I took the first sip, I was stunned by how insanely sweet it is. I'm sorry, but it just tasted like I was drinking sweet syrup rather than a tasty milky, frappe. I decided to let my friend have the rest of it (since she liked it) and an hour after separating, I asked her how the mochi was. And you know what? She never got to even try the mochi since it already melted into the drink!!
So word of advice = make sure to eat the mochi first and expect to have something really, really sweet.
But all else, I have not tried their food (and want to) and the people there are really friendly! -
Review from Lexy K.
Brookline, MA
5/29/2011
Thank God for Ittyo.
I was beginning to think there was no place in Boston to get real Japanese food! I am just so glad this place exists. I haven't tried the other places in Porter Square, just because I went here the first time and it was so good. It is just so awesome to be able to get any real homestyle Japanese dish all at one place.
I love the atmosphere- casual, hole-in-the-wall. The women who always serves us is very nice and attentive.
The food is soooooooooo yummy. I especially love getting the bento boxes for lunch. They are an incredible deal. I always get the sukiyaki beef bento, and it's like under $12 for a bunch of rice, beef sukiyaki, salad, a croquette, two gyoza, and seaweed salad.
The place is not supposed to be some gourmet place. It is super yummy, casual Japanese food.
I cannot recommend this place enough, it is really my favorite restaurant in the Boston area! -
Review from Lisa W.
Cambridge, MA
5/7/2011 1 photo
Not a bad place for a cheap bite. My favorite was the octopus balls. Note - these babies are HOT. I stuck a whole one in my mouth soon after their arrival and ahhhhhhhh burn.
I got the pork cutlet box (pictured), husband got the salmon box. There's a lot of stuff that comes in the box! In addition to the pork and (brown!) rice, you get two veggie dumplings (meh), salad (also meh), seaweed salad, and some sort of fried mashed potatos (mmmmm!).
Will be back for quick lunch/dinners... good price for decent food. -
Review from Herbert K.
Middlesex, MA
12/9/2010
Cold, windy, raw day +
Hot bowl of steaming udon in an intense broth =
Happy, happy boy.
I need to go back here - a lot! So much to try, and the people couldn't be nicer! -
Review from Yoonie C.
Waltham, MA
3/6/2011 1 Check-in Here
Fast service. 5 stars.
3-stars: A-ok shrimp tempura udon.
Got the order to go, and so everything was packaged separately (yay, no over plumped noodles!)
The broth of the udon was pretty good, but I've had better (at Oga's, at another place in Davis) and I've had worse (too bad to even remember). A little too much wakame (seaweed), and a wayward fish cake was interesting.
The 1 whole but plump and juicy shitake was the treasure in the bowl.
Tempura was too oily for me, but perhaps I should try them again hot and fresh out the kitchen while sitting down.
Not too bad for an $8 udon, though I've had better from an instant package (Pulmuone fresh udon, $6 for a 2-pack). I guess the extra $2 was well spent for that lovely shitake. -
Review from Aboud Y.
Cambridge, MA
4/2/2011
Great little place in the Porter Exchange mall...delicious and authentic. That said, its not my favorite place here (the bar has been set pretty high with Sapporo Ramen, Chocho's, and Blue Fin just steps away).
I got Nabeyeki Udon (good), some nibbles out of a bento box (alright), and a green tea mochi frappe (sounded like a good idea but I prefer a regular ice cream frappe or milkshake to having the mochi blended in).
Anyway...I'm sure I'll be back. Oh and beware its cash only. -
Review from Anastasia C.
Cambridge, MA
3/24/2011
Pretty good.
I ate there for the first time last night (the ramen place I was craving was full up) and it did the trick. I got soba noodles in miso broth with tempura vegetables and my friend got the same except with boiled vegetables. I liked that they offered three broths, two of which were vegetarian friendly. The tempura fell off the vegetables pretty quickly so I can't comment on it, but the broth was good and the portion was big for $6.99.
We each got a green tea mochi for dessert. They were only about $1 apiece! Less than $20 for dinner for two people including dessert means I'd try it again.
I must say though, the pictures in the menu weren't ideal. They certainly didn't make the food look very appetizing.Listed in: Asian food
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Review from Lisa C.
San Francisco, CA
11/27/2011
I had high hopes for this place because my sister really likes it and I generally trust her judgement. I really just was not impressed. We ordered a couple katsu curries and the super soba noodle soup. Everything was only ok and the soup was actually really disappointing.
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Review from Josephine L.
Boston, MA
12/7/2010
Ittyo like to stand servers outside to encourage diners to eat with them, which I'm personally not a fan of (does anyone like canvassers?), but I guess it works because they haven't gone out of business yet.
This is a good place to stop for a big hearty bowl of udon noodle soup. They have several kinds. They also do bento boxes, so either way you'll get a delicious meal for less than $12. -
Review from Liz M.
12/5/2010
Patience is a virtue and I know I ain't got much.
I don't mind my food comin' quick quick quick.. but this place is tooooo quick. So quick that I don't think my soba noodle soup was cooked to uh... boiling? By the third chopstick dent, the soup was lukewarm!
And I'm a quick eater.
I got chicken soba noodle soup. Bland.
Tokuyaki -- octopus balls? Very... hollow tasting. Even with the bonita flakes and high calorie sauce.
Tofu skin rice roll -- decent. How can you mess that up though?
Copious amounts of green tea help but it wasn't that hot either...
The best thing? The dining company and the toxic orange/pink picked ginger...
For food alone, perhaps it would've been worth waiting for the ramen place down the hall.... -
Review from Mariah H.
Quincy, MA
I've been going to the porter exchange since high school but never went here because i couldn't pull myself away from the ramen and/or sushi.
Well finally I went here. OMG! Lemme tell you, the dishes were so yummy! When I had their bento it put me right back in Japan. I normally come here when I go to Porter now. I haven't had anything I didn't like. -
Review from Lily D.
Brookline, MA
1/2/2011
This place is the cat's pajamas.
You can get a beautiful bento box full of amazing and wonderful things. A mixed green salad with soy dressing, a fried egg over something cool, seaweed salad, croquettes, etc. They have a few different options. Perfect if you like a lot of variety in a meal for an economical price! It will be beautiful, you will be satisfied and happy.
...was really reasonable at lunch, i feel like nothing was over 8 dollars! Pretty limited seating though, would be difficult for a large group to get in here. Good service, food came out quickly.
the fried tofu appetizer is shockingly delicious, i forget the japanese name. if you get it once you will get it forever. the broth it is immersed in is amazing. it is some type of fried-y, soyish yum. do it, or live with regret forever. the choice is yours.
i got the curry because i am obsessed with curry. i got a fried egg in it. it rocked. i would do this again.
They really have a lot of exciting traditional japanese options here, i'm sure it is all good. totally worth a visit! lots of 'don' type options, tempura plates, etc. No ramen though, that is next door. Come here and get it done. -
Review from Shuang C.
Scranton, PA
7/31/2011
Best place to get Udon/Soba, don't even think about anything else here. The Nabeyaki is good if you are really hungry.
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Review from Mahina K.
Boston, MA
6/13/2010 1 Check-in Here
I've brought two separate dates here, both who were hesitant to to try Japanese curry. Both of them loved it. One had the curry, he was apprehensive because he dislikes Indian curry (despite my assurances that it is not the same). And he loved it. We both had the chicken katsu Curry and I even followed it up with a chocolate mochi frappe. It was delicious.
My second date had the bento box, he hadn't had much experience with Japanese food, that he got to try about 3-4 different small dishes and part of mine, So he got a nice little sampler and it filled him up.
Also, as many times as I've been to Porter Exchange, I've never had to have a wait at this restaurant. -
Review from Adam E.
Portland, OR
4/24/2008
The weather is steadily growing nicer, which of course means it's time for me to get deathly ill. I thought I had strep, but the doctor says it's probably mono-tell me, how the hell does a 23-year-old get mono in this day and age? I mean, I haven't been to a make-out party in months! (ok, weeks.)
Anyhow, earlier today my throat was not unlike the Mojave Desert (read: dry and full of scorpions), so I set out on a walk to find some soup that might calm the soreness. Apparently, one of the symptoms of mononucleosis is crazy diarrhea every 10 minutes, so I needed to find a restaurant close to home. Because, you know, I'm so cheap that I'd rather shit my pants on Mass. Ave than pay a delivery charge. Can I get a witness from my homies in Uganda?
Ittyo fit the bill. The place is tiny, though not un-charming in its squalor. I ordered the shrimp tempura udon, even though I knew I couldn't eat the shrimp itself. Tempura=scratchy throat=ow ow ow. Still, tempura is nice to smell, and it's comforting to have a deep-fried sea creature sitting next to me while I slurp broth. The udon itself was plain and tasty, and just what the doctor ordered (in addition to antibiotics...I swear I'll get around to filling that prescription at some point...).
I can't say that I'd ever pick Ittyo as a regular mealtime excursion, and even as I type this I'm shitting an endless stream of wheat noodles like some horrible Japanese porno, but for about half an hour their warm broth soothed my aching throat into acquiescence.
Of course, if you're reading this trying to decide whether or not to do lunch at Ittyo, I've most likely killed your apetite completely. -
Review from T L.
Boston, MA
3/21/2008
This is my second favourite restaurant in Porter. It's sort of my back-up restaurant when Cafe Mami is packed.
I love their soba noodles and their rice bowls. I always tend to order the chicken soba. The chicken shreds are always soft and it absorbs the flavor from the soup.
The teriyaki hamburg donburi is also really tasty. The meat is cooked right.
And I always have to order mochi for dessert. My friends and I have tried ordering a dozen of these and the server looked at us funny...but hey, it was good. -
Review from Kenny L.
10/5/2007
After arriving Porter Exchange this Friday for an early lunch, I was a little sad that most of the restaurants weren't open yet until around noon except for Ittyo (which from the Kanji translates to "one peach", though I suspect that it might be someone's name) which opens at 11:30am until 8pm? Since they seems to be really active at passing out slips of paper of their lunch and dinner specials, I decided to give them a try.
My initial suspect was that it was not run by a real Japanese, but the lady said "welcome" in Japanese when customers entered so my initial reaction was wrong. They have a good selection of udon, soba (cold or hot), rice (don) dishes, sukiyaki beef, hamburg, Japanese curry, fishes, etc. I decided on the lunch special, which allowed you to order from four main choices and two sides (miso soup, coffee (Japanese brand!), soda (Calpico and American), Inari (soybean pocket sushi), and mochi ice cream (red bean, green tea, etc).
I chose udon for my main item and the inari and mochi ice cream for my sides. The udon was not bad and above average. The soup is fish based and not too salty. The noodles were chewy but not tough. Don't expect too much from the sides. I also received one inari sushi and the mochi ice cream looked factory made (they also sell them for $1 each, but I would just buy a box at the Kotobukiya). Overall, it was good but I wouldn't expect too much else! -
Review from Tessa C.
5/14/2006
This has always been my favorite noodle shop in Porter Exchange. They don't serve ramen - but they do have udon and soba dishes. If you're not a noodle lover, then you can go for the curry or fried pork dishes. Seating like the other places is a little cramped - food is decent. Don't expect amazing broth, but it's decent and filling. And the people there are nice. Good tofu appetizers - cold or in broth.
If it's warm outside - go for their cold soba dishes - tenzaru - chilled soba noodles with shrimp tempura with a light wasabi scallion soy dipping sauce! Yum!Listed in: My Neighborhood in Cambridge
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Review from Jim G.
San Diego, CA
8/30/2007
I stopped by Porter Exchange the other evening for dinner before heading to a show across the street at Toad, and because my usual choices were either closed or full, I decided to finally give Ittyo a try.
I always look forward to an authentic Japanese meal in that building, so I couldn't believe how bad the food was at Ittyo. For background, I lived in Japan for many years, so I know what to expect, but at the same time I don't mind some Americanization if it improves the taste or adventurousness.
But at Ittyo (pronounced eat-cho), the problem wasn't Americanization. It was just plain poor food.
The negative experience started right off the bat with the tea they brought me. It tasted like it had been sitting for hours and was overly strong and bitter. And they have the nerve to charge for this!
I ordered the grilled Saba set, and things didn't get any better. Saba is an oily fish that is usually full of flavor. But something they did stripped it of all flavor and I was left with a very bland piece of mackerel. To make it even worse, the way they cut the fish made it difficult to remove the bones.
They even messed up the rice, and that's hard to do. Like the tea, the rice appeared to have been left over from the day before, or at least that day's breakfast. It was dry and lumpy, with zero aroma or taste.
The salad was uninteresting.
On a positive note, the miso soup was just fine.
In a word: Yuck!
Granted this review is based on only one experience, but if they don't even care enough to serve decent tea and rice, I have little reason to believe they would put in the effort to produce anything worth eating. -
Review from Tracy C.
Boston, MA
9/15/2009
Got to Cafe Mami too late and missed the lunch specials, so I decided to give Ittyo a try, especially seeing that poor girl handing out little flyers all day makes me sympathize.
I got their lunch special, which I thought was pretty good. You get to pick 1 main dish (5 choices: eel & tofu omelet don, chicken terriyaki don, vege curry rice, cold noodle w/ tempura shrimp or hot noodle soup) and 2 side dishes (miso soup, salad, soy been sushi, soda, coffee, tea or mochi ice cream.
I picked the eel&tofu omelet don and I liked it quite a lot. For sides I had salad with sesame dressing (common, but nothing wrong about it), and the mochi ice cream (again common but nothing wrong about it).
I would like to go back and try their hamburger and other dishes to see if they are a worthy competitor of Cafe Mami. -
Review from m s.
Allston, MA
4/29/2008
I'm feeling like a total fat kid, because most my reviews seem to be food....
anyways, I like this place muchly and am a HUGE fan of their "dinner box"
Seriously, it has all this food (hamburg w/ egg on top+ rice, garden salad, a bit of seaweed salad, croquette, miso soup AND 2 pieces of lil fried shrimp things) to make me feel completely full at lunch with enuff left over for pre-dinner snack
They open earlier than the other food places there (11:30) and for $11 I'm full for the day? and not just any ol' "full" A "delicious things filling my tummy" full!
A+ Seal of Approval! -
Review from Tyler C.
Los Angeles, CA
10/23/2007
I am guilty of eating here often as unfortunately, no other really great place for noodles in Cambridge...and that includes the new wagamama, Le's(ex-pho-pasteur) and a variety of other places.
This place is probaly the only place in the Boston area that I've found to serve decent udon/soba, and oddly enough one of the few places that does zaru soba. They also have decent fresh tofu appetizers and donburi. in my several months of going there - the quality can vary but the noodle soups and hiyayako are usually consistently good. I have no experience with the rice dishes.
The alternative is to bike across the river to Super 88/BU food court/Ken's Ramen goodness....or arguably over to Union Square in somerville for some of the smaller Korean places there.Listed in: Boston
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Review from Melanie P.
Compton, CA
9/26/2009
Booooooooo!!!! So, last night I went out and had a few too many & today my tummy is still recuperating. By about mid-afternoon I was finally ready to eat something so I was on yelp, checking reviews and looking for 2 things--soup and delivery. I wanted an udon soup so I found Ittyo b/c it had pretty decent reviews. I ended up ordering shrimp tempura soup, spring rolls, and some salad. The salad was the best tasting thing that I ordered!!
The spring rolls had hardly any filling in them at all. The soup was incredibly bland, it had no flavor at all; the noodles were overdone, and they included one piece of tempura. I was totally disappointed with everything that I had. I can't blame it on the fact that it was delivery, since the food was still at the correct temperature and the tempura was still crispy, etc. But it just did NOT taste good. Never ordering/visiting from them again.
This is the first time that I have been misled by yelp.... :-( I must say...it hurts a little. -
Review from Stephanie C.
New York, NY
1/11/2011
Everything is good here. And I can say this is microcasm for the Porter Exchange Mall in general. Oh do I miss going to school in Boston sometimes. In in NYC's little J-town, St. Marks, you won't find a place as homey, tasty, and cheap at Ittyo. I think Ittyo is the best, mind you, out of this little strip; the only thing bad about it is 1) the occcasional wait, 10-15 minutest, 2) that it's near the bathrooms. Honorable mention: the ever-present popular Cafe Mami (where numerous college friends worked... for nothing, ha), and Kotoboya the sushi place (don' t know if I spelled that correctly).. which doubles as a grocery store. I heard that's not there anymore but someone please correct me (I would be sad, they had banging sushi).
You can come for lunch and dinner. I love getting the awesome bento box combo dinners which come a choice of: Sukiyaki Beef, Hamburg with Fried Egg, Grilled Salmon, Pork Cutlet, Chicken Cutlet. The hamburg I heard great things about, and the salmon is nice and hearty. I usually get the mackerel, don't know why it's not on their current menu- maybe we don't have it anymore!! :( Too bad because that mackerel was grilled so perfectly, with a zesty lemon sauce atop and sans fishy taste (a common complaint with mackerel). Not to say that the sides aren't totally amazing: fried spring rolls, shrimp rolls, seaweed salad, regular Japanese house salad, potato cakes.. white rice dotted with black sesame, and pickled radish. AND miso soup. Everything is really fresh and delicious- hard to imagine such good value and food are produced from their minuscule kitchen! For an appetizer, I often get the fried kaki (oysters) or the box set- which are breaded and fried so perfectly, with delicious, piping hot, gooey oyster inside - yummy! Love the oyster sauce that comes with.
We always have the same waitress; she's always super nice, smiles when she recognizes you (even me after all these years when I got back to visit), refilled our water/tea. I've had the mochi for dessert (pretty standard, though freshly made here)- but never the raved-about green tea mochi frappe. This I must try on my next visit. Nothing is over $10 here.
For dessert, you can always visit the Bubble Tea Lady at Tapicha... ahhh I miss Porter Exchange Mall. :) -
Review from Lily V.
Boston, MA
6/19/2010
We had wonderful and friendly service. We started with gyozas, shrimp & veg tempura, and seaweed salads. Everything was fresh and tasty. Nothing extraordinary, but solidly good. I had the pork katsu curry with rice and a fried egg. It was just what I wanted. The curry was flavorful with chunks of onion, carrots, and potatoes. The egg was fried just right with the yolk still soft. We also had the chocolate frappe with a mochi ice cream on top...it was awesome.
I'm looking forward to going back again and trying a few more items. -
Review from annie k.
Los Angeles, CA
1/26/2006
A nice place to have a Japanese lunch for a reasonable price. Quick and delicious appetizers like ohitashi, hiyayakko, agedashi tofu, and seaweed salad--all the favorites are nicely done and priced low. The entrees, aside from the excellent eel dishes, are good, not great (but at least they're healthy!). Service is always nice (after all, there are only like six tables).
Very dependable, recommended. It's in the Porter Exchange Mall. -
Review from Albert D.
Boston, MA
4/27/2008
Tried the "super udon": udon, miso or soy soup base, tempura shrimp, slices of beef, tofu skins, and white fish paste cake stuff. It filled me up, and cost $8.45. Delish
My friend had the hamburg steak donburi (basically asian hamburger patty with rice and seaweed on the side). It tasted good, especially if you're into sweet entrees. I loved this dish, and tried to steal as much as I could.
I didn't get to try any of the other places. Apparently there is hubbub about cafe mami? Either way, this place hit the spot when I needed my spot to be hit. -
Review from David S.
Waltham, MA
7/17/2009
On my neverending quest to locate the perfect Teri Don, I discovered Ittyo's Ten Don, a meal of rare and exotic beauty. For $8 you can get a rice bowl topped with tempura vegetables and shrimp (one or two jumbo), and a bowl of miso soup.
Considering that most restaurants would take the rice out and put it on the appetizer menu for $10, that's pretty impressive.
The rest of the menu seems a bit less of a bargain, but I do have to say that some of the plates are quite larger than the pictures have them appear. I haven't really tried much else there, but I can say that there's a good variety of cold noodles, rice bowls, curry, soups, and other sundry oddments onthe menu.
Presentation is pretty much home-style (which is to say nonexistent), but that's not really different than any of the other eateries in Porter Exchange.
Ittyo, you're all right. -
Review from Hubert H.
Cambridge, MA
12/25/2007
Really nice Japanese place at the Porter Exchange. My friends and I sampled a variety of dishes.
One of the strongest appetizers is the sweet and sour fried tofu; very delicately created wrt texture and taste. The Hamberg (that was how it was spelled on the menu) I would dissuade anyone from eating; make your own burger at home.
For the main courses, we had a soba soup noodle with 'wild vegetables' (good flavor, and not too salty as can be found with this dish); rice bowl with eel (very delicate eel, delicious stuff), and a curry (not sure if I was particularly impressed with it but my companion liked it). Strongest was the beef slices (una don?) and rice. I must like beef slices, since I don't have the nimble hands or machines that can create such think slices.
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Review from Wei W.
Lexington, MA
9/23/2008
I come here when Cafe Mami and Tampopo are packed. But that's not to say that the food isn't good here; on the contrary, it's not too bad. I give it 3.5 stars.
The bento box of chicken cutlet wasn't too bad, minus the dry rice. It's not a bad deal - $9.99 for a salad, tempura rolls, potato croquette, chicken, and rice. My friend ordered the "super" - udon noodle soup with beef, shrimp tempura, seaweed, and a host of other "soup-things." Good portions, very filling.
And at $23 for dinner for two, it's not a hard hit on the poor college student's wallet, especially for a treat. -
Review from Katherine E.
Brookline, MA
2/13/2011
Good soups. Awesome gyu-don and oyako-don! Service is super fast, and the prices are great for table service. The waitresses are patient and explain dishes,ingredients, and try to make suggestions to accomodate people with dietary restriction.
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Review from CeeCee R.
Boston, MA
Updated - 9/12/2009
Got a bit bored with Cafe Mami, decided to go to Ittyo for dinner with my friend. We got the Takoyaki to start off with, which were delicious. I ordered the Grilled Mackerel Bento Box to try something different and it was ok. My friend had the Ten Don, she did like her entree.
Service was not bad and we got seated immediately. Price is always good and quality of food is also good.
So definitely would be back again!Listed in: Japanese Food
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7/12/2009
Was there the other day for lunch. Was not in the mood for Cafe Mami and they have very good… Read more »
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Review from Iris L.
Middlesex, MA
7/31/2009
Ittyo is usually the place I go to when I'm not in the mood for Cafe Mami. The three stars is because I haven't been in a while and the last time I was there I was not as impressed as I used to be.
Ittyo has a good selection of dishes and for awhile they had new items up that eventually became a part of the regular menu like the lunch box specials. They took a page out of the Cafe Mami book and decided to do things with Hamburg. While it was nice that another place offered it, it was no match for the competitor. Ittyo's hamburg is bland and tastes as if someone had just tossed on some salt and pepper and threw it on a George Foreman grill.
However, if there is no place else to go, I will usually come here. -
Review from Ed L.
Germantown, MD
10/18/2010 1 Check-in Here
The food is what you would expect to find in a place like the Kansai airport. Not bad but nothing exceptional.
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Review from Ligaya T.
San Francisco, CA
10/19/2007
Bad, dry rice at an Asian place = sin. The delightfully crispy on the bottom, tender on top unagi almost made up for it. Then the cute little server (with the braces who should smile more) brought out an ohitashi with homemade gomae, best I've had and best Ittyo had to redeem itself. Considering the grandma style decor and dirty walls poor place must remain at three stars. I'll be back to swallow another una don though.
Listed in: Eating Curry in Boston
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Review from Steve M.
Cambridge, MA
6/14/2006
I had a delicious hambaagu (hamburger) with curry sauce and a fried egg on top. Pretty reasonable prices for good Japanese fast-food.
