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I like my 'yaki grilled and plentiful and I also theorize that the dressing on the side salad is a true indication of the status of the teriyaki establishment who is serving it up. In that case, Tokyo Garden on the Ave. stands out among all of the joints in the city.
The side salad that accompanies the teriyaki at TG is a mix of shaved cabbage and lettuce, and you are now given the choice of two salad dressings; sweet or regular. I have tried to find out what is in each and the best info I could get was pureed onions in the Regular and pureed apples in the Sweet. This aint no bottled Ranch or Sesame Salad Dressing! Portions of meat (pork and chicken combo, yo!) are grilled to order and are almost staggering. A welcome respite for the budget-conscious student/dope fiend/starving rapper, my homie, Nightclubber Lang from the Bi Bim Bop Project, introduced me to this spot and I've been asking for chopsticks to this "Garden of Eatin'" ever since.
I know it was you, Tokyo Garden.
You broke my heart.
Your new ownership, revamped interior decorations, reprinted menus, and (when we went) empty soda dispensers all conspired to wreck my cherished memories of my once-favorite teriyaki place.
The teriyaki chicken plate, while on the same style plate, was served up with a too-damp lump of rice with a slice of pickled ginger on top that polluted the rice to an unloveable extent. The chicken was a combination of undercooked and overcooked meat, and the cabbage salad was cut into thicker shreds with a sad excuse for a dressing that was nothing like what I remember from six months ago.
Plus, an hour later, it gave me an alarming case of "stomach distress."
All it all, it was a disappointing experience and now that I know it is no longer the same, I will probably never go back. It's not the worst teriyaki I've ever had, but man! It's not the best anymore.
Tokyo Garden, I will remember you fondly, but until you hire back your old chef and bring back your old salad dressing, that's where you will remain: In my memories.
This is the best teriyaki restaurant in the entire United States of America. I have moved around… Read more »
I feel a scathing review coming, so let me say they are probably nice people.
But be warned! The menu might have the same items, but they do NOT taste the same or even comparable. If you want bi bim bap, please walk a couple blocks and pay two bucks more for Korea Tofu House. We paid 7.99 for a fried egg and rice, because that's all I could eat. There was mostly lettuce and crab with mayonnaise in my bowl. Not good.
The fried rice dishes are OK at best, but much better fare can be found on the same block for the same price. The california rolls were bad, too. Way too much mayonnaise with diced crab, so we ended up taking it out and eating the rice and nori.
I ended up eating the miso soup and tea instead of the bi bim bap. My boyfriend was hungry, so he ate the mayonnaise-doused rice and chicken fried rice plate. He feels so sick now he can't get out of bed for dinner.
The worst part is that we loved the old Tokyo Garden. Sad to see it deteriorate, but you'll have to find a new place, as do we.
My favorite teriyaki place in the U-District. My Mr. and I must have ordered six plates (pork… Read more »
Yo -- this place is gooooooooooooood! Been going to this place since back in the undergrad days during the lunch break and back then it was good food cooked right and BIG portions -- a winning combo!
So its been a while since I've eaten here but was on the Ave the other day and decided it was a good time to go back. The restaurant itself is still there but they seem to have new owners and have expanded the place a bit. Its now part Mart and part Teriyaki joint -- so you can actually pick up some Newport Lights and cheap sunglasses along with your teriyaki. Also, the menu is now on this big ass billboard with picutres and the prices have gone up.
I was hungry so I went with the chicken and beef combo. Dam, it was tasty! The chicken was cooked well and not burnt. The beef was realllllly good...it was thick cut pieces of sirloin and marinated Korean style...really tender. The sauce was good and not overpowering. Decent amount of rice and the salad dressing is a house special mixture. I highly recommend this place -- so if you're ever on the Ave near the U-district and need some teriyaki that taste good and will get you full, check this place out.
This place is great. The walls at Tokyo are filled with event posters, the music playing is adult rock, the family working the front is gracious and nice. Various seating arrangements- including a barstool section- are present.
When you walk in there is a wall menu- you order off it at the counter and pay. When they call your name you claim your food. Pretty simple... I ordered Combo Maki- which was a tuna roll, cucumber roll, 2 pieces of California roll, and miso soup(which the menu never stated) for $5.95. Other sushi combos with sashimi and a roll were $6.99. The menu also had katsu, undo, yakisoba, and teriyaki. Most items were under $6 and some were very cheap.
Tokyo Garden is homey and inviting. The prices for lunch or cheap dinner are right on. The menu is extensive and the pictures of the food help a novice like me. The fish in the sushi is fresh. My only dislikes were that the seaweed on the rolls was crisp and not tender and that the miso soup was a little thick. Not the best sushi but better and more fresh than store bought.
I want to come back and try the tofu & vegetable yakisoba and the acclaimed teriyaki*
Even with just a HALF order of chicken teriyaki, you can make two meals out of it. Compared to Univ. Teriyaki, this place definitely gives you enough (and more delicious) teriyaki for your money's worth - and Tokyo Garden has tastier salad. I do like the spicy chicken teriyaki, but if you want to save the extra $.50-1.00, just order the regular teriyaki and get some hot-sauce in a to-go cup. Of course, this isn't authentic Japanese/Korean teriyaki, we're in the u-district - what do you expect?
I usually get the half-order teriyaki as a take-out, eat half the chicken & all the rice. Then save the chicken for later to go with ramen or whatever i cook later that evening/next day. I'll have to try their Bi Bim Bap :)
So I think it's pretty rare that you come back to a biz after several months, and discover that it's doubled in size and has made some big-ish changes...
There is now about double the number of tables, after ordering food you get a number and they bring your food to you (instead of calling it out), they clean up after you (instead of you busing your own tables), and they are now also part mini-mart. Their shelves are still kind of low, though, so I guess they're still working on the mini-mart thing. I like that the new side is much brighter and more open.
Got the Sushi A combo once again. The miso was good and I'm quite sure there was 1-2 extra pieces of nigiri (not sure if price went up as well). Sushi was pretty good.... I think I can group it in the same category as what I recently had at the Blue C Sushi HH.
Food-wise I think they're still a three (and every once in a while a two), but.... the staff has always been great, I like the extra seating, and the convenient location (for a UW student like myself) is great.
Bummer! Their sushi has been "eh-okay" recently instead of the good stuff I remember getting a while… Read more »
the chicken teriyaki was delicious. the customer service was excellent. the price couldn't have been any better. keep it up guys. i will certainly be back.
If i was a student at UW, I would be eating here at least 5 outta 7 days.
If i had you gave me a dime for every Teriyawki Joint in seattle, I would be sitting next to Howard Schultz on the Starbucks Board. If this place was here in so cal, I woulda told you that anything with the words Tokyo or Garden would be a disaster.
As every was ordering mounds of teriyawki beef & chicken, and the cali rolls....i decided to go out on a limb and be adventurous (or stupid), and order their Chirashi Korean Style..aka Heddo Bap. Fresh chunks of salmon, tuna, yellow tail (i presumed), all fileted (properly i prayed), rested on a bed of rice and green leaf lettuce. Add in spicy red hokijahn sauce, sesame seeds...and VOILA.... Sashimi Salad w/ rice and spicy korean sauce.
Pleasantly surprised! It was pretty damn good. Maybe one or 2 bites of fishy flavas.....but overall... done quite well for a hole in the wall university teri/sushi/japanese/asian/dive/hangout.
The teri was unremarkable. Heck, i dont even remember what it taste like. The place can get packed fast. Students, teachers, and locals can fill this spot in a hurry. Not a bad place to people watch for outta towners. Price is "starving student" friendly.
A lot of pretty good food for very little money.
It's like a poor college kid's dream. For just 6 bucks you get a giant plate of teriyaki, rice and salad.
Don't go looknig for anythnig authentic, but if you don't mind Americanized Japanese and Korean foods, on the cheap, you'll be extra pleased.
Teriyaki and the U-District... They go hand in hand. I mean you can't have a block without one joint. This one claims to be the oldest there and so I thought I'd give it a shot. I wish I walked on by. The good news is, the portions are HUGE!!! But you also pay for the huge serving too, so really it's not that great, sine they're at least a dollar more than every other place.
I went with the chicken, which is always the perfect measuring stick in teriyaki places. The chicken was fine, but the "salad" was not so great. It was like dry coleslaw and I had two different flavors to choose from. An onion ranch type sauce or an apple onion type sauce. Blah. The seating was a little scrunched in and makes for some intimacy with strangers, and not the sexy European sex party kind of way. The music, like every other Teriyaki joint was Warm 106.9 so I won't hold that against them. They made me put my own sauce on the meat... I know that sounds like a petty gripe, but come on.
I guess, if you're super hungry come here and get it to go. Otherwise walk down the street. And I'm still standing by my beloved Osaka for best in the city.
Their closed or moving..... sad
I read some good reviews about this place so I decided to stop by and try the spicy chicken. I wasn't that impressed... the salad was a small bunch of cole slaw with an odd garlicky dressing and the chicken was a little too spicy. Also, one of my eating pet peeves is when they put the sauce directly on the rice, which was the case here--they smothered it! The portion was huge though, and reasonably priced. I'd be willing to give this place another try, but for now, just a 2.
Service 3, Atmosphere 2, Taste 2, Value 4.
Probably the greatest thing I took away from my UW education was happening upon this place 11 years ago, on the day I was moving into my dorm. My mom and I needed something to eat and despite being a little weary of it's hole-in-the-wall atmosphere, the place was packed so we knew it had to be good. The portions huge, perfectly grilled (not gloppy) mounds of meat, yummy steamed rice, and the salad is probably the best ever - I still, after 11 years, slather the dressing all over the meat and rice.
I've probably tried a dozen teriyaki places in this city, and I continue to drive all the way back to the U District when I need my fix. I'm happy to see that this place hasn't changed at all over the years, and that's a good thing.
My favorite teriyaki restaurant of all time. The teriyaki joint that all other teriyaki joints will forever be compared to. At some point or other, all the people that I care most about in this world have been dragged to this place with me.
If you are anything like me, The U-District scares me (4 years was too much for me), but this place is worth it. That's saying a lot since we all know that teriyaki restaurants are a dime a dozen, two on every block.
One thing that definitely defines one Teriyaki joint from the other is the salad. They do it up right here. A generous portion of finely shredded cabbage with an oniony dressing. It's amazing! They should bottle it and sell right there.
Cheap, very generous portions, and yummy!
Notable mentions:
Chicken Teriyaki
Spicy Chicken
Beef Bi Bim Bap
Gyoza
One of the biggest things I miss in Seattle are the plethora of teriyaki restaurants in the city and in the suburbs. If you want a quick, relatively healthy meal, teriyaki was your go-to meal, especially after a workout.
I've never been a big fan of tokyo garden when I was at UW, but I decided to give it a try after hearing some people raving about it when they visited from the Bay. On a trip up there, we showed up and were the first ones in the restaurant (probably cuz it was 11am). The food came out rather quickly, but while they might've been off due to just opening up and school not being in session yet, we left unimpressed with the food. Not a bad meal by any means, but we've had better teriyaki. I personally prefer Nasai, as the chicken felt a bit burnt at Tokyo Garden.
The
Greatest
Fast
Food
Joint
Ever.
This place was my primary source of sustenance through my college years. The absolute best combination of flavor, portion & price that I have yet encountered in this great country of ours.
What to order: The chicken teriyaki plate.
When to order: As often as possible.
I have lived in San Francisco for many years now, and I still crave this place. Anytime I am back in Seattle, I must go here for lunch. I have never eaten another teriyaki that even comes close to this place's mastery.
Ok, these portions are huge...and def fit into my $6 budget.
The teriyaki was really good, salad mysteriously tasty, and pork katsu wasnt bad (i prefer panko breading). I was shocked at the portion size...i mean THREE layers of pork? i have more than half leftover!
This is one of my two favorite teriyaki joints. I discovered it in college, like many others, and have kept going back now that I've graduated.
I go here when I want teriyaki with a thicker, more barbeque-like sauce. The spicy chicken will threaten your diet when you keep shoveling more of it into your mouth than you intended to eat, and the salad dressing is an unusually thick garlic concoction that you'll probably like but will have to taste for yourself.
There are other things on the menu, it's actually quite large, but I don't pay any attention to them. The spicy chicken is my only love. If your wallet or appetite is light, you can get a half-order.
There aren't that many tables and the majority of them are large. You will either end up sharing the table with others, being glared at for hogging a table, or grabbing one of the few tiny ones. Do yourself a favor and just get it to-go; when the weather's nice and I want to eat nearby, I walk over to one of the UW's grassy areas and have a teriyaki picnic.
OMG. I was turned onto Tokyo G's by a Korean friend of mine when I had a hankering for some bibimbap one day. Cheap as chips, good service, great portions and a good location all add up to an amazing fast food place.
Don't come in here looking for haute cuisine. Come hungry, and try something different from the bog-standard chicken teriyaki (which is very good, but oh-so-pedestrian.)
They have a good selection of Japanese-style and Korean-style dishes on the menu (with pictures!) and you are sure to find something that you want to eat here. My problem is usually deciding what to eat because I love everything. Mmmm....bibimbap.
I've lived in Seattle all my life and Tokyo Garden is the only restaurant on the Ave that hasn't disappeared. Most places only last a couple years, by Tokyo Garden has staying power. Mmmm, delicious staying power.
Tokyo Garden is my favorite comfort food. I consistently only order 1 of 2 things. The chicken curry, which is more like stew, it's perfect for when that winter cold hits you. Or the spicy chicken, as other readers have said , it's two portions. It's teriyaki with a spicy twist, with rice and a cabbage salad with garlicy dressing. It makes my mouth water just thinking about it.
I usually prefer to do take out because the restaurant is very small and although very clean, has little ambiance (picture fluorescent lighting and poster store art).
Make it your next meal!
One of the things I miss the most from Seattle since moving to SF is cheap teriyaki places like this. For whatever reason you just can't find them here. Sure, you can go to Japantown but you'll pay a pretty penny for some 'yak. For a Seattleite both the quality and the price make joints like this what they are. Out of all of the places on the Ave that have teriyaki I came here the most consistently when I had the craving, which means I was here about once a week.
The portions, as everyone says, are huge. As a college student I felt the need to finish everything as to get my money's worth and always felt like I was going to explode doing it. The chicken combo is both classic and exemplary of what the combo should be. Two slabs of perfectly grilled white meat chicken smothered with sweet, thick sauce served with a crispy cabbage salad with miso dressing and a huge portion of steamed rice to sop up the sauce. Other winners are the California Roll/Chicken and the Gyoza/Chicken combos.
What really makes this place I think is their sauce, its exactly how a teriyaki sauce should be in my book. A solid four star joint, the size of the place is the difference between that and five, it can be hard to fight for a seat at lunch time and they are always playing horrible bubble gum pop music that makes me want to gouge my eyes out if I stay too long.
Good teriyaki.
Food: Great!
Service: Quick
Price: It's in college town, so affordable!
I finally returned to my #1 favorite teriyaki joint from college days. It's been 8 years and both quality and prices have not changed! I was pleasantly surprised that my fav menu item: Spicy Chicken was still $6.49 including rice and salad. I was also happy to see that the much acquired taste garlic salad dressing was now an OPTION to an apple-kiwi dressing, which is much preferred in my book.
Decor hasn't changed either. :p. But the menu selection has definitely expanded.
Tip: get the stamp card. Buy 10 meals and get one free. Lunch specials run in the $4.50 range.
A good deal, there's better Teriyaki elsewhere, but this still is pretty good, especially as the service is fast, the staff pretty nice, the portions quite hearty (especially the boneless chicken Teriyaki).
Only problem I've had, and I've been going here for years, is that sometimes half the chicken is tepid; obviously half was sitting around on the grill after it had been cooked, and they just freshly cooked up another half and threw them together. Not being one to want to embarrass anyone (myself included), I just ate it. But that's only been about once
Bathrooms grotty. Can get very crowded at lunchtime.
A very good place to drop in and grab a filling lunch if you're in the U. District and not have to sit around ordering from a menu and then waiting around...
Update 8-15-07
For some reason, the teriyaki sauce has been removed from the tables. The counterperson pours it over your chicken--and it wasn't enough, so the grilled chicken was VERY dry.
The prices have gone up steadily over the past 3-4 years, so I'm not sure why they are skimping on teriyaki sauce--very DILUTE, at that. The teryiyaki sauce used to be on the tables. Now they add it at the counter.
Don't think I'll be dropping here that often anymore...
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Pretty kickin' value. I like the sushi combos, which run around $5.50 and include miso. Even the sushi was prepared very fast and i was in and out in well under 5 minutes.
The inside is pretty cramped. I'd definately recommend take-out, and they do a nice job of wrapping it up for you.
This place is now closed, was my favorite place on the ave for food after only Shultzy's. Was good till the end.
I ordered the chicken teriyaki. Generous portions unless you are an ox! Great teriyaki sauce and they don't just give you a thimble sized container of sauce.
Because I needed to be a member of the polar club to get through dinner I don't like this place. I asked if the heat was on? "I am sorry the building is too old we have no heat only the grill"
Sure it was good teriyaki but come on buy a space heater or two.
There portions are HUGE perfect for that starving college student budget!
I will give it a go in the warmer months perhaps my views will change but as for now I don't like paying to eat in a restaurant where I can see my breath!
So their teriyaki portions are huge and the prices small. Football size rice, but the salad's dressing is not the sweet sauce that I usually like, but more of a vinaigrette. I go here though mainly for my Bi Bim Bap craving. That's a signature Korean rice bowl with veggies and an over easy egg if you didn't know. Love it!
IT'S ALMOST OUR DECADE ANNIVERSARY.
When I first attended the University of Washington this was the place I went to almost everyday after classes to eat. I enjoyed their Chicken Teriyaki with the side salad. I'm not sure what kind of dressing they use for their salad but it's so delicious. Either you love it or hate it. I loved it. But it made my breathe smell really bad afterwards. Two altoids couldn't get ride of it. But this place is still my favorite teriyaki joint on the Ave after 9.5 years from the first time I've ate there.
CON: their bathroom scares me.
This place has awesome bibimbap! Seriously, the best I've had anywhere. I don't think I ever tried anything else. Once I tried the bibimbap I was hooked! (BTW, bibimbap is a Korean dish of rice, beef, mixed veggies, egg, and spicy red bean curd paste/sauce.) I used to eat here a lot more frequently when I was at UW, but now I have to go out of my way to eat here (and deal w/parking on the Ave.). What really makes this dish is the sauce, which they give to you in squeeze bottles, so you can use as much as you want (unlike Red Bowls downtown). The sauce is perfect. Not too sweet, as is often the case at most Korean or quasi-Korean joints that serve this popular dish.
Only downside is the funky-ass, fishy smell that permeates the restaurant. Nasty.
Spicy Chicken, All Rice.
If you were ever a student at the UW, you know what those four words meant. The prices were extremely low, between 5-6$, and the portions were huge. They used 2 bowls to scoop the rice out. Then you can add the teriyaki sauce all over your rice.
You can also get some hand made sushi, or even some Korean Bi-Bim-Bap, which is basically meat/egg/veggies in a giant stone bowl, mixed with red bean paste. They do not have much seating, so my advice is to come with patience.
Even though I live in San Jose now, I still miss this place! Their teriyaki beef and chicken is the best. Especially the beef. It's so tender, sweet and just delicious. I haven't found any place that makes it like that. For that price and portion anyway. I usually order the teriyaki beef, bibimbop or the Combo Maki. Can't wait to eat there again when I visit Seattle this summer.
Pros: Generous portions for cheap, pretty clean and simple, fast service. Some meals comes with miso soup. One of the best teriyaki restaurants on the Ave.
Cons: Pretty small seating arrangements, in a small hole-in-the-wall location of The Ave. (It's just a few stores down from American Apparrel, right next to this bubble tea cafe. ), parking is on the street, so good luck on the weekends.
I've been here twice now. Once in April when I was touring UW as a potential graduate student, and a couple days ago now that I am a graduate student at the UW. It does stand out a little bit as one of the less commonly encountered Japanese places swimming in a sea of Pho and Thai, though not that there's anything wrong with Pho and Thai. But I spent a bit of time in Japan and occasionally develop a terrible nostalgia for certain foods.
The first time we went into Tokyo Garden it was relatively empty, with a small sushi counter directly to your right as you enter (though I've never seen it staffed) and a grill and ordering counter a few feet up. It's got a certain blue collar Japanese restaurant appeal to it with the cramped quarters and noren hanging from the ceiling. The owners are Korean, so if you know Japanese, don't assume you can practice it here. The gentlemen behind the counter were both extremely friendly and polite. I actually got the impression I was in an upscale restaurant by the way they addressed me. Very courteous.
I ordered a tempura udon bowl, having long gone without the perfectly textured noodles and salty broth of bygone days. The tempura ebi served on top was good, and the broth was as I remembered, but the texture of the noodles seemed a little undercooked. Unfortunately, that's pretty key for me. The meal was entirely edible, and I had a great time talking with my friend there, but it wasn't the madeline I had hoped it would be. I also tried the gyoza on this trip and found them to be delicious, though I haven't met a gyoza I didn't like.
The second visit went a little differently. It started with the same startling politeness and courtesy (though I find this can be consistently found anywhere as long as the customer is polite and refrains from doing or saying anything stupid or obnoxious - I worked in retail for awhile) and the same promptness with the food. This time I ordered a donburi bowl, yet another food I fondly recall digging into in subterranean Osaka eateries.
*CRACK* Beware the chopsticks! Like many Asian restaurants, Tokyo Garden provides wooden chopsticks along with the other cutlery. And yeah, they're cheap. That's because the food is cheap. But do be cautious. My chopsticks split and sent a few blunt splinters scattering onto my food tray. No harm done. Just picking up sticks. The second set was perfectly fine.
More importantly, everything about the donburi bowl was perfect except for the chicken, which seemed to be a little more charred than any Japanese version I've had. But the cook at Tokyo Garden really struck gold with the proper egg and egg flavoring - the very essence of a good donburi. And it's a lot of food. I was surprised how deep the bowl was. At 6'2" and 190lbs., even with an appetite, I found myself walking out with a bit of a waddle. And very inexpensive too, as a donburi bowl should be. My one disappointment with this meal came with the shiro miso soup, which seemed unnecessarily bland or watered down. Luckily its only a minor side dish made just as easily as home, whereas donburi is a bit trickier. So, Tokyo Garden gets 4 stars for really nailing the entree on my most recent trip. I look forward to trying the spicy chicken favored by other reviewers.
As I do everytime I enter a chinese restaurant, I order a fortune cookiee before my meal. In fact, I order a fortune cookiee before I even have a chance to view the menu! This affords me the time to consider my fortune for the longest duration possible, because, as we all know, these fortunes are likely created by ancient seers who can invoke the wisdom of dead presidents, or by clarivoyant three-legged crows on the dandelion side of the mountain.
After much bruhaha regarding the fortune cookiee (I was forced to best the waitress in a 2 out of 3 arm wrestling duel before she would consider, even for a moment, my most simpliest of simple demands), I was handed a fortune cookiee that came, to my surprise, on a platter made of human bone.
I cracked open the cookiee and removed the fortune (which was written on parchment, in human blood), and to my horror, the fortune read:
"When you walk upon the rice paper
with nary a crinkle:
then you have arrived!"
GASP! This certainly much worse than I could have ever anticipated! I was thrown into such a deep and lasting despair that I beckoned my waitress to me (using the "check" sign language gesture that all waitresses love so very very much), and I immediately ordered several bottles of their strongest whiskey.
I drank until I was dry heaving onto the counter, and as I was passing out I think I remembering muttering, "Until later on friends, it has definitely been real". And the next thing I remember I woke up in a bathtub full of ice, and there was a quarter glued to my hand, and there was a large bandage covering most of my lower back.
And, although I was so inebriated I was throwing up blood and vomit was being pumped through my veins, I'm almost certain that no one at the restaurant would accept my discover card.
I tried this base on my friend's recommendation and base on what I had on "The Ave," this is one of the better places for Teriyaki and Sushi. Food is good and fast, but portion wise, it could be slightly bigger... I guess I got spoiled by the portions given at University Teriyaki. Although it is a Teriyaki shop, it does have a menu for some Korean food.
Meh...the stars say it all. Average.
Yes, the teriyaki is cheap and they give you a lot of food. That didn't really matter to me though, the teriyaki was just ok and I found the sauce to be a little sickening mid-meal. I was just depressed that I paid 7 bucks for a couple bites of food.
Oh, and I tried the sushi here...ew.
I just had to go back to this place for old times sake: the college years at UW; dirt poor, loss of soul, depressed, but damnit I could get my T to the G once a week with my 4.90/hr job. The taste of the teriyaki is just as I remembered it: to die for. The bathroom is just as I remembered it: scary as hell, like some scene from Pulp Fiction is about to be played out very soon. Some changes have taken place. Like the previous few reviews, I was surprised to see the addition of a pseudo mini mart. It threw me off and I must say disappointed me a little bit. It adds a little strangeness to the TG atmosphere that I remembered. Also, no number with your order followed by the question "sauce on the rice?" Now someone brings the food to you at your table. And the MSG laden "sauce" is now a big ass bottle on every table. O yea baby! Of course I had to sit on the old original side for the memories. Highly recommended if you want a fine representation of the northwest cuisine known as teriyaki.
This is one teriyaki restaurant that tops my list--although not specifically for the teriyaki. Don't be misled. Although the name of the restaurant is "Tokyo Garden", this teriykai joint is owned by Koreans--much like most of the teriyaki restaurants around Seattle. Therefore, I find that they serve my favorite Bi Bim Bop (at a great price) in the city. It may not be the most authentic version, nor will I argue that it's made of the most quality ingredients, but it sure hits the spot! I've gone through countless bowls of this stuff--they even serve a side bowl of miso. I prefer to add the miso to the dish (for those of you looking for a new twist on an old favorite). All in all, it was a meal that got me through years of college, and is still feeding a hungry stomach almost weekly.
Teriyaki is good. The sushi is of the pre-made ones at Uwajimaya quality. I like the Udon there. Been a while since I ate here so it might be better here or worse. =P
Neighborhood: University District
Category: Restaurants
Neighborhood: University District
Category: Japanese
Neighborhood: University District
Category: Restaurants
Neighborhood: University District
Category: Restaurants
Neighborhood: University District
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