Yamakawa Restaurant
(818) 763-8355
10118 Riverside Dr
Toluca Lake,
CA
91602
34.1521
-118.3513
Neighborhoods: Toluca Lake, Central LA
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Neighborhood sushi bar and Japanese restaurant serves assorted rolls, shabu shabu, cooked items like tempura and teriyaki.
User Reviews
PattiKap24
March 24, 2009
We had a 7:30 reservation. Upon arrival, we were standing at the narrow entrance of the restaurant for 10 minutes before anyone paid attention to us. Mind you, this is a tiny restaurant. About 800 square feet at most. We finally got seated after 10 minutes, but were not provided menus. About 20 minutes after being seated, we had to flag down the other waiter to ask for menus. Another 10 minutes passed, and we had to flag down yet ANOTHER waiter to ask to order drinks. There were 2 waiters. We felt very unwelcome and grew tired of having to beg them to pay attention to us. The food wasn't bad, but we had to ask for everything! Menu's, refills, sauces, napkins, utensils, EVERYTHING! They didnt have enough sense to realize what was missing on our table. We felt liek we were invconveniencing the waiters by dining there. And to top it all off, at the end of the evening, the owner came and started to clean up after us before our bill had even arrived. One of my rolls did not have avocado in it as promised, but i had decided to keep quiet about it, but after he started being so rude, I pointed it out to him, and told him that he should deduct the avocado price off my bill since there was no avocado. He grunted and nodded, yet he still did not remove the charge. We were so frustrated and angry by then, I just let it go and paid the enormous $260 bill just so we could leave. VERY uncourteous, VERY rude, and the WORST service I have ever received in my life! Andy Garcia was also dining there that night(Apparently he is a frequent diner there) and he had no trouble getting service. nOT nice. VERY rude. I DO NOT recommmend going there.There were 2 parties that walked in while we were there, and were also ignored. One of the parties just left. I wish i had done the same. I would have saved myself $260! DO NOT GO THErE! Owner is soooo rude!
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Lush173
March 22, 2009
Now known as Sushi Yuzu, this was by far the most unpleasant sushi experience we had. It took us 10 minutes to get seated to our reserved table (it's such a small place we had to call for party of 8) and stood up front with the kids forever until someone finally seated us. Then it took another 25 minutes for them JUST to give us our menus, because the 3 waiters they had were busy circleing around And Garcia's table. The food, which wasn't all that big of a deal (most of the sushi was room temperature) came out 5-7 minutes at a time so by the time we received our last order, we were already full. The final straw was when the owner approached our table and firmly asked us to control our kids because my toddler had made a mess below his high chair (which we were already planning to clean prior to our departure). He came back a second time and mumbled some more stuff when my 2 year old dropped and broke the soup spoon. Although there were other kids there (especially on Andy Garcia's table) he kept eyeballing us and we felt so umcomfortable, we left with no dessert and treated the kids to Baskin Robbins instead. I won't even go back there on a date night!
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Anonymous
September 25, 2008
This used to be a great sushi place close by the studios. I've seen stars like Andy Garcia dine here. But they changed owners and it became a soju/sake bar that still has sushi. It looks like a bar/lounge now. And the sushi feels like it was store bought. They don't have a sushi bar anymore, so you don't see how you're sushi is being prepared. Too bad.
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Save Money:
Weekday lunch specials offer two-item combo plates for a reasonable price.
What to Drink:
A limited menu of beer, wine and sake is available.
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Payment Methods:
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