Izakaya Ginji

Cuisine Japanese
Price $$ (16-30)
Rating 6/10
Last Visit Dec. 20, 2023
Location SFBA: Peninsula

General Notes

Solid Japanese food in a casual environment at a reasonable price point. It's marketed as Japanese tapas, which is pretty accurate. It's great that you can try a whole bunch of smaller dishes. They do also have some more substantial options to round out the meal, like their rice and noodle dishes.


Dishes Tasted

  • ★★☆☆ California Spicy Roll -- solid roll, nice flavor, very reasonable at $12
  • ★★★★ Renkon Chips -- thinly sliced lotus root chips! It's basically potato chips but using lotus roots instead. It tastes incredible, I do want to try making this myself sometime.
  • ★★★★ Mentaiko Carbonara -- this stuff tastes absolutely incredible, it's pretty similar to the mentaiko cream udon that I had at udon mugizo
  • ★☆☆☆ lamb skewer -- decent lamb but it was definitely underseasoned
  • ★★☆☆ chicken & scallion -- the chicken was really tender! served with some kind of citrus
  • ★★☆☆ Quail Eggs -- solid but nothing particularly noteworthy, the smoky flavor didn't really add much for it imo

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