Sobakatsu
| Cuisine | Japanese |
|---|---|
| Price | $$ (16-30) |
| Rating | 6/10 |
| Last Visit | Oct. 19, 2024 |
| Location | SFBA: San Francisco: West |
General Notes
Tiny, hole-in-the-wall restaurant that recently opened near Japantown, specializing in soba. The food is truly quite good, especially at their very reasonable prices. The dashi broth stood out most -- it had a complexity of flavor that's rare. I found the noodles themselves to be not particularly noteworthy (I'm usually not a huge soba fan, not a fan of the texture of the noodle), but overall the food was executed well. However, as of now they are EXTREMELY popular. I got there as a party of 2 a little past noon and waited in line for ~2.5 hours before we were seated. The line doesn't _look_ that long but it moves very slowly because of how few seats (11, last time I was there) there are. It's a place that I'd totally go back to if it didn't have the line, but with it I don't think I'd return.
Dishes Tasted
- ★☆☆☆ Warabi Mochi -- Not a huge fan of this dessert; the mochi doesn't quite have the chewiness that I'd expect; it has a consistency more like jelly or 凉皮. The rest of the flavor is ok.
- ★★★☆ Inari
- ★★★☆ Zaru Soba Surimiten -- soba with japanese fried fish cakes. The fish cakes are fried really well. I'm usually not the biggest fan of fish cakes, but these were pretty good.
- ★★★☆ Ten Zaru (scallop / vegetables) -- scallops & vegetable tempura. The scallops tempura was a little weird and next time I think I'll stick with the shrimp + vegetables or the vegetables tempura. But it's fried very well.
