Description

This place has been around for decades feeding the hungry Financial District types who want a drink at the cocktail bar or a piece of tempura freshly fried at the tempura bar on the ground floor. Upstairs, where the tables have built-in grills, is for those craving sukiyaki and downstairs is where to find soothing shabu-shabu broth. The food is uniformly toothsome and everyone from the tempura chef, to the bartenders, to the wait staff is gracious, in keeping with the decor. Its surroundings bring a Japanese country inn to downtown San Francisco, although here the seating is on cushioned benches, not the floor as is traditional.