This restaurant offers you great dishes of Japanese cuisine. Don't forget to taste perfectly cooked salmon, soft-shell crabs and sashimi at Kani-Kosen Japanese Seafood Cuisine. Good gin or delicious beer will make your meal even more delicious and you'll surely come back. If you want to try some great tea, this place is a decent choice for you. The homely atmosphere of this spot allows customers to relax after a hard working day. The cute staff works hard, stays positive and makes this place wonderful. Service at this restaurant is something one can call cool. In accordance with the reviewers' opinions, prices are average. Google users like Kani-Kosen Japanese Seafood Cuisine: it was rated 4.7 stars.
Best dining experience, food and service, we've had in a long time. Really special to see three generations of the same family working at a place that's been in business over 30 years. The Kani Kosen appetizer is amazing.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
$30–50
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 3
Recommended dishes
Kani
I searched on google for best food near me and this place showed up. I love Japanese food, lived in Japan for 3 yrs, and was excited to find an “authentic” Japanese place after a King Low Tide hike. It was difficult to find, in a small complex, no street signage. When I arrived the Mama-San approached me stressed, unpleasant, scowling saying “did you make a reservation, we can’t serve you, we are understaffed”. I was still believing this would be the 4.6 rated food experience. The room was 1/2 empty. I was just one person, who would order quickly. She scowled, walked away and the sweet young man approached me, apologized and I thought we were now off to a good start.
The place has the “old world Japanese small restaurant” vibe, with lots of old articles about the place on the wall. I thought I’d found a hidden gem.
Everything looked pretty unkempt, dusty and forgotten—but, still optimistic that the food was going to be special, I pursued. I ordered the sushi sampler, unagi, pickles and miso soup.
The last 2 items were solid. When I flagged Mama-San over to hear about the pickles I got more barking and scowls. “We use shiso!” Was all she could say. I told her how delicious they were, but she had decided to be rude/mean/unfriendly to me, although she was fawning all over her regulars.
The sushi sampler was the worst dish I’ve ever seen or tasted. I should have walked out. It had really old, freezer burned, terrible octopus, avocado rolls, all brown, past it’s prime (no good chef puts a vegetarian item on a sushi sampler, this was a cheap move, in addition to the shock that any sushi chef worth his nori would let spoiled food be served to a guest). There was farmed salmon and something white, maybe tuna. It was so bad I felt sorry for the place, and the exceptionally nice and kind server trying to provide a better experience for me.
The unagi was good, altho the teriyaki glaze was too sweet.
I saw the older man come to the kitchen in his street clothes, but he wasn’t overseeing the quality that night.
I spent $76 and left feeling confused that the art of Japanese hospitality was abducted by an inexplicably rude owner who, from the moment I arrived, was mean, cold and out of line. I can forgive most missteps, but the sushi sampler quality was beyond horrible. The sweet young man brought me lemon sorbet, a kind gesture after a weird and unpleasant experience. Thank you to him. I hope this was just one bad night, but serving such poor quality fish, and the mean owner left a bad taste.
Food: 1
Service: 1
Atmosphere: 1
Very weird place. They sat us without a reservation, which we thought was nice. Service was good, but it took an hour to get half of our order. After an hour plus, still waiting on half of our order, the owner(?)-who has been yelling at the chef for 20 minutes- tells us that the chef is an alcoholic and drunk and going slow. At this point I’m not really sure I want to eat sushi from a drunk chef.
After another 10 minutes she comes to our table and asks me if I want to go home?! I reply, “what I want is to eat, will I ever get my food?”She then tells us that all of the food we had is on the house-kindly kicking us out. So weird. Nothing else was open in the area by this point.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Food: 1
Service: 4
Atmosphere: 1
We got kicked out of the restaurant because we didn’t order a lot. We were not notified that there is a minimum order amount or we have to order drinks. I am very offended by the owner’s attitude and cannot understand why she’s so rude to us.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Food: 1
Service: 1
Atmosphere: 1
