Yayoi is a Japanese Restaurant located in Cupertino that serves delicious Japanese food.
Come try one of our delicious Teishoku Japanese set meals. Or order other items like Sushi, Unagi, Ramen, Japanese curry or Udon. How about our Sukiyaki or Tonkatsu? Got little ones? They’ll be all smiles ordering one of our Kids Meals.
Don’t have time to dine? We make it easy with our Bento to go menu.
Come to Yayoi! We look forward to serving you soon!
Parking available ️
Sleek, contemporary Japanese restaurant serving traditional teishoku set menus & sake.
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Poi Li
Except for the price tag(no way to get the price tag in US like Yayoi Japan, haha), Yayoi USA serves the good quality of food with good service.
… moreJaya Wen
The ambience is very nice!
The chicken katsu was super light and crispy.
We love the serving ware. Very pretty.
Highly recommend the Gozen. Great variety of dishes.
We like the rice.
… moreJoanne Porter
My two kiddos love it here. Of course the grown ups love it too. Everything tastes amazing and fresh. I was so full so I took my dessert to go. Also very rarely will I give 5 star reviews and this place gets 5 stars. Best food ever.
… moreMike
Hitsumabushi was amazing, it was very close to what I had in Tokyo – the only difference may actually be the condiments instead of the eel itself – that’s how close it was. A pleasant discovery.
Tonkatsu leaves a LOT to be desired however – really need to go back to the drawing board with this one. forget about worth the money, it was almost not worth the calories and I’m not even on a diet!!
But Hitsumabushi was good so still 5 stars
… moreYS Huang
Whenever I crave Japanese tonkatsu, this is the place that comes to mind. The crispy tonkatsu, paired with the sauce and freshly ground sesame seeds, is incredibly fragrant and authentic. I’m really happy to have found such delicious tonkatsu here in the U.S.
As for the salmon don, it wasn’t as enjoyable—it had a strange bamboo-like taste that overpowered the freshness of the salmon. I’ll probably skip the salmon don next time, but I’ll definitely come back for the tonkatsu.
… moreCharity
Went around 2hrs before closing time and we were immediately seated. I hear you usually have to wait. Had two servers who were decent (esp the female server). Ordered via a tablet. It makes ordering easier. Other than the photos shared in this review, we also had tamago yaki, which was the only dish I didn’t like (too firm and salty for me), and Sapporo beer. Food there is good overall, but quite overpriced. The sushi was actually decent, which is harder to find around here. They also give free rice refills, but the portion sizes are on the smaller side so idk if anyone would need additional rice. The rice isn’t bad for the area as it’s been hard to find good quality Japanese food in the area. But unmemorable. Those 2 sushi rolls in the photos are just under 5 bucks each, and despite being delicious, they can be eaten in one easy mouthful. That’s a decent guage for the overall pricing for everything. We paid close to 100 usd for what we ordered (!!!), but I had a nice time with good company so I may go back whilst I’m holidaying in the area. Definitely not a place I’d go more than twice on my trip though due to the price. Beer came in a pretty and chilled glass. The tables and chairs were clean. They had subtle music (reminded me of new age jazz) that wasn’t blaring/obnoxious/pop. The upscale atmosphere seems just right to grab a beer and some appetisers. On the downside, they use poor quality disposable wooden chopsticks that splinter everywhere. Their bowls are cheap and do not match the nice food they serve. But at the end of the day, I took a star off because the prices are steep and that’s really all.
… moreS H
The atmosphere is great. You order through a pad device, which you can track the process of order. If you need help, you can select the help you need from the help menu on the pad device, too. The price may look a bit higher than other Japanese restaurants, but it has already includes tip, so it’s quite reasonable. There are quite a lot of selections on the menu. We enjoyed the food we ordered, except the beef sukiyaki is a bit salty for me. The presentation of food is very nice, too.
… moremike d
Been looking for a new Japanese jointogo to. Visited a friend of mines house, this was across the street from him. He never visited, always busy he said. Glad I went here with him today.
Delicious katsu curry, and he had sukiyaki. His broth was delicious. Katsu cooked very nicely, curry was delicious.
Server was very helpful guiding us through the menu.
Will definitely come back here.
… moreA S
I love teishoku, and used to look forward to the opportunities to dine out in Japan when living there. I was so happy to find out Yayoi opened when I moved back here from Japan, and that there were also a few more on the peninsula that opened around the same time.
Only recently within the past 10years or so, Japanese franchises have started to expand internationally into the American market and Yayoi is one of those franchises.
They serve traditional Japanese dishes that are delicious and are what you would typically find in Japan.
… moreSheng Yang
Service are great.
Food, not so much.
Ramen is very disappointing, consider it’s from a restaurant. The noodle is overcooked. Minimal amount of soup. Favor is just so so. Hard to compete against any ramen shop in town.
Omaze don looks beautiful. But when you mixed it together as instructed, the mouth feel is way too slimy, even with fresh salmon. I can understand someone might like it. But combining okra, Japanese yam and natto is too much for me.
Services are impeccable though.
Not sure if I am getting the signature dishes, but also not sure if I want to try anything else here in the future.
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