銀座 Ginza Japanese Restaurant | Bayside — Restaurant in Bayside

2025-10-31 Had a nice time here with some friends. My review as below stands for their ramen. We all agreed that ramen is not the dish to get here.

Today, we splurged instead on the sushi party boat, tuna tartar, fried tofu, vegetable tempura, don katsu, and sashimi platter (for my keto self). I must say, tempura is what they do best here. All their fried foods were top notch. Super crispy with minimal batter, just the Japanese way. Sashimi was good; sushi was ok.

With the number of entrees we had, apparently we only get 3 soups and salads. There were four of us. So there are some Japanese places that will usually just give you a soup/salad so no one feels left out when something like this happens, but they were very by the rules. We ordered another entree later during the meal, and they brought out the soup and salad for that entree.

Server was friendly and on point. Atmosphere is nice and it wasn’t very busy on a Friday lunch time.

Previous Review 10/8/2018

We had the Chirashi and the tonkotsu ramen. I've been having a lot of ramen lately. It seems to be all the new rage in Milwaukee, and everywhere I go, Ramen seems to be a new addition to the menu. That said, I have not yet found good ramen in Milwaukee. My search continues for a ramen place that specializes in real ramen, not ramen from paste. (A lot of these places will make the broth with instant paste rather than with broth they've been brewing for hours. This makes a huge difference. Fresh toppings also make a great difference, but a lot of the restaurants that don't specialize in just the ramen will have everything pre made and just put together before serving. That seems to be almost all the places I've been to in Milwaukee, unfortunately.)

Ramen was too salty. I had to ask for a cup of hot water and add some to dilute it. Toppings were meh, but the noodles were cooked just right. 

Chirashi was very pretty. It came with an ice sculpture and pretty blue lights under the ice. But presentation aside, the fish was not necessarily the most fresh. 

Both dishes were ok, but nothing special. 

On the other hand, we noticed that most people in the restaurant were having rolls or some kind, and they all looked good. So perhaps we just need to come back for rolls rather than the items we had. Oh well. Next time, if we...

How did my wife and I get together you ask? Years of friendship actually, we met in graduate school...I still remember the first time I saw her, the way her blue blouse made her green eyes stand out. She smiled at me you see, but she had a boyfriend at the time and I would have to wait. And wait I did. For years...but the years passed quickly, one "non-date" at a time, where the two of us would meet at restaurants to enjoy each other's company while savoring the joy of sushi. No, ginza wasn't part of our journey to marriage...we had been friends and married for a year before ginza ever came into the picture. You see, we had already believed we had found our favorite sushi place...years of living in the dark until that fateful day we decided to take a chance...on ginza. Now we cannot help ourselves, we haven't gone back it to the others and why would we? The service so quick, as quick as humanly possible without sacrificing the quality and artistic vision that a sushi roll demands. The precautions for safety so thoroughly honored that no other restaurant has rivaled ginza in demonstrating they care about the customers feeling at ease in a pandemic. Should you try ginza? The question is all wrong if you ask me. The right question is why haven't you...

I'm really hoping the owners hear this constructive criticism and improve. The food is great, we eat and take-out from here several times per year.

Ordering online - is a nightmare. I always forget until I'm trying to check out. They FORCE you to create an account to checkout. No guest checkout. Of course you've forgotten the password, because who remembers a random restaurant account password? So then you've got to go through and reset it, getting a link in your email, before you can go back to finish your order. Then, even though you have an account and they can show you everything you've ever ordered, they make you reconfirm your phone number by texting a code before you can place your order. You have made this process so tedious I always ask why I'm ordering at all?

Put a simple guest checkout, that takes no longer than 1...