Kotobuki Japanese Restaurant — Restaurant in Oakland

This might be one of our new spots in Montclair Village!

To preface, when we first moved to the east bay we ordered delivery from this restaurant our first night in our new house and were a bit disappointed, so we effectively left it off our list of places to go… this was our mistake!

The restaurant is no frills, but there’s seating for bigger parties and partitions between tables so it feels roomy. There’s a huge TV broadcasting sports events too.

We happened to go on “customer appreciation night” and were thoroughly surprised by the amount of complimentary dishes they brought to our table. I was already close to full with all this free dishes! I ordered the cold soba dish and that was really good. It even comes with a full order of tempura… we ordered some other small dishes for the kids as well. Overall, we were really impressed by the food and the service; our waitress was so friendly.

We’ll definitely be coming back...

Horrible sushi and extremely bad advertisement, FALSE advertisement! The deluxe sashimi and sushi, its almost $70.00 on doordash for trash. The picture shows uni, amaebi (raw sweet shrimp), hotate (scallop), all higher end items, which would validate the $70.00. But i didnt receive ANY high end items. All I got was tuna, and not fatty tuna, salmon, COOKED shrimp (ebi), and hamachi. Three low end items, and the sashimi and nigiri were the same three fish. No variety. And whats worse is that they all had zero flavor, even the salmon. Oh! And there was a BONE in my salmon sashimi. Terrible. Horrible. Completely false advertisement as the picture does not represent ANY of the items for the price to be compared either. I would not go back. I would...

The staff are incredible, in particular the sushi chefs, however my wife and I can confidently say, we have not found more fresh and delicious fish. We literally order 2 combination dinners (sushi + sashimi) at least twice per week.

I’m writing this review as I’m here choosing to wait(with an Asahi and edamame) for my to go order because of how much appreciation we both have for the quality of their food.

There is love, precision, and such a fresh nature of all their fish that makes it absolutely a must.

We don’t take photos of our to go (because we enjoy it so much) but here is my plate as I am waiting and a hibiscus flower from our yard. The flower is unrelated to this post other than hoping it boosts visibility...