Kyoto Teriyaki Restaurant — Restaurant in Puyallup

Bland, overpriced. The food was bland. Very mediocre.

Miso soup costs about $6. For the quality, I'd pay 50 cents. It looks like packet miso soup. I always get miso soup from Japanese restaurants.

Tempura sauce tastes like water. Luckily, we have a mass-produced bottled tempura sauce that we almost never use when we order out because it is supposed to be inferior. Little did I know, we would be given colored water.

Meat was tough, especially the chicken and the "shrimp" tempura. Like it's a week old then thrown in the oven.

Their meals costs anywhere from $13 to $20. I WOULD pay this much for Japanese if it was good, especially for niche - like katsu curry, or eel. I was expecting more from the teriyaki, but it came with very little rice, and some shredded cabbage that Asian restaurants usually put under fried food. It's not even funny anymore. for $13, I'd have expected a macaroni salad or anything better than sliced cabbage.

Their sushi, is very mediocre. Like supermarket store mediocre, but costs more. Everything just costs more.

I'd argue that you'd better off going to some place like Safeway.

Now, was I just unlucky? Maybe, but first impressions last. They were about 10 miles away, and had to pay exorbitant delivery fee to try their food, because they would get the food earliest to us (it was 10:15am, most restaurants open at 11). But as soon as I placed my order, they changed delivery estimate time from 11:15 to 11:45. I should...

As we told the employees, "Our complements to the chef and all the staff". This didn't feel so much as being a restaurant, rather it felt like the extension of someone's home.

From the front counter staff to the back of house staff, we didn't feel rushed or hounded like other restaurants.

Now for the food.

WOW! OH, WOW! We ate everything we could and took the rest home with us. The portions were very generous and the beef teriyaki was some, if not in the top 2, of the best we had ever had.

Now to explain the portion sizes, we had enough rice after we ate our fill to come home and make fried rice for both of us and our 18 year old son and still have left overs. The left over teryaki we had was more than enough from our lunches.

Next time we are in the same area we will be stopping...

Wanted to give this place a try, ordered spicy teriyaki, gave an incredible tip because I respect and want to support food workers during the pandemic. When the lady brought out my food she said "teriyaki" and I asked if it was spicy teriyaki, and she said "No you ordered regular teriyaki, spicy costs more" .... I told her I asked for spicy and I payed for spicy, she insisted that I didn't, even though I pointed it out on their menu and had the receipt. She just kept saying "okay, thank you" and practically shewed me out the door. She was being less then nice to me even. I'm not sure if that's normal for this place But the customer service alone makes me never want to go there again. I hardly ever post reviews unless they're...