Sugidama Soba & Izakaya — Restaurant in Somerville

Okay so it is a good restaurant but the overall quality of the foods and experience do not worth the price.

We have a sashimi deluxe, duck cold soba, one order of sea urchin nigiri, one lobster okonomiyaki, three skewers, one small warm sake and one bottle of asahi. 113 dollars excluding the tips.

The best dishes would be the sashimi, the texture and taste just match the price, but the crab sticks in that sashimi deluxe is kind of ridiculous since you know, most of the crab sticks we can have are not made of crab meat…

My friend and me both love their egg omelet, with dashi and perfect sweetness. Skewers are nice enough too, they’re definitely using the right soy sauce. Soba is just soba.

But I have to mention that the urchins they used for the nigiri are terrible, though creamy, they tasted bitter. And the rice of the nigiri is too warm for a sushi, and the nori almost dominates the flavor of everything else in that sushi…it’s just unacceptable in such a Japanese cuisine.

I guess the flour paste they use for the takoyaki and the lobster okonomiyaki is the same, which you can find all over the place at any restaurant that sells such things. They are using the lobster but it’s hard to taste it…

I think people are supposed to have better dishes at such price. I expected Sugidama to be a more delicate restaurant but I’m wrong. I can’t feel much difference in their recipes or the design of dishes with other cheaper Japanese restaurant.

Hopefully Sugidama will make some improvements. I’m considering to try their lunch menu since that seems...

The best Izakaya I've tried so far in Boston. The food is amazing, but the service was a bit lackluster. Ordered 4 appetizers and 2 entrees. The hotate hokkaiyaki was really good and one of the better ones I've had in Boston. Kalbi was okay, but I feel like some of the other Korean restaurants does it better. Steamed Egg Chawanmushi is good, but I wish they didn't put chicken in it. I just came back from Japan and never have I seen chicken in a Chawanmushi. Grilled octopus is delicious, but wish it came with a shoyu sauce instead of mayo.

The two entrees we got was the cold duck soba with hot dipping sauce and Ebi Kage. Ebi Kage was delicious and the soup was just how we remembered it in Japan. The cold duck soba though...it took almost 45 minutes to come out. My girlfriend finished her entree and still had to wait for mine to come out! I believe the waitress forgot since she came back halfway through the service and asked if I had the hot duck soba. No apologies or anything. Regardless, I think they rushed in prepping my soba because it was pretty wet and the soup did not stick on like how it's supposed to.

Sooooo, main point is the food was great and definitely deserves 4 stars. The service was abhor as I had to wait extremely long for my entree. If the restaurant was busy, I would understand...but it was not. I will try Sugidama again and will update my...

I have missed going to this place even though I have been to Davis square a zillion times. Finally made it. We walked in at 6:30 pm on a Friday, thanks to our early timing that we were able to get seated even without reservation at the bar coz it filled up really fast with mostly people who had prior reservations. Our waitress took our order and right after that there was a small argument between the hostess and her that the hostess had promised the bar seat to another party, it was awkward coz we could hear all of it but thankfully ended in the next few minutes. So lesson learned is that make a reservation at this place. Food was freshly made and some of the items were excellent and others good. My favorite was the hot udon with tempura and even better the scallops hokkaiyaki. We ordered two skewers of chichek thigh and a pork belly , the sizes are pretty small but they were grilled to perfection so no complaints. Also had the torch toro maki which was pretty good but I have had better. Drinks were good too. I only have slight complaint that there were far few waiting staff as compared to the traffic in the izakaya , so felt a bit chaotic when trying to order. Otherwise it's a great place in Davis square for Japanese fare even though it is probably not run by...