Kaita - San Jose - 3 stars

Visited on: Often. Latest visit: Sep. 25, 2006

Comments: Recommended for lunch and dinner.

Ordered items:
Grilled beef tongue

Japanese hamburger

Miso marinated tuna with Kaitan soup and sashimi

Salmon-ikura don

General description:
Kaita is in the middle of San Jose Japantown, a good place to get some nice Japanese dishes. Although on the expensive size, Kaita turns out a pretty good array of daily specials that are always quite interesting. A small selection of fish is available for sushi, quality is not bad. Read the daily board and pick from there. The only items I’d avoid are the udon that goes with the daily menu, and hamburger meat. They said they use flat udon, but frankly speaking, I have yet to have any udon that should be as soft, squishy, and breaks apart when I try to lift it from the soup. Either it is bad quality flat udon, or their cooking ruined it. Hamburger meat was really, really dense, and not a bit of juice in sight.

Basic information:

From Kaita

215 Jackson StreetSan Jose, CA 95112
(408) 287-5551
$7.00 and upwards for set meal
Has small izakaya style dishes in the evening