Izakaya Sakura-lunch

Well.  You have found yourself at mmm-yoso!!!, the food blog.  Kirk is busy with work, recovering after a long vacation.  ed (from Yuma) is busy with all sorts of things yet enjoying an early Summer day (within Yuma).  Cathy is busy writing short posts for the blog.

It seems none of us has done any posting about Izakaya Sakura in about a year, yet if you go to the "search" box just at the upper left of this page, you will find that there are 959 mentions of "Sakura" on this blog.  It's time to blog a more current mention of this favorite 'hidden' spot.

I say 'hidden' because Izakaya Sakura has no signage-on the street or the building in this mall, anchored by The Original Pancake House.  Those three yellow awnings in the center cover the windows of Izakaya Sakura, which is next to the Armed Forces Recruiting Center.

There was a fire in one of the adjoining buildings a few months ago and Sakura had some remodeling done which included adding some window seating as well as putting the alcohol refrigerator slightly out of view of everyone. However the menu, food preparation and prices have remained about the same.

As always, a wet towel is brought out before the meal, along with chopsticks a napkin and my beverage of choice, hot tea.

There are always two lunch menus brought out; the regular one with many choices and the menu with a description of the Bento of the day written in English on one side and Japanese on the other.  Only ten of these are available at the price of $12.  Not only does it include miso soup, salad, a dipping sauce and preserved vegetable, but various preparations of beef, chicken, fish, shrimp and egg as well as the noodles with roe, pickles, warm radish with a pork sauce and rice.

I chose the "fish with mushroom" for my meal ($9). As you can see, it is accompanied by the miso, salad, rice noodle salad, pickles and rice.  I had never ordered this before and was very pleased to see the quite large piece of fish was fried -in a very unique way- so that the crust stayed crispy crunchy for the whole meal even though it was covered by the very tasty three mushroom-spinach-egg sauce. As always, all of the food was excellent.

I hope everyone is having a nice weekend.

Izakaya Sakura 3904 Convoy Street San Diego 92111


 
  

Comments

[Dennis]

Hi Cathy, I was just here with friends today. Hope you're doing well. Cheers

[Cathy]

Always excellent food here, Dennis. I'm better, but still ache.

[ed (from Yuma)]

Glad to see the report. Those lunches look good. One more place I need to get to when I get some time for a visit. And you are right about me being busy with all sorts of things!!

[Cathy]

We take Sakura for granted with all of its great food, ed. Always enjoy each meal here. In addition to being busy, you seem to have some serious heat!