J’s Teriyaki

J’s Teriyaki is one of those places you want to love because the owners are amazing. They are always friendly and greet you as you walk thru the door. Customer service is good, except if they both head back to cook your order. Then you kind of just sit by yourself in a empty space.
The dinning space is small. There are only a handful of tables and seats. There is little walking room around the restaurant and its very small since the front counter sticks out to accommodate the kitchen. Overall the décor is plain.
The food was average. The egg rolls comes in 2 cut in half. Just your plain frozen egg rolls found in the store. The chicken Katsu was tough, overcook. The salad was your normal teriyaki place salad. I enjoy the dressing on the salad. Portion are nice, on the larger side.
Overall just an average teriyaki. It’s normally pretty fast, because there has never been a line here since I walk by it almost every evening.

So I saw their grand opening sign earlier this week and decided to try out this new teriyaki restaurant. There is a lot of competition in the teriyaki market in Auburn, so I hold these places to high standards. I went in at an off time after lunch.
The Good.
Service: Good, wasn’t able to do a half hot and spicy and regular teriyaki, but was able to add hot sauce to the order. Menu is clear and easy to read.
Establishment: Clean, and well kept, then again its barely 1 mo old.
The iIffy.
First sauce: Watery consistency, salty and not to much flavor from it. Seems its trying to imitate a true Japanese sauce.
Hot sauce: terrible, very odd chile flavor that was sickening sweet. Im glad I didn’t get a order of hot and spicy.
Chicken: I went to this place at about 3pm. The chicken was char broiled and tough. It had seemed it wasn’t cooked fresh.
Rice: Good, std white rice.
Salad: Iceberg style with a decent sesame honey style dressing.
Conclusion:
Would I go back… No, I there are other establishments that offer a better product.

A new little place in front of Top Nails in downtown Auburn. A lot of their stuff is gluten free. But ask first. I had the chicken teriyaki. Very good and didnt taste greasy or have teriyaki sauce over poured on it. The hubbs had their pineapple chicken teriyaki. That was really good as well. The sauce for the salad was different than other places but you can tell its home made. The owner is super nice. Great little place. In general, ill definitely go back.