Yakitori Kokko

Yakitori Kokko is a japanese restaurant Downtown San Mateo San Mateo located in United States.

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  • Phone

    (650) 401-7008

  • Website

    yakitorikokko.com

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    120400258010859

  • Type

    Japanese Restaurant

Address

509 2nd Ave (at S Claremont St) San Mateo , CA 94401 United States

Reservations Yes
Credit Cards Yes
Outdoor Seating No
Menus Dinner
Drinks Cocktails

Comments / 44


Keywords:

beef tongue enoki chicken skin quail eggs pork belly great value skewers bacon good for dates seaweed salad meats liver casual green chili salad greens corn miso dinner bar gizzards
Lisa

Lots of good skewers ! Order the beef tongue for sure! Also chicken thigh and kaarage. I like the skewers with salt better than with sauce. Don't forget to try the green chili . It's lemon-y!

Patrick Wang

The food here is decent. You don't get to eat these kinds of food everyday. The sesame ramen is really unique. The only issue is you must make a reservation the wait is intense.

Kyle Kummer

Thoroughly indulged myself with calamari and multiple skewers (3 pieces each):quail egg wrapped in bacon (amazing), fish with cheese (good), pork belly with sauce (great), and beef tongue (excellent)

Camilia

Reservation is needed if you want to avoid the long waiting time. Food is delicious.

Ann Marie Alanes

Food is excellent! Easy to wave people down for service. If you like alcohol but don't like tasting it, order the Homare Strawberry Nigori!Pistachios are served alongside ice cream to balance flavors.

Jiwen Cai

Made a reservation earlier and get called less than 2 hours before the reservation that they cannot keep the reservation for us since there is a bigger group coming in for party... quite frustrating..

Vic Zaud

Calamari is pretty amazing. If you like eggplant , I recommend the Dengaku Miso . Black sesame ramen is spectacular.

Darren K

Yakitori ! Also raw octopus and squid ! It's better than Mokutanya and Sumika.

Tara Munikar

Yakitori here is delicious!Mizuna salad greens go great with all the meat!

J S

Must orders: Beef tongue , grilled rice ball , gizzard , chicken karaage , bacon enoki , tori soboro don

Priscilla Wong

a personal fav, the fish cake with cheese . everytime I order this, I try to find the cheese . seriously, where is it? it's there.... O_o

Melanie Chew

Their black sesame ramen is bomb. Better than a lot of ramen places , actually.

Christian Feng

Skin subpar, pork Belly and Kalbi are pretty good. They take reservations .

Ruby Briones

Love this place!!! :) great food an awesome ppl!!! The Owner is so funny and great Chef !

Wendellen (Wendy) Li

If you ask for hot tea , boys get blue cups and girls get pink cups...heteronormativity?

Jessica @trufflefrites

There's Yuzukosho on tap via the condiment holder on your table. YES. put it on everrrything.

Ruby Briones

Great food and atmosphere!!! :) the owner and his co-workers are so nice and friendly !!!

Tom Treanor

The buta bara (pig belly) is great. Just like Japan. A guilty pleasure

Mingfei Yan

Love all the grill here. Very authentic !

Patrick Johnston

Try the black sesame ramen

Sherry Li

Tsukune, tomato and bacon , eggplant are good

Johnny Wu

Best. Calamari . Ever. Dont get the squid .. it's liquid death.

Peng Zang

Reservation needed if you don't want to wait a really long time

Yoko Rizzo

Try the spicy miso pork , bacon wrapped cherry tomatoes , ginko nuts & shishito peppers !

Justin Tsui

Make a reservation - just do it

Derek Liu

Miso beef tongue excellent

Joy Yang

Skewers everything!

N H

Fabulous. Like eating downtown Tokyo

Andrea Kuszewski

We waited over 45 minutes to get our food, which trickled in little by little over the next 40 minutes. Was disappointed by the slow service and extremely loud atmosphere. Food was good, though.

Frances Kuo

Crowded !! Make reservations . Good prices for the portion

Josh Y

The skewers are just ok. The salmon tacos and chazuke are better and more impressive.

jane t

Get the enoki bacon it is the best thing ever

Sam Yoo

Get the Smelt!

M Chiang

Butter corn is delicious

Michael Wang

Awesome seaweed salad !

G S

Fish liver is awesome!

Brian Bulkowski

Yakitori sake

Brandan Njagu

Chicken skin

john Redondo

Try the (Kawa) chicken skin EXTRA CRISPY !!

Richmond Escolar

Quail eggs on skewers . Get them.

Gaku Ueda

Their yakitori is authentic japanese . yum yum.

Kevin Ng

Try the Cartlage!

Bryan W.

Beef tongue skewers ... get 'em!!!

Chio Burga

Yakitori!!.. ????????????????????????????????????

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