About 1/2 miles from Station Zuid. Mediocre Japanese food. I wouldn't necessarily call it a typical izakaya as one would come across in Minato-Ku. .... but the space is welcoming to a gathering of friends and there is beer and drinks to be had so I guess it can be categorized as an izakaya. Menu is varied enough. Sashimi didn't seem "right off the pier" fresh but it was palatable. i ordered the ebi tempura and it didn't have the light tempura batter as indicated in the picture. It tasted fine but it was more like fried shrimp like you would get at Long John Silvers. read more

Tanuki Izakaya - Ebi Tempura - Japanese Near Me - Amsterdam, New Hampshire

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Must say I enjoyed my dinner at Tanuki Izakaya. I had some lovely Tuna Sashimi. Seaweed salad was fresh and tasty. The fried chicken appetizer was yummmmmmmy!!! Nice miso soup. Over all it was a good meal. I don't eat rolls so can't say if they were good or not. The eel was like meat candy. Freaking delicious. read more

Not as bad selection of items on the menu, however: 1) service can be an issue. Our server forgot to submit an order. Management chalked it up to "a mistake". Can't run a business with mistakes like this - except for locals who want good fish. 2) Beef (tongue and steak orders) is waaaayyyyy over cooked. So, my tip is to request rare, or however you actually want it cooked. Ours came out 180F, which meant either pre-cooked or screwed up. 3) best item way the scallop. Fish better than meats. Chicken set was decent. Watch out for neighbors getting out of their pit seats. It's not "shoes off" and easy to step on or butt swipe your dinner off the table. My neighbor dipped his suit jacket into my miso soup . Just to be clear, that's not the management's fault. So, decent fish, over cooked meat, tight table arrangement and bad service. House brought edamame to make up for outbmissing out order... cost me 45 minutes and I get a 5€ plate? Ayyyyyyy. read more

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Great spot for authentic Japanese food in Amsterdam. Ideal location to go for lunch, not sure about dinner, because the service was slow. I was on the fence between giving them a 3 or 4 star, because they may need to raise the bar in being more efficient when it comes to time management and organisation. They seem a bit off when it came to bringing out our food. I was surprise because culturally in Japan that would be considered unacceptable, but hey this is not Japan, it's Amsterdam. Nevertheless, it's a nice location to shop and eat. read more

Tanuki Izakaya - Japanese Near Me - Amsterdam, New Hampshire

We were staying at a nearby hotel and this looked like a reasonable place that was open late. The location is a bit random; after walking through several residential neighborhoods to get there, but it makes sense since it's in a mall. The place is well decorated, 2 stories, a mix of regular and tatami mat tables for larger parties. Service was pretty fast; we tried a mix of yakitori and octopus. Everything was delicious, but definitely ordered a few items that didn't show up. After asking the waitress, they couldn't find it in the computer, so something got mixed up when we originally ordered. It seems like someone else had this problem from the yelp reviews; I would definitely recommend to double check when you order! I won't fault them too much, I'm was pretty happy with the experience and menu. I'd say the price should only be 2 euro signs too, the individual items aren't that bad 2-4 euros maybe? read more

Tanuki Izakaya - Yakitori chicken heart and liver - Japanese Near Me - Amsterdam, New Hampshire

A friend recommended this for us three girls to have dinner. She told us this was the more authentic Japanese Restaurant in Amstelveen. And their eel rice is both cheap and amazing. It is luck we called to make the reservation, because they recently just moved to a new location near the Zuid Station. Izakaya is Japanese for a type of traditional restaurant. They use to have little wooden house and Tatami (the traditional sitting spot) in Amstelveen. As most of the Japanese restaurant in Europe are running by Chinese, not that they are not good, but sometimes diving is also a cultural experience that you would want to experience in the native way. It must be hard to tell for someone who is not so familiar with East Asian culture, since Japanese and Chinese have so many cultural symbols in general, even the kanji Characters. But this one, I tell you as a Chinese, is more close to the native Japanese restaurant. Now it was bought by one of the Chinese restaurant Tycoons, which also owns Saigon and many other Asian restaurants in Amsterdam, all of them we liked. Like all restaurant owned by the same company, this newly opened location had the decoration style of a typical dutch styled posh Asian restaurant. In a huge shopping mall with big glasses, shining clean simple smooth surface, two floors plenty tables. However, I would prefer the old one with the more small house feeling like in Japan. Although I had never been to the old location, all I can have is my fantasy. :( The menu is unlike most European style menu, there are no categories as starters, main courses and desserts ... which would be easy that you just choose one from each category, but is also boring, isn't it? Instead, they have categories such as sashimi, sushi, grilled skewers, tempura (deep fried), Don(rice dishes). It is worth a while to take your time to slowly go through all of it (there are almost hundred of them) to have a different menu reading and ordering experience. Since we are Chinese, three of us we ordered many small things and shared together. Also we kind of get bored of sushi, which you can get everywhere in Amsterdam or just order take aways that is also good. So we chose some of the grill skewers (beef tongue, quail, chicken gizzards ), three Don(sake chazuke, sake oyako, and unagi), and I insisted on a salmon sashimi. For the price, the portions are kind of small, the skewers are only two for each portion. So after that we ordered another deep fried chicken. Taste is great, but I really want to take back half a star for the over price, if yelp would let me. We end up paying 27 each. Oh, and also for two green teas and a warm sake. read more

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Don't come here. They won't let you feed your children any food thats not from the restaurant!

This is the Tanuki that used to be in Amstelveen. The service is excellent - the servers were very accommodating to my needs and other guests around. I asked for a spicy mayo sauce for my kara age (fried chicken), and the server told me they didn't have it, but offered to make it for me anyway which was super nice. The chicken was fried in fresh oil (it wasn't dark or anything), but it did come out a little oily for my taste. I had to use a napkin to soak some oil out. The sake (salmon sashimi) don was great. The salmon was fresh and fatty and portions were good. Oh yeah, and the lunch specials both came with miso soup. There's plenty of seating here, upstairs and downstairs, and the atmosphere is really nice and modern. I'll definitely come here again and try the dinner menu next time. read more

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It's a good place to grab a quick lunch. Nicely decorated and location is perfect if you find yourself in this shopping mall. I walked in here on Monday afternoon to satisfy my hunger and ordered the lunch special which was 15€ for a miso soup, 3 nigiri, 3 types of sashimi and 1 tuna maki. To be fair I was full after this lunch, next time I would probably opt out for just one roll. Overall I had a good lunch which will keep me energized till dinner. I am giving it 3 stars just because service was quiet poor. Couldn't get anyone's attention for a while, when the entire restaurant had maybe 5 or 6 tables occupied. Also I am such a sushi snob, that this izakaya is just not impressed me at all. Maybe another time, but for now it's just an "okay" place for me. read more

Great prices and good food. The have a HUGE menu and plenty of nigiri choices. They're also open relatively late which is good when I fly in at some ungodly hour. Tastefully decorated. read more

I have been to many restaurants in the Netherlands. This one is hands down the worst one I have ever been to. It started with an extremely annoyed waiter who was acting very impatient as he took our order and really dissatisfied with the questions we had. Then he brought us the wrong order. When I told him that this was not what we ordered he told me "Are you sure? Then why is something else written in my notepad?". He then blamed me for the confusion, saying I mentioned several different rolls which confused him (I did not). Besides the awful service, the food is simply the worst. The rice was undercooked and not sticky enough, so each piece of sushi crumbled as soon as we picked it up with our chopsticks. The roll was sliced unevenly... Come on, you could at least make this minimal effort to create something that at least resembles sushi. In conclusion, stay away! read more

We moved to this neighborhood recently and we wanted to give this place a try on a Sunday afternoon for lunch. It looks like a nice place. But... We ordered only 2 lunch dishes and after an hour we learnt that our guy Somehow did not put our order in.. How difficult it could be to take a simple order? Then they wanted us to wait a bit longer to get something out of kitchen, soon they said if you want to believe.. They ruined our Sunday, great staff and management. Don't let them ruin yours, find another place which works with professionals. read more

We went for dinner and It was just ok. Menu is authentic, but food was average. We tried different kinds of meat skewers: portion size was good for the price, but all were overcooked. We also had mackerel nigiri and we were quite disappointed with the fish quality, it didn't have any of the oily goodness we were expecting. The yaki-onigiri was simply gross, steer away from it. Chicken karaage and corn butter were good. Servers were nice and friendly, but we had to request them to bring napkins and soy sauce. Overall, food is just so-so, but price, ambience and service are ok, so I would have rated this place 3 stars if they wouldn't have charged us for the 2 glasses of tap water we asked for (on top of 2 biers). read more

Was sat... and ignored completely for 10 minutes. Eventually got up and walked out without acknowledgment.

The food was really great, even better than in the old Amstelveen branch. This restaurant is much larger than Amstelveen and, as a result, maybe not as cozy. Still, the atmosphere is quite good. Friendly staff. read more