Date Visited: 29 August 2013
Meal: Dinner
Diners: Me & Wendy
Experience: Leesburg has a new Japanese restaurant! Japanese Kitchen is located in the Fort Evans II shopping center along with Buffalo Wild Wings, Jersey Mike’s, Pho Royal, CiCi’s, and DQ Grill & Chill. They also have a location in Ballston, which seems to have been there a while.
We arrived at about 8:00 PM on this Thursday night, and there were only two other parties dining besides us. There was a weird, industrial-emo-jazz music channel playing. Our server was Donald (apparently the only server at the time) told us they had been open for about three months, but were not doing any advertising yet, in anticipation of a grand opening sometime.
We started out asking for hot tea; we got glass cups with green tea bags in them. Strange. We ordered Edamame for an appetizer, which was cooked just right and a generous portion. I ordered the Korean BBQ Beef Tenderloin Bento Box. The miso soup and seaweed salad were kind of average, but the Korean beef was really a surprise - very tender, juicy, and came with crisp grilled onions perfectly done; a real treat. The steamed shrimp shumai (dumplings) were also quite good, and not soggy.Wendy got the Tempura Udon. I didn’t get to try the tempura, as she downed them before I had a chance for a sample, but she said they were crispy and delicious. I did get to try her noodles and they were also enjoyable and toothsome!
Since we were there kind of late, towards the end we saw the chefs come out to eat their own dinner. All the staff (except Donald) looked Japanese to me, and their website has a similar authentic feel to it. We’ll probably come back and try some of the sushi rolls, as they looked pretty good too. Give ‘em a try yourself!
Location: 516 Fort Evans Rd. NE, Leesburg, VA, 20176, 703-777-8917
Web site: http://borurestaurants.com/
Total bill: $45.99 + $10.00 tip = $55.99
3 comments:
I visit your site often. Hope to see an update soon!
We tried the Japanese Kitchen when we first moved to Leesburg Nov. 2013, and our experience was on a Friday night. We were unimpressed- slow service, the sushi wasn't that good, and the atmosphere place was depressing. Also witnessed the sushi chef being not so nice to the waitress. We live around the corner and am at the shopping center for various needs a couple times a month, and the place always looks empty and they constantly have new "Hiring" signs up. I suspect it won't be around for much longer.
Indeed, it was closed by Labor Day. Slow service, okayish food.
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