Kissaten Jin
“I often get Tuna Yukke Soba or Chicken Nanban Soba (or both if I can convince my friend to get the other).”
“So if you gotta go, you gotta ask the server for a laminated hall pass to go nextdoor to Jin's bathroom.”
“My Sukiyaki Don was very savory and the chef was very generous with the amount of ingredients in my meal.”
Kissaten Jin
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
PokéStop Nearby: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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I liked this place better than its ramen counterpart. The interior is almost more like a cafe than a restaurant, and yes, it's well decorated with Asian hints. The waitstaff here was friendly and attentive and food was great.
I got a rice bowl with minced chicken and egg and it was delicious. It was a bit spicy, but the sprouts, poached egg with the meat, seaweed all worked perfectly together. Portion size was good too! Not sure if umami is the word to describe it, but the dish was exactly that, and savory and elegant.
Give this spot a try for your Japanese fix!
Stopped by Kissaten for take-out today to satisfy my donburi cravings. The restaurant itself has a nice, quaint atmosphere and offers a decent variety of donburi and fresh soba noodles. After looking through the entire selection, I decided on the trusty, classic oyakodon. Shockingly, the server told me that oyakodons, along with several other options, were NOT available today. Shouldn't oyakodons be a stable of any donburi restaurant…? Anyways, settled for the sukiyaki don instead. It was tasty, with lots of ingredients and a poached egg! However, I still felt a bit unsatisfied mainly because I really, really wanted that oyakodon. I guess now I have another excuse to return again (which I definitely will)!
Overall,
– Solid spot for donburis (haven't tried the soba yet, but it looked pretty good)
– Take-out service was quick
– Restaurant itself is tiny, with enough seating for maybe twenty customers max
– Worth a visit if you're in the area, otherwise there are probably plenty of similar, if not better, options downtown
Great idea to diversify from the ramen biz and make a new restaurant serving simple lunches and dinners the Japanese way. Rice bowls are definitely a star here. I tried the soba (ikura oroshi) but was not impressed. I would rather go to Cocoron for soba.
We shared a mini obanzai set and chose the 'crispy nanban chicken' as our meat obanzai. Unfortunately, it was definitely not crispy at all. It was more like, "yesterday's sweet and sour chicken in the fridge reheated in the microwave."
On the upside, a friend's sukiyaki rice bowl was very good and very filling.
Unfortunately, the real letdown was the service. We had sat down, and a couple minutes later, received water. And that's it. A couple minutes later, had to ask for menus ourselves. We quickly put in our order and then… waited. And waited. I want to say it was about half an hour, and we definitely saw people who had arrived after us receive their meals first. By the time our food arrived it was so disappointing because we were so hungry we just inhaled it without really enjoying it that much.
Perhaps it was just newbie servers, or a bad day, as we are close to Jin Ramen in general we will try this again and hope they have their act together the next time.
Good move Jin Ramen, good move. Kissaten is a sister restaurant just next door to Jin, complimenting it very nicely. While Jin is still the more popular sister, Kissaten is comforting and less busy w/o sacrificing the taste. If Jin and Kissaten were older and younger sisters in real life, Jin is the pretty popular one, but Kissaten is coming into her own and will soon rise up out of Jin's shadow.
When you've had your fill of ramen lately at Jin, stop by Kissaten for some great rice bowls and katsus and japanese small dishes.
The dishes are quite filling. I got the katsu kurry dish and my friend got the salmon rice bowl. We also shared the japanese small dishes (select three smaller sized portions) you can't really go wrong with any of them. great light affiar to go with main dish. entrees come with salad and miso soup which were good and boded well for the rest of the meal. I'll be back, and looking forward to trying the other dishes.
Forgot to mention, the service is also incredibly friendly. There's seems to be a little friendly with the sister Jin Ramen.
OVERALL: the Jin ramen, kissaten one two punch is unbeatable in harlem.
This is a coffee shop that serves donburi bows starting in the afternoon. We visited this location twice and dined here once. I am rating this four stars because my partner and I enjoyed our rice bowls very much. We got the Salmon and the tuna rice bowls which were both excellent. I definitely enjoyed eating the salmon roe in my rice bowl. The rice bowls are of the same quality as the bowls found at the Ivan slurp shop at the Gotham West market.
It looks like they have a pretty good selection of coffee if you're looking for something different in the neighborhood.
Quick note: The dinning room is small and there are a lot of communal tables. Our dining experiences were different due to the wait staff but I attribute that to growing pains of a new establishment.
Now, as I understand it, normal people don't get debilitating salmon roe cravings.
And those who regularly crave caviar don't tend to live above 96th St.
Well anyway, I was thrilled to happen upon the ikura oroshi soba ($11, includes a side salad), and ikura oroshi ($5).
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The other comfort foods here are hit-or-miss; they taste rather home-cooked. Comforting, sure. The oyako don was on the dry side, the sukiyaki don was a tad too marinated (too salty), the kimchee buta don was only okay…
I don't like Jin Ramen next door at all. But will be back for Kissaten. The sister restaurants share a bathroom. So if you gotta go, you gotta ask the server for a laminated hall pass to go nextdoor to Jin's bathroom. Like high school all over again.
As others have mentioned, the speed of service is baffling here, for the simplicity of the dishes. Three of us came for lunch AND dinner on the same day (lol) and lunch service was slooow, but dinner was pretty prompt.
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Bottom line: The most economical and delicious way to kill an ikura craving–especially above 80th St.
I came here on a Sunday afternoon. I got there at around noon, and there were quite a few people already. They only have large tables, so you have to share them with other parties. My bf got their Oyako-don, while I got their Ikura Sake-don (salmon roe and seasoned salmon sashimi over rice) and iced coffee. The coffee was great (intelligentsia coffee!). The sake-don was good, but I wish they gave me more sashimi. My bf's oyako-don, on the other hand, was quite mediocre and they put way too much shichimi (spicy seasoning) on top of it. The wait staff were nice, although they were a bit slow at times. They have wifi, so stop by if you want a place to work/read and lounge around while enjoying decent home-style Japanese food.
This place is absolutely slow. If you are STARVING, you'd be better off going to McDonald's. Alternatively, show up about 30 minutes earlier than starving, and you'll probably be fine. I've been here twice now, and both times, the service was absolutely turtle-like (and not like a red-eared slider that you've freaked out who needs to jump back in the water-slow, I'm talking about a red-eared slider sitting on a rock sunning itself-slow). Order an appetizer, or don't, but absolutely do not show up here starving.
Now that we've gotten that out of the way, I have to say, the rice bowls here are excellent. There were three of us last night, and all of the dishes had a little something special. My sukiyaki-don had really well flavored beef, with sliced shishito peppers interspersed throughout. Paired with the egg, the whole thing was scrumptious, and I definitely ate more than I should have, it was so delicious. Other people I came with ordered the tasty curry donburi with chicken and vegetables, which came with pickles! The mapo tofu donburi was also well flavored, and in a different style than I'm used to, but still delicious.
I want to try other things when I come here, but the sukiyaki-don really knocks my socks off. At least it's close by!