House of Genji

"Genji @ San Jose In an old building, feel like back to 80’ The food quality is okay and the price is good $ 42 for beef and shrimp. $54 for seafood combo Because many people came to celebrate birthdays, it was very joyful to hear singing all the time."

"We were in search for a hibachi restaurant in the Bay area. Not too many around based on Google Maps. We ended up going here on a Saturday night about 6pm. It wasn't too busy at all at the time but started to get busy about 30 min later. This is a typical hibachi with the same salad and miso soup to start with. The hibachi was the same as well. The cook was very entertaining and friendly. The food was not the best I had at a hibachi but it still tasted good. I ordered the chicken and scallops with fried rice. I think it needed more flavor like garlic and salt. Afterwards, they served ice cream. The flavors they had were green tea, orange, & vanilla. The vanilla tasted good. Everything was a good portion of food. I had to box the rest of mine up. Overall it was a good experience."

"Honestly this place sucked and it sucked bad. Disclaimer: the Chef was REALLY nice and so was the staff that was in charge of cleaning up/picking up plates and the like. To start we had made dinner reservations for 8PM. When we arrived for our dinner reservations we were told to wait. No problem, a little wait is super fine. Well, we weren’t seated until 9:10PM. What was the point of reserving a table if the table wasn’t available? The worst part is the establishment CLOSED at 9PM. The second worst part was we didn’t get our food started on until nearly TEN (10) PM. Almost TWO (2) hours after our reservation had been reserved for. Unfortunately this establishment is unorganized, and the entire wait was in a dingy bar area that smelled like smoke and alcohol which was horrible for the children we had with us. Now because we weren’t served until nearly an hour after closing, the staff rushed us the entire time to eat and threw upset looks. Again, UNDERSTANDABLE. Except I felt that their ire was misplaced. It is clear management has no idea how to effectively and efficiently run a restaurant. It is also clear that they’re taking advantage of their staff/are short staffed to begin with. To make matters even worse the food was OK. Not close to being great but not so horrible that it was inedible. All of that for OK food. I never ever ever leave bad reviews. I firmly believe that most restaurants are allowed to have bad days. From the sounds of it however, House of Genji does this regularly. Management needs a big wake up call and to not over book on nights they cannot handle the volume of customers they are getting. That OR cut off walk-ins when you know you have reservations. All in all I heavily do NOT recommend House of Genji. TLDR; SAVE YOURSELF MONEY AND GO SOMEWHERE ELSE."

"Decent choice for birthdays and special occasions. Double check the shrimp/prawns, many were not deveined well :(."

"Fun experience to watch the chef prepare your meals in front of you. The food tastes great too. Found out they offering free food for your birthday. Will definitely come back for that."