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Hatsuzakura
Authentic Japanese comfort food served with warmth in a cozy North Park setting.
4.7
Restaurant
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Authentic Japanese comfort food served with warmth in a cozy North Park setting.
Hatsuzakura is a cherished family-owned Japanese restaurant in San Diego's North Park neighborhood, offering a delightful menu of homestyle comfort dishes. Known for its welcoming atmosphere and exceptional service, this intimate spot features favorites like omurice, curry, chicken karaage, and unique desserts like fruit sando and kakigori shaved ice. With a first-come, first-served seating policy and a reputation for fresh, flavorful meals, Hatsuzakura provides a genuine taste of Japan in a quaint, friendly environment.
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Enjoy hearty dishes like curry, omurice, and hiyashi udon served with soup, salad, and dessert in a cozy setting.
Indulge in homemade desserts such as kakigori shaved ice, fruit sando, and milk bread, plus matcha drinks and cocktails.
Try appetizers like salmon onigiri, chicken karaage, and oven-baked macaroni for sharing or as starters.
Perfect for groups with shareable dishes and attentive service in an intimate, family-owned environment.
Celebrate birthdays or events with personalized, above-and-beyond service in our quaint restaurant.
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Overall rating
Allan L
Cute. Elegant. Food is fresh. Super fresh. Dessert is insane. If you love food, Japanese food, and have been or wanna eat food that closely resembles Japan food taste, come here. Food does take a bit to arrive so be patient. Quality food is on the way. - chicken karage 🔥 so soft and juicy - egg over rice popular thing - onigiris - matcha strawberry dessert 😋 Kind of a hidden spot so everyone there knows what’s up.
Warren Ermish
There are not many places that do yakisoba in the traditional way. This is at the top of the list. It’s one of the first stops I make every time they come to San Diego, and always met with a polite smile from Sharon…..she is the best!. Don’t pass this place up.
Bryce De La Cruz
All food we had was outstanding, amazing service, and amazing atmosphere.
frondan
Great service and amazing food. Had the Onigiri and Omurice. Highly recommend.
Sarah
Serena Hermann
Imo not worth the hype at all. Wayyy too overhyped. I literally think people just hype it up bc it’s Japanese. Everything about this place is just very mid. There are way better places for way cheaper. And ESPECIALLY don’t come all the way down here from LA to try, there are way better places in LA. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not bad, it’s just so incredibly mid. Curry 5/10 Maybe the most unflavorful curry I’ve ever had, it feels like they put zero salt in it to bring out the flavor so it’s just very lackluster. Some more salt or spice would make this better but as it stands it has a lot to improve upon and it’s disappointing that this is their signature. Soup 6/10 Unflavorful, very light, almost like drinking water. Needs more salt or pepper in it or something. Salad 9/10 Surprised me as someone who doesn’t usually like salads, the dressing is very good and really the only thing in my meal I actually enjoyed. Daifuku 4/10 The flavor of the red bean outbalances the strawberry and mochi, all you taste is the low quality red bean. If you’ve ever been to Japan you’ll probably be very disappointed in this place. Really the only decent thing was the service, the waiters were very attentive and nice but you will be disappointed in the food. I honestly recommend the Thai place next door way more for atmosphere and food.
