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Mokutanya Yakitori Charcoal, Burlingame, CA

Mokutanya Yakitori Charcoal

4.8
4.8
890 Reviews
$31 to $50
Japanese

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2 people
19:00
Booked 17 times today
  • Charming
  • Good for groups
  • Good for special occasions
Experience Japanese charcoal-grilled skewers, small plates, wine and beer in individual glass-divided rooms with sunken Japanese tables. We strive to source our ingredients locally.

Order delivery or takeout

Additional information

  • Dining style
    Casual Dining
  • Price
    $31 to $50
  • Cuisines
    Japanese, Barbecue, Tapas / Small Plates
  • Hours of Operation
    Dinner Daily 5:00 pm–10:00 pm
  • Phone number
    (650) 348-9388
  • Payment Options
    AMEX, Carte Blanche, Diners Club, Discover, JCB, Mastercard, Visa
  • Dress code
    Casual Dress
  • Area
    Burlingame
  • Cross Street
    Broadway Ave
  • Parking details
    -On-site parking lot<br />-Metered street parking along California Dr. and Broadway Ave<br />-Metered parking lot on Chula Vista Ave (between Broadway Ave and Carmelita Ave)
  • Public transit
    Caltrain (weekends only): We are located right across from the Broadway Station<br />Sam Trans: 292 stops right in front of the small shopping plaza where we are located
  • Additional
    Gluten-free Options, Patio/Outdoor Dining

What 890 people are saying

Overall ratings and reviews

Reviews can only be made by diners who have eaten at this restaurant

4.8
4.8 based on recent ratings
  • 4.8Food
  • 4.8Service
  • 4.8Ambience
  • 4.4Value

NoiseModerate

Diners' Choice Awards

  • San Francisco Bay Area

    Japanese

  • Peninsula

    Best Food

  • Peninsula

    Best Ambience

Review summary

AI-generated from verified diner reviews
Mokutanya Yakitori Charcoal offers an "amazing" dining experience with its authentic Japanese ambiance and delicious yakitori. Guests rave about the "best Japanese spot within a 100 mile radius" and the "fantastic" service. Highlights include the wagyu skewers, ramen, and the unique no-shoe seating, perfect for special occasions or late-night dining.

890 Reviews
  1. Sasima

    Central Coast

    9 reviews

    vip
    5.0

    9 reviews

    Dined 5 days ago

    1. Overall 5
    2. Food 5
    3. Service 5
    4. Ambience 5
    Love the services at Mokutanya, food is always excellent and on even better that this place opens until 2am!!!!! highly recommended for good food and drinks

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  2. Grace

    San Francisco

    1 review

    2.0

    1 review

    Dined on 3 December 2024

    1. Overall 2
    2. Food 2
    3. Service 2
    4. Ambience 4
    We waited at least 15 minutes to get serve after we seated down. Some of the skewers came in were cold. The server even dropped one of the skewer on the floor.

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  3. Don

    Los Angeles

    10 reviews

    vip
    5.0

    10 reviews

    Dined on 23 November 2024

    1. Overall 5
    2. Food 5
    3. Service 5
    4. Ambience 5
    Incredible Rainy Friday night with Old Friends at Mokutanya. Shochu, Yakitori, Asian Pop, in private Japanese Sit Down rooms! Reminded us of late nights spent in Nishi-Azabu in Tokyo! Food was high quality with friendly and attentive Service. Will definitely be going back.

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  4. michelle

    San Francisco

    11 reviews

    vip
    5.0

    11 reviews

    Dined on 19 November 2024

    1. Overall 5
    2. Food 5
    3. Service 5
    4. Ambience 5
    Fun and delicious! Love the no shoe/floor seating, glass partitions which give you and your party a private feel, but most of all the charcoal yakitori. Favs for us are the pork belly, corn, wagyu beef, and the bacon wrapped mochi. Staff was attentive and delightful. Open until 2am so perfect for those late night munchies.

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  5. OpenTable Diner

    New York City

    5 reviews

    5.0

    5 reviews

    Dined on 14 November 2024

    1. Overall 5
    2. Food 5
    3. Service 5
    4. Ambience 5
    Great unique restaurant. Food quality is outstanding and you can taste a great variety of dishes without stuffing yourself. I am very pleased they survived COVID nightmare.

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  6. Allison

    San Francisco

    16 reviews

    vip
    5.0

    16 reviews

    Dined on 14 November 2024

    1. Overall 5
    2. Food 5
    3. Service 5
    4. Ambience 5
    Delicious food, especially the Wagyu beef w/ salt & Pepper and the seaweed salad, but many others as well. Excellent service helping you to navigate ordering some food in the beginning and then more later once you know which ones you especially like.

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  7. Patricia

    San Francisco

    4 reviews

    5.0

    4 reviews

    Dined on 4 November 2024

    1. Overall 5
    2. Food 5
    3. Service 5
    4. Ambience 5
    A new favorite spot! Mokutanya has a wide array of delicious yakitori with the ambience to match. However, it can get pricy here since you pay by the skewer - the quality, however, matches the price. For special occasions, this is a great place to have dinner!

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  8. Jamie

    San Francisco

    2 reviews

    4.0

    2 reviews

    Dined on 3 November 2024

    1. Overall 4
    2. Food 5
    3. Service 4
    4. Ambience 5
    Very friendly staff everyone was warm and upbeat. The skewers were cooked with the best char on them. Our favorites were the lobster, waygu pepper, Waygu spicy and waygu sweet. We also loved the tongue our server recommended, mochi bacon, and pork belly skewers were also delicious. I recommend adding a side of the house made hot sauce it was the best hot sauce I’ve ever had. Cool down the heat with a lychee soju. Creme brûlée for dessert was perfection. We will definitely be back.

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  9. JoAnne

    San Francisco

    38 reviews

    vip
    4.0

    38 reviews

    Dined on 29 October 2024

    1. Overall 4
    2. Food 4
    3. Service 4
    4. Ambience 4
    Nice place with great ambiance. Ramen bowls are huge. Enough for two people. Food overall was good.

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  10. Allena

    Cincinnati

    5 reviews

    3.0

    5 reviews

    Dined on 26 October 2024

    1. Overall 3
    2. Food 5
    3. Service 2
    4. Ambience 5
    Food was great, service was extremely slow. Had reservations at 7pm, didn’t get seated till 7:20 (it wasn’t crowded, lots of seats available but just super slow getting us seated…not sure why). Ordered food and there was a note of the menus that said they make everything fresh so allow for 15min ish to receive food. It took around 40minutes. We ordered a second round of skewered foods before we were finished so that we wouldn’t have to wait as long and they brought out one at a time (with about 10min in between) but didn’t bring out our bowl of rice with any of them! So it was really awkward eating one skewer (without rice) and then waiting 10-15min for a second skewer…the food was great but the service was incredibly slow and it made the experience and the food less than it should have been. We cancelled our last few skewers and bowls of rice after about another 30min because we had waited so long in between our pieces of skewers that we were just ready to go. They gave us a $20 Giftcard to come back which was nice but still the overall experience was not great. Everyone was nice when they did tend to us, and the food, again, great. But the service was slow even though the other tables seemed to be getting served like normal. Not sure what happened.

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FAQs

Mokutanya Yakitori Charcoal offers takeout which you can order by calling the restaurant at (650) 348-9388.

Mokutanya Yakitori Charcoal is rated 4.8 stars by 890 OpenTable diners.

Yes, you can generally book this restaurant by choosing the date, time and party size on OpenTable.

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2 people
19:00
Booked 17 times today

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Google Map for Mokutanya Yakitori Charcoal

1155 California Dr., Burlingame, CA 94010

Additional information

  • Cross Street
    Broadway Ave
  • Area
    Burlingame
  • Hours of Operation
    Dinner Daily 5:00 pm–10:00 pm
  • Price
    $31 to $50
  • Cuisines
    Japanese, Barbecue, Tapas / Small Plates
  • Dining style
    Casual Dining
  • Dress code
    Casual Dress
  • Parking details
    -On-site parking lot<br />-Metered street parking along California Dr. and Broadway Ave<br />-Metered parking lot on Chula Vista Ave (between Broadway Ave and Carmelita Ave)
  • Public transit
    Caltrain (weekends only): We are located right across from the Broadway StationSam Trans: 292 stops right in front of the small shopping plaza where we are located
  • Payment Options
    AMEX, Carte Blanche, Diners Club, Discover, JCB, Mastercard, Visa
  • Additional
    Gluten-free Options, Patio/Outdoor Dining
  • Phone number
    (650) 348-9388
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