Muracci’s Japanese Curry & Grill
Style: Japanese Curry and Grill says it all (more curry than grill)
Total cost: $8.21 (main + free water)
Plus: different from the norm, made fresh when you order, decent portions
Minus: a bit on the slow side, could be a total pain to deal with when busy, no beer, limited seating
Overall grade: B+
All in all a decent place.
Tiny little hole in the wall with a Japanese cartoon face outside bigger than the actual interior. Staff is friendly and easy to deal with but the actual process of how things are supposed to work in terms of ordering vs. receiving is a be lacking in detail.
Obviously a mom and pop shop, which is always nice to support. Also good to go to a Japanese restaurant actually run by Japanese.
Has a limited number of counter stools to sit at though doing so could be annoying since the place is so small it hardly has room enough for people to both arrive and leave.
Definitely a popular spot for the local office crowd, but certainly being brought back to the desk to torment their co-workers with the ever zesty smell of curry in the afternoon. Curry is certainly the norm, but went with the Katsu Don (image attached) which consists of a breaded pork cutlet deep fried and then placed on top of rice with a fried egg on top of that.
Definitely different from the normal sandwich fare, but not something to be done on a daily basis. At $7.50 plus the new 9.5% tax it hits at the higher end of the price range. Not a bad price, but not a stampede a Walmart employee deal either.
Decent amount of pork and about two pounds of rice, so you could certainly use a walk to the Golden Gate Bridge afterwards; too bad everyone is no doubt stuck staring at a spreadsheet in a rice induced coma instead.
review by JJ
