Izakaya Ju

Good atmosphere for a meeting with friends. Place is crowded, it makes sense to make a reservation. Service is good. The food looks simple but made very well. The sauces used make it taste very delicious. I tried a lot of dishes and was positively surprised with all of them. Enjoy!

It’s a decent place for a Japanese style pub like food run by Japanese. There are many Izakaya restaurants in Toronto nowadays and this one offer similar food quality based on my experience. I have started visited this restaurants years ago when the other half was another restaurant selling reman.. thru out the years, these are now my favourite dish: -Mushroom salad - the mushroom are generous and nicely pan fried. -Fried soft chicken knuckle bones - for those soft bone lovers , boy I love it as it freshly fried! Lovely with lemon juice -chicken wing skewersalt - must try!! Nice charcoal aroma with crunchy skin and juicy meat inside -teba gyoza - they stuffed minced pork into a boneless chicken wing and fried them, with the soy sauce that come with the dish, soooo yummy!! These are my personal favourite dish and hope u will like it too if u haven’t tried… Price is not cheap though … so my rating overall is between 3.5 to 4 stars on average..

Stumbled across this restaurant on a Thursday night. Service is great, staff is super friendly. Food came out fresh and piping hot! Everything we tried was amazing.

Like a classic Japanese yakitori place, love the vibe there. Had few cold app, skewer platter, fried chicken and takoyaki, all tasted great with no complain. We wanted to order a 720ml sake but they ran outonly had small bottle, so we end up ordering a bottle of Japanese soju. Should have stock more sake for a nice lzakaya like this.

Came here on a quiet Thursday evening for dinner. I made reservations anyways just in case they got busy. Note: they only take reservations for 6pm & 8:30pm, as they are currently only open for dinner. It ended up being pretty quiet, so food was hot, fresh, and delicious. We came with a table of four, so we ordered a few small plates and rice / ramen bowls to share. The karage was fried to a crispy perfection, and the inside was moist and deliciously seasoned. The agedashi tofu was hot and a wonderful palate-cleanser. We ordered the mixed set of skewers, both meat and veggie: both were delicious, but I enjoyed the veggie one a bit more. The fried rice was a little heavy, being it covered with mayo, but the contrasting textures of the chewy octopus and the slight crisp of the fresh bonito flakes. The ramen was very refreshing: the broth was light, but full of flavour. Service was amazing. The staff were friendly, efficient and very helpful. I look forward to coming back to try more of their menu.

It is too overpriced for what you are getting. The sashimi 12 pieces for $42. Everything else is too small, and doesn’t taste that good. We spent about $100 for 3 dishes below and one beer. The food is not that special.

Izakaya Ju is one of the most traditional izakaya place located in J town.  Many of the new izakaya restaurant offers more varieties than this place. However, because of the good review of their eel rice, I pick it for dinner tonight.  We ordered mushroom salad, grilled chicken salad, baked mushroom and oyster with cheese, takoyaki, fish cake, eel rice, ramen, sashimi platter for 2, grilled whole mackerel and vanilla ice cream.  Overall, the quality of food is good.  The eel rice is not as stand out and personally i won't come back because of the eel rice.  Sashimi is fresh and cut is thick.  Fish cake is a bit lack of flavor.  The chicken salad has some surprise, reason to say that is I don't expect such a large portion and very good taste at the price point of $12.  Finally the vanilla ice cream with brown syrup is excellent.  Very special to end with this for a dinner.

Wonderful. Authentic food and great service. Would highly recommend. Easily one of the best izakaya in town.Food: 5/5

Am amazing food and drinks! Service is great! The sashimi omakase was delicious!

I have been to this place once long time ago probly before the pandemic and I remember it was alright. I happened to be around this area yesterday night and decided to come this restaurant again. Unfortunately, This is the Worst izakaya experience so far. The service is slow, food is overpriced, they also reduced the menu. The first item arrived was agedashi tofu, and I already knew this place has gone down in quality. The tofu is not crispy, the sauce has too heavy ginger taste. The skewers arrived like 20 mins later and was barely warm?! How? Aren’t this supposed to be grilled and served right away? I quickly cancelled the rest of my order and left. I also wasn’t feeling well after I got home. Please avoid this place! Do not recommend!