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    4.6 (178 reviews)
    Closed • 11:00 am - 6:00 pm

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    Strawberry cake
    Emma W.

    Cute little store with a few fresh food items! The cake was super cute and the perfect sweetness. The strawberries were very red & juicy too! It was just a bit small :,)

    Salmon bento box ($11) - 3.5 stars. Just the right amount of food, tasty and healthy. Salmon a tad overcooked/dry. 2024-03-20 Wed lunch
    Ziyan C.

    Very cute little store with tasty bento boxes with just the right amount of food. Only $11 for a box with salmon, some veggies, and tofu. All was pretty tasty, but the Salmon was a tad overcooked/dry. The store is bare bones but also a cute spot with food and gifts. I hear that the bento boxes run out pretty quickly, usually by noon.

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    Ed U.

    I've walked by this Japanese gift shop many times, but honestly, I was never motivated to stop by until recently when I heard through the social grapevine that they were selling packaged housemade food. In particular, I heard they had sandoitchi, Japanese-style sandwiches, just like a Family Mart or Lawson's in Japan. They had closed to renovate the space into more of a grocery store. When I heard they finally reopened as a convenience market, I was so there. Now it didn't really turn into a Family Mart. That would've been wonderful, but they now have a refrigerated section with quite a packaged food collection. Prices were quite reasonable, so I scooped up my lunch to take into Golden Gate Park where I found a quiet bench in the AIDS Memorial Grove. I bought the $8.50 Egg and Pork Katsu Mix Sando which had egg salad on one side of the sandwich and on the other, a huge pork katsu with shredded cabbage and tonkatsu sauce (photo: https://bit.ly/45B7HSi). They used Japanese milk bread which lent it the authentic soft texture I was expecting. I also treated myself to the $5.50 Mitarashi Dango, three skewers of glutinous rice balls (photo: https://bit.ly/45B7Jto). They were covered in a sweet soy sauce glaze. It was all good stuff, quite welcome - though I prefer the more streamlined style of Japanese native sandoitchi, and while I like egg salad, tamagoyaki would've been nice. Still, when I closed my eyes, I felt I was next to the big pond in Ueno Park on a brisk day. But then I opened them and saw a homeless man urinating in the bushes. Welcome to San Francisco. FOOD - 4 stars....good sando and dango, made me want to catch the Shinkansen AMBIANCE - 3.5 stars...looked like they're still organizing things, no cafe seating SERVICE - 4 stars...friendly TOTAL - 4 stars...good to know I now have a source for sando RELATED - Exploring the Sunset? Here's a collection of places I've visited and reviewed: https://bit.ly/2EI8eIJ

    grand opening week only
 second panda I got for $5!
    Chloe C.

    Sakura recently had a grand opening and kinda changed to more of a japanese convenient store. during grand opening week, they had a TON of sales! A bunch of plushies on sale for $5 - I got two cute pandas! I went back the other day and it looks like they're all sold out. I am excited to try their food though - i've only tried their salmon onigiri so far and it was ok. A bit dry for my liking and too much rice, but they seem to have a pretty good size of selection for other foods that I'm excited to try in the future. They do sell out fast on some days so try to go early for fresh food. // edit 8/23/23 came back again to Sakura to try out more food items. Got their (1) chicken katsu sando (2) strawberry sando (3) onigiri again Chicken katsu - a bit disappointing; chicken was relatively dry and overall flavor kinda bland Strawberry sando - cream was super good, bread was dry, wish it had more strawberries because I think the whole sando only had about 4 strawberries Onigiri - was ok; i've had it before. see my onigiri review in the 3rd paragraph.

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    A little gem of inner sunset. Found a great choice of authentic Japanese food and other small things.

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