Japanese Village - Edmonton

This was our place to treat family and friends. We spent over three decades thousands of dollars in this restaurant. The 2020 review says the sauces have been changed to make them gluten-free. Our chef said that there should be a longer shelf life when it is sold. Or perhaps the change to tinted and powdery ingredients was only a cost-saving measure. Whatever the reason, the sauces have completely ruined the meal. No tea, no sherbet, no bean sprouts, no classic sauces. Such a shame. It is unlikely that we will ever be happy again, I can make some decent copycat sauces, but it is still sad that the Japanese village will no longer be part of the traditions of my family.

I noticed that most restaurants want to go healthy, so now is the one thing they do to change the sauces. One of the Japanese main sauces they have changed was the dip sauce for their steaks and which you pour over the rice....They have gone gluten-free. It doesn't taste the same. It's irrigated ****. We were with another couple and when we started eating, we all looked funny and said something was going on.... That was the one thing I loved to JV without ever changing. Very predictable place to eat great food UNTIL this night. We asked the cook and the waitress and they were very koy about it. Soon the cook admitted that they changed the sauce for gluten-free. Did I say it tastes like ****? The main meal spoils. I went to the manager to think about complaining, maybe if there are enough complaints, they will change it again or better, but HAVE 2 crazy options. Is that the PRETTY? 2 options. Well, we waited a few months and went back to talk to them about whether they have changed their minds or at least have another option and do not use it. So Inconclusion, a restaurant that we loved to go at least twice a year, spend a few hundred dollars each time, we have decided to return there unless they change from this Pukey gluten-free sauce.

We went to Jubilee Dinner on Sunday. The place was not very busy. The service was good. The show was okay. The food was good except for my steak as it was grislly. The manager formed for the bad steak. I'd go back if this Kovid... the thing goes away.

This is the second time in this 2940 Calgary Trail site in the last 2 years, and although the Cook is setting on a good show, the food is just good and far from being exceptional. The only reason we came here for the second time is... because of gift cards we had to use up, similar was the first time for gift cards, otherwise we prefer other restaurants for high quality steaks, shrimps and lobsters. The Ribeye 12 ounces and Fillet Mignon 7 ounces we received were just fine, as the quality of the cut was only not all the good, little too much Chewiness for supposedly high quality meat cuts, especially compared to the first time we were here when the Fillet Mignon was excellent and mouth watering delicate. The Carribean Lobster was good and was quite big. The Yaki Yaji Shrimp was good, but I would not recommend the shrimp reminder by myself as simply too small of a part even for the smallest person. Some of the other Teppan-Yaki-Dinner combos were also quite small, so better to ask the waiter. One of the biggest problems I found is that the cook likes to prepare the vegetables (Zucchini, mushroom) early, so that until the time of the meat comes, the vegetables already begin to get cold. Japanese village offers a bowl of rice, and then bean sprouts to try for the smaller meat portions. The prices in the Japanese village are excessive for food quality, but this is mainly because you really pay for cooking show entertainment. The exhaust ventilation at our table was quite loud that it was difficult to conduct a reasonable conversation. But still not as bad as the first time we were here, when the sound in the restaurant was unbearable and very annoying to say the least, as the big table next to us was super loud and tried to reverse continuously in the background and throughout the restaurant through an extremely loud exhaust ventilation system. Some restaurants are just too loud, and the Japanese village is one of them!

We enjoyed the chef as he prepared the food in front of us and added some humor along the way. They had a magician come over and showed some tricks to the kids which was a big hit.