Kyoto Japanese Sushi and Steak House

Kyoto Japanese steak house is located on 135th and Metcalf right in the heart of the new vibrant foodie area of Overland Park. The space they own is small but big on the palate and is located right behind Nick and Jake’s and next to Panera Bread. Sushi blew up in Overland Park in the early 2000′s and now these resturants are everywhere like crabs at a spring break beach…. I mean the body lice. However, Kyoto was one of the first….and one of the best. When was the last time that you went out for sushi or hibachi and saw a actual Japanese person make your food.  I have been to Lenexa, Shawnee, And Overland Park and had edible sushi and hibachi and it was a Mexican making it. WTF!! I have done some research on this and I found out that it takes a chef 2 years of school to master the art of making sushi rolls and making sashimi. Also they are trained in the art of hibachi. You know… cutting up steaks and seafood then throwing them into your mouth. Or trying at least. Sure I can probably fillet a piece of tuna, but these guys use the best fish for sashimi and sushi ( If you don’t know the difference then don’t eat at Kyoto…. or find a small piece of metal and put it in a light socket). For example, Shogun in Lenexa is very good for the money…. if you have $10.00 in your pocket. Plus if you look to see who is rolling it (the sushi rolls) for you…. he is not even fucking close to Japanese. I ate at Shogun and the guy making my food was the same guy I picked up at 8:00 am that morning at Home Depot to finish the paint on my deck. You can’t fool me… I know what Japanese people look like. I don’t go out in Overland Park and get pedicures from India people… they fix my lap top. Insert internet porn joke here. Kyoto is the real deal and the best it town… hands down. Unfortunately for this review I only got the hibachi to go, although I usually always get a sushi roll or two along with my meal here.

And here we go. I never call ahead at Kyoto….mainly cause there is a language barrier. I keep meaning to get Rosetta Stone for Japanese but I keep spending it on booze. Here you want to order it all from the bar. They usually give me a free diet coke while I wait which is a plus for me and a nice act of kindness for the waiting patron. But… if you order to go food at a bar in the middle of this recession and don’t get a complementary soda while you wait you should tip less, maybe not go back there for the  great service that you just missed out on, and then take a dump on the bar.  One glass of soda costs .04 cents a glass. It shouldn’t be too tough to win a guest over and still turn a profit if the bartender can keep his/her head out of his/her own ass for 20 min. Anyway if you order at the bar you can see the whole menu, better than the online one, and mark all of the things you might want to try for the first time. I wish call girls were like that. There is a hibachi menu and a sushi/sashimi menu to chose from. I went all hibachi on this day.

I ordered what I always get…. KC strip medium and shrimp for about $ 24.00. But with that price you get sooooooooo much more. Although in Vegas with a tranny this math will not apply. But with my dinner I got a small salad with a wonderful ginger brown dressing that made me almost want to donate money to the ” That was not Godzilla that destroyed your country fund”. I actually started that fund and I am happy to say to date….there is $4.00 in it. Oh well the salad was great and so was the miso soup. They said the soup was made of chicken stock with mushrooms and scallions. Here is what I think… It was made from the vaginal secretions of Megan Fox. And that shit was good as fuck….. I think if we as a country, the US, bottled a couple and sent it to China….. problem solved. If they tasted some of that wonderful elixir they would forgive the debt we owe them. Just a thought Obama….I know your reading this cause you comment on my reviews. Anywho…. my take out also came with a bonus, just like if you ate it there at Kyoto, shrimp appetizers in the Kyoto special sauce to which they would not disclose the ingredients but it was very tasty. All I can say is it was pink and mind-blowing.

The main course was cooked to perfection. My steak was medium as asked and the shrimp were pink and plump like two great tits on $10.00 touch night at Chrome.  There were two accompanying sauces. One was a brown horseradish for the meat and the other was something yellow that made the shrimp POP in my mouth. Kyoto also accompanies their entrees with a butt load of stir fried veggies. Zucchini, sprouts, mushrooms, and something else delicious that I can not recall.  If you ever have the privilege of dining with them or taking it home,  pony up the extra $2.50  for the fried rice…it’s the best in town. This was one of the biggest meals that I have ever eaten on my own, but also one of the best ever.

Some of my readers might thing that getting hibachi from Kyoto to go kind of cheats you out of the experience of really being there and seeing the knife show, or catching shrimp in your mouth for everyone at your table to watch, and  even having the chef make fun of you. These all are all the best aspects of eating out in our great city. But if you have ever been out to dinner with a ex- wife or girlfriend, or just want a quiet dinner at your coffee table with a nice 2005 pinot noir, or maybe just to get a quick bite before you run upstairs to masturbate and sob loudly with a belt around your neck…. Kyoto is great for to go food…. no matter what your situation.

Kyoto in Overland Park gets 5 out of 5 plastic forks. Everyone has stars or some thing stupid like $. I’m going with plastic to go forks. Write it down.

My next review will be a short one on when or when not tip on to go food and all the ins and outs of gratuity.