Muracci's Japanese Curry & Grill

Take your money somewhere else where they run their business honestly. I feel completely cheated by this business. I bought the tempura prawn donburi and it was like 80% breading and 20% prawn. The breading was so thick to the point where the prawn had no flavour at all. If I’m going to pay that much for lunch, I want at least a full prawn in my dish. It looks almost as if they sliced the prawn into many thin strips and fried each one. You don’t scam customers like that. It’s wrong. Very wrong.

[Take out only] Muracci’s curry is legendary! Oddly enough, this my first time eating their katsu curry! Fried katsu (pork) cooked upon order with choice of white or brown rice. The main comes with accompanying cabbage which is pickled (yum) and there is the traditional red pickles too. The katsu is the key point though, right? Crispy, with the finest panko type coating. Delicious! The pork is flavorful and quite a thick cutlet. Satisfying the most voracious appetite, this dish really hits the spot! This shop is the only one in the city. Their other outpost is a sit down restaurant in Berkeley. I say go here and get curry anything. In fact, with a good sauce like this I’d happily eat rice & curry sauce alone. A plus: Muracci’s lets you choose the level of hotness of the curry sauce. I like that!

Veggie udon was a delicious and hearty way to warm me up on this cold winter day. Noodles had perfect al dente resistance, vegetarian curry was mildly spicy (as ordered), had a lightly creamy texture (starchy, not dairy) and the tofu was fresh and silky instead of fried (my preference). I only needed half the curry on the noodles so will save rest for home use. Notes: Takeout only but open til 7pm Yellow curry will stain so use your napkins strategically! To the Veggie Freaks like me: I would like if there were more veggies but that’s how I feel about most dishes like this anywhere. If I take home, I typically supplement with my own veggies.

15 years of patronage, thousands spent, I can’t go back. I started going to Muraccis in early 2009. It’s always been in the same location, but it did used to have a few inside chairs. My coworkers and me would go religiously, 2-3 times a week on average for a few years. My job would move in and out of the downtown area, but I would always look forward to going back to Muraccis. 15 years later and the food is still great, the service is awful. They made a mistake one order and gave me an incorrect dish, I got 40% of what I ordered. No big deal, mistakes happen, surely they’d make it up to me in some small way on the next visit. A week later I return and explain what happened to the lady at the front counter, she calls to the manager in the kitchen. I’m just looking for something small. A free croquette, a small discount. The manager doesn’t do anything for me, says she’s stuck working and I can give them the last 4 of my credit card and they can look into it possibly, but makes no promises and makes no effort to act on this. She didn’t seem remorseful at all, had an annoyed and rushed tone of voice, or even come to the counter and get the last 4. At least show a tiny bit of emotion, come to the counter to talk for 20 seconds. I run a retail shop and this is how how you should handle customer service.

Not what it used to be 😔 I got the medium spicy katsu curry, and the curry was extremely salty. The rice did not help Also much more expensive than I remember for takeout only, this was $19

The chicken Kaarage is really worth for the price, amount of food and flavour of the food + the sauces. Got the pork katsu but spicy and I think that’s why I didn’t like it. Will definitely come back to try it but mild instead. Feel that the katsu is slightly overpriced but not terrible. Also the bag is 25 cents which we didn’t need as we went down the street to eat at the bubble tea shop.

Delicious katsu curry! The hot is actually pretty spicy for Japanese curry too. The guy taking orders was super friendly even while being busy. It’s small with just a few tables outside so have a backup place in mind to take your food just in case.

Katsu curry was good, chicken was tender, curry was flavorful. I got the large karage too for $9 the flavor is good I wish they will fill it up all the way to the top since i paid for the large karage it looks like i got the small portion but in a larger container.