Chef JUN

A hidden gem!

Super fresh and tasty sushi. Excellent service and always plenty of seating. Love this place for a casual date night!

Visited Chef Jun on a weeknight around 7PM. There is plenty of parking in the lot. The place was spacious but packed. Fortunately, we were seated quickly @ the bar. We were able to place our order right away, but every dish took about 15-20 minutes to arrive. In total, we were here for over 1.5 hours.

I ordered the Jun San ($48) from the Kappo by Jun section, which I initially thought was fairly priced to taste a variety of food. However, considering the time it took for each dish to come, and each being a small bite/portion, this menu selection truly left a lot to be desired.

The 4 pc chef-choice sushi was brilliantly crafted and were all so unique. Really hard to choose a favorite. I love oshizushis, and was thrilled that this order came with salmon oshis. The bites were tiny, but so delicious. We received the negi-toro as our chef-choice hand roll and it was beautifully presented.

Everything was yummy, but I would only recommend coming here if you have a lot of time to spare, and order a couple extra appetizers for the in between wait.

Truly outstanding. Service was amazing, with detailed explanation of the extensive (and reasonably priced) menu and great monitoring of our needs and rush to help out. For example my wife dropped her chopsticks and from across the room a waitress not even assigned to our table rushed over to replace them!

There are four tiers of what is essentially omakase. For the third highest tier, we got really outstanding dishes including a fresh scallop in mango sauce and raspberry and a super buttery thin slice of lightly toasted fish on rice. Truffle slices and truffle salt was used in three separate presentations (not just in the omakase). The excellent waiter advised that the kitchen would gladly modify dishes, so for example when we expressed a preference for aburi (lightly toasted) belly sushi, that was done for three of our omakase pieces.

We loved this so much -- and we are extremely picky sushi eaters from San Francisco and New York City--that we made a reservation for tomorrow as well!

Totally recommend.

My new favorite spot in SD for sushi! A friend of mine if obsessed with this place and had only had takeout from here the many times she had gotten it, so we finally decided to go in for sit down. We already love the takeout quality and were blown away with how it got even better at the restaurant. We love this place to say the least. All the rolls are delicious. My tops are for sure the orange , sunrise and avati. On top of the delicious food, our waiter was just so helpful, attentive and accommodating to our needs. The ambience here is fun for a sushi date or nice dinner with friends. Would recommend a reservation, we had a group of 5 on a Friday night and made a reservation in advance. It did get a little crowded inside and a few parties waiting outside. Parking is also a little chaotic in the lot, but there is some street parking.

I have been to a few Sushi places in the PB area, and Chef Jun is my go to place, not impossible to get into, and the staff is friendly. Most importantly the Rolls and Nigiri Sushi is fresh, tasty and at a reasonable cost. We started with the house salad, they were kind enough to split it into two bowls. The salad dressing is delicious, so much so, the sell it to take home. We got the lemon roll which was great, it had a nice touch of lemon zest to give it a citrusy kick. The tuna, salmon, yellowtail and albacore was a good portion, and has the right mix between rice and fish.

The food, service and ambiance are really good. Had a couple of rolls that were delicious and well made. The sashimi was thinly sliced though very fresh.

We saw the many raving reviews and decided to try it out. Even with the more affordable prices, I will never come here again.

We ordered the Jun Sama. The fish itself was average and didn't have any depth in flavor. There's also a seared salmon pressed sushi dish with lots of mayo so you don't really taste the seared salmon.

The WORST thing I have ever eaten at any sushi restaurant was the jumbo scallops in a mango puree dish here. It was horrible. The purée was slightly warm and completely overtook the taste of scallops. And then on top of it they added a fresh blueberry. WHAT?! I was appalled they ruined perfectly good scallops. That was the final straw for me lmao

I'm giving 3 stars because the service was nice, it was easy to make a reservation, parking was easy and fish was decent for the price, but not enough to make me want to come back.

Very friendly and nice sushi spot. We were seated in the patio which looks new and clean. The sever was very attentive and fast. The good was delicious well.

food and service were excellent. My dad was happy. located in small
plaza but cozy and warm place for sushi.

We went to Chef Jun for lunch - Great atmosphere- a really cute place - service was good. Prices were fair - we tried the Sashimi lunch special which was fresh- generous cuts of fish and very fast.

Not pictured we have the seared gundaru which was delicious -