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K Teriyaki
Mon to Sat, from 11
(541) 791-7258

Albany, Oregon  /  Two Rivers Market

Grilled teriyaki and Korean rice bowls, six days a week on 2nd Avenue.

Japanese grill on one half of the menu, Korean plates on the other. Bibimbap, bulgogi, ramen and curry, alongside the teriyaki. Entrées come with rice and coleslaw. Eat in, or call ahead and take it with you.

Or get directions. Suite 101, on the 2nd Avenue side of the market building.

Are you open?

Monday to Saturday, from 11 AM. Closes 8 PM Monday, 7:30 PM the rest of the week. Closed Sunday.

Where are you?

300 SW 2nd Ave, Suite 101. Two Rivers Market, downtown Albany, OR 97321.

Can I order ahead?

(541) 791-7258 Dine in and pickup. About 20 minutes.

Note for Andy and Aya, not page copy

The hours on this page came from your own online ordering system, because it is the only source that comes from you. It says you open at 11 on Saturday and stay open until 8 on Monday.

Every directory I checked says something different. All of them put your Saturday opening at noon, so you are giving away the first hour of a downtown Saturday to people who looked you up. All of them close you at 7:30 on Monday. And two of them, Restaurantji and one of the two Restaurant Guru pages you have, say you are closed on Saturday altogether.

Before I trust any of this, tell me which set is right. Hours are the one thing on a website that sends somebody to a locked door.

What have you got?

The grill, the bowls, the sides and the drinks, written out as text you can read on a phone without downloading anything.

However you want it. Brown rice or all brown rice, add tofu, add an egg, extra rice, extra veggie, extra sauce. Steamed instead of grilled. Mild, spicy, or extra spicy. Sauce on the side. Seven house sauces to add: spicy, bibimbap, teriyaki, tonkatsu, sweet chili, gyoza, and dressing.

Prices

Left off this page on purpose, until you confirm the current ones.

Note for Andy and Aya, not page copy

This block is the whole reason I built the page, so it is worth a few minutes. Every dish above came off your own online ordering menu. I tidied four spellings that are live on it right now (Funtain to Fountain, MIso to Miso, H10-.3 to H10, and CK spelled out as Chicken) so nobody thinks the page made them up. Tell me if I got any of them wrong.

Now the part you should see. Search your restaurant and one of the first menus a stranger finds is on allmenus.com. It is titled Toki Teriyaki, it carries this address, and the phone number on it is (541) 926-5138, which reaches the family you bought the place from. There is no date anywhere on the page.

And it is not only out of date. It is a different restaurant. That page shows none of your Korean food. No bibimbap, no bulgogi, no happy bowls, no kimchi, no takoyaki. It lists a salmon dish and a long combo section I cannot find anywhere on your own ordering system. Somebody can read the whole thing and never learn what you actually cook.

You did not put it there and you cannot edit it. What you can do is have a page of your own that says the right thing, so it is your menu people find first. Everything above is ordinary web text. It loads instantly on a phone in your parking lot, Google can read every dish name in it, and a customer can copy one and send it to a friend.

That page carries prices too, and I have put none of them on here, and none of yours either. I have not stood in your dining room and read your board, so I am not going to print a number I cannot stand behind. That is the one thing I need from you before this goes anywhere real. Give me the current prices and they go straight into the block above.

What does it look like?

Six frames, waiting on a camera.

01The signature plate, close up
02Bibimbap or bulgogi
03Takoyaki or gyoza
04The room, from standing height
05Andy and Aya
06The door from the sidewalk, with enough of the market building to recognize
Note for Andy and Aya, not page copy

Every frame is empty and that is on purpose, not laziness. There are sixty or so photographs of your food online and every one I could find was taken by a customer, on Yelp or a review site. Those belong to the person who took them, so putting them on a page with your name on it would be doing to somebody else roughly what allmenus did to you.

I looked for pictures that are actually yours and could not find any. Your online ordering page has no photos on it at all. Your Facebook and the Instagram handle would not open for me. The one image on the Albany visitors website is a file named "screenshot" showing short ribs on a board in a garden, and I do not think it is your food.

Most of these fill from pictures you probably already have on a phone, so this is a short conversation and not a photo shoot. The shot of your front door I will take myself when I come in. Frame 05 is the one I would ask for properly. A couple who ran Ginza Sushi, closed it, and came back to take this place on is a better story than anything a menu can say, and right now there is not one picture of you anywhere. Say no and it stays empty, no hard feelings.

Is it any good?

Great place! Past owners of Ginza, which I miss. Be careful the spicy chicken teriyaki is addicting it is so good.”
Best Korean food in town!! So Happy I found this little hole in the wall restaurant! Super friendly staff! Planning to bring family here for lunch/dinners!!”
K Teriyaki has amazing food! So much flavor and so fresh! And a wonderful experience all in all!”
Note for Andy and Aya, not page copy

Three real reviews, your customers' own words, no names attached. Nothing on this page is a review I wrote. I found them on a directory that mirrors Google rather than on Google itself, which would not load for me, so give them a glance before this goes anywhere public.

You will notice there is no star rating and no review count on this page. I left them off deliberately. The number I have is a day old and came off a listing card, and the two sites that mirror your reviews do not agree with each other on the count today. I would rather show you three real sentences than one number I did not personally read.

Which door?

300 SW 2nd Ave, Suite 101, Albany, Oregon 97321.
Two Rivers Market, on the 2nd Avenue side of the building.

Note for Andy and Aya, not page copy

Three smaller things, and then I am finished.

Check the suite number. I have written Suite 101 on this page because that is what the directories say. Your own ordering system lists the address with no suite on it at all, so I have not been able to confirm 101 from anything that came from you. Tell me if it is wrong.

The internet still mostly calls you Toki Teriyaki. Your Facebook page is titled Toki Teriyaki, two years after you renamed the place. Restaurant Guru runs two separate pages for this one address, neither of them claimed, and both list Facebook as your website. The dead name is still on Yellow Pages, DoorDash and four menu sites. None of that is your fault and none of it is complicated to fix. It has just never been anybody's job.

And there is nothing online that is actually yours. No domain, and the ordering page is rented from your card reader company, which is fine until the day you change card readers. Albany's own visitor website lists that rented page as your website. You have done the hard part, which is running a restaurant people drive across town for. There is just nothing on the other end of it with your name on the deed.

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