DEMI
Yōshoku — Japanese comfort cooking, from Kyoto to California.
Yōshoku is Japan’s century-old love letter to Western cooking — omelettes over seasoned rice, golden fried cutlets, silky demi-glace, pasta touched with dashi. At DEMI we make these dishes the way they’re loved in Japanese homes and kissaten: carefully, generously, and from scratch.
Omurice
A fluffy Japanese omelette draped over savory seasoned rice, finished with our house demi-glace.
Tonkatsu Curry
Crispy panko pork cutlet over Japanese curry simmered with onions, carrots & potatoes.
Mentaiko Cream Pasta
Creamy cod-roe sauce with butter and a hint of dashi.
Chef Demi Ebara came to California from Kyoto in 2011 and noticed something: to most of her new neighbors, Japanese food meant sushi and ramen — and almost nothing else. The food she actually grew up eating — curry rice, omurice, korokke, hambāgu — was nowhere to be found.
So in 2016 she and her husband, Arthur de la Cueva, opened the first Demiya in San Jose to share that home-style cooking. Today the Demiya family includes five Bay Area locations, in San Jose, Cupertino, Dublin, Fremont and Emeryville.
DEMI is their sixth restaurant and their most personal — an elevated yōshoku kitchen in downtown Palo Alto, with a menu that is largely new: Japanese pastas, curry doria, katsu sandos, teishoku-style plates, and a weekend breakfast, in an intimate room of about twenty-five seats with a sunny backyard patio.
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Breakfast
Weekends
Japanese breakfast sets, soufflé pancakes, chicken & waffles with dashi maple.
Lunch
Tue–Sun · 11:30–2:30
Signature omurice, katsu curries, lunch plates, empanadas & Japanese pasta.
Dinner
Tue–Sun · 5:30–9:00
Japanese pastas, hamburg steak, gratins, curry doria and small plates to share.
Drinks
All Day
Zero-proof spritzes, Japanese teas, Calpico, espresso and house refreshers.
HOURS
MondayClosedTuesday – Friday11:30 – 2:30 · 5:30 – 9:00Saturday – SundayBreakfast · 11:30 – 2:30 · 5:30 – 9:00
Weekend breakfast service — hours to be confirmed.
LOCATION
407 Lytton Avenue
Palo Alto, California
A few steps off Waverley, in the heart of downtown. About twenty-five seats inside, plus a small backyard patio.