Pepper Lunch USA specializes in Do it Yourself hot plate (teppanyaki) meals. Our mission has always been to serve the highest quality food at the most reasonable price possible.

Don’t forget to order one of our refreshing Italian sodas topped with whipped cream,  We are open for lunch and dinner. Closed Mondays.

First off, if you’re thinking about coming here for lunch on a weekday SIGN UP FOR THE WAITLIST ON YELP! It makes all the difference. This is a smaller, more compact venue that is always crowded. It is well worth it. My coworkers and I have started coming here for lunch and I absolutely love it!

It’s about $9.50 for a sizzling plate. You get your money’s worth and more. I usually get the #3, udon noodles with GARLIC BUTTER, green onion, corn, beef and fried egg. It is teppanyaki style so you cook your own food and add your own sauces. Their menu has a wide variety of options but I recommended you try the sizzling plates. It’s a very fun experience with tasty food for an extremely reasonable price! Definitely worth a try.

-Melissa O

6 out of 5 stars. Love this place! Also, bless their souls for not increasing the menu prices. $9.50 for a dish is a steal compared to all the other restaurants in the bay after the minimum wage increase. My go-to is the number 4 with extra beef. I drench the heck out of it with the teriyaki sauce and cajun powder, which is probably why I’m so addicted to this place. x)

I wish they’d open up more locations though! This location is pretty small so there’s often a long wait. Also would be pretty rad if they were open for more hours instead of just 11:30-2:30 and 5:30-9:00! I can never get enough of this place. 😀

-Tee T

FINALLY YELP WAITLIST EXISTS FOR PEPPER LUMCH!!! Honestly it was so exciting for them to finally have this feature. My friend was visiting from Socal and I recommended for us to try Pepper Lunch because it’s honestly a must. I put my name on the waitlist, and drove straight there. Luckily when I arrived, I had to wait 5 minutes max before getting called. It’s super convenient and I didn’t have to wait that long.

They’ve finally changed their seating arrangements to make it easy for the staff to deliver the hot plates and for people to pass through. Thank goodness. I used to feel like their old layout was super dangerous and difficult to pass through especially with the stone plates.

We ordered pretty quickly and got our foods pretty quickly too. GARLIC BUTTER. I missed it so much. It’s honestly a game changer and makes everything taste so much better. sOooOoo good.

My friend from Socal enjoyed it as well and overall, we had a great experience. Before the long wait used to ruin my mood and used to outweigh my benefit of coming here but honestly bless Yelp waitlist for existing so I can add myself on the waitlist through the app.

-Cecilia Y

Love the sound of that SIZZLE! Every time I come here, there’s almost always a wait! Thank goodness the plaza Sizzling Lunch is located in is huge, so you can walk around to kill time!

I pretty much always order the same thing, and I’m never disappointed by it! My go-to is the #4 Curry Udon Hot Plate with beef and corn. The curry powder gives it that extra flavor, but I still like putting some extra teriyaki sauce on top! I’ve tried it with the garlic butter that people swear by, and it’s pretty good, but honestly there are so many other flavors involved, that it’s not really necessary. I also wouldn’t recommend adding an egg, since the plate is so hot that it ends up cooking way too fast, and you’re left with an overdone egg. I’d suggest asking for it on the side instead, so you can add it in after the plate isn’t sizzling hot!

-Lisa Y

First time I had this was in HK, so when I found out this was in the US and it was within driving distance of my sister in law’s house…my husband had to make the trip!
Super busy even for a Thursday evening. We arrived right at 5:30 and there was a line waiting out the door for the place to open. I was at the end of the line but luckily we got a table but 5 min later all of the dining tables were filled.

It was similar to HK’s version but a little different. The version with the different types of rice inside the beef also came in different types of meat in HK. But I wasn’t complaining. My husband and I were hungry so we both ordered the bigger combo meals. I got the beef and he got the salmon. It came with a salad each.

We also ordered calamari for an appetizer.

Everything was delicious! Even the special garlic soy sauce was yummy poured into my rice. It was delivered  raw and sizzling on a hot plate and I was semi cooking at the same time. It tastes even better with garlic butter.

I can’t wait to go back!

-Gloria C

Came here on Saturday night around 7pm and it was a very poor decision because of a 1.5 hour wait (and the Yelp wait list was closed, probably too many people on it, this actually happens!)

If you come here on a Saturday night, line up outside the door at 5:30pm right when it opens.

I got the #5 with an egg and it was amazing as usual. Tip – use the spicy pepper and the teriyaki sauce provided at your table.

-Irena S

My group of friends enjoy this place so much that we’re here once a week at minimum( one time we went 3x…) and that’s because they usually have great food at cheap prices and servers often are on top of things. Yes I hate the wait, usually always being a minimum of 30-40 minutes especially since the Yelp online waitlist is 99% of the time closed so you can’t check in until you get there.

However they’ve always been great in their customer service even though they often only have 1-2 people for all the tables which it’s quite easy to see all the chaos. Regardless of who’s working, they’re always checking in and making sure we have everything we need and that we’re fine.

For food, can’t really go wrong with any of their popular ones but I love their #6( curry with rice) as it’s so good and actually helps makes the dish even hotter(temperature) which is how Pepper Lunch should be enjoyed; sure all their dishes come out steaming but it’s different when you can add some delicious curry that adds so much flavor.

Overall a really good place, wish it was closer to San Jose but their prices, customer service and ease of parking has me coming back for more.

-Timothy N