The service is fabulous and the food is really good. The sushi is also amazing! I’ve had no issue with the service here and the hibachi is always fresh and delicious. Their yum yum sauce is superb, I usually get two instead of one and the other sauce.
Gretchen H.
Classificação do local: 4 Cleveland, OH
I have been here countless times for birthdays and other celebrations. I personally love this place. We have never had bad service or issues with our food. The food itself is very good and the hibachi experience is always very fun. I usually get the steak and chicken combo with a shrimp appetizer. My meat is always cooked to perfection. This probably is relatively Americanized compared to other places I have been, but is overall good and a fun experience.
Ashley S.
Classificação do local: 3 San Diego, CA
Visited there last night. Service was awful. Busser man was the most pleasant. Hostess stared at us when we arrived. Then waitress had a difficult time communicating or providing information. Hibachi chef was decent and food overall was very good. The service was just a bit distracting from the experience. You certainly didn’t feel welcome or they were happy to have you there. However, food was good and we did the Tuesday special. Value for the food we received was good too.
Kathy D.
Classificação do local: 3 Murrysville, PA
Went here for lunch to take my mom’s friend all the way from China visiting us. She had never experienced hibachi before so I thought it would be perfect. Prices are high for lunch! They did have bento boxes available but again, they were stupid expensive and only had sushi and sashimi instead of any katsu, teriyaki, tempura items. Menu was big but not varied. Staff was lackluster and the hibachi was a bit half-assed. I think my parents and the friend did enjoy their food but didn’t think it was anything impressive. Portions were medium sized. Location gets an A+ from me because it’s smack in the middle of my fave shopping center in Solon and also close as balls to my parents’ house. However, it’ll take a free lunch pass to get me to come here again of my own volition.
Cherry C.
Classificação do local: 1 Chicago, IL
I took a friend there for her birthday. She found a dead fly in her salad! The way it was handle was horrible. It was outer first time there and our last! Beware of dead insects in your food
Megan T.
Classificação do local: 4 Cleveland, OH
I’ve been here a half dozen times, usually for birthdays or other celebration gatherings so we’re in a private area in the back. The owner always makes sure we have a splendid time. Our food has always been great. Now here’s my dilemma. My husband hates sitting with random strangers… yet I love hibachi. Thankfully, at Akira, you get the best of both worlds and they have private tables you can sit at while still eating hibachi! Bonus! The food also comes out much, much faster since you’re not watching them cook it. I’m sure we’ll be back!
Harshal P.
Classificação do local: 1 Twinsburg, OH
Worst hibachi experience. I love hibachi in general. This is ranked last in my list. Explained why it was empty on Sunday lunch. The chef came in on the grill… Acted like someone forced him to cook for us… Obviously no show & tricks… I had to ask him to cook chicken more because he was ready to serve half cooked chken. Sake was the worst I ever had. Never again!
Kris p.
Classificação do local: 2 Independence, OH
The place is cute and the food was adequate, but not spectacular. One of our sushi rolls was heaped with so much mayonnaise we literally had to scrap a great deal of it off to make it edible. By far the highlight of the meal was the wasabi dumplings, they were delicious. The tempura appetizer was also well prepared. The calamari appetizer was served with a little cup of jarred tex-mex style salsa which I thought was very odd, and did not compliment the otherwise nicely prepared calamari at all. The biggest thing was the temperature of the restaurant. The owner kept stopping by the table to apologize for the 60 degree(and falling) room temperature but no matter how she fidgeted with the thermostat it never got any better. We all ended up wearing our coats for most of the meal. Anyway, it was not an altogether horrible experience, but there are two sushi/hibachi places that are much closer to home that have markedly superior food and don’t seem to have the dining room set to frosty.
Jeff H.
Classificação do local: 4 Westlake, OH
Over this is a wonderful restaurant! In many ways it was fairly comprable to most other Japanese Hibachi restaurants I’ve been to. My date and I didn’t eat at the Hibachi grill seating and sat at a private table, so I can’t comment on the Hibachi chefs. Se ordered the volcano roll and I ordered the salmon grill dinner. Both of us enjoyed our food very much! Sake was good, and service was in fact some of the best I’ve had in a long time. Will be back for sure.
Chris P.
Classificação do local: 4 Eastlake, OH
We came here with a living social voucher. The staff was very friendly. The hibatchi chef was fun. The food was great. I’m a big fan of hibatchi and this is up there in my list of restaurants now. Enjoy.
Athena L.
Classificação do local: 1 Houston, TX
I have been to many Japanese restaurant before and this one is so far the worst! The service is awful. Took them 40 mins to serve our food then another 30 min waiting to get a check. There was only a few table of people inside. The food was a total waste too. Everything was too salty. They put way too much flour to fry the tiny pieces of seafood just to make them look bigger, sure is a good way to save them $$$. I also ordered a lamb rack. On the menu it shows a rack of lamb. But the actual plate was filled with pre cooked hibachi rice with 3 skinny pieces of lamb chops. And of course the meat tasted like nothing but a chunk of salt. After I walked out of there my hair and my clothes smelled like that oily hibachi. Even though I did not sit at the hibachi table at all!
Linda L.
Classificação do local: 2 La Mesa, CA
6:00 pm reservations on a Saturday evening for a party of 8. The hostess, an older lady perhaps named Candy, was so very rude… and it appeared as though she was training a younger lady. I hope that younger lady doesn’t pick up her terrible customer service habits! Food: was fair at best. There is no synchronization of cooking so a few of us received our seafood while the vegetables were cooking, then came the rice, then came the beef. I never had scallops, veggies and rice on my plate at the same time. We couldn’t eat our dinners together. I know this restaurant gets pretty good reviews… I have no idea why.
Ashley Z.
Classificação do local: 4 Streetsboro, OH
I absolutely LOVE Akira! Just about everyone in our family is a member of the birthday club, where you get a free Hibachi meal during the month of your birthday! Yes — you can go anytime during that month! Much better than those darn birthday clubs that you can only utilize on your actual birth date. The hostess is amazing — she is super friendly and so funny. When we went this past time the service was a little slow — it took a waitress about 7 – 8 minutes to come take our drink order after we sat down… But other than that it was fantastic. The hostess immediately came over and apologized for the wait so that made up for it. The food is delicious, and in my opinion they have the best sauces out of all the hibachi places I have been to in Northeast Ohio! Love them and would highly recommend them — ask to join the birthday club when you go! :)
Natalie S.
Classificação do local: 3 Chagrin Falls, OH
Good staple in Solon; lots of children, nice and clean. Not as flashy as Wasabi, cleaner than Benihana and has a solid menu. It’s not really my first pick, but is a solid choice when the entire family, including the nieces and nephews want to get together. They offer ribeye, which is nice. However, as with many Japanese steakhouses, ordering your steak rare or medium rare is a hard-to-understand concept. The salad and soup were good — nothing spectacular. Shrimp appetizer was also good. I really enjoyed the busboy, who brought my my Sriracha liberally. Of course I will be back, but I prefer Wasabi because of the atmosphere, the noodles and the sushi,
Erika R.
Classificação do local: 5 Cleveland, OH
I have been coming here since 1999 and the food has been top quality ever since! The hibachi is the best in cleveland, and better than most places I have been in other states. The sushi is so fresh that I very rarely deviate getting raw fish anywhere else in the area. For the hibachi I recommend the steak and shrimp dinner(rib eye instead of NY strip) and for sushi you cannot pass up the volcano roll!
James C.
Classificação do local: 3 Mentor, OH
They really know how to make a special birthday celebration! Very clean grille and enthusiastic wait staff! The food is fresh and the wine list, NOTBAD, not great but ok selection. Children love this place!!!
Jeff K.
Classificação do local: 3 Chagrin Falls, OH
I really enjoyed the sushi here. It certainly didn’t hold it’s weight against some large city specialty places but for local, well priced, good quality sushi this is the place. Definitely will go back!
Vlad G.
Classificação do local: 5 Solon, OH
Excellent hibachi
Jeff B.
Classificação do local: 2 OH, OH
Hmm where to start. The service is pretty good. Very friendly and kid friendly. They asked if we needed separate checks since our party was large! Drinks are reasonable. We had 15 people and a few kids. I did not understand why they did not put us in the special hibachi room? Super Clevelandesque hibachi. Good salad dressing. Thick mayo based YUMYUM sauce. Good ginger sauce. The miso soup was not very hot, and could have used a little more miso paste. Apps– The calamari and shiitake mushroom apps were tiny and very average. 10 or so small calamari rings and about a couple of tablespoons of shitake shrooms. I peeked the sushi bard and the fish did not look very good. The tuna looked like that pink crap you can get at giant eagle. We asked for the steaks medium rare and they cooled well done. Very average beef quality. The vegetables and fried rice did not have much flavor. The fried rice was just rice and egg. My bill was 37 bucks: steak and chicken combo, calamari app. and a beer. You can definitely do better, not really much bang for the buck. My steak was cooked well done and I ordered it medium rare. i did not try the sushi but I peeped the fish at the sushi bar and it looked like buffet quality fish. The show was not very entertaining, not really funny and or much interaction. I would advise that if there are no coupons, go to one of the mall Japanese joints.
Diana M.
Classificação do local: 5 Jacksonville, FL
I have tried at least a dozen Hibachi places and this is BYFAR the best one I have ever been to. I challenge people to give me names of others, I’ll be happy to try them and compare! Their ginger salad dressing is to DIE for. And I don’t know what it is about their hibachi food but it is just excellent. You have to try their shrimp sauce which comes as a side with your meal. Unbelievably good! I think they have fixed their«only 4 bills per table» rule which was pretty much the only complaint I have ever had here.