Ohana Eastside

Friendly staff. BUT… Sushi wasn’t fresh and miso soup tasted as if it was straight out a can. I do not recommend.

The food at Ohana’s was very enjoyable. I loved their spam musubi and sushi. Their bentos could use a little improvement and were a tad bit salty. I felt the menu was a little overpriced, and the décor is very stereotypical of Hawai’i… which made me giggle just a little. :P But the service was great and my belly is happy, so I’m sure Ohana will remain open for a long time.

Big fan of this fun atmosphere. The staff are friendly and have a ton of personality. Seriously what’s not to love about Ohana’s? I’ve been to the Seattle location many times and I’m so happy they finally opened one near me in Issaquah!
On the weekends they do live music and entertainment as well. We needed more of this in Issaquah.

We came here because my wife got a Groupon for $ 35 worth of meal. Since we never have Hawaiian food. We ordered loco moco, tuna poke and extra crunch rolls. I have to say the food is very disappointed. The beef patties of loco moco were very tough and dry. The tuna poke was very salty and not much of tuna. Instead you got most of onion. The crunch rolls was relatively small. With the price we paid, I expect better quality and quantity of food. The only good was the service. All staff were friendly and helpful. If you come for Hawaiian food, you can pass it.

Likely my favorite spot in Issaquah. Second time here.
Décor is fun and staff friendly.
I’ve tried the loco moco and spicy chicken teriyaki on separate occasions. Both pretty good. You’d probably get the same thing at a normal teriyaki joint for a little bit cheaper, but oh well. The sushi is solid though, something I’ve had trouble finding in Issaquah.

I’ve been here three times, twice for birthday celebrations. I decided to write a review tonight because they have been consistently good to us when we go and my kids love it. Their kids menu is a great deal. $ 6.95 for entrée, drink (can choose POG) and miso soup. They have a great selection of kids items including yakisoba, sliders, rolls, along with other usuals like chicken fingers. Tonight for my 9 year old’s birthday they gave her a beautiful fresh lei and a dessert on the house. She had such a huge smile on her face. My older daughter decided she wanted to go there for her birthday too.
We’ve had tasty small plates (sliders and fish tacos) and salads (seared ahi salad) with generous portions for the price. My husband’s bento box was really tasty, the teriyaki salmon was delish, cooked to just the right degree. The sushi we’ve had have been tasty but on the pricey side, and slow to arrive. So I wouldn’t recommend ordering sushi if you are in a hurry or would like more quantity for your money. For example, a $ 15 bento box would be pretty filling, but a $ 15 fancy sushi roll would not be enough for a meal at all.
Overall it’s been a great addition to restaurants in Issaquah to go to for our family, especially for birthdays. I hope it stays in business, I think there is definitely room for improvement, and I’m hopeful they will keep improving. For example, last time my kids ordered yakisoba it had the perfect amount of sauce and lots of noodles. This time one of the kid’s yakisoba came out with too much soy sauce so was too salty. (almost like they forgot they already put in soy sauce and ladled on another scoop) and both had not nearly as much noodles as last time.

Good ambiance, good food & service but appallingly overpriced. Took my daughter & grandson for lunch yesterday and the bill was over $ 65 ! Come on — a plate lunch shouldn’t be that expensive! $ 3 for can of Hawaiian Sun and $ 11 for a spider roll that only had 4 pieces. I can go to the best sushi place in town and get a 10 pc roll for that price!
Kudos for the potato mac salad which was very good. Just sayin ’ if you want to stay in business you can’t overprice your menu.

At 6:15 on a Monday and the place was essentially dead. Not a good sign. Wait staff seemed pre occupied. Appetizers: spam musubi, pork sliders. Musubi had hard rice and seemed pre made. No thank you. Boyfriend said sliders were good but presentation was awful. Sushi was good but did take a long time to arrive considering how not busy the place was. Décor was a bit odd as well.
We had a groupon. After we finished eating the waitress told us we had to buy 32 $ worth of food in order to use groupon. We were at $ 31.00. We had to buy a dessert-​banana cream pie-​should have gone without. Again, felt like it was purchased at a store. They would not let us take it to go either. All in all, we will not be going back.

Was I impressed? No. Not really.
Was the food decent? Yes. It was alright. Don’t really have any recommendations for you though.
How was the service? Sat at the bar on a Tuesday evening and were promptly forgot about even though we were right in front of them… Don’t really know how that’s possible, but it happened.
Price? More expensive than the other sushi spots in Issaquah; not quite worth it.

Nice ambiance, great food. I love the bento and kahlua pork. My daughter loves their curly fries and chicken teriyaki. I coul’d have given them a 5 star if i didn’t wait for a long time for my bill while the other guests were waiting patiently for their orders because at that time,(lunch) the resto had only 1 server and 1 busser and it was pretty much busy, a busy restaurant like that should have at least 3 servers. Overall, place is nice and food is great. been my 4^th visit already.

This is by far the best sushi joint in Issaquah. The sushi chef will tell you all about the fish and only gets fish that are not in danger of becoming endangered or overfished. And, both the sashimi and the rolls are awesome… Like really really good.
… Since being back this place has gone severely down hill. Not even close to as good and the service was dog shit.

I went to Ohana Eastside for my first time this week. I’d been to this location before when it was a Mexican Restaurant, and I just can’t believe how they’ve redone the space. It looks totally different and really reminds me of Hawaii with the Japanese/​Hawaiian décor. We were quickly seated and had some time to look at the menu. There are so many things to choose from on the menu, it took a while. But, I remembered that Ohana has Heineken Beer on draft, which adds a full star to my review. They also have a rotating Kona Brewing tap, and Big Wave was running cold too! I don’t know of anywhere else that has Kona on draft, that totally reminds me of Hawaii also.
The food here isn’t straight up Japanese, it’s got the whole Hawaiian flavor added, including Kalua pork and macaroni salad, poke and pupus. The Japanese food is great and fresh and they even have fish and chips or burgers. We got the spam musubi, some salmon and tuna sushi and one of the bentos. The sushi was awesome, super fresh and tasty and also a little bit cold. The temperature of the sushi makes a difference to me, I don’t like it warm. There are so many other things on the menu, I hope to make it back soon to try some of them. If you haven’t had a spam musubi, I also cannot think of anywhere else in Seattle or Eastside where you can get it, but it’s porky, rice and seaweed goodness.
Overall, the service was great, our server kept checking on us and we had everything we needed. The prices I thought were super reasonable and affordable and portions were really generous. The restaurant itself has a really good feel and it was really busy for a Thursday night. There’s plenty of parking out front, which was great because it was a rainy night out.
Next time I hope to check out the coconut ice cream or bananas foster and pineapple.

I love this place! Food is great, with generous portions, and the service is wonderful.
It’s now our favorite family restaurant for meals out and celebrating special occasions.
Ohana, meaning family, is a very good name for a place that makes you feel like family.
Having been born and raised in Hawaii, I am very discerning about my «local» food. I am happy to say, it’s also now my favorite Hawaiian restaurant.

4^th visit.
Lunch dinner and early dinner now lunch.
I wanna tell you about staff & music. Food is last.
The main waiter really need to stop wearing that poncho. Owners please buy him a black coat to wear if he’s cold. He’s awesome great service just the poncho.
The sushi man need to lose the beard. Doesn’t look sanitary. Beards & raw fish? Nahhhh. He’s wearing a baseball hat and prepping.
The thin guy need to smile more.
Stick to one type of music plz.
Great addition to Issaquah sea of burgers & fries food.
Music? I heard Hispanic music Hawaiian music rap music etc etc. it kept changing in 30 min I been here.
Latest review: yakisoba too sweet.
Need to change the décor.
Sushi is not original.
Sushi chef need to either shave that thing off his face or wear something.
Yeah.

This is a fairly new restaurant in Issaquah and we were excited for the opening. Here’s the rundown:
— The décor has a nice Asian/​Hawaiian feel.
— We ordered the Spam sliders, chicken adobo plate, sushi, eggrolls, and a bento box. The food was really good and I highly recommend the chicken adobo.
— A little pricey for the fare.
— The server, a young lady, hardly checked on us and let my husbands sushi sit on the counter for an absurd amount of time before she brought it to us. By that time, everyone else had eaten. The restaurant wasn’t busy and we watched her hang out by the front door.
Long story short– Ohana has potential but needs to work on the wait staff. I understand Hawaii is laid back but that doesn’t mean the service has to suffer.

Was excited to see this new restaurant coming to Issaquah. But was a little skeptical as well after reading the reviews from Unilocal.Regardless of reviews I will always make an opinion for myself, so me and my husband decided to try this place tonight!
We arrived at the restaurant about 6 o’clock, absolutely no wait, I wouldn’t say the restaurant was dead but I wouldn’t say it was busy either.
The menu looked great with a lot of Japanese and Hawaiian choices, and the menu on the table have tons of yummy colorful drinks. We decided to order a California roll as an appetizer and I ordered the sumo Bento box which consisted of teriyaki salmon, katsu chicken, and teriyaki beef. All of the proteins were wonderful! I absolutely loved the salmon, so moist and tender… wish I had more of that! The only thing was it was floating in way too much sweet teriyaki sauce… didn’t care for that.
The Decour of the restaurant is very cool, with tons of cool bamboo and Tiki’s all over the restaurant. But you can also see remnants of the old Mexican restaurant still there! The bill wasn’t bad at all, came to about $ 43 before tax.
We will definitely visit this place again!!!

I am SO excited to have found this restaurant. I know that there is a location in Seattle but didn’t realize that this location just opened a few months ago.
I came here on a special trip — I volunteer at Make-​a-​Wish and we had our wish presentation party here. The owner and the staff went above and beyond to make this experience memorable, and I really cannot thank them enough for all of their kindness.
To start, you need to try some of their drinks. You could go with the oldie but goodie — POG JUICE! I ended up getting a (VIRGIN) strawberry piña colada which was really good. If they weren’t, like, 300 calories each, I probably wouldn’t stop drinking them.
I had the loco moco which was awesome — almost the same quality as in Hawaii. Loved the gravy, burger was good and so was the rice. I was really impressed!
I can’t wait to come back to this place — I recommend it to everyone.

I am from Honolulu and I came here to celebrate my birthday with my family and it was just like I was at home again. Not only was the food amazing I definitely felt the aloha.
First of all, my sister brought me here and I thought we were just going to dinner but was surprised with all of our friends being there. I know we aren’t in Hawaii, but it’s so nice to have local family and friends around you. The food was amazing, they have a great mix of Asian and Hawaiian. i had some sushi and the ribs. For the price you pay, you definitely get your money’s worth. JUST LIKE HOME! Huge portions for reasonable prices!
Second, the staff was very friendly. It felt like we were all one big OHANA celebrating my birthday. It was so great to be surrounded by such wonderful people. Our waitress always made sure we were doing okay, our soda was always filled, and keep in mind we had a party of 20!
Lastly, my mother flew in for the weekend to partake in the festivities so they not only gave me a special treat for my drink, they also gave her one! It was a monkey made out of a pineapple!
I would highly recommend this place, especially those Hawaiians who are a little homesick! I would definitely go back again.

This place is the worst! There is no ohana here, just a bunch of bros that will sell you old, pre-​prepared frozen ingredients at gourmet prices. I had the Loco Moco, a staple in Hawaiian plate lunch. The hamburger patty was cold, dry, hard, and yet somehow undercooked on the inside (look at all that pink and purple) — gross. The rice was cold, rock hard and dry — how do you screw up rice in a Pan-​Asian restaurant?! The gravy was also cold, store bought, probably powdered, chunky, and encased in a thick membrane of congealed gravy goo. The egg was cold and smelled/​tasted old. The dish didn’t taste anything like a real Loco Moco. To top it off, the service is horrible — there is no aloha here. Worst Hawaiian food experience eva! These guys would never get away with serving this food in Hawaii.
Do not eat here. Just look at the photos. These guys obviously don’t care about food, cleanliness, or service. Do NOT eat at Ohana Eastside.

I’m so dissapointed in this place. First of all, the one in Seattle is amazing. Had my bridal shower there and everything was great; food, service, décor. Everytime I’ve been to that one it was great.
This location was terrible. The service was the worst I’ve ever experienced. The waitress took over 20 minutes just to come greet us at our table. She rushed us with our drink order and then it took another 20 minutes to get our drinks (which were sitting on the counter half the time).
There were about 6 or 7 tables and 3 waiters. Not busy AT all.
Then I ordered two simple sushi rolls… cali roll and spicy tuna. After 35 or so minutes after my order and after my friend got her tacos… I asked where my rolls were… she said it would be another 10 minutes. Not sure why it would take over 45 minutes with hardly anyone at the restaurant to make a simple sushi roll. I thought I was in the twilight zone.
Worst service. Ever. Will not be back. It’s a shame because I love the one in Seattle so much.
It also seems more like a Mexican restaurant then Hawaiian.