Iron Chef

So I’ve been coming here for about a year now and I would say I’ve dined in some 20+ times. Of those I’ve had 3 experiences that would have turned me away had they been my first time, two of which I was introducing some friends to this restaurant I talk nonstop about. I could sit here and complain but it comes down to this: inconsistent quality. The service and atmosphere are always ⁵⁄₅ however I always have to second guess what I order for fear that it won’t be as good as the last time I had it. I’ve noticed a change in the servers over a year but I unfortunately never got to meet the chef’s so I can’t say for sure if they’ve changed too.

Great, fresh sushi at unbelievable prices. Been there 3 times in the last two weeks.

Now that I live nearby, Iron Chef has become a regular in our rotation of favorite restaurants. Never have I been disappointed. Prices are great, food is great, try the chicken yaki udon! It is soooo good! It’s one of my favorite dishes.

This is one of my favorite Japanese restaurants. Their sushi is very fresh and a lot better than some other sushi places I’ve been to. Their bento boxes are my favorite thing to pick as they have some very good variety of sushi and sashimi to choose from.
The amount of food they give you is just enough.

Not only was the fish fresh, the wasabi real, and the roll combinations unusual and delicious, the prices affordable, but the service was SPECTACULAR. After one visit, this has become our go to place for sushi in the valley. We’ve had a few sushi places that we have enjoyed, but they paled in comparison. We will highly recommend Iron Chef to everyone we know.

It’s my favorite sushi place the price are reasonable. The staff is very friendly and great with my kids.

While I had a very positive experience with Iron Chef in the past, I can now see why the mixed reviews. This last visit was, I hate to say, pretty awful. Perhaps it depends on who’s prepping the fish, but the quality of the sushi I ate on my last visit was the worst I’ve ever had – chewy, sinewy pieces with, gag, bones! I’ve never found bones in my sushi before. So disappointing as we paid for the all-​you-​can-​eat and could barely finish our first platter of sushi. I don’t think I’ll be back as sushi sounds entirely unappetizing to me now.

We were craving sushi but our normal spot we go to decided to close on Sundays. We stumbled upon Iron Chef and I am so glad we did. All day happy hour, 40% off their specialty rolls, sake bomb specials, extremely attentive staff… Keep in mind we were a large group of 9 people. The waitress we had brought us free salmon steaks (i think that was what it was called) for the table. It was a nice touch :-)
I had the Spicy Tuna Mango Roll and the Tootsie Roll. One of my friends had the Flaming Dragon Roll and the Yummy Yummy. The Flaming Dragon is awesome to watch!
They also have Chinese food on their menu. I got to try their Mongolian beef.
We left full and happy! We will be coming back :-)

Consistently excellent sushi, food variety, and service. We’ve been here for early dinners on several occasions, ALWAYS really enjoyed ourselves, had an EXCELLENT sushi as well as the other food items (edamame, soup, et. al.), and have been treated well. We have fun not only ordering some of the menu items we have had on previous visits, but make it a point to order an item we haven’t had before. The servers are enthusiastic, attentive, take special requests (especially condiments), but are not overbearing. By the way, the beer is well chilled and often on special. We are going here tomorrow for an early lunch and will post another review.
As a side note, if I am at a restaurant and the service (or other condition) is in any way imperfect, I request a meeting with an assistant management person to note the deficiency. I DON’T whine about it later! I make a gentle (& respectful) suggestion about improving their restaurant and have found the personnel I talked to generally appreciative.

The sushi was great! We have nothing bad to say about it… However, the service, TERRIBLE.
About 30 seconds go by When she asked if we knew what we wanted. Got pissy When we said no. But we did order sodas and crab puffs. When she brought us our drinks, she slammed them down, so hard, people turned and looked. Didn’t come back for probably 15 – 20 minutes later we are waiting on them, she comes back and takes our order. I order a corona, she brings it back, slams it, and an on the rocks glass next to my husband and diagnal from me… Not to me… She still has no smile, and never did.
The Rangoon was brought with the rolls. Not as an appetizer. She keeps coming back every 5 minutes to try and get us to close out the tab. I couldn’t eat fast enough to get out of there.
If you are ok with good food and the most non friendly service ever, then this place is for you. However, Service is very important to me, so for this reason only… We will never go back.

3 stars for the food and 1 extra star for the service.
Went there on a Sunday evening, it was too early for dinner, but they already had one table of customers.
We saw many people buy take out from there.

First time here and probably our new favorite sushi spot. Excellent prices (all rolls 40% off) and service was top notch. Server even brought our 4 year old chopsticks that were kid friendly so he could participate too!
Food came out quick, looked amazing, and tasted very fresh. Rolls were a very good size for the price too! Our drinks were always full, never had to ask for a refill.
After eating they gave us a small roll on the house to try (was a shrimp tempora) and even brought out a desert on the house.
This place went the extra mile. We will be back many times. Thanks for the great experience!

Went here last night and was impressed at the selection of sushi/​sashimi/​hand rolls/​specialty rolls. Tried a bunch but the highlight of the evening was the Hawaiian roll which was a deep fried coconut shrimp with banana, wrapped in traditional seaweed and rice, topped with mango. It was a like an instant trip to the islands and complimented the other rolls with it’s «not too sweet» sweetness.
Service was excellent and considering the place was pretty full, I felt like our sushi arrived quickly.
They have 5 or 6 outside tables for when the weather is nice, so take advantage of that. Also, if you check in on Unilocal*,you get an instant coupon worth 50% (yes 50%!) off almost every roll on the menu. Now that’s a great deal!

I wasn’t impressed with the food here. When I walk into a sushi restaurant that is also selling Chinese food and crawfish, I have to question the quality of their food. The sashimi was okay… one of the salmon pieces I ate had a bone in it. The rolls were extremely disappointing, both in quality and presentation. So lackluster in flavor and sloppy in presentation. Their appetizers were probably better than the entrees. I also thought service was a bit slow, considering the restaurant didn’t seem that busy when we were there. I would not want to come back.

Let me start by saying that I used to work in the restaurant industry so I know and understand what «good service» entails. Needless to say this establishment is an absolute joke. Where should I begin…
The food– The sushi here is beyond disappointing. Not only is the presentation sloppy but I’m totally seriously when I say that it looked as if the chef threw it on the plate and sent it out, without a bat of an eye (rolls falling apart, wasabi and ginger missing, old rice particles stuck to the plate). Okay I can live with a sloppy presentation, but what I cannot deal with is fish that tastes as if its been sitting out all day long, not in a cooler (it was at best room temp, if not warm to some others opinion.) not a good sign. Old hard rice that was for sure a few days old. I’m sorry but this is unacceptable (especially when it comes to raw fish).
The service — The customer service at this establishment is beyond atrocious. A friend and I decided that we wanted sushi late one night. (8pm) We arrived, only to be ignored in an empty restaurant. I walked over to a staff member and asked if we could get some menus and sit outside. The lady nodded at me, said yes, then pointed at the menus. We grabbed the menus and sat ourselves outside. Then we waited… and waited some more… no joke 10 – 15 minuets had passed and I had to get up and walk inside and ask the same lady for two cups of water. She said «ya ya, okay.» then turned her back and went to grab us two waters (I returned to the table). When she finally brought us our water, she said «so you ready to order?». We ordered four rolls, edamame and a bottle of unfiltered sake. 25 min later she brought us our food. One of the rolls was wrong, but at this point we were so hungry we ate it any way (we still haven’t received the sake we ordered). While we are about half way into our 2^nd roll a man comes out of the restaurant and begins unplugging all the lights (time now is roughly 9pm and they don’t «close» until 10:30pm). My friend and I just look at each other in darkness as we sit there on their front patio dumbfounded at what is happening. Our server comes out soon after and asks «well you need anything thing else or what?», I then told her that we never received our sake, but that we don’t need it anymore because we are more than half way done with our meal. She responded with «okay, well then you pay now.» (we still have food on our plates and our water glasses are bone dry) I look at my friend and then just handed the waitress cash for our bill + extra for change for the tip. She walks inside and rings us out but then never returns. We both just sat there waiting for her to come back out and bring us our change and water refills… Nothing. Then the most amazing thing happened… They turned off the lights inside (time now 9:30). So we look at each other once again in amazement. I get up (again) and walk over to the door to find it locked! That’s right you are reading this correctly. They left the restaurant and locked the doors with us still sitting on the patio with all our dishes sitting on the table!!! I have never in my life been to an place of business where the employees left customers at the facility and locked the doors behind them. As you can imagine I never revived my change and left feeling like I was just in the twilight zone.
I will NEVER EVER be back and I suggest you stay far far away from this place. There are several other places close by that have way better food and that won’t turn the lights out on you and lock the doors an hour before closing time. Note to the owner — you should think twice about you have managing your business, because from what I’ve experienced on two separate occasions now, is the most horrific customer service I’ve ever come across.

Iron Chef serves great sushi and cooked Japanese and Chinese dishes, the ambiance is pleasant, and the servers are extremely efficient and professional.
I love the Golden Dragon Roll, which I get almost every time. I also like the chicken yaki udon, and my boyfriend likes the kung pao chicken.
YUMMY!

The Tuna Tataki was perfectly seared and beautifully presented. The Sashimi was generous and delightfully presented on a bed of diakon. The little surprise was two pieces of eel sushi blessed with the proper sauce. The requisite rice bowl completed a lunch that I could barely complete. I could eat here often (if I lived in Phoenix/​Scottsdale). But I visit from time to time and will come back!

This place is pretty solid. They have really reasonable prices which most sushi is 50% off. It’s not the very best sushi that I ever had, but it’s still really good. The problem with really good sushi is your gonna spend a lot of money for it. If you want something that is a little less in quality, but still good, give this place a try. My girlfriend and I usually spend 30 to 40 bucks for dinner, while a high end sushi you’ll spend twice that much. Give this place a try, you won’t be disappointed. This place is great.

Friendly service, delicious food, and great Chinese songs selection!
If you want some authentic Japanese and Chinese food, you must come here!

I am a little disappointed in myself for not walking into this restaurant sooner considering it is less than a mile from where I live! The service I had was outstanding! Unfortunately, I did not catch my server’s name.
Iron Chef has the best happy hour ever! All rolls are 50% off and many other items are 40% off, and they have great drink specials. There is also a reverse happy hour from 8 – 10. I honestly need to come back because I wanted to try 20 things on the menu… they have quite an extensive menu.
I ended up ordering the squid salad, the ahi tuna martini and spring rolls and a mai tai. I know I am a piglet, but I did indeed eat it all! The squid salad was good, not the best I have ever had, but still very delicious. I cleaned the dish! The ahi tuna martini was fabulous! There was tons of fresh, cold tuna and it tasted spectacular with the seaweed, cucumber and the sauce brought it all together. As you can tell from the picture, it had quite the presentation as well. Everything at Iron Chef seems to have a lovely presentation in general, I was enjoying watching all the dishes come from the kitchen/​sushi bar. You can tell the spring rolls are made in house; nothing too excting to say about spring rolls but they are $ 2!
Again my server was a doll, I will be sure to catch her name next time! Everything is very reasonably priced and I hope my fortune cookie is right!