Sakura Japanese Restaurant

My husband and I took our 3 ½ year old to dinner. She was totally entertained by the hibachi chef!!! She usually can’t sit still. Everything was amazing and a great value for her dinner. The inside is a little cheesy, but it doesn’t affect the fabulous food, service or overall atmosphere

Our waiter was terrible. He ended up sending our sushi order to the wrong place and we waited a hour and a half. I had to talk to a manager before they could find out order. When we went to pay they subtracted $ 7 from a $ 50 bill which was supposed to make up for it. Not only was the service terrible but they were too incompetent to even fix their mistakes. I will never return to this restaurant.

I don’t know why they give this restaurant 2 and ½ stars… My family and all my friends who I invited to dine with me… love it! We think this restaurant its good hibachi restaurant. Compare to Benihana or Genji or whatever they name it… the food it is great and the chef too… they put great show and they made good food. For my experience go to others (above) they chef not even talking or doing anything (good show).So for me this is good restaurant… not every place perfect but if you looking for good food and great chef come to this place!!!

This place currently is showing 2 ½ stars. It really isn’t a 2.5 star kinda place at all. The outside looks a little dismal and the inside is kinda cheesy but the food is great. The chefs on the hibachi are great. They put on a great show, they are entertaining and fun. The food was really good. The Restraunt is clean and well kept. Table service is prompt and polite. Everybody at our table was very satisfied and walked away with togo containers. Give it a shot. I think you’ll be surprised.

I don’t know *what* people are complaining about. I’ve been here twice while on business in the area and both times have been tremendous. The Crispy Spicy tuna roll might be the best tasting sushi I’ve ever had. The wait staff is friendly, prices are reasonable, and the food is delicious. What the hell more could you want?

Awesome either the dining room or the grills. The sushi is above most in the area. Always creative and served with flair. The wait staff pays attention and treats regular customer like a revered family member. Highly recommend the Bento box. The kids will love the show at the grill. They also have an excellent bar

Horrible, absolutely horrible. We have never had any such thing happen at a restaurant. My husband, two daughters, and I rolled in after a full day of volleyball. We ordered some ca rolls and ebi, along with edamame, three hibachi filet mignon for the girls and me, while my husband ordered miso soup and tempera shrimp. We were first brought our sushi. Our salads came and were tasty, along with the mushroom soup that needed salt but was still tasty. Waitress explained that the kitchen had still not gotten the miso soup. Waitress came back for refills and dishes and to apologize because she still didn’t have his soup. Next the girls and I were served our hibachi meals, and my husband was told that they were out of miso soup and she’d take it off the bill. I asked if they we also out of shrimp since it had been so long. She apologized stating that his just wasn’t ready yet, but since ours were she wanted to bring them out before they got cold. The rice was good, filet over cooked, veggies were yummy, and the noodles were nasty. The girls and I finished our meals, and still no shrimp for my husband. The waitress came out to get refills, and we simply asked for her to take his meal off the bill and to bring the check. We also mentioned that we had never had anything like this happen before. I asked to see the manager who had been walking around with a toddler. She set the child down and asked if we wanted to see her. I told her to just remove his meal from the bill and we were ready to leave. The bill was still $ 110. We will not be back.

My husband and I are always looking for more Japanese restaurants to fall in love with (hello, Japanese Steakhouse in Columbus!), so we decided to try out Sakura in Springfield. If we could give ½ stars on Unilocal I would definitely be giving this place a 3.5 out of 5. A 4 star rating seems a bit generous, but we actually enjoyed most of the food and the interior was nice and clean so a 3 just wouldn’t be fair. When we first entered the restaurant at about 3:00 pm, all of the overhead lights in the hibachi dining area were turned off and it was pitch black. They said they could turn on the lights for us if we wanted a show, or we could sit in the bar area without a show which is what we chose. I had a bowl of the hot and sour soup, which was just okay. Not a ton of flavor but it was full of mushrooms and other chunks so that was a plus. For my meal I ordered the chicken teriyaki bento box, which was awesome! The chicken was grilled with sauce and very tasty and served on top of grilled onions and green pepper, but you also got a side of fried veggies (not greasy and super delicious!), 2 steamed pot stickers (great, especially when dipped in the little portion of sauce they give you), and 4 little crab and avocado sushi (I’m not a fan of any sushi or avocado, so I wasn’t into these at all). My husband ordered the Katsu, which was a flattened chicken breast lightly breaded and fried but not greasy, sliced and served over shredded cabbage. You also got a side of dipping sauce which tasted great on the very simple yet delicious chicken. Waitress was friendly but couldn’t really explain a lot of the meals to us, and it was weird being in a pitch black restaurant in the middle of the day for lunch, but the bar area looked very cool and when we left they were turning neon lights around the hibachi grills on, which also looked pretty neat. We were very impressed with our entrees and the super affordable prices, so I could definitely see us going back again in the future. Though it wasn’t on Japanese Steakhouse level it was leaps and bounds above any Chinese buffet you’ll find on every corner so it’s nice to have a tasty Japanese option a little closer to us than Columbus.

I think the food is great and so is the service. what was Richard m. doing in the ladies room?

Went here while seeing friends I wouldn’t give one star if it wasn’t for having to put something for a review! We see the sign says 50% off and we all 3 go for sushi then we are sat and we had about 20 minutes to order she takes everything brings out one persons roll and as she starts eating says her by the way these rolls aren’t half off anymore! Like you have a sign outside that says so I feel like they only do that to entice people to come in and order tell them and people feel «well we already are here and ordered» so they say «ok». They said the computer was changed he couldn’t do anything then we personally walked the manager outside to show him the big sign and then some how he miraculously fixes the system and he changes the receipt to half of sushi… not to mention the if it wasn’t a fried roll it was terribly plain!!! I suggest u go down the street to sake!!!

Normally I would give 3 – 4 stars for this service in springfield compared to this area and other restaurants.
Me and my wife just sat at the table for 10 minutes waiting for menus while at waiter sat at the bar watching T.V. We left and as we start we walk past the waiter he asked if we were ready to order…
Save yourself the hassle and find somewhere else across town.

The food was great. I stopped in for carryout on the way home so I didn’t get the ambiance. For carryout it was slow and quite expensive but again, the food was great and the staff was very nice. The dumplings, noodles, and shrimp rolls were all really good:) The restaurant is also very nice inside.

Eh, it’s alright. If you want the whole hibachi experience, then this is your place. If you want good food, I would go down the block to Sake. It’s cheaper there and quicker experience.

The food here tasted horrible, especially the udon that tasted like crap. The soup had a lot of MSG! It is not real Japanese food. I won’t recommend the fake Japanese restaurant to anyone else!（巨难吃！汤都是味精！）

All I have to say is: gross.
The chef dropped a piece of my steak on the table in front of me, picked it up with his hands, and put it on my plate. I almost gaged.

Very good food and at the right price, but the women’s rest rooms were terrible. This will make me think twice before I return.

Excellent food and service! Steak and chicken, along with soup, rice, noodles, vegetables. The yum yum sauce was delicious. All cooked in front of you by entertaining chef.

Greetings from Tokyo/​Springfield, Ohioooooo, my fellow Unilocal-​o-​sans! Not sure what’s turned our little «hole in the wall» from the place where all chain restaurants go to retire to a «far east» food-​o-​rama, but I’m NOT complaining… YET!
Sakura is one of TWO new Japanese Steak Houses in the same strip (N. Bechtle), and with these two PLUS another choice on the E. side, we’ve certainly gone from 0 to YUM in the past couple of years… The steak house/​hibachi experience is fun, but (gasp!!) I’ll have to say it’s more show than fine dining after a few experiences anywhere… Sakura’s new, but has a great set-​up and gets you in and out pretty quickly on the hibachi side. No complaints really at all, other than feeling a little squished at a table with too many seats. I want to go back and try the regular menu– there looks to be lots of tempting lunch and dinner items, some interesting looking Sushi options… really something for everyone– with or without the show! Harigato!

This used to be the Golden Bowl, my favorite buffet, so I was sad to see it go… but when I arrived here, my jaw dropped. The inside of the restaurant is really pretty, and there’s a real koi pond!
The hostess, being new to the job, didn’t really know what to do. She just seated me and my dad without asking if we wanted sushi or hibachi.
I ordered the chicken bento lunch special, which was delicious! The sushi options were OK, not the best. The dessert menus is just ice cream and fried ice cream.
The prices are pretty good, and the portions are perfect. It’s kind of hard to overeat here, which is nice.
I would give it a 3-​star, but I bet it’s a total party in the evenings.
Oh! And all the staff, except the hostess, were actually Japanese. For a short time, I forgot I was in Springfield. :)

Great Hibachi experience in Springfield. Chef was friendly an funny. He gave the kids lots of attention and was very entertaining.
Beautiful place. They gutted the old Golden Bowl and completely rebuilt it. Not even recognizable.
Weird thing… The sign says Sakura Steak and Sushi Bar, but the drinking glasses say Sakura Japanese Restaurant
Range hoods were loud, but kinda nice with the seating (think Benihana with horseshoe seating around two ranges) as it gave you the feeling that your conversation wouldn’t be heard by everyone at the table.
We were seated promptly. Hostess was polite but not necessarily friendly. I’ve found this to be the case often with new restaurants. Prolly nerves :)
Took 15 minutes for them take our order. Too long. Nice server, but he was learning too.
Chef was very friendly and funny. a couple of little booboos but perfectly normal for a new place.
Ordered Hibachi chicken. Came with a salad. Salad came out quickly. Ingredients were very fresh. Tasty salad
Chicken was fantastic. A great quality of chicken cooked perfectly, and wonderful flavor. Serving sizes are just right. Some might think they are small, but for the quality and price, they are good.
A little slow on the refills.
Our chef was great with kids. If you have kids and they can eat something on the menu they will have a great time.
Worth a visit if you’re in Springfield.