For some reason I keep coming back to this place. The service is ok - could improve on that. I am not into sushi much, so I cannot give a true review of the ones I've tried. I go in for the normal dining and order hibachi 99% of the time. Decent - nothing spectacular, but they give you a lot. Salad, Soup, Rice, Noodles, Vegetables, and choice of meat or shrimp. I would recommend for lunch since it is super cheap. Dinner it gets more expensive and you get just slightly more food. The Lunch portion is just enough to fill you, so there is no need to spend more to get the dinner portion. Fried Ice Cream is AWESOME. I love that stuff... do try if you do visit Kabuki. Overall - decent if you want a good amount of food for a small price. Park by Cheesecake factory.
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Jack N.
Fantastic service and creative sushi rolls. I recommend going here.
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Daniel S.
Great place. Service is a little stiff. Love the Playboy. Just love it!
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Deborah C.
Overall good experience.... The salad was fresh and crisp while the ginger dressing was a little sweet and lacked bite. The stirred fried vegetables could have been on the grill a little longer, but were flavorful. The Hibachi shrimp and filet mignon were very good as was the no extra charge fried rice. The hibachi noodles were good, but seemed out of place and redundant when considering the rice. The ginger and mustard sauces were excellent yet different than I had experienced before in a Japanese restaurant. THE BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT WAS THAT SOME KIND OF MARGARINE WAS USED IN PLACE OF BUTTER!!!
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Hina M.
I've been to kabuki twice and had a good experience both times. The servers are extremely attentive, and always have a pleasant attitude. The first time I went to the Hibachi side of the restaurant, and overall I'm not a very big fan of the razzle dazzle hibachi show (too much forced oohing and aahing and laughing). I personally don't think the food at the hibachi is anything to brag about. But the second time I went to the restaurant side and was very pleased. We had negimaki (scallions rolled in marinated beef) to start, and I ordered the bibimbap while my sister had the chicken katsu. The bi bim bap was very tasty and so was the chicken katsu. Dont forget to have the red bean mochi ice cream for dessert. Overall this is a great place to dine as long as you skip the hibachi.
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Sarah L.
We discovered this little gem a couple months ago and have been going back at least once a week ever since. Quality sushi and awesome appetizers, we have yet to try the hibachi side but looking forward to checking it out. Oh and their lunch special is amazing! Highly recommend trying the tempura cheesecake as well.
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Bryan P.
Fresh food prepared with style. The staff is very attentive and welcoming. This is one of our favorites. We have visited on many occasions and receive the same high level of service. On the Hibachi side, you are entertained by a talented group of chefs that all have their own style. Since it's a BYO restaurant you can eat inexpensively and enjoy your favorite adult beverage. A great place.
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Brooke W.
I am going to give two stars instead of one to Kabuki because I liked the atmosphere of the restaurant and the bathrooms were very cool. Husband and I stopped on a busy Saturday afternoon (good luck finding parking everyone!) and had lunch. When we walked in they asked us "Hibachi or Sushi?" I guess you sit in separate sections for whichever you pick. It was okay enough, I got gyoza dumplings and two rolls - an avocado crab and an eel. The eel was not fresh at all, it was way too fishy for me. Hubs had a chicken tempura lunch box which came with some California roll, miso soup and more gyoza. The soup was very bland, as were the vegetables and chicken that came in the tempura. We weren't too crazy about it in the first place, but after we got home we felt the full impact. We both had such bad upset stomachs and indigestion that we weren't able to eat until lunch the next day. I repeated the sushi and gyoza all night. And yes, it was worse the second time around....
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Melissa M.
Sushi is pretty decent- not the best I've had but good. The lunch special was a nice deal 3 rolls for 9.95 including miso soup and salad. I got the Philly, Spicy Tuna and Eel Avocado. My first visit I had the Paradise Roll which I really liked - and perhaps that's what's better on their menu, the special chef rolls. Sun-Tues you can get 30% off the sushi which is pretty great. The first time I went, my server didn't stop by very often so I ended up waiting for a water refill that I never got. The second time, I had a server who was more attentive. My last time, I also had a good server and it seems like they are frequenting the tables more often and checking in on you.
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Tya W.
A very bad place to eat japanese food.i had the salmon teriyaki and it was over cooked and dry.the tempura was good but the dipping sauce was watered down so did the miso soup,also the ginger salad dressing had too much mayo.the maki roll looked so sad and dry too little rice and too much sesame seeds.i guess the hibachi wasnt so bad and the service was good,but if you come in for a good food this is not the place.the worst $120 i had to spent at a japanese restaurant.
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Steven D.
Been there only once but it was a good experience. BYOB. I will definitely go back. Service was also good. Didn't try the Hibachi, that will be next time.
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Anthony B.
We go there all the time. The sushi is very good and is 30% off Sun-Tues. The hibachi side is very good. Very clean and very new decor. Great BYOB. Hidden gem in Cherry Hill.
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A S.
I ate there on a few occasions and my last outing was by far the best. The sashimi was very fresh and tasted great! I think they made some changes for the better since the first time I dined here.
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John E.
Holy cow, another amazing meal. We are so picky when it comes to sushi, and this place never disappoints. The sushi chefs take such good care of us (don't forget to tip) and the wait staff is adorable.
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Erin C.
The atmosphere here was pretty enjoyable: The decor was nice, the booths high enough to provide privacy but the entire space open enough to create comfort, and most of my meal was accompanied by fun Japanese pop music. While the clear soup was probably the least likable clear soup I've had (the broth was just not doing it for me), the wasabi shumai was pretty slammin.' I forgot I had ordered the wasabi version, so the first one was a pleasant kick in the sinus. I've never been somewhere that offered wasabi shumai, and I'm a fan. Unfortunately, I don't think the regular shumai would have been tasty at all. Sans wasabi, I suspect the dumplings are bland and mushy. The menu offers a ton of special rolls. I think I had the tuna amazing roll (Spicy tuna, white tuna tempura and avocado inside, topped with white tuna, seared pepper tuna, served with wasabi mayonnaise and mango sauce). The presentation was clean, and the roll was delicious. I also snagged the non-fish elements of my friend's chirashi. I don't understand the appeal of squid or octopus prepared this way, but I ate it. The scallop was good. But I think the chirashi paled in comparison to the hamachi kama (neck) he ate first. That had some awesome flavor.
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Jacque F.
The place is disgustingly dirty. Cracked tables ripped seats dust on the shade. Bathrooms were clean. Maybe we should have eaten in there
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Donnie M.
Been coming here for years and everything has been solid. I hope today was just a on off but leaving we were quite disappointed. The sushi (spicy kani, spicy shrimp, chicken tempura) we had was all bland and flavorless and having to ask for soy sauce dishes seemed weird. The wasabi calamari was fine but we detected no hints of wasabi. The waiter didn't really seem to happy to be there since we never got water refills and barely any acknowledgement when the check was given. I don't put this review up to be an ass but I hope someone at Kabuki reads this and things improve. I want this to be my go to sushi place again but at this point...no.
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Heather L.
I only tried some of their rolls. Not worth it. Their rice is dry and poorly made. Quality is important in making sushi. Everything needs to have quality, from the rice to the fish to the wasabi. And there was no quality in these rolls. I can get a similar type by going to buy supermarket sushi.
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Mercedes S.
This place was pretty nice. I had a nice dinner with my mom. I had the spicy tuna roll, spicy shrimp roll, a green salad and miso soup. My mom had spicy shrimp roll, California roll and edamame. Everything was good and the staff was nice. Would visit again.
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Christina G.
We ordered delivery on grubhub at 9:50pm last week. The delivery came faster than estimated and the delivery person was at our door in about 30 minutes. We ordered the sweet potato roll, raw out of control roll, raw spicy tuna hand roll and fried calamari. Prices are very reasonable. This is not the best quality sushi. The calamari was terrible. It was so fried that you couldn't even tell what was inside the thick fried layer. This was perhaps the worst fried calamari we ever had. They got our order wrong- I ordered a HAND roll for one of my rolls and they gave it to me as a regular roll. This is not a huge deal but the rolls were sloppy. A couple pieces were small and misshaped. The apple pieces were a nice touch in the out of control roll and that was the best of the three rolls. I recommend staying away from the calamari and maybe dining in rather than ordering for delivery, especially when it is near the end of the night. I won't be ordering delivery from here again but maybe will try dining in.
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Stephanie K.
Sashimi not as fresh. It's a decent sushi place to eat. We had the sushi pizza and had way too much seaweed on it. It was okay. Pad tai was a little too salty. Service was okay. Never check on us only when we were done with the food.
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Christina M.
The sushi & sashimi were fresh. It was very empty both time my boyfriend & dined in here. It was a little expensive. Nice atmosphere. The takeout part is a whole other issue we called at 6 they said it would be ready by 7.It wasn't ready until 8 I definitely will go back to eat in but not for takeout
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Tina Y.
Great sushi, great vegetarian menu, great lunch specials. Servers refill drinks quickly and the food comes quickly as well. I've never had to wait to be seated and I've always left full and happy! My main go-to sushi restaurant. (Their hibachi is also delish!)
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Cara O.
My family and I love going to Kabuki. We love going there and getting their lunch special. They make amazing sushi. Their spicy white tail, spicy salmon and spicy tuna rolls are my favorite. It's the best place for sushi in the area.
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G V.
Very good sushi! They will make you personalized rolls too which I thought was so nice! The 30%off night actually offers a lot of great rolls! Playboy roll is great- it's served in flames!
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Jessica C.
I used to love this place, but I guess they change the chefs. All I can said is this is the last time I would be coming!!! Big disappointment!!!! BTY: we all had diarrhea when we got home!!! ( foods are not fresh at all)
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Myndi W.
My coworkers and I always order from this place for lunch. Their specials are awesome, delivery time is reasonable, and the sushi is always fresh! Edited to add: I tried their sashimi platter for the first time, and it's the bomb diggity. Highly recommend it.
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Haley S.
Not sure why all the hate because this is one of my favorite sushi restaurants. I personally know their fish distributor and they buy the highest quality, freshest he has to offer. Their sushi is creative and delicious and ALWAYS fresh. Wish they'd be as crowded as they were on valentines day all the time. I've been here over 30 times and have recommended to numerous people who have become repeats. Cant speak much for the hibachi as I'm not a huge fan of that style but the sushi is top notch. And bonus points for BYOB! Try the paradise roll and you wont be disappointed! Minus one star only because the wait staff (while very attentive) lacks in the understanding English department making it a bit frustrating.
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Edward M.
Great lunch menu with decent food. For $10.75 you get a large bento box with a California sushi roll, salad, soup, rice, pineapple, ginger, dumplings, and chicken.
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Gautam T.
Fun family time. Hibachi is one of those things that no matter how much you go it's always pretty cool. This place is a lot of fun, albeit a little bit more expensive than what I would expect, however I guess you pay for the performance as well when one goes to hibachi. Food is pretty good, I had the shrimp, but tasted the scallops and chicken which were also pretty good. One thing I would warn against is the sushi, it sounds delicious when reading the descriptions, however they are underwhelming in the physical form. Stay with the hibachi!
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Jessica E.
Not the best quality sushi. Some of the ingredients are not fresh and definitely should not be served to the customers. They try to be creative with some of their rolls, but they end up putting so many different things together that it is hard to really taste the fish (actually, maybe that's what they want). Service is slow. The quality is definitely not worth the $, so I won't be returning.
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Jade V.
Tons of sushi. Like, in addition to the sushi on the menu, there was an additional sheet of sushi specials AND a little sign on the table detailing chef's special rolls. Good restaurant-quality sushi, nothing especially noteworthy, but nothing to complain about. The service is friendly and helpful. We grabbed the sushi regular, which comes with nigiri (traditional sushi with rice and a slab of fish on top) and a California roll. The individual nigiri pieces are thin were served at an optimal temperature--not straight out of the freezer, and not too warm. For an appetizer, we got the barbecue squid, which was scrumptious on the texture and sauce. Funny thing; we walked in here on a whim, without really knowing anything about this place and saw the huge wall decorated with wine bottles. For some reason, we assumed that this meant they had a full alcohol menu, but it's a BYOB, folks. It seems like nice place to sit and chat with a friend for a while, but most customers were in and out of there pretty quickly. Oh, they've also got some Korean food, bento boxes, tempura, and udon and soba. I'd come back for the hibachi portion.
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M P.
There was nothing special about the sushi here. We got six different rolls, all were mediocre at best. The seaweed salad (kind of hard to mess up) was good but again, nothing to write home about. The staff was alright, not overly welcoming. I don't think I will be returning.
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Danielle A.
I've been going here for years, but as of today I won't be going back. I walked in at 2:59 pm, in a rush because I had work, wanting to order off their lunch menu that ends at 3 pm. Ready to order at 3:01, the server said I wasn't able to order from the lunch menu because it was after 3. Are you kidding me? I was in the restaurant before 3! And either way, is one minute really going to make a difference? Talk about poor business practice. I was the only guest in there and they let me walk out. Congrats on losing a devout customer, I'll be taking my business to Wasabi in Mount Laurel where they actually care about their guests. I would advise management to educate themselves and their staff on proper customer service, because it's little things like this that can make people never come back.
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Kelly P.
Not a bad dinner spot for a large group. We celebrated a friend's 27th here with a party of 9. We were able to take over a hibachi table on a wednesday evening. Service was kind and quick, we each got a LARGE shot of saki directly into our mouths.. yeah. And the birthday girl was given some ice cream with a candle in it, while we all serenaded her. I would keep this place in mind for a crowd pleasing experience.
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Patrick H.
I am a regular to this place. We just were told during a non busy lunch hour with no one in the restaurant that we had 10 minutes to eat because we were parked in the take out spot. I asked very nicely if my dad could park there because of very expensive merchandise in the back of his open truck. The front desk girl was the most rude person I have ever met. She was not only telling me no in a very disrespectful way, but her mouth was full of food as she was stuffing it. I have been a loyal customer for 5 years and have brought many people there. I will never return and would recommend not visiting there. Sushi is fabulous and the sushi chefs make the entire ambience.
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Michele S.
My husband and I finally tried this place for the first time tonight. Walking in, you have a choice of sitting around a hibachi grill to the right, or proceeding straight to the regular tables. We chose the latter. We were surprised to see that the place was not busy at all on a Sunday night at prime dinner time. There was one hibachi table filled, and maybe a total of 4 regular tables, including us, throughout our meal. Not sure if this is a regular Sunday night for them, or just a post-holiday slump. Either way, we received pretty good service. For appetizers, I got the veggie spring rolls, which were three smallish rolls cut in half and served with chili sauce. Lightly fried, and tasty. My husband got the chicken maki, which he said was really awesome. For our main courses, we both got sushi combos: Me, the veggie maki combo (a combo of cucumber, avocado, and mixed veggie sushis), and my husband the spicy maki combo (spicy tuna, salmon, and yellow tail). The combos were served with a small bowl of miso and a small side salad with the standard ginger dressing. In general, I think miso can range from really good to really bad - this was somewhere in between, although my husband didn't like it. The sushi platter was fairly big - each with 6 pieces of each of the 3 varieties of sushi on each of our platters. After the apps, miso, and salad, we each brought some sushi home. We also got dessert - me, the vanilla fried ice cream, and my husband the tempora cheese cake. We were both happy with our selections. Over all, the service was pretty good. The food was fresh and tasty. The atmosphere a little dark and cozy. We do not get sushi often, but I would definitely return here. Perhaps next time we'll come with a group and try the hibachi grill.
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D J.
30% off some sushi sun, mon, tues. I though it was good for what we ordered. Tempura fried cheese cake is awesome. It's BYOB too!
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Michael M.
So I returned this past weekend after seeing good reviews from some yelpers I follow. Unfortunately, I did not share their good experiences. My son and I were seated promptly and our beverage order taken. We placed our food order when the beverages came up and both our sodas were flat. We flagged the waiter down and sent the sodas back, and he replaced them. Still flat. I sent them back and we settled for water. Healthier, I know, but a hard way to push a healthy choice. My salad was brown, and the dressing was more mayonnaise than ginger. Miso soup was watery and bland, as if there wasn't enough left and they were stretching the batch to make it last. Sushi was hit or miss. Sunomono was good, but I ordered a king crab handroll and the crab was shredded and mixed with mayo (not requested btw) versus the nice huge chunks of king crab I get at places like Fuji or Mikado. I also can't understand why their spicy offerings (tuna, salmon rolls) also employ this shredded/finely chopped fish offering. I suspect its the quality of the fish, as you certainly wouldn't want to take a $4 piece of tuna and obliterate it. Service was the only thing that saved this place from one star. I am unlikely to return, 30% off or not.
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Amy C.
It'a worst Japanese restaurant in my life. Sashimi is not fresh. Udon soup is nasty and noodle taste like uncooked flour. Food is too expensive for its quality. I think better go food court in cherryhill mall. I had diarrhea all night. I recommend other places in philly - Fat salmon, Zama or Morimoto. Anyone recommend me for good Japanese restaurant in cherry hill...plz
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Kelly C.
spiciest crunchy salmon roll EVER!!! ... but i like it :3 i would recommend the spicy maki set to people. presentation is nice.. much better than some of the other local sushi joints. even though the price is slightly higher, i would come back here for the ambiance. the servers are quite friendly.
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Joanne T.
I remember coming here couple years ago for hibachi dinner with the bf. All i can recall was the cook was fun, the food was nothing special, and we smelled after leaving. We decided to check this place out again yesterday for a quick dinner after the gym. It was a Tuesday so they had a selection of sushi for 30% off. We ended up ordering 6 rolls and 2 miso for a total of $40 including tip. Like a lot of other sushi places, the miso was instant soup. We ordered spicy tuna, spicy salmon, spicy yellowtail, kani, spider, and shrimp tempura rolls. Mission accomplished: we were full. Taste however was another story. For a nice Japanese resto i expected more from this place. They had the audacity to use what tasted like grind tuna, salmon, and yellowtail in their rolls. Yes! they were not whole pieces! Yuck! Thank goodness the spicy salmon did have an ok taste. The other two (tuna/yellowtail) you could not even differentiate the taste. Bleh! The spider roll was decent. The shrimp tempura was so so. I guess there was a reason why we've been avoiding this place. I'd say keep on moving. Your better off heading to Yanagi at the mall!
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Jimmy L.
In a city like Cherry Hill, I had higher expectations for food and services for any restaurants who wants to stay in business. I hate to give 1 stars, but this is going to be one of the ones who will get it. Quality of food was not so great. Sashimi was not too fresh... the tuna smelled and felt a bit soggy for the last piece i have eaten. The seaweed wraps are hard and hard to chew. Lastly, I can't believe that this place wouldn't accommodate us by switching a roll in the Love Boat because my Fiancee can't eat spicy. We asked to replaced a roll with another one that was cheaper on the menu. I've been to tons of places and they would never hesitate to make any adjustments. What they have done? the pointed out the fine print on their menu stating that any replacements would be an additional charge... Never will come back again...
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Stephanie S.
Every time I've been here its empty. I went Tuesday for 30% off sushi and it was even dead then. My friend and I split a few specially rolls. I will say they came out extremely fast because the sushi chefs were just standing around. I hate to go to a slow sushi restaurant because I question how fresh the fish will be. But, they have a good selection of rolls, even on the 30% off menu. Specialty rolls are very unique, love that! Two of the specialty rolls we had were tuna amazing roll which was 4 different kinds of tuna, pepper tuna, white tuna, tempura tuna, and spicy tuna. And a sweet heart roll which was spicy tuna, shrimp tempura and avocado wrapped in soy bean paper. Service was fast and polite. I also like the atmosphere. When you walk in you def don't feel like your in a strip mall center. There are wine bottles on the wall when you walk in and very dim lighting. I would say give it a try the sushi was good. I am sure the hibachi would we fun as well.
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Tina F.
It was an amazing experience! we did the Hibachi and the guy was actually entertaining, his name was Richard. The food was delicious.
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Thomas B.
I ate here today for the first and LAST time. I have visited Japan a few times and am familiar with some of the foods. For starters, I believe that the staff and probably owners aren't Japanese. That being said, this food was an overpriced version of the food you can buy from a food concession over at Cherry Hill mall. I ordered the YAKITORI chicken, big unauthentic disappointment which was served to me on a steaming sizzling skillet.(I have never seen this dish served in this manner. I felt like I was eating fajitas across the street at the chain restaraunt with the name that begins with the letter "C". I left the restaraunt stinking like I had been working in the kitchen. The server expected me to retain the same fork to eat the meal that I had used to eat the salad as if getting a fresh fork was a problem. I would have been better off walking a few more steps and eating at THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY OR ZINBURGER. Save your money and order take-out.
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Ryan B.
Sushi was expertly prepared by the chef. Very mindful of my shellfish allergy. Service was great. Would come back.
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Michelle C.
The 30% off sushi deal from Sunday through Tuesday is most definitely what got me to Kabuki for the first time last week. I was dining solo and wanted something tasty but affordable, and Kabuki provided. Once seated, my server offered a hot towel. This was a particularly welcome gesture as my hands tend to be cold as ice from October through April. Three rolls were delivered shortly after placing my order. The spicy tuna and yellowtail rolls were both super tasty, while the sweet potato roll was... interesting. Which is kind of why I ordered it in the first place, so no complaints, although I probably wouldn't order it again. I was in and out for less than twenty bucks, and now I have a new spot in the sushi rotation.
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L K.
Was here for the second time a few weeks ago. The first time was for lunch, and it was sufficient. Decent sushi for the price. As for dinner, it was just mediocre. The staff was friendly and accomodating, and it's a BYOB so that is great. The food was just ok. We ordered green salads with carrot ginger dressing. The salads were drowning in a blah mayonaiss-y creamy giner dressing, didn't taste fresh. The miso soup was ok. I got steamed mixed vegetables, which tasted like cheap thawed frozen vegetables thrown on a plate. The sushi rolls were ok. They were pretty skimpy on the inside though. There are enough good to great sushi places in Cherry Hill, I wont be returning to this one. Didn't try the hibachi, so can't comment on that.
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Junelle B.
Every Friday my dad and I always go here for lunch. They have lunch specials for 3 rolls of sushi for less than ten dollars (something like that). We pretty much order the same thing every time. My dad orders spicy kani, shrimp tempura, and eel cucumber roll. The sushi is good, but nothing spectacular! As for myself, I get the bento box with salmon. This comes with dumplings, sliced pineapples, California roll, vegetables, and the salmon. +Lunch specials always come with miso soup and salad +Staff is nice, very attentive -salmon is drenched in teriyaki sauce.. but it's saveable!
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Melissa A.
The sushi was above-average, but we came and the restaurant was nearly empty, and we had very slow service. Very not worth the price or the TIME! Umi is the best
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Kemi A.
Dined for the first time recently. I was a bit skeptical but I went with it anyway. We had a semi large crowd and we had regular dining (not hibachi). I made reservations for 5 but when we got there we were accommodated when we had to add 3more members to the party so they just split the group which was fine because it worked out well as the additions were "outsiders" to the main grp so they didn't sour having to sit with themselves nearby. It appeared to be a busy Saturday night. So I must say it took a bit for things to get moving (giving us menu/taking our orders). I was starving so I think I over ordered. I went with: Seafood Soup- Not a must have. But I ordered it because it was cold outside and I wanted something warm. Unfortunately, it took forever for it come out and it ended up coming out AFTER my sushi came out...so didn't have quite the same effect. Plus I'm not sure why it took so long to make...it's just shrimp with veggies in broth. Chicken Maki- Not as flavorful as I expected for something fried and multi layered. I had to rely heavily on the accompanying sauce so that was a disappointment. Salmon Sake- I had this from the ala carte menu. Pretty good. Then again it was the FIRST thing I tasted all night soo maybe I was just hungry and fried shoe laces would also have tasted pretty good. Lion King Roll- I LOVED this. I'm a fake sushi eater , if you haven't heard me say that before. I like my food cooked (unless they are veggies). So this was best of all worlds for me..cooked seafood and rice. It was basically "Shrimp tempura, white tuna tempura, spicy tuna and avocado inside, top with whole piece of eel and tobiko, served with eel sauce and spicy mayonnaise". The presentation was also impressive. I ended up finishing my soup there (didn't want to take that to go) and I had half my chicken maki and lion king roll to go. The rest of my party were happy with their choices I think..no one complained. At the end, my only beef is that the food too a long time to come out. BUT this fact was not ignored by our waiter who was very visible and would stop by to apologize for the delay. Which was good because though we were asking what was taking soo long, we were pretty well mannered and understanding about it all. I noticed we were not billed for the drinks we had and I think that's just their "I'm sorry it took forever to serve you" appeasement which was fine by me. I would recommend the place...just don't get the seafood soup. You can +/- on the chicken maki depending on your taste buds. I recommend the lion king roll if you are pseudo-sushi eater like I am. Bon appetit
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Danny H.
My go to sushi spot when in South Jersey on Tuesday nights - 30% discount on select rolls. Great service...can't be beat. BYOB!!!
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Tobi K.
The seaweed they use in their sushi is too thick and smelled to fishy. Also the service was bad when the server rushed our orders, didn't come to check on us and then threw our bill on the table.
Been here a bunch of times since this place opened... Over time it gradually became our sushi place of choice... The food and prices are on par or better than all other sushi places in the vicinity...The staff is very friendly and provides great service... Most importantly, how can you not like 30% off Sunday through Tuesday? Just last night, we went for dinner and between two of us it came to just over $30! I definitely recommend Kabuki...
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Joseph F.
While on business I dropped in on a Wednesday night and the restaurant was nearly empty. So there was no wait. There is a lot of seating here, some booths and a sushi bar to suit you. I liked the low-level, recessed lighting and decorations which created a nice atmosphere. The restaurant was staffed by Japanese, so I did not get Americanized Japanese food. I had the lobster dish which was very good and cost about $14 including the tip. The service was fine. I'd go back if I visited Cherry Hill again.
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Kitty L.
Several things I want to point out why I think this restaurant gets a 1-star rating from me: 1. Not an accommodating restaurant. Why? My fiancee and I were about to order the Love Boat, which consists of sushi, sashimi, dragon roll, and spicy tuna handroll. I can't take spicy food very well so I asked if they could give me a non-spicy handroll such as a yellowtail & scallion handroll. She checked the price on the menu to make sure there wasn't a price difference first. The yellowtail handroll was cheaper than the tuna handroll on the menu. So it shouldn't be a problem but she went to ask the sushi chef to make sure. Chef says no and that I'll have to pay extra for any substitution. But yellowtail is cheaper? But anyway. So, I asked "ok let's make this simple, could you just give me a non-spicy tuna handroll then? Just regular tuna." She went to ask the chef and the chef says no and that I have to pay extra. WTF! (excuse my language. I was very mad at that time) What kind of sense is this? I have NEVER went to a restaurant, especially ones that look pretty nice, that doesn't accommodate customers simple request. I wasn't asking them to substitute the tuna with Toro. I just want a non-spicy tuna handroll! I felt pretty offended. 2. Salad and Miso Soup. The salad dressing wasn't that great. It was mayo-based ginger dressing. Not much flavor to it. The miso soup was really watered down. How can they serve this at all? 3. Quality of Seaweed. We ordered a regular sushi and sashimi combo. First bite into the tuna roll, I was disappointed. The quality of seaweed used was cheap. It was hard to bite into and it was chewy. 4. Quality of sashimi. First bite into the tuna sashimi, it had the fishy aftertaste to it. Really? I don't remember the last time eating a tuna sashimi and had that fishy aftertaste. It wasn't pleasant at all. Overall, I was very upset and mad about the whole dining experience. This is probably the worst Japanese restaurant I been to. I would think the food wouldn't be that bad based on its location. I'll never come back here again. If it wasn't a Saturday, I would've just drove to Sagami!
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Deanna B.
Amazing sushi- and great service. Love this place. If you go here you must try the Treasure Island app it truly is a gem- Spicy tuna wrapped around thinly sliced avocado topped with caviar and sitting in a pool of house wasabi sauce.
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EricaLynn J.
I was completely overwhelmed by Kabuki as a whole; it's a huge space, lots going on, a menu that has so much to choose from that it would take you years to be able to try everything on it, and it kind of suffers from multiple personalities throughout, but even with some shortcomings, the food is so fresh and so good, that you'll leave quite happy. Kabuki is one half a Hibachi style restaurant, and the other half a regular Japanese eatery, with an extensive selection of special rolls and items from the sushi bar. Whatever you could possibly dream of being put together on a roll, they probably have already thought of it and it's on their menu. Everything from the appetizers (of which there are, again, an exorbitant amount) to pieces of sushi to the aforementioned rolls are not just delicious but prepared really well too. The presentation was quite impressive - with everything. Strangely, while the food was presented well, the restaurant itself seems to be facing an identity crisis. On one wall there's a huge amount of empty wine bottles, though they're placed in such a way that it's hard to see anything except the top of them, so the art form is kind of lost. At least on me, anyway. And the tables look kind of dreary, with a simple white cloth over them and that's about it. That kind of decor doesn't fly when you're in what is supposed to be an upscale Japanese restaurant, with the prices that Kabuki charges. Kabuki is the type of place where you will pay $5 for an order of sushi, which is usually two pieces, but at Kabuki it's just for one piece. And where there's $38 Hibachi selections on the menu. And $19 special rolls. With that kind of pricing, you expect something a little more high-end as far as decor goes. But the food? Unreal. Seriously some of the freshest sushi I've ever had. Fresh and addictive and just amazing, piece after piece. I would highly recommend this restaurant to anyone who is looking for some serious Japanese eats! I am sure that the decor and other small issues will be ironed out with time and experience. I can't wait to watch this restaurant grow, and to develop the distinct personality it is meant to have, so it is set apart from the other nearby Japanese places that are well-established already.
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Brie P.
I've been to Kabuki a couple times now, once for sushi and more recently for the hibachi and I can finally say I'm a fan. I'm a huge lover of all things sushi so fresh food is the first thing I look for. With the hibachi they serve all the things you're used to: the veggies, rice, soup and salad in addition to your chicken/shrimp/steak etc. Not only do you get all that, but you also get a helping of noodles too! Everything was cooked perfectly and the chef was very generous with the sake. The place is BYOB which I preferred because the bill was a lot easier to handle since we were a group of 6. If you haven't been yet, definitely check it out! Good prices, good food, and a large menu.
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Robert M.
Kabuki really showed us what a quality sushi and habachi grill could offer to all customers on a budget. All of their rolls in house are 30% off which made the original California and Eel hand rolls super cheap and the specialty rolls reasonable. My mother and I had a great meal for under 30 bucks!
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Brian L.
Stopped by for dinner with friends a few weeks back. It's a pretty new place it has a comfy atmosphere. The staff were friendly and our chef was pretty funny. He busted out a lot of the typical acts (onion fire, spinning egg, doll which pees when exposed to hot temperatures). He did however pull out a squeeze bottle of rice wine and squirted it into anyones willing mouth. That was pretty funny. The meal started out with some salad and miso soup. The salad wasn't bad and neither was the soup. Though I felt the soup was lacking. Some of the miso soups I"ve had in the future had a little more than what this one had. There was no tofu or nori at all, so it was just soup...and maybe a few scallions. I ordered a filet mignon and scallop platter. They came along with your choice of fried or white rice, fried noodles, and veggies. The food was pretty good, but the "presentation" coulda been much better. At most of the other hibachi places I've been to, the chef at least attempts to put the different foods on different parts of the plate. Our chef just kinda plopped everything down on the same spot on the plate. Not a huge deal, but I like to have all my stuff separate. Overall, I'd probably go there again, it wasn't terrible but they could def. improve. Also, I think they're still in the process of getting their liquor license.
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Jacqui S.
When this place first opened up, it was a pretty good Japanese place. My friends and I have been here several times and each time the quality of service has depreciated. We all started going there in 2010 and it is two years later, I rather go elsewhere. The towels have a mildew smell to them now. The green tea ice cream is mixed with mint/chocolate chip. My usual dish which is sesame chicken has a hard texture now where as it was crunchy and light before. The serving sizes have decreased. Won't be returning.
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Cherryl L.
I had the dragon roll and eel sashimi! Pretty good We also ordered the tempura string beans it was crunchy with the spicy mayo on the side. Edamame superb it cane out really steaming hot! They also have the Korean bim bim bop my husband ordered it huge steaming bowl! Next time I'll order the beef bowl it smells delicious!
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Krystle B.
Definitely one of my favorite restaurants! The food is always good, the cooks and servers are always nice. The atmosphere is beautiful as well. When I came for the hibachi one time for my birthday, the cooks made sure to drown us in sake (which my brother describes as a free drink that would be stupid to turn down if you want to get buzzed on a budget). This is always my first choice for Hibachi, but don't sleep on the sushi either!
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Christina B.
After Anthony Bourdain's "don't order fish on Monday" warning, I was a bit skeptical about 30% sushi on Monday. However, we we decided to give it a try for lunch. The decor of the restaurant was nice, but the food took forever and the service was quite lacking. When we did get some food, it was pleasant enough, but not exceptional. We wouldn't avoid it, and would gladly go there again if our favorite place was closed.
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Jennifer T.
What a hidden gem!! Located in the back of a shopping plaza, between Cheesecake Factory and Barnes & Nobles, Kabuki is an unexpected but not disappointing (and rather tasty) sushi place. The restaurant is half hibachi and half regular dining with sushi. Now, usually, I feel hibachi restaurants don't focus enough on the regular dining and sushi options, but Kabuki has really done it right. They have a great dining room and a MASSIVE menu to service their non-hibachi guests. I was extremely taken aback by all the sushi options...so creative too! There were so many things that I had never tried before and I couldn't order them all! Hahaha...I was very greedy though and ordered way more than my table could eat. What stood out to me the most? The Emperor Roll and The American Dream Roll, oh and the Treasure Island appetizer: Let's start with the appetizer...it was so good!!!! Imagine a bowl constructed of finely sliced avocado, filled with a mixture of spicy minced fish (tuna, white fish, and somthing else perhaps?), and vegetables (you don't really taste the vegetable but you get the unexpected and welcomed texture change/crunch), all sitting on a bed of creamy and light sauce (avocado sauce perhaps?)...PLEASE TRY IT!!! Emperor Roll - WOW, that's all I can say...WOW. I really felt like an emperor when they brought it out. Not only was the presentation beautiful (all their sushi was served on a simple and elegant modern white plate) but it was topped with GOLD FLAKES!! How do you not feel royal after seeing that?!!? American Dream - This roll was different mainly because it's not wrapped in traditional nori seaweed; instead, they use a soy wrapper. It was also very beautiful. The wrapper was a bright yellow color and it just makes the sushi look so pretty and appetizing. Must try! Overall, I enjoyed my dinner here but I would like to give them some more time before I try again. They are really newly opened and it seems like the staff hasn't gotten it all together yet....they were very courteous and helpful but I don't think they have all the tables down pat (I think they gave our apps away to a different table in the beginning). Also, our table was next to the sushi bar and the server station so the servers were kind of just hovering near by. But like I mentioned, they have a GREAT selection of sushi and I will definitely go back to try some more of their creations =) **Side Note** I usually judge the quality of most sushi restaurants by their spicy tuna roll - I know its not a fair assessment of their whole menu, just by one roll...but this is what does it for me - and how was their spicy tuna roll? It was OK. A little better than OK. My suggestion would be to make the tuna a little less creamy and little more spicy. I think a good spicy tuna roll should taste like tuna and spice...just a suggestion... ;-)
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Seal M.
I went here yesterday just for lunch with a few friends. We were planning on going to a prestigious sushi restaurant in King of Prussia but the traffic was horrible. I somehow remembered bumping into this hiddin oasis and we decided to try it. We did not do the habachi. We stuck to the sushi side of the menu. First off, we noticed that Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, their sushi is 30% off all rolls. Awesome. We ordered 8 rolls, a kani salad, and three appetizers and it only came to $60 because of the savings! The rolls were pretty good. I've gone to one or two better places, but I've also been to much much worse. They were definitely good and considering the rolls ranged from $3-$5 for your average roll because of the specials, it was amazing. The spicy tuna was awesome as well as the sweet potato roll. The best part of the meal was the presentation! I was amazed. First, my kani salad came out in a martini glass. SO CUTE. I thought that was as far as that would go, but no. The sweetheart roll that I ordered which I often order at a place in Glassboro came out to die for. It's soy wrap in always pink which contributes to the name. However, at Kabuki, the rolls were shaped into hearts on the plate and the presentation also included a martini filled glass of radish and another two rolls shaped into a heart. The martini glass was stuck to the plate with a ring of wasabi that held it down. The food was a bit better than average. However, the artsy presentation of everything we ordered was extremely satisfying. I am glad that there was traffic on the way to King of Prussia or I would have never been able to discover my new favorite sushi in the area.
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Jenn W.
Since my first visit, a coworker likes to frequent here, for the mackerel,& bean curd & I get lunch special rolls, comes with soup & salad.Small, it's OK. I was disappointed when my dish had a stain on it-crud. I had to tell waiter could you Please give me another one??!!What on...?? It just makes it borderline, the service is Hit or Miss,the waiters & waitresses aren't the best, only go , since its closest one to our job, but the seafood is OK, Rather go to my other favorite spots!!!
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Julianna K.
Question: Why would a BYO have empty bottles of alcohol covering every wall of the establishment? Answer: To taunt and punish you for not bringing any with you. A Hibachi double date is what brought me to Kabuki. I had never been there before but a friend of a friend of a friend said it was good, so we were looking forward to it. It wasn't half bad. The food was pretty good actually. It was probably one of the most tasty hibachi experiences I've had (hibachi generally tastes kinda bland since everything is cooked the same - with oil and garlic on a hot griddle), but our hibachi chef or whatever you call them must have been new because he couldn't catch a dam thing he flung into the air. And if i recall correctly, he hit me in the glasses with a piece of squash. Funny, I know. Don't get me wrong, we had a great time together, but I'm not so sure it wasn't just because of the company I had. I will go again, but next time I'll try the sushi.
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Daniel D.
Amidst the vapid wasteland that is Garden State Plaza, scrunched in between a Cheesecake Factory and a McCormick and Schmick's, is Kabuki, a classic example of "one of these things is not like the other". Boasting both an expansive sushi menu and full hibachi menu, my wife and I went against the grain and ordered neither. I love sushi, but there is much more to Japanese cuisine than spicy tuna rolls. The appetizers menu had a few "off-the-beaten-path" choices in terms of things you find at a lot of Japanese places. We had the hamachi kama, which is grilled yellow tail neck, and sunomono, which I've only had before in Korean place. Sunomono is essentially shrimp cocktail if you replace the sauce with a delicate rice wine vinegar and the shrimp with an assortment of sashimi. It's very simple, and when well prepared, fantastic. Kabuki prepared it very well, and served it in an over-sized martini glass, which I thought was neat. My love affair with soba noodles knows no bounds, and Kabuki has wonderful ones. My wife ordered an udon noodle soup with vegetable tempura, and that was also excellent. The true joy of Japanese food is its lack of complication. It's simply excellent flavor set to stand on its own or paired very carefully with one or two other elements. Kabuki did not try to overdo anything, or to compromise the dishes for Americans. I read some of the reviews here, and have to disagree about the service being poor. It was just right, and our waiter had great suggestions to the two of us who were looking for the most "authentic" things on the menu. Add as a bonus: they carry Ramune, which is a very tasty Japanese fruit soda. I hear they do a sushi deal in the early part of the week, and I may have to venture back to try it. Every other table around us seemed to be ordering it up by the pile, so they must be doing something right. All in all, a fine place to dine, and a truly welcome diversion from the usual chain-restaurant crap that overpopulates the suburbs.
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Robert D.
I've been here 4 times in maybe as many months. Each time I've liked it less and now I strongly dislike their food. The servers are always great and I like the way the place looks. Their rolls are just ok and their lunch boxes are flat out bad. They charge for tea and I always feel like the dishes, cups and chopsticks may not really be clean. Ultimately, I probably won't try it again. Each time I've gone so far it was with the hope the previous visits were flukes. With Mikado less than 3 minutes down Route 70 there is no reason to go to Kabuki.
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Marie D.
This is a welcomed addition to the myriad of cookie-cutter businesses occupying the Garden State Park Shops. We certainly didn't need another place to get a salad or a burger. So what'll it be? Hibachi or sushi? I engaged the staff in a bit of Q & A and found out, no, you can't sit at the hibachi tables and order sushi (so you and your mates better get on the same page) and, no, there's not a private party room. But, YES!, it's BYO. The evidence is mounted on the foyer wall. Empty sake bottes: One man's trash is another man's interior designing treasure. Though the menu is expansive - lots of Japanese dishes and sushi special rolls - we kept it simple and ordered a few tuna rolls and philly rolls and a sweet potato roll. Good stuff, very fresh. I'd like to go back for a special roll and back one more time for hibachi, since you can have it all, just not all at once.
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Jennifer S.
I always say, you can judge a japanese restaurant by their rice. And this place has some goooood rice. After tasting their mayo-based ginger dressing, and sucking down a tasteless bowl of miso soup, I was pretty much sorry I had ordered the $21 bento box steak terriyaki dinner despite my 50% off 2nd entree Val-Pak coupon. When it came, however, I was beyond pleasantly surprised. The steak was the MOST tender I have ever had at an asian restaurant (and I eat Asian 80% of my out-meals). The rice was cooked to perfection which lent to two fabu Cali rolls. The gyoza was cooked to perfection. The tempura was plentiful (2 shrimp and 5 veggies) and also bove average, but it's always fairly tasteless. The dipping sauce (as all their sauces) was not-stellar. I think if they improved the quality of their condiments (their touted fresh wasabi still had a paste base) they would be my go-to!
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Adrian K.
Spicy tuna roll was delicious but not spicy. The chicken yakitori was what my more expressive peeps would call pedestrian. The salad and Ginger dressing was good and the clear soup was ok. The hibachi chicken was ok and the lobster was nice and peppery. The beef negimaki entree was a little thick on the cut of beef, long on scallions inside and way short on flavor (think water flavored beef) It was a byob place so we had water but nobody ever offered to refill it. The sushi menu was extensive it seems like its worth going back to check it out!
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M F.
Our favorite sushi in s. jersey / Philly. Love the 30% off sun- Tuesday. Can't beat it.
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Rhea G.
Took a friend out to celebrate her birthday; 4 of us in our group including her 9 year old who ate a plate full of California roll all by himself, the service was good, our waitress we could hardly understand her English. Good thing we knew what we wanted that was a bit frustrating. Place not crowded which was nice. Lighting was perfect not too bright not too dark. The sushi was just ok nothing memorable.
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Kevin E.
First time at Kabuki. The place is brand new and visually stunning. Nice high ceilings give an airy feel. With separate areas for the hibachi, regular dining and other private rooms, it can handle any type of crowd and not step over each other. They have a 30% off menu that was really affordable. We took advantage of that. Easily the best roll I've had in a while -- The Kabuki Fire Roll! Don't even think about not ordering it. So delish. I also had their Tuna "tornando"? roll...It's the one with 3 kinds of tuna in it. it's like eating Thanksgiving dinner. LOTS of meat in that one. Service was nice and friendly. Definitely will go back..and that says alot with Mikado right down the street.
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Yuri P.
Great food! Great service!
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bonita d.
I dined here a couple of weeks ago. It was a Saturday night and odviously too busy for them that night. We waited about 45 even after having made reservations. The matre d was overwhelmed and couldn't keep track of incoming guests and those that were already waiting to be seated. Finally we were seated. It took another 20 minutes before our chef came to the table to begin. The food prepared was fine and the chef was entertaining. The wait staff was not very attentive. We notice while dining that there are a few bathroom sinks set up in the dining area with dirty rags sitting on them. Not sure if that is supposed to add to the ambiance but I wasn't impressed. This restaurant has a perfect location to be very successful. But I won't be going back.
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Anna K.
On a Friday night my boyfriend and I had planned to go out for hibachi but we had made a crucial mistake and forgot to make reservations. The 7 o'clock hour came around and we headed over to Benihanna but were turned away due to an hour wait. We had then tried to regroup and tried a few other restaurants down Route 70, we gave up the hibachi dinner dream and were just simply hungry so we tried Olive Garden and Red Lobster and got the same results, over an hour wait! So we figured if we are going to have to wait we might as well make it worth it and headed over to the Cheesecake Factory. As I was waiting in line at Cheesecake Factory my boyfriend rushes over and tells me there is a hidden hibachi place on the plaza and it looks relatively empty. So we quickly ran down to Kabuki and I was so happy to have found this place, we asked for seats at the hibachi and were told of only a short twenty minute wait. Finding this place almost felt like an oasis in the desert, too good to be true. We waited ten short minutes and were sat down at the hibachi. We both ordered the fillet Mignon & shrimp hibachi course which comes with a brothy miso soup and green salad. The salad and soup were served immediately upon ordering and shortly after the hibachi chef came around and started preparing the food. It was delicious. Although the chef had amazing knife skills I just simply hate it when hibachi chefs try and throw food in your mouth. And of course without fail I had a piece of raw zucchini flung at my face. Other than wishing that I had known about this place and brought my own bottle of wine for the BYO, I had a wonderful experience. I'll be sure to eat there again and try their sushi!
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Allison E.
Went here on a Saturday night for dinner. No reservation, no problem. There was no wait either which was nice considering it was a Saturday night at 7:00 pm. Moving forward, the food was solid. My dinner date and I sat at the hibachi area. It was nice to see salmon as a menu item for the hibachi entree. Usually it's chicken, steak, or shrimp which is fine, but the salmon was refreshing. We also sampled some items from the sushi menu which my date mentioned was the best sushi he's had in jersey, if that's saying anything. The food was good and fyi; it's a BYOB. I would definitely return as I believe it is the best hibachi in the Philadelphia area and YES I would cross the bridge and pay that $5 toll just for their food. IT'S WORTH IT YELPERS!
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Marie B.
Been there twice - both times very pleased with service and food. Huge sushi menu - large room with sushi bar and special Hibachi area. Love the Japanese pop music playing at just the right volume. They have a thoughtful menu - lots of options - many ways to get exactly what you want by mixing it up a bit. My daughter loved the California Roll, and even gave a thumbs up to the Miso soup. The lunch box was quite ample - giving you a California Roll and Shumai with your selected entree - plus soup and salad. The prices are quite reasonable. My only suggestion - they do give you generous amounts of their rice tea - I would maybe like to see more teas to choose from. I'll be going back often. They also feature quite a few Korean dishes as well.
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Laura R.
AWFUL!!!!!!!!!! When the waitress brought our food out, between three adults the sushi was all mixed up on everyone plates, and she instructed US to just switch it around. At this point, I was fine with that, mistakes happen. Half way through we realize we didn't even get the right sushi, so we told her. She told us we were wrong and that my Eel Roll was in fact a Salmon Roll, when it clearly was not. Continued to argue with us that we were wrong. She said she was going to ask the chef, and came back and still insisted that we were wrong. The manager then came over and this is where it gets bad. She points to my sushi, hovering over me, shoving her armpit in my face!!! Then proceeds to say, oh yeah your right, that's not salmon. Then tells us that they will credit us for the rolls they got mixed up. Fine, whatever. Then....walks back over to our table, PICKS UP MY CHOP STICKS THAT I WAS EATING WITH, AND TAKES MY SUSHI OFF MY PLATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What?!!??!?! And the sushi tasted like crap. NEVER AGAIN!
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Address :929 Haddonfield Rd
Cherry Hill, NJ, 08002
Takes Reservations : Yes Delivery : No Take-out : Yes Accepts Credit Cards : Yes Good For : Dinner Parking : Private Lot Bike Parking : Yes Wheelchair Accessible : Yes Good for Kids : Yes Good for Groups : Yes Attire : Casual Ambience : Trendy Noise Level : Average Alcohol : No Outdoor Seating : No Wi-Fi : No Has TV : Yes Waiter Service : Yes Caters : No
Carina C.
For some reason I keep coming back to this place. The service is ok - could improve on that. I am not into sushi much, so I cannot give a true review of the ones I've tried. I go in for the normal dining and order hibachi 99% of the time. Decent - nothing spectacular, but they give you a lot. Salad, Soup, Rice, Noodles, Vegetables, and choice of meat or shrimp. I would recommend for lunch since it is super cheap. Dinner it gets more expensive and you get just slightly more food. The Lunch portion is just enough to fill you, so there is no need to spend more to get the dinner portion. Fried Ice Cream is AWESOME. I love that stuff... do try if you do visit Kabuki. Overall - decent if you want a good amount of food for a small price. Park by Cheesecake factory.
(3)Jack N.
Fantastic service and creative sushi rolls. I recommend going here.
(4)Daniel S.
Great place. Service is a little stiff. Love the Playboy. Just love it!
(4)Deborah C.
Overall good experience.... The salad was fresh and crisp while the ginger dressing was a little sweet and lacked bite. The stirred fried vegetables could have been on the grill a little longer, but were flavorful. The Hibachi shrimp and filet mignon were very good as was the no extra charge fried rice. The hibachi noodles were good, but seemed out of place and redundant when considering the rice. The ginger and mustard sauces were excellent yet different than I had experienced before in a Japanese restaurant. THE BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT WAS THAT SOME KIND OF MARGARINE WAS USED IN PLACE OF BUTTER!!!
(4)Hina M.
I've been to kabuki twice and had a good experience both times. The servers are extremely attentive, and always have a pleasant attitude. The first time I went to the Hibachi side of the restaurant, and overall I'm not a very big fan of the razzle dazzle hibachi show (too much forced oohing and aahing and laughing). I personally don't think the food at the hibachi is anything to brag about. But the second time I went to the restaurant side and was very pleased. We had negimaki (scallions rolled in marinated beef) to start, and I ordered the bibimbap while my sister had the chicken katsu. The bi bim bap was very tasty and so was the chicken katsu. Dont forget to have the red bean mochi ice cream for dessert. Overall this is a great place to dine as long as you skip the hibachi.
(3)Sarah L.
We discovered this little gem a couple months ago and have been going back at least once a week ever since. Quality sushi and awesome appetizers, we have yet to try the hibachi side but looking forward to checking it out. Oh and their lunch special is amazing! Highly recommend trying the tempura cheesecake as well.
(4)Bryan P.
Fresh food prepared with style. The staff is very attentive and welcoming. This is one of our favorites. We have visited on many occasions and receive the same high level of service. On the Hibachi side, you are entertained by a talented group of chefs that all have their own style. Since it's a BYO restaurant you can eat inexpensively and enjoy your favorite adult beverage. A great place.
(4)Brooke W.
I am going to give two stars instead of one to Kabuki because I liked the atmosphere of the restaurant and the bathrooms were very cool. Husband and I stopped on a busy Saturday afternoon (good luck finding parking everyone!) and had lunch. When we walked in they asked us "Hibachi or Sushi?" I guess you sit in separate sections for whichever you pick. It was okay enough, I got gyoza dumplings and two rolls - an avocado crab and an eel. The eel was not fresh at all, it was way too fishy for me. Hubs had a chicken tempura lunch box which came with some California roll, miso soup and more gyoza. The soup was very bland, as were the vegetables and chicken that came in the tempura. We weren't too crazy about it in the first place, but after we got home we felt the full impact. We both had such bad upset stomachs and indigestion that we weren't able to eat until lunch the next day. I repeated the sushi and gyoza all night. And yes, it was worse the second time around....
(2)Melissa M.
Sushi is pretty decent- not the best I've had but good. The lunch special was a nice deal 3 rolls for 9.95 including miso soup and salad. I got the Philly, Spicy Tuna and Eel Avocado. My first visit I had the Paradise Roll which I really liked - and perhaps that's what's better on their menu, the special chef rolls. Sun-Tues you can get 30% off the sushi which is pretty great. The first time I went, my server didn't stop by very often so I ended up waiting for a water refill that I never got. The second time, I had a server who was more attentive. My last time, I also had a good server and it seems like they are frequenting the tables more often and checking in on you.
(3)Tya W.
A very bad place to eat japanese food.i had the salmon teriyaki and it was over cooked and dry.the tempura was good but the dipping sauce was watered down so did the miso soup,also the ginger salad dressing had too much mayo.the maki roll looked so sad and dry too little rice and too much sesame seeds.i guess the hibachi wasnt so bad and the service was good,but if you come in for a good food this is not the place.the worst $120 i had to spent at a japanese restaurant.
(1)Steven D.
Been there only once but it was a good experience. BYOB. I will definitely go back. Service was also good. Didn't try the Hibachi, that will be next time.
(4)Anthony B.
We go there all the time. The sushi is very good and is 30% off Sun-Tues. The hibachi side is very good. Very clean and very new decor. Great BYOB. Hidden gem in Cherry Hill.
(4)A S.
I ate there on a few occasions and my last outing was by far the best. The sashimi was very fresh and tasted great! I think they made some changes for the better since the first time I dined here.
(4)John E.
Holy cow, another amazing meal. We are so picky when it comes to sushi, and this place never disappoints. The sushi chefs take such good care of us (don't forget to tip) and the wait staff is adorable.
(5)Erin C.
The atmosphere here was pretty enjoyable: The decor was nice, the booths high enough to provide privacy but the entire space open enough to create comfort, and most of my meal was accompanied by fun Japanese pop music. While the clear soup was probably the least likable clear soup I've had (the broth was just not doing it for me), the wasabi shumai was pretty slammin.' I forgot I had ordered the wasabi version, so the first one was a pleasant kick in the sinus. I've never been somewhere that offered wasabi shumai, and I'm a fan. Unfortunately, I don't think the regular shumai would have been tasty at all. Sans wasabi, I suspect the dumplings are bland and mushy. The menu offers a ton of special rolls. I think I had the tuna amazing roll (Spicy tuna, white tuna tempura and avocado inside, topped with white tuna, seared pepper tuna, served with wasabi mayonnaise and mango sauce). The presentation was clean, and the roll was delicious. I also snagged the non-fish elements of my friend's chirashi. I don't understand the appeal of squid or octopus prepared this way, but I ate it. The scallop was good. But I think the chirashi paled in comparison to the hamachi kama (neck) he ate first. That had some awesome flavor.
(3)Jacque F.
The place is disgustingly dirty. Cracked tables ripped seats dust on the shade. Bathrooms were clean. Maybe we should have eaten in there
(1)Donnie M.
Been coming here for years and everything has been solid. I hope today was just a on off but leaving we were quite disappointed. The sushi (spicy kani, spicy shrimp, chicken tempura) we had was all bland and flavorless and having to ask for soy sauce dishes seemed weird. The wasabi calamari was fine but we detected no hints of wasabi. The waiter didn't really seem to happy to be there since we never got water refills and barely any acknowledgement when the check was given. I don't put this review up to be an ass but I hope someone at Kabuki reads this and things improve. I want this to be my go to sushi place again but at this point...no.
(2)Heather L.
I only tried some of their rolls. Not worth it. Their rice is dry and poorly made. Quality is important in making sushi. Everything needs to have quality, from the rice to the fish to the wasabi. And there was no quality in these rolls. I can get a similar type by going to buy supermarket sushi.
(1)Mercedes S.
This place was pretty nice. I had a nice dinner with my mom. I had the spicy tuna roll, spicy shrimp roll, a green salad and miso soup. My mom had spicy shrimp roll, California roll and edamame. Everything was good and the staff was nice. Would visit again.
(3)Christina G.
We ordered delivery on grubhub at 9:50pm last week. The delivery came faster than estimated and the delivery person was at our door in about 30 minutes. We ordered the sweet potato roll, raw out of control roll, raw spicy tuna hand roll and fried calamari. Prices are very reasonable. This is not the best quality sushi. The calamari was terrible. It was so fried that you couldn't even tell what was inside the thick fried layer. This was perhaps the worst fried calamari we ever had. They got our order wrong- I ordered a HAND roll for one of my rolls and they gave it to me as a regular roll. This is not a huge deal but the rolls were sloppy. A couple pieces were small and misshaped. The apple pieces were a nice touch in the out of control roll and that was the best of the three rolls. I recommend staying away from the calamari and maybe dining in rather than ordering for delivery, especially when it is near the end of the night. I won't be ordering delivery from here again but maybe will try dining in.
(2)Stephanie K.
Sashimi not as fresh. It's a decent sushi place to eat. We had the sushi pizza and had way too much seaweed on it. It was okay. Pad tai was a little too salty. Service was okay. Never check on us only when we were done with the food.
(3)Christina M.
The sushi & sashimi were fresh. It was very empty both time my boyfriend & dined in here. It was a little expensive. Nice atmosphere. The takeout part is a whole other issue we called at 6 they said it would be ready by 7.It wasn't ready until 8 I definitely will go back to eat in but not for takeout
(4)Tina Y.
Great sushi, great vegetarian menu, great lunch specials. Servers refill drinks quickly and the food comes quickly as well. I've never had to wait to be seated and I've always left full and happy! My main go-to sushi restaurant. (Their hibachi is also delish!)
(5)Cara O.
My family and I love going to Kabuki. We love going there and getting their lunch special. They make amazing sushi. Their spicy white tail, spicy salmon and spicy tuna rolls are my favorite. It's the best place for sushi in the area.
(5)G V.
Very good sushi! They will make you personalized rolls too which I thought was so nice! The 30%off night actually offers a lot of great rolls! Playboy roll is great- it's served in flames!
(5)Jessica C.
I used to love this place, but I guess they change the chefs. All I can said is this is the last time I would be coming!!! Big disappointment!!!! BTY: we all had diarrhea when we got home!!! ( foods are not fresh at all)
(1)Myndi W.
My coworkers and I always order from this place for lunch. Their specials are awesome, delivery time is reasonable, and the sushi is always fresh! Edited to add: I tried their sashimi platter for the first time, and it's the bomb diggity. Highly recommend it.
(4)Haley S.
Not sure why all the hate because this is one of my favorite sushi restaurants. I personally know their fish distributor and they buy the highest quality, freshest he has to offer. Their sushi is creative and delicious and ALWAYS fresh. Wish they'd be as crowded as they were on valentines day all the time. I've been here over 30 times and have recommended to numerous people who have become repeats. Cant speak much for the hibachi as I'm not a huge fan of that style but the sushi is top notch. And bonus points for BYOB! Try the paradise roll and you wont be disappointed! Minus one star only because the wait staff (while very attentive) lacks in the understanding English department making it a bit frustrating.
(4)Edward M.
Great lunch menu with decent food. For $10.75 you get a large bento box with a California sushi roll, salad, soup, rice, pineapple, ginger, dumplings, and chicken.
(4)Gautam T.
Fun family time. Hibachi is one of those things that no matter how much you go it's always pretty cool. This place is a lot of fun, albeit a little bit more expensive than what I would expect, however I guess you pay for the performance as well when one goes to hibachi. Food is pretty good, I had the shrimp, but tasted the scallops and chicken which were also pretty good. One thing I would warn against is the sushi, it sounds delicious when reading the descriptions, however they are underwhelming in the physical form. Stay with the hibachi!
(3)Jessica E.
Not the best quality sushi. Some of the ingredients are not fresh and definitely should not be served to the customers. They try to be creative with some of their rolls, but they end up putting so many different things together that it is hard to really taste the fish (actually, maybe that's what they want). Service is slow. The quality is definitely not worth the $, so I won't be returning.
(2)Jade V.
Tons of sushi. Like, in addition to the sushi on the menu, there was an additional sheet of sushi specials AND a little sign on the table detailing chef's special rolls. Good restaurant-quality sushi, nothing especially noteworthy, but nothing to complain about. The service is friendly and helpful. We grabbed the sushi regular, which comes with nigiri (traditional sushi with rice and a slab of fish on top) and a California roll. The individual nigiri pieces are thin were served at an optimal temperature--not straight out of the freezer, and not too warm. For an appetizer, we got the barbecue squid, which was scrumptious on the texture and sauce. Funny thing; we walked in here on a whim, without really knowing anything about this place and saw the huge wall decorated with wine bottles. For some reason, we assumed that this meant they had a full alcohol menu, but it's a BYOB, folks. It seems like nice place to sit and chat with a friend for a while, but most customers were in and out of there pretty quickly. Oh, they've also got some Korean food, bento boxes, tempura, and udon and soba. I'd come back for the hibachi portion.
(4)M P.
There was nothing special about the sushi here. We got six different rolls, all were mediocre at best. The seaweed salad (kind of hard to mess up) was good but again, nothing to write home about. The staff was alright, not overly welcoming. I don't think I will be returning.
(2)Danielle A.
I've been going here for years, but as of today I won't be going back. I walked in at 2:59 pm, in a rush because I had work, wanting to order off their lunch menu that ends at 3 pm. Ready to order at 3:01, the server said I wasn't able to order from the lunch menu because it was after 3. Are you kidding me? I was in the restaurant before 3! And either way, is one minute really going to make a difference? Talk about poor business practice. I was the only guest in there and they let me walk out. Congrats on losing a devout customer, I'll be taking my business to Wasabi in Mount Laurel where they actually care about their guests. I would advise management to educate themselves and their staff on proper customer service, because it's little things like this that can make people never come back.
(1)Kelly P.
Not a bad dinner spot for a large group. We celebrated a friend's 27th here with a party of 9. We were able to take over a hibachi table on a wednesday evening. Service was kind and quick, we each got a LARGE shot of saki directly into our mouths.. yeah. And the birthday girl was given some ice cream with a candle in it, while we all serenaded her. I would keep this place in mind for a crowd pleasing experience.
(3)Patrick H.
I am a regular to this place. We just were told during a non busy lunch hour with no one in the restaurant that we had 10 minutes to eat because we were parked in the take out spot. I asked very nicely if my dad could park there because of very expensive merchandise in the back of his open truck. The front desk girl was the most rude person I have ever met. She was not only telling me no in a very disrespectful way, but her mouth was full of food as she was stuffing it. I have been a loyal customer for 5 years and have brought many people there. I will never return and would recommend not visiting there. Sushi is fabulous and the sushi chefs make the entire ambience.
(1)Michele S.
My husband and I finally tried this place for the first time tonight. Walking in, you have a choice of sitting around a hibachi grill to the right, or proceeding straight to the regular tables. We chose the latter. We were surprised to see that the place was not busy at all on a Sunday night at prime dinner time. There was one hibachi table filled, and maybe a total of 4 regular tables, including us, throughout our meal. Not sure if this is a regular Sunday night for them, or just a post-holiday slump. Either way, we received pretty good service. For appetizers, I got the veggie spring rolls, which were three smallish rolls cut in half and served with chili sauce. Lightly fried, and tasty. My husband got the chicken maki, which he said was really awesome. For our main courses, we both got sushi combos: Me, the veggie maki combo (a combo of cucumber, avocado, and mixed veggie sushis), and my husband the spicy maki combo (spicy tuna, salmon, and yellow tail). The combos were served with a small bowl of miso and a small side salad with the standard ginger dressing. In general, I think miso can range from really good to really bad - this was somewhere in between, although my husband didn't like it. The sushi platter was fairly big - each with 6 pieces of each of the 3 varieties of sushi on each of our platters. After the apps, miso, and salad, we each brought some sushi home. We also got dessert - me, the vanilla fried ice cream, and my husband the tempora cheese cake. We were both happy with our selections. Over all, the service was pretty good. The food was fresh and tasty. The atmosphere a little dark and cozy. We do not get sushi often, but I would definitely return here. Perhaps next time we'll come with a group and try the hibachi grill.
(4)D J.
30% off some sushi sun, mon, tues. I though it was good for what we ordered. Tempura fried cheese cake is awesome. It's BYOB too!
(3)Michael M.
So I returned this past weekend after seeing good reviews from some yelpers I follow. Unfortunately, I did not share their good experiences. My son and I were seated promptly and our beverage order taken. We placed our food order when the beverages came up and both our sodas were flat. We flagged the waiter down and sent the sodas back, and he replaced them. Still flat. I sent them back and we settled for water. Healthier, I know, but a hard way to push a healthy choice. My salad was brown, and the dressing was more mayonnaise than ginger. Miso soup was watery and bland, as if there wasn't enough left and they were stretching the batch to make it last. Sushi was hit or miss. Sunomono was good, but I ordered a king crab handroll and the crab was shredded and mixed with mayo (not requested btw) versus the nice huge chunks of king crab I get at places like Fuji or Mikado. I also can't understand why their spicy offerings (tuna, salmon rolls) also employ this shredded/finely chopped fish offering. I suspect its the quality of the fish, as you certainly wouldn't want to take a $4 piece of tuna and obliterate it. Service was the only thing that saved this place from one star. I am unlikely to return, 30% off or not.
(2)Amy C.
It'a worst Japanese restaurant in my life. Sashimi is not fresh. Udon soup is nasty and noodle taste like uncooked flour. Food is too expensive for its quality. I think better go food court in cherryhill mall. I had diarrhea all night. I recommend other places in philly - Fat salmon, Zama or Morimoto. Anyone recommend me for good Japanese restaurant in cherry hill...plz
(1)Kelly C.
spiciest crunchy salmon roll EVER!!! ... but i like it :3 i would recommend the spicy maki set to people. presentation is nice.. much better than some of the other local sushi joints. even though the price is slightly higher, i would come back here for the ambiance. the servers are quite friendly.
(4)Joanne T.
I remember coming here couple years ago for hibachi dinner with the bf. All i can recall was the cook was fun, the food was nothing special, and we smelled after leaving. We decided to check this place out again yesterday for a quick dinner after the gym. It was a Tuesday so they had a selection of sushi for 30% off. We ended up ordering 6 rolls and 2 miso for a total of $40 including tip. Like a lot of other sushi places, the miso was instant soup. We ordered spicy tuna, spicy salmon, spicy yellowtail, kani, spider, and shrimp tempura rolls. Mission accomplished: we were full. Taste however was another story. For a nice Japanese resto i expected more from this place. They had the audacity to use what tasted like grind tuna, salmon, and yellowtail in their rolls. Yes! they were not whole pieces! Yuck! Thank goodness the spicy salmon did have an ok taste. The other two (tuna/yellowtail) you could not even differentiate the taste. Bleh! The spider roll was decent. The shrimp tempura was so so. I guess there was a reason why we've been avoiding this place. I'd say keep on moving. Your better off heading to Yanagi at the mall!
(2)Jimmy L.
In a city like Cherry Hill, I had higher expectations for food and services for any restaurants who wants to stay in business. I hate to give 1 stars, but this is going to be one of the ones who will get it. Quality of food was not so great. Sashimi was not too fresh... the tuna smelled and felt a bit soggy for the last piece i have eaten. The seaweed wraps are hard and hard to chew. Lastly, I can't believe that this place wouldn't accommodate us by switching a roll in the Love Boat because my Fiancee can't eat spicy. We asked to replaced a roll with another one that was cheaper on the menu. I've been to tons of places and they would never hesitate to make any adjustments. What they have done? the pointed out the fine print on their menu stating that any replacements would be an additional charge... Never will come back again...
(1)Stephanie S.
Every time I've been here its empty. I went Tuesday for 30% off sushi and it was even dead then. My friend and I split a few specially rolls. I will say they came out extremely fast because the sushi chefs were just standing around. I hate to go to a slow sushi restaurant because I question how fresh the fish will be. But, they have a good selection of rolls, even on the 30% off menu. Specialty rolls are very unique, love that! Two of the specialty rolls we had were tuna amazing roll which was 4 different kinds of tuna, pepper tuna, white tuna, tempura tuna, and spicy tuna. And a sweet heart roll which was spicy tuna, shrimp tempura and avocado wrapped in soy bean paper. Service was fast and polite. I also like the atmosphere. When you walk in you def don't feel like your in a strip mall center. There are wine bottles on the wall when you walk in and very dim lighting. I would say give it a try the sushi was good. I am sure the hibachi would we fun as well.
(2)Tina F.
It was an amazing experience! we did the Hibachi and the guy was actually entertaining, his name was Richard. The food was delicious.
(5)Thomas B.
I ate here today for the first and LAST time. I have visited Japan a few times and am familiar with some of the foods. For starters, I believe that the staff and probably owners aren't Japanese. That being said, this food was an overpriced version of the food you can buy from a food concession over at Cherry Hill mall. I ordered the YAKITORI chicken, big unauthentic disappointment which was served to me on a steaming sizzling skillet.(I have never seen this dish served in this manner. I felt like I was eating fajitas across the street at the chain restaraunt with the name that begins with the letter "C". I left the restaraunt stinking like I had been working in the kitchen. The server expected me to retain the same fork to eat the meal that I had used to eat the salad as if getting a fresh fork was a problem. I would have been better off walking a few more steps and eating at THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY OR ZINBURGER. Save your money and order take-out.
(1)Ryan B.
Sushi was expertly prepared by the chef. Very mindful of my shellfish allergy. Service was great. Would come back.
(4)Michelle C.
The 30% off sushi deal from Sunday through Tuesday is most definitely what got me to Kabuki for the first time last week. I was dining solo and wanted something tasty but affordable, and Kabuki provided. Once seated, my server offered a hot towel. This was a particularly welcome gesture as my hands tend to be cold as ice from October through April. Three rolls were delivered shortly after placing my order. The spicy tuna and yellowtail rolls were both super tasty, while the sweet potato roll was... interesting. Which is kind of why I ordered it in the first place, so no complaints, although I probably wouldn't order it again. I was in and out for less than twenty bucks, and now I have a new spot in the sushi rotation.
(4)L K.
Was here for the second time a few weeks ago. The first time was for lunch, and it was sufficient. Decent sushi for the price. As for dinner, it was just mediocre. The staff was friendly and accomodating, and it's a BYOB so that is great. The food was just ok. We ordered green salads with carrot ginger dressing. The salads were drowning in a blah mayonaiss-y creamy giner dressing, didn't taste fresh. The miso soup was ok. I got steamed mixed vegetables, which tasted like cheap thawed frozen vegetables thrown on a plate. The sushi rolls were ok. They were pretty skimpy on the inside though. There are enough good to great sushi places in Cherry Hill, I wont be returning to this one. Didn't try the hibachi, so can't comment on that.
(2)Junelle B.
Every Friday my dad and I always go here for lunch. They have lunch specials for 3 rolls of sushi for less than ten dollars (something like that). We pretty much order the same thing every time. My dad orders spicy kani, shrimp tempura, and eel cucumber roll. The sushi is good, but nothing spectacular! As for myself, I get the bento box with salmon. This comes with dumplings, sliced pineapples, California roll, vegetables, and the salmon. +Lunch specials always come with miso soup and salad +Staff is nice, very attentive -salmon is drenched in teriyaki sauce.. but it's saveable!
(4)Melissa A.
The sushi was above-average, but we came and the restaurant was nearly empty, and we had very slow service. Very not worth the price or the TIME! Umi is the best
(2)Kemi A.
Dined for the first time recently. I was a bit skeptical but I went with it anyway. We had a semi large crowd and we had regular dining (not hibachi). I made reservations for 5 but when we got there we were accommodated when we had to add 3more members to the party so they just split the group which was fine because it worked out well as the additions were "outsiders" to the main grp so they didn't sour having to sit with themselves nearby. It appeared to be a busy Saturday night. So I must say it took a bit for things to get moving (giving us menu/taking our orders). I was starving so I think I over ordered. I went with: Seafood Soup- Not a must have. But I ordered it because it was cold outside and I wanted something warm. Unfortunately, it took forever for it come out and it ended up coming out AFTER my sushi came out...so didn't have quite the same effect. Plus I'm not sure why it took so long to make...it's just shrimp with veggies in broth. Chicken Maki- Not as flavorful as I expected for something fried and multi layered. I had to rely heavily on the accompanying sauce so that was a disappointment. Salmon Sake- I had this from the ala carte menu. Pretty good. Then again it was the FIRST thing I tasted all night soo maybe I was just hungry and fried shoe laces would also have tasted pretty good. Lion King Roll- I LOVED this. I'm a fake sushi eater , if you haven't heard me say that before. I like my food cooked (unless they are veggies). So this was best of all worlds for me..cooked seafood and rice. It was basically "Shrimp tempura, white tuna tempura, spicy tuna and avocado inside, top with whole piece of eel and tobiko, served with eel sauce and spicy mayonnaise". The presentation was also impressive. I ended up finishing my soup there (didn't want to take that to go) and I had half my chicken maki and lion king roll to go. The rest of my party were happy with their choices I think..no one complained. At the end, my only beef is that the food too a long time to come out. BUT this fact was not ignored by our waiter who was very visible and would stop by to apologize for the delay. Which was good because though we were asking what was taking soo long, we were pretty well mannered and understanding about it all. I noticed we were not billed for the drinks we had and I think that's just their "I'm sorry it took forever to serve you" appeasement which was fine by me. I would recommend the place...just don't get the seafood soup. You can +/- on the chicken maki depending on your taste buds. I recommend the lion king roll if you are pseudo-sushi eater like I am. Bon appetit
(3)Danny H.
My go to sushi spot when in South Jersey on Tuesday nights - 30% discount on select rolls. Great service...can't be beat. BYOB!!!
(4)Tobi K.
The seaweed they use in their sushi is too thick and smelled to fishy. Also the service was bad when the server rushed our orders, didn't come to check on us and then threw our bill on the table.
(2)Nancy T.
My first time here and I will definitely be coming back. Especially Sunday Monday and Tuesdays, its 30% off sushi!! I ordered the Salmon hibachi for lunch, and for what they give you it's more than generous. I thought I was going to have to wait a while but, my soup and salad came out right away. The "clear soup" was savory, warm, & yummy, not too over powering. I was very impressed with the salad overall. It was a generous serving of salad served in a CHILLED BOWL!!! The ginger dressing was delicious, a little too sweet for my boyfriend but he said it's not like any of the other ginger dressings we've ever had. We were both surprised to get warm noodles with our hibachi meals, at other places it's just vegetables fried rice and choice of meat. But, the vegetables that came with my hibachi were a little too undergone; the onion was still a little too potent and came out a little cold. I was very impressed with the cold chilled salad bowls but a little disappointed the entrée plates weren't warmed. My boyfriend got the Steak hibatchi, he asked for medium rare, and it came out well done. We also ordered the kabuki fire roll, the tempura was crunchy and still warm when I took my first bite, and I didn't eat it right away when it arrived. Beautiful presentation; but a little misleading when menu says "salsa" it should say sauce but it was delicious. Our waitress was very sweet and checked on us twice, she seemed very friendly with other diners as well. The décor was beautiful and simple classic yet elegant, the front entrace's "bottle wall" was a very nice touch but they could lose the x-mas lights and tinsel at the register. I guess they wanted to incorporate some type of Christmas décor. Booths are comparable for two I wouldn't suggest 4 because plates are big and we only ordered 1 roll and 2 hibachi entrees and our table felt crowded. I'll be coming back to try some other items soon.
(4)Vlad K.
Been here a bunch of times since this place opened... Over time it gradually became our sushi place of choice... The food and prices are on par or better than all other sushi places in the vicinity...The staff is very friendly and provides great service... Most importantly, how can you not like 30% off Sunday through Tuesday? Just last night, we went for dinner and between two of us it came to just over $30! I definitely recommend Kabuki...
(5)Joseph F.
While on business I dropped in on a Wednesday night and the restaurant was nearly empty. So there was no wait. There is a lot of seating here, some booths and a sushi bar to suit you. I liked the low-level, recessed lighting and decorations which created a nice atmosphere. The restaurant was staffed by Japanese, so I did not get Americanized Japanese food. I had the lobster dish which was very good and cost about $14 including the tip. The service was fine. I'd go back if I visited Cherry Hill again.
(4)Kitty L.
Several things I want to point out why I think this restaurant gets a 1-star rating from me: 1. Not an accommodating restaurant. Why? My fiancee and I were about to order the Love Boat, which consists of sushi, sashimi, dragon roll, and spicy tuna handroll. I can't take spicy food very well so I asked if they could give me a non-spicy handroll such as a yellowtail & scallion handroll. She checked the price on the menu to make sure there wasn't a price difference first. The yellowtail handroll was cheaper than the tuna handroll on the menu. So it shouldn't be a problem but she went to ask the sushi chef to make sure. Chef says no and that I'll have to pay extra for any substitution. But yellowtail is cheaper? But anyway. So, I asked "ok let's make this simple, could you just give me a non-spicy tuna handroll then? Just regular tuna." She went to ask the chef and the chef says no and that I have to pay extra. WTF! (excuse my language. I was very mad at that time) What kind of sense is this? I have NEVER went to a restaurant, especially ones that look pretty nice, that doesn't accommodate customers simple request. I wasn't asking them to substitute the tuna with Toro. I just want a non-spicy tuna handroll! I felt pretty offended. 2. Salad and Miso Soup. The salad dressing wasn't that great. It was mayo-based ginger dressing. Not much flavor to it. The miso soup was really watered down. How can they serve this at all? 3. Quality of Seaweed. We ordered a regular sushi and sashimi combo. First bite into the tuna roll, I was disappointed. The quality of seaweed used was cheap. It was hard to bite into and it was chewy. 4. Quality of sashimi. First bite into the tuna sashimi, it had the fishy aftertaste to it. Really? I don't remember the last time eating a tuna sashimi and had that fishy aftertaste. It wasn't pleasant at all. Overall, I was very upset and mad about the whole dining experience. This is probably the worst Japanese restaurant I been to. I would think the food wouldn't be that bad based on its location. I'll never come back here again. If it wasn't a Saturday, I would've just drove to Sagami!
(1)Deanna B.
Amazing sushi- and great service. Love this place. If you go here you must try the Treasure Island app it truly is a gem- Spicy tuna wrapped around thinly sliced avocado topped with caviar and sitting in a pool of house wasabi sauce.
(4)EricaLynn J.
I was completely overwhelmed by Kabuki as a whole; it's a huge space, lots going on, a menu that has so much to choose from that it would take you years to be able to try everything on it, and it kind of suffers from multiple personalities throughout, but even with some shortcomings, the food is so fresh and so good, that you'll leave quite happy. Kabuki is one half a Hibachi style restaurant, and the other half a regular Japanese eatery, with an extensive selection of special rolls and items from the sushi bar. Whatever you could possibly dream of being put together on a roll, they probably have already thought of it and it's on their menu. Everything from the appetizers (of which there are, again, an exorbitant amount) to pieces of sushi to the aforementioned rolls are not just delicious but prepared really well too. The presentation was quite impressive - with everything. Strangely, while the food was presented well, the restaurant itself seems to be facing an identity crisis. On one wall there's a huge amount of empty wine bottles, though they're placed in such a way that it's hard to see anything except the top of them, so the art form is kind of lost. At least on me, anyway. And the tables look kind of dreary, with a simple white cloth over them and that's about it. That kind of decor doesn't fly when you're in what is supposed to be an upscale Japanese restaurant, with the prices that Kabuki charges. Kabuki is the type of place where you will pay $5 for an order of sushi, which is usually two pieces, but at Kabuki it's just for one piece. And where there's $38 Hibachi selections on the menu. And $19 special rolls. With that kind of pricing, you expect something a little more high-end as far as decor goes. But the food? Unreal. Seriously some of the freshest sushi I've ever had. Fresh and addictive and just amazing, piece after piece. I would highly recommend this restaurant to anyone who is looking for some serious Japanese eats! I am sure that the decor and other small issues will be ironed out with time and experience. I can't wait to watch this restaurant grow, and to develop the distinct personality it is meant to have, so it is set apart from the other nearby Japanese places that are well-established already.
(4)Brie P.
I've been to Kabuki a couple times now, once for sushi and more recently for the hibachi and I can finally say I'm a fan. I'm a huge lover of all things sushi so fresh food is the first thing I look for. With the hibachi they serve all the things you're used to: the veggies, rice, soup and salad in addition to your chicken/shrimp/steak etc. Not only do you get all that, but you also get a helping of noodles too! Everything was cooked perfectly and the chef was very generous with the sake. The place is BYOB which I preferred because the bill was a lot easier to handle since we were a group of 6. If you haven't been yet, definitely check it out! Good prices, good food, and a large menu.
(3)Robert M.
Kabuki really showed us what a quality sushi and habachi grill could offer to all customers on a budget. All of their rolls in house are 30% off which made the original California and Eel hand rolls super cheap and the specialty rolls reasonable. My mother and I had a great meal for under 30 bucks!
(5)Brian L.
Stopped by for dinner with friends a few weeks back. It's a pretty new place it has a comfy atmosphere. The staff were friendly and our chef was pretty funny. He busted out a lot of the typical acts (onion fire, spinning egg, doll which pees when exposed to hot temperatures). He did however pull out a squeeze bottle of rice wine and squirted it into anyones willing mouth. That was pretty funny. The meal started out with some salad and miso soup. The salad wasn't bad and neither was the soup. Though I felt the soup was lacking. Some of the miso soups I"ve had in the future had a little more than what this one had. There was no tofu or nori at all, so it was just soup...and maybe a few scallions. I ordered a filet mignon and scallop platter. They came along with your choice of fried or white rice, fried noodles, and veggies. The food was pretty good, but the "presentation" coulda been much better. At most of the other hibachi places I've been to, the chef at least attempts to put the different foods on different parts of the plate. Our chef just kinda plopped everything down on the same spot on the plate. Not a huge deal, but I like to have all my stuff separate. Overall, I'd probably go there again, it wasn't terrible but they could def. improve. Also, I think they're still in the process of getting their liquor license.
(3)Jacqui S.
When this place first opened up, it was a pretty good Japanese place. My friends and I have been here several times and each time the quality of service has depreciated. We all started going there in 2010 and it is two years later, I rather go elsewhere. The towels have a mildew smell to them now. The green tea ice cream is mixed with mint/chocolate chip. My usual dish which is sesame chicken has a hard texture now where as it was crunchy and light before. The serving sizes have decreased. Won't be returning.
(2)Cherryl L.
I had the dragon roll and eel sashimi! Pretty good We also ordered the tempura string beans it was crunchy with the spicy mayo on the side. Edamame superb it cane out really steaming hot! They also have the Korean bim bim bop my husband ordered it huge steaming bowl! Next time I'll order the beef bowl it smells delicious!
(4)Krystle B.
Definitely one of my favorite restaurants! The food is always good, the cooks and servers are always nice. The atmosphere is beautiful as well. When I came for the hibachi one time for my birthday, the cooks made sure to drown us in sake (which my brother describes as a free drink that would be stupid to turn down if you want to get buzzed on a budget). This is always my first choice for Hibachi, but don't sleep on the sushi either!
(5)Christina B.
After Anthony Bourdain's "don't order fish on Monday" warning, I was a bit skeptical about 30% sushi on Monday. However, we we decided to give it a try for lunch. The decor of the restaurant was nice, but the food took forever and the service was quite lacking. When we did get some food, it was pleasant enough, but not exceptional. We wouldn't avoid it, and would gladly go there again if our favorite place was closed.
(2)Jennifer T.
What a hidden gem!! Located in the back of a shopping plaza, between Cheesecake Factory and Barnes & Nobles, Kabuki is an unexpected but not disappointing (and rather tasty) sushi place. The restaurant is half hibachi and half regular dining with sushi. Now, usually, I feel hibachi restaurants don't focus enough on the regular dining and sushi options, but Kabuki has really done it right. They have a great dining room and a MASSIVE menu to service their non-hibachi guests. I was extremely taken aback by all the sushi options...so creative too! There were so many things that I had never tried before and I couldn't order them all! Hahaha...I was very greedy though and ordered way more than my table could eat. What stood out to me the most? The Emperor Roll and The American Dream Roll, oh and the Treasure Island appetizer: Let's start with the appetizer...it was so good!!!! Imagine a bowl constructed of finely sliced avocado, filled with a mixture of spicy minced fish (tuna, white fish, and somthing else perhaps?), and vegetables (you don't really taste the vegetable but you get the unexpected and welcomed texture change/crunch), all sitting on a bed of creamy and light sauce (avocado sauce perhaps?)...PLEASE TRY IT!!! Emperor Roll - WOW, that's all I can say...WOW. I really felt like an emperor when they brought it out. Not only was the presentation beautiful (all their sushi was served on a simple and elegant modern white plate) but it was topped with GOLD FLAKES!! How do you not feel royal after seeing that?!!? American Dream - This roll was different mainly because it's not wrapped in traditional nori seaweed; instead, they use a soy wrapper. It was also very beautiful. The wrapper was a bright yellow color and it just makes the sushi look so pretty and appetizing. Must try! Overall, I enjoyed my dinner here but I would like to give them some more time before I try again. They are really newly opened and it seems like the staff hasn't gotten it all together yet....they were very courteous and helpful but I don't think they have all the tables down pat (I think they gave our apps away to a different table in the beginning). Also, our table was next to the sushi bar and the server station so the servers were kind of just hovering near by. But like I mentioned, they have a GREAT selection of sushi and I will definitely go back to try some more of their creations =) **Side Note** I usually judge the quality of most sushi restaurants by their spicy tuna roll - I know its not a fair assessment of their whole menu, just by one roll...but this is what does it for me - and how was their spicy tuna roll? It was OK. A little better than OK. My suggestion would be to make the tuna a little less creamy and little more spicy. I think a good spicy tuna roll should taste like tuna and spice...just a suggestion... ;-)
(4)Seal M.
I went here yesterday just for lunch with a few friends. We were planning on going to a prestigious sushi restaurant in King of Prussia but the traffic was horrible. I somehow remembered bumping into this hiddin oasis and we decided to try it. We did not do the habachi. We stuck to the sushi side of the menu. First off, we noticed that Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, their sushi is 30% off all rolls. Awesome. We ordered 8 rolls, a kani salad, and three appetizers and it only came to $60 because of the savings! The rolls were pretty good. I've gone to one or two better places, but I've also been to much much worse. They were definitely good and considering the rolls ranged from $3-$5 for your average roll because of the specials, it was amazing. The spicy tuna was awesome as well as the sweet potato roll. The best part of the meal was the presentation! I was amazed. First, my kani salad came out in a martini glass. SO CUTE. I thought that was as far as that would go, but no. The sweetheart roll that I ordered which I often order at a place in Glassboro came out to die for. It's soy wrap in always pink which contributes to the name. However, at Kabuki, the rolls were shaped into hearts on the plate and the presentation also included a martini filled glass of radish and another two rolls shaped into a heart. The martini glass was stuck to the plate with a ring of wasabi that held it down. The food was a bit better than average. However, the artsy presentation of everything we ordered was extremely satisfying. I am glad that there was traffic on the way to King of Prussia or I would have never been able to discover my new favorite sushi in the area.
(4)Jenn W.
Since my first visit, a coworker likes to frequent here, for the mackerel,& bean curd & I get lunch special rolls, comes with soup & salad.Small, it's OK. I was disappointed when my dish had a stain on it-crud. I had to tell waiter could you Please give me another one??!!What on...?? It just makes it borderline, the service is Hit or Miss,the waiters & waitresses aren't the best, only go , since its closest one to our job, but the seafood is OK, Rather go to my other favorite spots!!!
(2)Julianna K.
Question: Why would a BYO have empty bottles of alcohol covering every wall of the establishment? Answer: To taunt and punish you for not bringing any with you. A Hibachi double date is what brought me to Kabuki. I had never been there before but a friend of a friend of a friend said it was good, so we were looking forward to it. It wasn't half bad. The food was pretty good actually. It was probably one of the most tasty hibachi experiences I've had (hibachi generally tastes kinda bland since everything is cooked the same - with oil and garlic on a hot griddle), but our hibachi chef or whatever you call them must have been new because he couldn't catch a dam thing he flung into the air. And if i recall correctly, he hit me in the glasses with a piece of squash. Funny, I know. Don't get me wrong, we had a great time together, but I'm not so sure it wasn't just because of the company I had. I will go again, but next time I'll try the sushi.
(4)Daniel D.
Amidst the vapid wasteland that is Garden State Plaza, scrunched in between a Cheesecake Factory and a McCormick and Schmick's, is Kabuki, a classic example of "one of these things is not like the other". Boasting both an expansive sushi menu and full hibachi menu, my wife and I went against the grain and ordered neither. I love sushi, but there is much more to Japanese cuisine than spicy tuna rolls. The appetizers menu had a few "off-the-beaten-path" choices in terms of things you find at a lot of Japanese places. We had the hamachi kama, which is grilled yellow tail neck, and sunomono, which I've only had before in Korean place. Sunomono is essentially shrimp cocktail if you replace the sauce with a delicate rice wine vinegar and the shrimp with an assortment of sashimi. It's very simple, and when well prepared, fantastic. Kabuki prepared it very well, and served it in an over-sized martini glass, which I thought was neat. My love affair with soba noodles knows no bounds, and Kabuki has wonderful ones. My wife ordered an udon noodle soup with vegetable tempura, and that was also excellent. The true joy of Japanese food is its lack of complication. It's simply excellent flavor set to stand on its own or paired very carefully with one or two other elements. Kabuki did not try to overdo anything, or to compromise the dishes for Americans. I read some of the reviews here, and have to disagree about the service being poor. It was just right, and our waiter had great suggestions to the two of us who were looking for the most "authentic" things on the menu. Add as a bonus: they carry Ramune, which is a very tasty Japanese fruit soda. I hear they do a sushi deal in the early part of the week, and I may have to venture back to try it. Every other table around us seemed to be ordering it up by the pile, so they must be doing something right. All in all, a fine place to dine, and a truly welcome diversion from the usual chain-restaurant crap that overpopulates the suburbs.
(4)Robert D.
I've been here 4 times in maybe as many months. Each time I've liked it less and now I strongly dislike their food. The servers are always great and I like the way the place looks. Their rolls are just ok and their lunch boxes are flat out bad. They charge for tea and I always feel like the dishes, cups and chopsticks may not really be clean. Ultimately, I probably won't try it again. Each time I've gone so far it was with the hope the previous visits were flukes. With Mikado less than 3 minutes down Route 70 there is no reason to go to Kabuki.
(2)Marie D.
This is a welcomed addition to the myriad of cookie-cutter businesses occupying the Garden State Park Shops. We certainly didn't need another place to get a salad or a burger. So what'll it be? Hibachi or sushi? I engaged the staff in a bit of Q & A and found out, no, you can't sit at the hibachi tables and order sushi (so you and your mates better get on the same page) and, no, there's not a private party room. But, YES!, it's BYO. The evidence is mounted on the foyer wall. Empty sake bottes: One man's trash is another man's interior designing treasure. Though the menu is expansive - lots of Japanese dishes and sushi special rolls - we kept it simple and ordered a few tuna rolls and philly rolls and a sweet potato roll. Good stuff, very fresh. I'd like to go back for a special roll and back one more time for hibachi, since you can have it all, just not all at once.
(3)Jennifer S.
I always say, you can judge a japanese restaurant by their rice. And this place has some goooood rice. After tasting their mayo-based ginger dressing, and sucking down a tasteless bowl of miso soup, I was pretty much sorry I had ordered the $21 bento box steak terriyaki dinner despite my 50% off 2nd entree Val-Pak coupon. When it came, however, I was beyond pleasantly surprised. The steak was the MOST tender I have ever had at an asian restaurant (and I eat Asian 80% of my out-meals). The rice was cooked to perfection which lent to two fabu Cali rolls. The gyoza was cooked to perfection. The tempura was plentiful (2 shrimp and 5 veggies) and also bove average, but it's always fairly tasteless. The dipping sauce (as all their sauces) was not-stellar. I think if they improved the quality of their condiments (their touted fresh wasabi still had a paste base) they would be my go-to!
(5)Adrian K.
Spicy tuna roll was delicious but not spicy. The chicken yakitori was what my more expressive peeps would call pedestrian. The salad and Ginger dressing was good and the clear soup was ok. The hibachi chicken was ok and the lobster was nice and peppery. The beef negimaki entree was a little thick on the cut of beef, long on scallions inside and way short on flavor (think water flavored beef) It was a byob place so we had water but nobody ever offered to refill it. The sushi menu was extensive it seems like its worth going back to check it out!
(3)M F.
Our favorite sushi in s. jersey / Philly. Love the 30% off sun- Tuesday. Can't beat it.
(4)Rhea G.
Took a friend out to celebrate her birthday; 4 of us in our group including her 9 year old who ate a plate full of California roll all by himself, the service was good, our waitress we could hardly understand her English. Good thing we knew what we wanted that was a bit frustrating. Place not crowded which was nice. Lighting was perfect not too bright not too dark. The sushi was just ok nothing memorable.
(3)Kevin E.
First time at Kabuki. The place is brand new and visually stunning. Nice high ceilings give an airy feel. With separate areas for the hibachi, regular dining and other private rooms, it can handle any type of crowd and not step over each other. They have a 30% off menu that was really affordable. We took advantage of that. Easily the best roll I've had in a while -- The Kabuki Fire Roll! Don't even think about not ordering it. So delish. I also had their Tuna "tornando"? roll...It's the one with 3 kinds of tuna in it. it's like eating Thanksgiving dinner. LOTS of meat in that one. Service was nice and friendly. Definitely will go back..and that says alot with Mikado right down the street.
(5)Yuri P.
Great food! Great service!
(4)bonita d.
I dined here a couple of weeks ago. It was a Saturday night and odviously too busy for them that night. We waited about 45 even after having made reservations. The matre d was overwhelmed and couldn't keep track of incoming guests and those that were already waiting to be seated. Finally we were seated. It took another 20 minutes before our chef came to the table to begin. The food prepared was fine and the chef was entertaining. The wait staff was not very attentive. We notice while dining that there are a few bathroom sinks set up in the dining area with dirty rags sitting on them. Not sure if that is supposed to add to the ambiance but I wasn't impressed. This restaurant has a perfect location to be very successful. But I won't be going back.
(1)Anna K.
On a Friday night my boyfriend and I had planned to go out for hibachi but we had made a crucial mistake and forgot to make reservations. The 7 o'clock hour came around and we headed over to Benihanna but were turned away due to an hour wait. We had then tried to regroup and tried a few other restaurants down Route 70, we gave up the hibachi dinner dream and were just simply hungry so we tried Olive Garden and Red Lobster and got the same results, over an hour wait! So we figured if we are going to have to wait we might as well make it worth it and headed over to the Cheesecake Factory. As I was waiting in line at Cheesecake Factory my boyfriend rushes over and tells me there is a hidden hibachi place on the plaza and it looks relatively empty. So we quickly ran down to Kabuki and I was so happy to have found this place, we asked for seats at the hibachi and were told of only a short twenty minute wait. Finding this place almost felt like an oasis in the desert, too good to be true. We waited ten short minutes and were sat down at the hibachi. We both ordered the fillet Mignon & shrimp hibachi course which comes with a brothy miso soup and green salad. The salad and soup were served immediately upon ordering and shortly after the hibachi chef came around and started preparing the food. It was delicious. Although the chef had amazing knife skills I just simply hate it when hibachi chefs try and throw food in your mouth. And of course without fail I had a piece of raw zucchini flung at my face. Other than wishing that I had known about this place and brought my own bottle of wine for the BYO, I had a wonderful experience. I'll be sure to eat there again and try their sushi!
(4)Allison E.
Went here on a Saturday night for dinner. No reservation, no problem. There was no wait either which was nice considering it was a Saturday night at 7:00 pm. Moving forward, the food was solid. My dinner date and I sat at the hibachi area. It was nice to see salmon as a menu item for the hibachi entree. Usually it's chicken, steak, or shrimp which is fine, but the salmon was refreshing. We also sampled some items from the sushi menu which my date mentioned was the best sushi he's had in jersey, if that's saying anything. The food was good and fyi; it's a BYOB. I would definitely return as I believe it is the best hibachi in the Philadelphia area and YES I would cross the bridge and pay that $5 toll just for their food. IT'S WORTH IT YELPERS!
(4)Marie B.
Been there twice - both times very pleased with service and food. Huge sushi menu - large room with sushi bar and special Hibachi area. Love the Japanese pop music playing at just the right volume. They have a thoughtful menu - lots of options - many ways to get exactly what you want by mixing it up a bit. My daughter loved the California Roll, and even gave a thumbs up to the Miso soup. The lunch box was quite ample - giving you a California Roll and Shumai with your selected entree - plus soup and salad. The prices are quite reasonable. My only suggestion - they do give you generous amounts of their rice tea - I would maybe like to see more teas to choose from. I'll be going back often. They also feature quite a few Korean dishes as well.
(5)Laura R.
AWFUL!!!!!!!!!! When the waitress brought our food out, between three adults the sushi was all mixed up on everyone plates, and she instructed US to just switch it around. At this point, I was fine with that, mistakes happen. Half way through we realize we didn't even get the right sushi, so we told her. She told us we were wrong and that my Eel Roll was in fact a Salmon Roll, when it clearly was not. Continued to argue with us that we were wrong. She said she was going to ask the chef, and came back and still insisted that we were wrong. The manager then came over and this is where it gets bad. She points to my sushi, hovering over me, shoving her armpit in my face!!! Then proceeds to say, oh yeah your right, that's not salmon. Then tells us that they will credit us for the rolls they got mixed up. Fine, whatever. Then....walks back over to our table, PICKS UP MY CHOP STICKS THAT I WAS EATING WITH, AND TAKES MY SUSHI OFF MY PLATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What?!!??!?! And the sushi tasted like crap. NEVER AGAIN!
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