Kikuya Japanese Restaurant

12/31/11

great sushi and food terrible waitress

by herrokitty at Citysearch

we have been gone to kikuya for 30 yrs,but recently different owner that we notice quality, taste & service went down so much . sushi is still the best in town. lunch very sloppy. dinner presentation, quality & taste are good. i'm off on monday, and when i go to the resturant the sushi is terrible, and the chefs are drinking on duty, that i hate to see no care about customer& business.

sayonara kikuya, from quality customer

12/30/11

kikuya japanese resturant

by griffskies at Citysearch

we have visited kikuya recently and the sushi was great but the watriess where very rude,annoying, and also she kept on telling me to "wait" slow down, and she even said to me to give her tips!!!, ok now this lady needs to get a life or take a hike she needs to be less rude she reminds me of the grinch!!!

01/20/10

Great food, terrible waitress

by PeterSam1 at Citysearch

This resturant in 2010 replaces all the waitresses with 1 woman. This woman cannot really speak English and very rude. When you ordered a few dishes, she will tell you to slow down since she needs to write each dish down one at a time. And when you pay the bill, she will tell you make sure you pay tips.

Food is great but the service and manner of the waitress make you feel like she is paying you to eat there and not you are the one who is paying the bill.

• Pros: Good food for $
• Cons: Terrible service, rude waitress

09/29/08

Good tempura udon

by suburbanseattlite at Citysearch

I went to this place b/c I suddenly had a craving for a tempura udon, and I had a pretty good one last time I was there. I was surprised that we were the only ones dining at the restaurant from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on a Monday night. I don't know if it's the economy or the particular time and day of the week, but compared to the last time I was here for lunch a few months ago, it was surprising to see it so empty. I really didn't think it was as bad as the previous reviewers made it sound. The tempura udon was $11 and it tasted good. My other half got a whole roll (8 pieces) of unagi (eel) sushi for $6, which he said was fresh and tasted good. I think it's a decent place for a quick japanese food fix.

• Pros: Decent udon and decent sushi for fair price
• Cons: the interior could use freshening up, could play some japanese music for ambiance instead of random techno

08/27/08

The end of a great restaurant

by tb45 at Citysearch

We've been going to Kikuya for decades. This week's visit was our last. The quality and service is gone. It's very sad that such a wonderful restaurant went downhill so quickly. We hadn't been there in some time, so were wondering what had happened to the normally crowded room - there were 2 other customers. When the food arrived, we understood why. The waitress got the order wrong, and the quality of the food was poor. I can get equivalent sushi just about anywhere. We didn't know it had been sold until I got home and read the prior review, but guessed as much when we saw the deterioration of the interior.

Do yourself a favor and go somewhere else.

• Pros: No lines
• Cons: Poor food, poor service