This place is amazing, great service, food is extremely flavorful in the best way and the yum yum sauce is delicious 👍
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Tabor M
Place has gone downhill badly. Used to be so good. Picked up dinner tonight. No flavor to chicken and vegetables.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 4
emerson sauls
Food is amazing, service is of high quality and prices are great
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Austin Casey
Love Nakato!! I don't get to enjoy it much since we moved further away. Their service is always friendly. I love the chicken hibachi with extra veggies. Never had a bad experience.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
M P
Love this place. Great food and lots of it. I thought they hooked me up because I'm so ridiculously good looking but apparently they do that for everyone.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Jonathan Sanchez
Place looks like a little Japanese restaurant in Japan. Great food. Gluten Free options. Very tasty. Great service!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
leo manuel
Had chicken and shrimp hibachi...perfect taste, huge quantity..awesome service..
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Micheal DeMers
Beautiful dining area, amazing service, $2 for a can of soda and ¢75 per cup of Yum-yum sauce but large serving size 👍 recommend :)
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Fnar Anar
Little shop, locally run, well priced, great place for lunch. Portions are also large, so 1 hibachi meal will do ya good. It is deffinately recommended if you like hibachi typed dining in a small family run environment.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Crystal Lawson
Fantastic! Ordered pickup & it was ready in no time AND perfectly made! My whole family loved it! Will be our go-to from now on. Highly recommend!
Pleasantly surprised at how good my lunch was today! At first I thought the menu lacked variety but the quality and taste really made up for it! I ordered the hibachi steak lunch and a side of miso soup and it was made Fresh! The veggies were so crunchy and the steak was cooked just right. The miso soup came boiling hot and everything just tasted not too greasy. The portion size was large enough for me to have leftovers for the next day. For $14 you can’t beat it. Highly recommend to check them out! By the way the decor is adorable! Super instagram worthy and it’s a husband and wife shop too!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Edgar Nolasco
Fresh food and plentiful
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Jennifer Harris
Nakato Express is an absolute gem of Japanese cuisine in Cary. My boyfriend and I stopped here on a whim while passing by playing Pokémon GO.
When we entered and we both were blown away by the decor. The dining area was clean, organized, and looked amazing. Plants, statues, and a torii gate pulls the space together in a way only Japanese decorations can.
We ordered the steak and shrimp soba, chicken and steak hibachi, an order of steamed dumplings, a side of fried rice (I was rather hungry), and finally two bottled soft drinks. They have a fountain drink machine, but that was out of service when we came. Had they not had other drink options, this would have been worse, but they provide bottled and canned drinks as well.
The dumplings were amazing! They came with a side sauce that had a kick to it. I personally am not fond of spicy anything, but the sauce was great. The chicken was great, well cooked and seasoned, and the chicken didn't taste dry at all. The steak was perfectly marinated and cooked, just the way steak should be for a Japanese dish. The shrimp was phenomenal and well cooked and seasoned as well. My only complaint with the food is that the sauce the soba was cooked in got overwhelming near the end. A minor complaint when you consider the serving size to price. And I almost forgot, we dined in, and the woman behind the counter came and brought us our food to the table. I was not expecting that at all. A very pleasant surprise!
Overall, Nakato Express is the perfect place for high-quality Japanese food on a budget. We spent about $40 between the two of us, and that's with one super hungry person.
Thank you for an amazing experience! We can't wait to come back!
This place is amazing, great service, food is extremely flavorful in the best way and the yum yum sauce is delicious 👍
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Place has gone downhill badly. Used to be so good. Picked up dinner tonight. No flavor to chicken and vegetables.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 4
Food is amazing, service is of high quality and prices are great
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Love Nakato!! I don't get to enjoy it much since we moved further away. Their service is always friendly. I love the chicken hibachi with extra veggies. Never had a bad experience.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Love this place. Great food and lots of it. I thought they hooked me up because I'm so ridiculously good looking but apparently they do that for everyone.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Place looks like a little Japanese restaurant in Japan. Great food. Gluten Free options. Very tasty. Great service!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Had chicken and shrimp hibachi...perfect taste, huge quantity..awesome service..
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Beautiful dining area, amazing service, $2 for a can of soda and ¢75 per cup of Yum-yum sauce but large serving size 👍 recommend :)
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Little shop, locally run, well priced, great place for lunch. Portions are also large, so 1 hibachi meal will do ya good. It is deffinately recommended if you like hibachi typed dining in a small family run environment.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Fantastic! Ordered pickup & it was ready in no time AND perfectly made! My whole family loved it! Will be our go-to from now on. Highly recommend!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Shrimp, Yum Yum Sauce, Chicken Hibachi
Restaurantji Recommends
Pleasantly surprised at how good my lunch was today! At first I thought the menu lacked variety but the quality and taste really made up for it! I ordered the hibachi steak lunch and a side of miso soup and it was made Fresh! The veggies were so crunchy and the steak was cooked just right. The miso soup came boiling hot and everything just tasted not too greasy. The portion size was large enough for me to have leftovers for the next day. For $14 you can’t beat it. Highly recommend to check them out! By the way the decor is adorable! Super instagram worthy and it’s a husband and wife shop too!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Fresh food and plentiful
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Nakato Express is an absolute gem of Japanese cuisine in Cary. My boyfriend and I stopped here on a whim while passing by playing Pokémon GO.
When we entered and we both were blown away by the decor. The dining area was clean, organized, and looked amazing. Plants, statues, and a torii gate pulls the space together in a way only Japanese decorations can.
We ordered the steak and shrimp soba, chicken and steak hibachi, an order of steamed dumplings, a side of fried rice (I was rather hungry), and finally two bottled soft drinks. They have a fountain drink machine, but that was out of service when we came. Had they not had other drink options, this would have been worse, but they provide bottled and canned drinks as well.
The dumplings were amazing! They came with a side sauce that had a kick to it. I personally am not fond of spicy anything, but the sauce was great. The chicken was great, well cooked and seasoned, and the chicken didn't taste dry at all. The steak was perfectly marinated and cooked, just the way steak should be for a Japanese dish. The shrimp was phenomenal and well cooked and seasoned as well. My only complaint with the food is that the sauce the soba was cooked in got overwhelming near the end. A minor complaint when you consider the serving size to price.
And I almost forgot, we dined in, and the woman behind the counter came and brought us our food to the table. I was not expecting that at all. A very pleasant surprise!
Overall, Nakato Express is the perfect place for high-quality Japanese food on a budget. We spent about $40 between the two of us, and that's with one super hungry person.
Thank you for an amazing experience! We can't wait to come back!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Steamed Dumplings, Steak Chicken Shrimp Hibachi, Hibachi Chicken and Steak, Steak Soba
Steak & Chicken combo. Excellent. Love their white sauce. 😁
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Pretty good
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