Watawa

164 Hicksville Rd, Bethpage
(516) 731-8989

Recent Reviews

Elainekawas

my father is a major sushi connoisseur lol he loves trying new sushi places and when he decided to try this place that's fairly close to our home… We had ordered here, and the food was OK, it's just like any other sushi place, the prices are pretty much the same as every other sushi place, but my father actually decided to order from here a couple of times because it is one of the closer ones to our house. In any case last week, I had gone to go pick up his sushi as directed like always, and he did tell me he put it under my name and it's already paid for. So when I walked in, I told them that I was there for pick up, gave them my info and they handed me the bag. As I was about to walk out a voice from behind the actual sushi makers (so across the restaurant itself) screamed "you have to pay!" I said "i'm sorry I thought that my parents had told me that this was already paid for." And she replied no no payment yet so I had decided to call my parents to find out if that was the case. When I called both my parents had me on speaker and they both said yes we paid for it already. I relayed the message to the screaming voice and she came forward and said "no no payment yet" so I said OK well they're telling me they did so she ran a credit card report and it looked like she did not put in the information for payment. So my father then proceeded to say, I even gave you my credit card number, expiration date and CVV and you told us you were going to give us 10% off because I gave you all that information. She proceeded to argue with us, saying that she never got a credit card number from anybody and at the same time. Both my parents were telling her then why would we read the card off to you if you weren't going to process it. I proceeded to tell her that I have their card on my Apple Pay. It would've been easier for me to Apple Pay it instead of going through all of this and she said they never gave me their credit card number. I'm not calling anybody a liar but I really am because why would they tell me that they gave you each number one by one with the expiration date and then even mentioned a 10% off if they didn't and I know my parents if they were unsure they would say wait maybe I didn't but they were very confident and in fact when I got home my father's credit card was out, right next to him like he never put it back in his wallet after reading the numbers to her. It would've been simple if they didn't pay and I could've just paid with their card from my phone but there's no reason for them to lie. And the fact that this woman caused the scene in front of other customers, yelling and screaming, and pretty much implying that my parents are liars in fact, I think she said that it's a lie blatantly said that, I just got rubbed the wrong way because I come from a business frame of mind where the customer is always right and if they're not, you just try to resolve the issue and make it right without causing a scene and calling them for lack of better words "liars". Needless to say, I will not be returning back to this place only because it's not an actual sushi place that their food is outstanding or unique in anyway, and just the fact that she caused the scene and an embarrassed me and embarrassed my parents and she was just so hard-core about it I just don't wanna take a chance with ordering food again and then remembering the situation lol so I would say if you're looking for a place that has mediocre sushi, a nice size restaurant, though I've never seen anybody in there, and rude and obnoxious workers then this would be the place for you. That was complete sarcasm if anybody didn't pick up on that lol so now I wouldn't recommend this place at all just because of the customer service that was shown to us last week.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 3

Service: 1

Michelle Russo

Food is delicious but I couldn’t believe I got 4 tiny pieces of chicken 4 shumai maybe two spoon full of rice and two pieces of shrimp tempura in a bento box that I oreeed through Uber eats and it was about $30 the portions are

Food: 5

Rohan Hope, Jr.

Chicken Katsu was tasty and good for the price. Was made pretty quick too for pickup. Chicken was tender and crispy. Sauce was good too. Comes with a salad and rice. I would revisit.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Brenda Molina

Horrible Place. They got my order wrong, and didn't even apologize or try to correct it.

Service: 1

Thomas M.

Service was terrible. Over an hour to get food after repeated having to every Server. Got told they were making the sushi and another 20 minutes later nothing. Tables that arrived 30 minutes after us were getting their second rounds of sushi. Then the kicker, they tried billing for 2 orders of all you can eat, $75 my ass.

Grateful Hippie (Grtfl13)

They like to charge dinner $ for lunch and give serious attitude if you call them out. Why offer discount lunch price if you don't want to? The attitude is just wrong! Sad!

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 1

Recommended dishes: Tuna, Roll, Green Tea Ice Cream, AYCE Sushi Rolls and Sashimi, Tempura

Gina Andros

Be ready to have a DRY version of hibachi takeout. I ordered a TON of food and we didn’t get any YumYum sauce. The woman on the phone asked if we wanted to come back and get some. Whyyyyy would I want to go back for sauce that they don’t include (unless you ask for it). If I wanted to keep leaving the house I wouldn’t have gotten takeout. Weird that sauces aren’t included. There’s no spicy mayo either. Disappointed.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 2

Chicken and Waffles

Ultimately a very lack-luster experience, to say the least. This restaurant is certainly overhyped by the amount of praise that it gets.Food: wasn’t absolutely atrocious, but I’ve certainly had much better Japanese food for the fraction of the price. The options were limited with little variety. Many of the sushi rolls were really just variations of the same food, with slightly irrelevant changes. The portions were underwhelming as well, each “main dish” being served with kids-sized amounts of food.Service: the staff were polite, but that’s the most I can say about that. It’s takes an abnormally long time for the food to come out, if it comes out at all. We came in on a slow night, with maybe 1-2 other tables being occupied. Yet we found ourselves waiting arduously for food to come, and in certain cases the food would never come, and we’d be met with the excuse “the chef lost our orders”Atmosphere: the first red flag was approaching the restaurant. No lights, cars, or people. The surroundings were run down and the rain did not help. The inside was mediocre, nothing to write home about. However I will say that my table was sticky

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 2

Service: 1

Julia Phang

$29.95 AYCE is overpriced! Only a portion of the food from menu you can order from, and they are all cheap food. And you never a full portion of meal order. The serving size is only 20% of a regular meal. The service was horrible, took 40 minutes just for dessert!

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

James Wang

Never eat all you can eat here. It wasn’t anything you want on the menu. Not even a full portion. Food wasn’t as expected. Would give zero star if there is.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 2

Melanie D.

Wildly delicious! I had a super steal on uber, several of my favorite items were like the shumai, AAC roll, and sweet potato roll. I added the kani salad and wow I'm blown away! There's a lot of competitive sushi around this neighborhood but there's some special about how watawa crafts their sushi! 10/10!

Geyanne L.

I always enjoy my experience here. It's never too busy at lunch ($24 per person) so my rolls come out within minutes. Menu is not extensive but has what I want! I tried both the hand roll and maki roll and I actually prefer the hand roll. Maki rolls come with 8 pieces and that can be a lot if you're not eating with a big party. Hand rolls are tasty and include a lot of sashimi in it. I wish they would have more roll options available and udon soup as well but I can't complain. I only eat salmon sashimi but they don't have as many options for sashimi and instead the other fish options are available as sushi. For the service, you may have to waive the waitress down but she's usually pretty attentive and will bring extra menus for your next orders. Definitely recommend finishing off your meal with some red bean and green tea ice cream!

Avery

This place's front entrance is DEFINITELY the gatekeeper as to why this place is mostly under the radar. The inside is very modern and the food is of really high quality (with reasonable prices).

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 3

Frank Verdone

All you can eat is great ?

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Sexy Roll, Tuna, King Crab California Roll, AYCE Sushi Rolls and Sashimi, Tempura

Victoria C.

Nice atmosphere and food. The back room is lovely! Been there a couple times, looking forward to go again

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