Watami Japanese Steakhouse

They are only reservations for 6 or more now

My sister in law and I have a tradition to come get a bunch of the fancy rolls to split for our birthdays. We have had this tradition for 10 years. We no longer live in Middletown and still make the trip even though it a drive. Worth it everytime. When we lived in the area we would do the lunch special. It is very very very worth it. Their ginger dressing on the house salad is the best I've ever had. We have tried most of the rolls and they are always good! Also they gave me fried ice cream because they heard us talking about my birthday!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

food was good, but a bit salty. server was very nice, but we waited longer than I thought we should considering how busy it was. It does have a nice atmosphere or feel to it. it has a lot of potential.....

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 2

They recently made a huge change to the quality of their food. Extremely disappointed when we showed up for our usual favorites and the food tasted so different and not good at all. We asked if they changed their food or menu items and they said they made the change about a week ago. They asked if we liked it and we were honest and expressed our disappointment but it didn’t seem to bother them. Won’t be going back anytime soon.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 1

Service: 2

The food is delicious 🤤!!! They gave me nice big portions of the Bento 🍱 box and Mrs. Tracey is a lovely kind woman!!! Definitely deserves a raise!!! Please and thank you 🙏🏾!! I’ll be back to eat!! 🙏🏾🙏🏾❤️❤️

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

This is probably the best restaurant in the whole town, amazing food and service every time!!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Unfriendly staff, aside from the nice lady who sat us. Huge gnats all over the soy sauces and trying to get into our food. No sign about memorial holiday hours, no lunch special when we came at 2:00, got pushed out at 2:53 bc they closed at 2:30??? No one told us, he just did brought an unrequested box and asked for payment. Nice bathroom sinks might be the highlight.

Very nice place for ethnic food. But the hibachi was minimal six people very sad and let down it was the only reason that I went

I'm from Pensacola so I'm pretty spoiled for good sushi. The restaurant is barely clean, but neat. Staff communication is somewhat limited in the English language. It was just okay sushi. Staff are very friendly and attentive. Prices are fair. My daughter says it's pretty good for this area.

Showed up for hibachi to find out it is now reservation only. Very dissapointing.

Foods good. I don't recommend the Salmon though. I love Salmon but not here unfortunately. Sushi is great. Steak & chicken is good. Fair value.

We used to love coming here, as recently as a few months ago! But now, must have a reservation for hibachi and/or a party of 6 or more to do hibachi. Went there for a date night with my husband to be told we had to eat on the restaurant side and couldn’t do hibachi. But we were hungry so decided to just eat on the restaurant side, service was extremelyyyy slow and they just showed no care or concern for us being there. Brought hibachi out to us that had none of the teriyaki sauce on it that they put on the hibachi typically when we see them cook it, overcooked steak, cold vegetables and meat and no flavor. Asked them to remake it and they put teriyaki and it was hot but overcooked the steak again. Never came back to ask how our food was or get refills, waited there for about 15-20 minutes for someone to check on us so we could express our concerns with the food but nobody ever came and our waiter was no where to be found so we had to hunt down the hostess who was attending to “to go” orders to express our concerns to. Originally ordered fried ice cream for after but after all of the waiting we’d already done from the extremely so service and already being so dissatisfied, we just told them forget the ice cream and went somewhere else for dessert. This has been our favorite spot for hibachi for years and unfortunately we probably won’t be back unless we had a party large enough for a hibachi reservation

Food was *tasty*. Other patrons were rude.

Food still good. But service REALLY SLOW now. Whether eating in or dining out. They don’t even try or care anymore. 32 minutes late after promised time for pick up. Literally missed an event because it was so late.

Annoyed that you have to have atleast 6-8 people to Hibachi- gonna lose a lot of business that way. 😒 food was good but don’t think we will be back