This is a really nice place to eat! The food was good, the staff was friendly and it was clean!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Takoyaki, Miso Soup
Jeff Potter
Very good, reasonably priced
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
michael J. foley
Very good Japanese food, great service and atmosphere. We went for lunch and had the chicken teriyaki with white rice. Absolutely wonderful! Even better when you have friends along! Great prices too!! My new favorite.......
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Takoyaki, Salad
Tia Smith
normally very good but recently the portions have gone waaaaay down. don’t mobile order, they’ll 100% scam you. soup wasn’t even halfway full and chicken & rice wasn’t even enough to cover the bottom of the to-go box
Emily Gomes
The food was excellent but we had some of the worst service I have ever experienced in my life. We got seated at 7:55pm. It took out waiter 30 minutes to get our drink order (1 water, 1 sprite, 1 mixed drink and 1 beer) and then when she came back with just the water and sprite 20 minutes later, took our food order and we did not get our appetizers for another 45 minutes, my miso soup came to me cold, we got our actual entrees at 9:40 and we didn’t even get one of our appetizers until we left. More than 2 hours after being seated. We could see our waiter helping the few people inside getting her help and 2 tables that were outside got seated, served and left before us. I had to ask another waiter to check on our food because it seemed like our waiter forgot about us. We spent almost 90$ on food (which is fine) but the service from the little blonde girl that helped us was absolutely horrendous. She had attitude with us the entire time, did not answer any of my questions about certain vegetables that were in something I wanted to order (I explained I had allergies) and only spoke to my boyfriend the entire time. She never gave us her name but she’s a 5-5’4” blonde girl, absolutely horrible service and absolutely should not be working in customer service by any means. Ever.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 1
Recommended dishes: Miso Ramen, Yakitori, Noodles
Brandon Schreiber
Finally made it out to Anaba & was glad we did!The chasu ramen was amazing. The broth was super flavorful without resorting to being overly salty. I was initially put off by the upcharge to get chasu in the Tonkotsu ramen base, because I'm used to places skimping on the meat. But there was an entire pile of chasu slices in my bowl, so it was well worth it.The rest of our food (edamame & a few sushi rolls) was great too, as well as the service. We'll definitely be back!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Shannon Bridges
avocado tuna salad was good but very small serving.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 5
Crystal Toppins
Excellent food, exceptional service, and half price sushi on Mondays and Tuesdays, what isn't there to love about this place? 10/10 Will go again.
Long wait and the hostess forgot I was there. It was really busy at the time, but then we got to our waitress and she took a very long time to come back to our table each time. I e been a server and just had busy, rough nights, so I am chalking it to that. Will go again because the sushi was awesome and everyone was very kind.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Salad, Sushi Rolls
Zach Moore
Heard good things about the place so we gave it a try.Gyoza - Steamed and then pan fried our favorite way to eat them. They were excellent.House salad - Good, typical ginger dressing, but less sweet which is fine.Salmon Fire Roll - Incredible, wouldn’t change a thing.Kobe Roll - Incredible, first time I’ve had a beef sushi roll and dang they nailed it. New favorite for sure.Spicy Tuna Roll - Not actually on the menu for some reason, but they will make it if you ask for it. Extremely fresh, soft, and delicious.Chicken Yakisoba Noodles - Very flavorful, nothing bad to say.Chicken Teriyaki Stir-fry - Very good, our son approved of it.Chashu Ramen with Tonkotsu broth - Wife said it’s amazing. She ordered it spicy and was happy with the spice. The pork belly was very soft and tasty.Also if you want spice, they have a spicy bean paste that reminded me of gochujang paste that was an excellent addition to our dishes.Service was great, the waitress was super friendly and knowledgeable of the menu.Will definitely be back.
Been here many times and the food is always good. Service is mostly good, there have been times I've had to wait a bit to get my check or food, but never am unreasonably long time.
Love this place! One of my favorites in Knoxville.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Chalise
Normally I would give this a 5☆ but with today (3/9/24) my husband's and my experience wasn't that great. The food like always is excellent, but the service was very poor. The server was very rude to me, but overly friendly with my husband. She even gave him her phone number. Usually this doesn't bother me, but this, this is very unprofessional.
This is a really nice place to eat! The food was good, the staff was friendly and it was clean!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Takoyaki, Miso Soup
Very good, reasonably priced
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Very good Japanese food, great service and atmosphere. We went for lunch and had the chicken teriyaki with white rice. Absolutely wonderful! Even better when you have friends along! Great prices too!! My new favorite.......
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Takoyaki, Salad
normally very good but recently the portions have gone waaaaay down. don’t mobile order, they’ll 100% scam you. soup wasn’t even halfway full and chicken & rice wasn’t even enough to cover the bottom of the to-go box
The food was excellent but we had some of the worst service I have ever experienced in my life. We got seated at 7:55pm. It took out waiter 30 minutes to get our drink order (1 water, 1 sprite, 1 mixed drink and 1 beer) and then when she came back with just the water and sprite 20 minutes later, took our food order and we did not get our appetizers for another 45 minutes, my miso soup came to me cold, we got our actual entrees at 9:40 and we didn’t even get one of our appetizers until we left. More than 2 hours after being seated. We could see our waiter helping the few people inside getting her help and 2 tables that were outside got seated, served and left before us. I had to ask another waiter to check on our food because it seemed like our waiter forgot about us. We spent almost 90$ on food (which is fine) but the service from the little blonde girl that helped us was absolutely horrendous. She had attitude with us the entire time, did not answer any of my questions about certain vegetables that were in something I wanted to order (I explained I had allergies) and only spoke to my boyfriend the entire time. She never gave us her name but she’s a 5-5’4” blonde girl, absolutely horrible service and absolutely should not be working in customer service by any means. Ever.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 1
Recommended dishes: Miso Ramen, Yakitori, Noodles
Finally made it out to Anaba & was glad we did!The chasu ramen was amazing. The broth was super flavorful without resorting to being overly salty. I was initially put off by the upcharge to get chasu in the Tonkotsu ramen base, because I'm used to places skimping on the meat. But there was an entire pile of chasu slices in my bowl, so it was well worth it.The rest of our food (edamame & a few sushi rolls) was great too, as well as the service. We'll definitely be back!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
avocado tuna salad was good but very small serving.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 5
Excellent food, exceptional service, and half price sushi on Mondays and Tuesdays, what isn't there to love about this place? 10/10 Will go again.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tuna, Double Dynamite Roll, Sushi Rolls
Long wait and the hostess forgot I was there. It was really busy at the time, but then we got to our waitress and she took a very long time to come back to our table each time. I e been a server and just had busy, rough nights, so I am chalking it to that. Will go again because the sushi was awesome and everyone was very kind.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Salad, Sushi Rolls
Heard good things about the place so we gave it a try.Gyoza - Steamed and then pan fried our favorite way to eat them. They were excellent.House salad - Good, typical ginger dressing, but less sweet which is fine.Salmon Fire Roll - Incredible, wouldn’t change a thing.Kobe Roll - Incredible, first time I’ve had a beef sushi roll and dang they nailed it. New favorite for sure.Spicy Tuna Roll - Not actually on the menu for some reason, but they will make it if you ask for it. Extremely fresh, soft, and delicious.Chicken Yakisoba Noodles - Very flavorful, nothing bad to say.Chicken Teriyaki Stir-fry - Very good, our son approved of it.Chashu Ramen with Tonkotsu broth - Wife said it’s amazing. She ordered it spicy and was happy with the spice. The pork belly was very soft and tasty.Also if you want spice, they have a spicy bean paste that reminded me of gochujang paste that was an excellent addition to our dishes.Service was great, the waitress was super friendly and knowledgeable of the menu.Will definitely be back.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Gyoza, Yakitori, Sushi Rolls
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Been here many times and the food is always good. Service is mostly good, there have been times I've had to wait a bit to get my check or food, but never am unreasonably long time.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Gyoza, Chashu Ramen, Double Dynamite Roll, Yakitori, Salad, Sushi Rolls
Great Asian cuisine with sushi, hibachi, ramen options. They also have a pretty reasonable lunch menu. We frequent multiple locations often.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Chashu Ramen, Spicy Tuna Bomber, Curry Udon, Double Dynamite Roll, Miso Soup, Miso Ramen, Yakitori, Soup, Sushi Rolls, Noodles
Love this place! One of my favorites in Knoxville.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Normally I would give this a 5☆ but with today (3/9/24) my husband's and my experience wasn't that great. The food like always is excellent, but the service was very poor. The server was very rude to me, but overly friendly with my husband. She even gave him her phone number. Usually this doesn't bother me, but this, this is very unprofessional.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 2
Bad stinging☹️