Midori Teriyaki

For a teriyaki place, this is definitely one of my favourite places to go. Their teriyaki chicken is very good and you get a decent portion of everything. The container, when you take it to go, is always half salad, half rice/​entrée. Although so far I’ve always ordered a Taro Bubble Tea with my order, you do get a free soft drink, which just makes the meal even better.
This is my go to «I don’t feel like making dinner» walking distance order out place.

I really liked this place. The parking is ample, the service was excellent, and the food came out fast and fresh and hot. I would go back.

Update 4÷28÷2016 — since this place changed ownership we have not been back; all the bad reviews are enough to turn us away. We now frequent Sunny Teriyaki (on Maltby) and Ohana Teriyaki (on West Winesap Rd). Both are excellent choices that are close by!

Delicious food, prompt, friendly service. Very nice dining area for those that dine in.

This is a good teriyaki restaurant. I usually order to-​go because it is convenient. My favorites are chicken teriyaki, chicken bento and chicken fried rice. These are the best for me. They have better management system now. There is also bubble tea available.

I usually don’t leave reviews. My husband and I use to come here all the time and were never disappointed. However, after the recent change in ownership, the quality of food has been horrible. It’s overly salty, greasy, and the ingredients are subpar. All the vegetables in our meal were frozen and flavorless.
It’s unfortunate to see this place go south. Will be taking our business elsewhere.

Darn, they do not have bubble tea because their machine is not working. She was very apologetic about it though. Will be back another day.

New owners. Changed to a subpar sauce and raised the prices 30%. I won’t eat here again. $ 9.22 for chicken teriyaki? No thanks.

I have been to over 15 teriyaki places around town, and this is THE BEST that I found! Quality of meat, flavor of teriyaki sauce. just awesome!
The owner is also super nice and caring, which is a plus.
If you haven’t, you gotta try Midori… I know you will thank me!:)

Great food, especially for the price. Love the pork fried rice. Have another teriyaki place within a minute walking distance but drive here because the quality of food is better.

When I lived in Bothell, and even after I moved away, Midori Teriyaki was my absolute favorite teriyaki place. My husband and I decided to stop in today since we haven’t had good teriyaki since the last time we were there a couple years ago, I think.
I was a little nervous after seeing the recent negative reviews of my favorite place, but we ordered our old standbys anyway. The egg rolls were just as good as before, though the sauce was lacking. The chicken teriyaki was good! The teriyaki beef was great and looked like flank steak. I appreciate that, as the beef at a lot of teriyaki places is dubious, at best. The gyoza were delicious and the sauce for them was perfect. The rice was also great. It wasn’t dried out as another post suggested. I will say, the teriyaki sauce has gone a little downhill, but overall everything was great. And yes, the soda fountain is gone. But I got to have a free Tiki Punch soda with my lunch, so I’m not complaining.
Sad to see my favorite place change and no longer see the sweet girl that used to always take our order, but it’s still good. Still better than anything I can get where I live now.

Yesterday I had one of the worst meals in my entire life. Midori has new owners, and the food is terrible. The friendly clerk was the only good thing yesterday.
I ordered California rolls and beef teriyaki after finding out the owners had changed along with the menu being revamped. I couldn’t find a bento box anywhere on the menu, which is what I was looking forward to, and the employee working didn’t answer me when I asked about it. More on the service later.
I have attached pictures of the plates given to me. There was one roll that had avocado. The rest of the rolls didn’t have any avocado at all, which is a main component of a California roll. One of them had orange fish eggs on the bottom, so I know the chef was giving me the remnants of a previous order instead of starting fresh. The rice was starting to get hard from being old. Huge, huge blow because I love these and I can’t see how one who makes sushi can make them so badly.
The beef teriyaki was soaked in oil and grease. It was disgusting. I’ve never received teriyaki made this poorly. Again, the rice was getting old and chewy.
The salad was a total joke. The dressing was watered down to be almost nonexistent. Pools of water with some kind of flavoring mixed in sat on the lettuce. I tried a bite and it was so bad.
Another kick in the pants was seeing the pop fountain gone and replaced with a beverage cooler full of Shasta and squeeze fruit drinks. One of the draws to Midori was that you received a free soda when you ordered a meal. They still offer this, but in a can of Shasta. I didn’t know Shasta was still in business. The grape flavor I picked was flat.
In regards to service, the one clerk I encountered was really amped up to be at work and was a bit overboard in the friendly department. When I first started walking to the restaurant and saw the «under new management» sign in the window, I braced myself, and then when I saw the entire menu had changed, I was really dismayed. I mentioned I was taking a long time to order to her due to the menu changing, and she pointed out very quickly to me that it was the same — wok, teriyaki, side dishes. Yes, I can read, and have for 40 years. That isn’t at all what I was talking about. I said that the menu CHANGED. Many entrees are gone, sushi was added, I thought the bento boxes were gone (turns out they have one but I couldn’t find it on the menu and she didn’t answer me when I asked about it), and the prices have been raised.
The 55″ flatscreen has been replaced with a 22″ and it was set on tennis. Excitement. The walls are completely bare now, except for the huge scratches that look like Wolverine got angry. The long bench folks sat on to wait for their to go orders is still there, but the side table with magazines to make the wait go by faster is gone. Cheap, cheesy letters are glued to the cashier stand. Cases of Shasta sit next to the beverage cooler instead of being kept in the storage in back. People don’t want to see random boxes of products laying around.
You still order at the counter, and they still bring the food to you. However, the zealous extrovert really dialed it down when she brought out my food, clanking it on the table and moving my personal belongings which weren’t in the way in the first place. I don’t like strangers touching my stuff.
There was only one other table with customers while I was there at lunchtime on a Saturday. Two people came and went for to go orders. I remember with the previous owners that it was always busy when I was there, even on a Tuesday night they might have been half full in the restaurant but their phone was ringing off the hook for to go orders.
My favorite teriyaki joint is gone. I’m never coming back here.
Food: 0
Service: 3
Ambiance: 2
Parking: 3

NO NO NO!!! New owner ruined the best teriyaki restaurant. Where is the old owner? I used to drive from Marysville for this. It’s not only not as good it’s barely edible now. Old owner.. Marysville needs you bad! Open new one here!

Very Very good… Plentiful portions and a lot of different selections. I like that they have a spicy scale for their spicy dishes (Spicy Teriyaki Chicken is what I had) so you can ramp up the heat if you so choose.
We received free sodas for some reason when we ordered 3 orders of spicy teriyaki to go… not sure if there’s an ongoing deal there or not, but it was well worth it and it was ready quite quickly.

So sad, place was SO good before the new ownership, but the new owners really tanked the place. Spent a bunch of money on fancy signs, but the teriyaki is below average, steamed veggies taste funny and the sauce is sickeningly sweet, and thin, like watery. I was really unhappy with my meal, and even more unhappy that what was once my favorite teriyaki is just gone.

This place used to be REALLY good. Our family ate here about once a week. It’s since been taken over with new ownership — you’ll see a big grand opening sign up, but they’ve kept the restaurants name so it was a little confusing. Grand opening for a place that’s been here for years? Anyway. The new teriyaki is not good, they don’t give the salads with the meals, instead you get some sort of mixed steam veg which tastes funny. The sauce is very watered down now as well.

Parking easy.
Prices are fair.
Cons: the tv, you order up at a wall rather than a menus, portion sizes were small, presentation is a sushi roll slapped together and not a piece of art, flavor of food taste like lower quality ingredients. For example spices time is ground up rather than cubed poke with spice.

This place is okay. When I walked in Saturday night to dine in I noticed all but three tables had chairs set on top ready for closing. It was off putting and made me feel like I was walking in on them after hours.
Place was still open. I order chicken stir fried and sat down at one of the three open tables. It took a while for the food to come out. Like, a little longer than it should’ve for how empty it was. Only one other guy in there with me. But I suppose they had phone orders, too.
Food was brought to me, and it looked pretty appetizing, too. However, there were lots of under cooked onions. And the kicker, the rice wasn’t cooked all the way through. Imagine el dente pasta – el dente risotto. This was el dente rice. Boo. Ruined what could have been a decent cheap eats meal.

Stopped in here after I had asked my optician, ComfortVision which is next door, if this place was ‘any good?’ and the office staff all nodded and smiled enthusiastically.
The dining room was clean, inviting, I just ordered the #1 chix teriyaki for dine in. They had a nice HDTV tuned to sports channel but no sound.
Tables had soy, cock-​sauce (Sriracha) and teriyaki bottle, S&P.
They walked my order out to my table — wow huge portions, served on re-​useable service ware (yay!). The salad is just iceberg lettuce roughly chopped and a very light dressing, i added a little S&P, found the shakers suffered from not being washed recently, if ever.
I really liked the taste of the chicken thighs, which had a delightful char, I thought the teriyaki sauce was on the sweet side. Generous scoop of steamed white rice. Couldnt eat it all (surprise for me!) so got a small to-​go box.
They had an extremely busy to-​go business here. I noted theyre still using styro (instead of recyclable material). So the +1 on portion/​value side is negated by –1 on green rating
I found out after I read the reviews here that fountain drinks are free; nowhere is this on the menu (is it?) nor did the cashier mention it.
Couldnt quite bring myself to rate a 5star here. If they had recylcable to-​go that might tip me over.

Free drink with order!
HUGE portions!
Delicious food!
Great prices!
I ordered the #2 Spicy Chicken which came with rice and a salad for under $ 7. My boyfriend ordered the Shrimp Fried rice. Both were really good, plated nicely, and we had so much leftover that we both took half our plates home!
In addition, the man working the front was very welcoming and the interior was nice yet casual.