Kyoto Japanese Steakhouse

Had a hankering for Benihana but just didn’t feel up for the drive or the price tag. We opted to chance it and try a place closer to home since the reviews were a bit hit or miss. Yikes — I have no idea how others could possibly compare this to Benihana.
I won’t make a laundry list but please proceed with caution. As other Unilocalers have mentioned its pretty run down and dirty. There is no greeter. Order drinks ahead and I CANNOT stress this enough! Albeit edible, I’m not thinking we’ll go back. They charge just as much as Benihana which is outrageous as the quality was not even a quarter of what we’d receive downtown.

Kyotos is always a family favorite in my house. We always find an excuse to go. Food is always good. It’s cooked to your preference and it’s really good. We’ve never had any issues with food or customer service anytime we’ve went. It is expensive but the food and the experience is worth the price. A great place to celebrate birthdays or just a simple date night. An the shrimp sauce? Holy cow! Delicious Really recommend!

Had a great time with the family. The cooking presentation, food and service is great

Pretty old and dirty place. They sat our party at the table and we waited for over an hour for the chef to show up. This is not exaggeration. The owner came by and offered us free drinks. It would be nice if she kept her word on the drinks. This is just some Asian women that has money and bought a restaurant without knowing how to run a proper business. No class, no service. The food should have been free too.

We decided to give this place another shot. Special request from the middle kid who was celebrating a birthday. Still unimpressed.
— First thing you notice is that the place is pretty dirty. The carpets are filthy, & the chairs and sides of tables are both sticky.
— They used to give you a choice of either fried rice or white rice. Now they charge an extra $ 3 for fried rice. Highway robbery. For 10 people, it was an addition of 4 eggs and a pitiful amount of vegetables added to the rice. Then the fried rice was under-​seasoned. He used the shaker, but it didn’t look like anything was coming out.
— Salads are ridiculously small and are coated with way too much dressing. I think there was about five bites of salad. Give me twice as much lettuce and half as much dressing!
— In an earlier comment, the Unilocaler hated the watery broth that they called soup. Today, there was no soup at all.
— They used to have nice, thick steaks for the dinners – now they’re super thin and there’s not much for a serving.
— We arrived with a party of 5 and they seated us at a table with another party of 5, which was a bit too crowded. We made do, but one of us was sitting at the corner.
— They also didn’t do the salt shaker juggling routine at the end. Part of going to a bennihana place is for the entertainment. He did the egg tricks and the volcano, but after that, it was cook, clean and leave.
— Dinner for 5 (4 adults, one child) came to $ 150, which is more than we usually spend for a dinner out. We didn’t order lobster or appetizers and only ordered 1 alcoholic beverage.
— I know it’s not part of the normal menu, but I’d love it if they had milk on the menu for kids. I don’t typically allow my little guys to drink sugary stuff with meals.
In summary, I’m really not impressed anymore. I’d love to see them improve the cleanliness, improve the food quality and cut the nickel-​and-​dime pricing for the fried rice.

Went there. Waited & Waited. Watched the other «group dinners». Not getting very good service, over heard complaints. We left. Not enough workers & very slow service.

DO NOT GO!!! It was entertaining to see how bad this place was. HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT. To start, we had a 6:30 reservation for TWO but NO ONE greeted us or any incoming parties so they had no idea who came first! I had to tell a worker twice that we had a 6:30 reservation despite overhearing another worker inform the party of two NEXT to us that it would be another 15 minutes until the next tepenyaki table would be ready for seating!!! We were concerned being we had to allocated 1 hr 15 minutes for dinner!
After my second request she than sat us and three other couples at that time! I feel compelled to remind YOU THERE IS NO ONE GREETING YOU AS YOU WALK IN SO you must GO INTO THE SEPARATE DINING AREA TO MAKE YOURSELF KNOWN!!! …WHO KNOWS HOW LONG YOU WILL SIT THERE as we sat there for 10 minutes before I ventured in myself!!! SHOCKING!!!
The menu was typical for a tepenyaki place, however the soup was not the MISO soup you would expect! To mee it seemed like chicken broth with two slices of mushrooms! The girl next to us said it ssemed like pee in a cup! .
The hubby ordered new york steak and said it was no where worth the price though edible! I ordered the hibachi chicken n it was dry but i took it home for the pooch, he didn’t complain!!! The shrimp was okay hence the ONE STAR!!! DO NOT GO!!!

Can I give 0 stars? Made a reservation for 14 people. 11 made it. I let the hostess know as soon as I arrived. Tried to sit us at 2 different tables. Told them I made a reservation so everyone could sit together. Host was a pansy and asked another member of the party to talk to me again about sitting together. Made us wait another 15 minutes. Manager comes out saying reservation was at 7 and everyone was 45 minutes late. He told us this at 7:43. My entire party had already been waiting for quite some time. The 2 large tables we would have been seated at were not open the entire 45 minutes we had been waiting. This guy is a pimply-​faced joke of a manager. Take your extra hour of waiting time and head to seattle for better service

I’ve been here about three times, and they are consistently great! The chefs are hilarious and great at entertaining as well as evenly distributing the food. They were very accommodating to my pregnant sister who needed her steak well done. Scallops are a must for me at hibachi places, and they are always delicious here! Friendly staff, great food!

Love this place. My husband and I used to come here a lot more often. And recently just started our trend again. There fried rice with seafood sauce is 2^nd to none! I would come here just for that. Also, there salad is great when you mix both the dressings. Always feeling satisfied with every visit. The owner is very friendly.

I have been going to Kyoto’s since I was 17 and I am 23 now. I love this place and I come here EVERY chance I can get. I order the shrimp and calamari and a side of calamari with soup and fried rice. The plate of shrimp and calamari at lunch time is $ 12. At dinner it is $ 22. The other dishes are pretty similar. So if you’d like to spend less, on Friday Saturday and Sunday there is lunch from 11−2pm. Dinner is from 4:30-(im not sure). During the rest of the week there isn’t lunch times. Also fried rice is included in your meal during lunch but you have to pay extra at dinner time. And on Valentines Day they only have dinner prices even during lunch. I hope this review helps you get the most out of your visit. I really enjoy going here and they know me as a regular customer. Out of the hundreds of times that I have been here I am almost always satisfied with my meal.

Always a good time. A little spendy for the location but the food is good and the kids love to go. The chicken is awesome as well as the sauces they provide. Delicious… simply delicious. I wish they had a better selection of beer though.

This is a wonderful restaurant to eat at! I recommend it to anyone looking for entertainment and delicious food. Great for birthdays. Watch it when the chef says that they are going to light the oil or you might burn your eyebrows off!

Since we were the only people there, it’s hard to judge a place too harshly. They were very welcoming and friendly. The only thing I didn’t like was the fact that if you wanted fried rice, you had to pay extra. Every other steakhouse I’ve been to like this one, the fried rice comes included with the meal. Other than that, the food was delicious. Drinks were strong and service was great.

This was by far the worst service I have ever experienced at a restaurant. The food was mediocre and over priced. The chef was engaging and nice, but the server was slow and rude. Do not waste your time or money on this terrible place! One star for the chef 0 for everything else.

This place is great! Me, my fiancé, and our two boys come almost once a week and we were glad to find one so close to home as we used to go clear out to Renton for a Japanese steakhouse. Dakota, our waiter is great and always tentative to our kids getting their high chairs ready, clearing the table and getting our drinks. The cooks always make sure the kids have a good time and a good laugh. Aside from great staff this is great food! And we are always seated right away (if you come on a weekend just be sure to make a reservation. This place is popular!)

The dining room was stinky, like a restaurant kitchen.
The menu options are lacking and over-​priced for the quality and amount of food. Not enough veggies. They up sell fried rice at the table, not on the menu.
$ 50 for two people, pre tip.
The food flipper was obnoxiously loud, babging his spatula and fork lie a two year old in a high chair. I guess this would be cool for a kids birthday.

The food was good and the staff was friendly. I only gave 3 stars because they had 10 tables and 2 cooks and the portions were small. It took way to long and we were ready to go and had to much to drink when the cook showed up at our table to cook the meals.
The food was good but I’ve had much better, I guess I’ve been spoiled.

This is one of my boyfriend favorite restaurants. It is a great place for group dinners. We made reservations and the table was ready when we arrived. The service was really good and the food delicious. I ordered lobster and it was as good as I expected. Definitely, I’m planning another dinner here soon. Why four stars and not five? Because the decoration of the restaurant didn’t impress me, I think they should renovate it soon.

Made reservations for today (Mother’s Day) at 12 noon.
We got there at 11:45am after church but when we tried to go in they said they didn’t technically open until 12 noon so we killed time by walking to Michaels which is next door.
They seated us immediately when we got there a little after noon.
Since it was Mother’s Day they were only serving off of the Dinner Menu. Understandable. Our waitress took our drinks orders ASAP & was just as quick with delivery. I got the Fruit Punch & it was soooo good but I was sad that when she gave everyone else at our table refills of their drinks, she didn’t give me any. Sadness. oh well. Water is healthier anyways.
I ordered the Hibachi Chicken.
Miso Soup: yumyum
Salad with Ranch: yumyum
Fried Rice: yumyum
Shrimp: yumyum
Veggies: yumyum
Chicken: yumyum
Tempura Ice Cream: yumyum
& not to mention our cook who was from South Korea was AWESOME! He was super funny, I only know this because my brother (who barely laughs at anything or cracks a smile EVER for that matter) was actually cracking up at the chef’s jokes.
Unlike the «no-​flame» at Benihana’s they do NOT holdback. Just sayin’
Would I go back here? YESSSSS!