Bento Cafe

I once ate here 4 times in one week and it was definitely the best week of my life. Chicken teriyaki brown rice bowl with spicy mayo is the move. They were really busy today and my bowl kinda sucked but it’s okay I’ll still come back

Not bad. I’d go to Bento Café again because we got carryout and it looks like this is a place I’d probably enjoy more eating in. The sushi was nothing too special and it actually reminded me of sushi I’ve gotten at a grocery store (Wegman’s). It just wasn’t as fresh as I would prefer. However, I was in a rush and scarfed it down kind of fast because I was starving. As I said, I’d like to go back, sit down, get a cocktail and take time to look over the menu to try a few different rolls. It was nice to get $ 1 off when my DD checked in on Facebook.

Amazing food! Sushi, entrees and Boba teas are all delicious. There are plenty of options to choose from and there’s something for everyone to try. Tuesday’s the teas are buy one get one free which is awesome. The staff is always friendly and very quick to bring your food out. I’ve never had any complaints! Would recommend to anyone looking for a great sushi/​Japanese restaurant in the UCF area!

We got entrée of sweet and sour shrimp, hot and sour soup and creamy spicy shrimp with white rice. Pretty delicious food. Quantity was good as well. A go to place for sushi as well. Though we didn’t try sushi. Over all it’s good.

Delicious food and sushi but I do not recommend the boba tea. It is pretty hard and the tea tastes pretty artificial.

I ordered a stir-​fry dish and their most popular sushi roll, Gucci. It was awful. It didn’t taste fresh. I wouldn’t go there nor would I recommend it to anyone.
If you do choose to go avoid sitting in the back next to the fountain drink area. It smells like wet carpet

Was mislead by there social media page about a deal they offered. After dealing with that for 10mins ended up ordering something else. The order taker placed the order wrong causing the food to be wrong. The sushi came out by it self, then my food, then hers. Nothing came together as it should have. Noodles were cold, taste was bland. Talked to 3 people before getting manager. The first 2 shrugged off the issue. Once my food was corrected hers was cold. Collected a refund and left. STAY AWAY or choose the McDonald’s across the street.

Terrible Service, Mediocre Food.
We went in and ordered the promo meal that was on their social network because the meal promised a free select appetizer to go with. Upon ordering the manager tells us the only options are edamame or miso soup, so we changed our orders.
The food arrives at the table, the sushi. Blah
The bento boxes came shortly after and my dates food was incorrect. After flagging down 3 people I finally got a manger to the table that said that she heard things went wrong but knew they were in the kitchen making the food fresh. If two people order together, why do people think letting both plates sit on the table and get cold while waiting for the new plate is acceptable?
Why would I eat and my date is there disappointed and hungry.
Overall this place is subpar and the service is like all of the other restaurants in the UCF area. This place is laughable.

Surprisingly decent. I’m typically in favor of a hole in the wall type but in a new city I decided to try try something near. The food tastes somewhat bland but still good.

My coworkers commonly come to this place for lunch since it is so close to us. I wouldn’t say that it’s a super authentic type of Asian cuisine place but this is still a great place to come and get some quick and delicious Asian inspired entrees.
I really love coming here on Tuesday as they have tea Tuesday where you can buy one boba tea and get another for free! Their boba teas are actually very good and have some cool combinations, I’d recommend trying the royal if you’re a coffee lover.
As far as food goes, they do have tasty choices, but nothing I’d rave over that I’d go out of the way to get. However it is affordable and decent for what you are getting. I’d suggest a bento box as this gives you a variety of things to sample.
Service can be okay, since it’s open seating for lunch servers just come by and look for your table number that you received when you ordered at the front of the restaurant. Sometimes that can get confused during the busy times of the day and can take longer than expected, but no more than 10 minutes.
Overall I do enjoy Bentos and really do enjoy the atmosphere and vibe they give off for a quick style service restaurant.

Service is super friendly and nice, ordered over the phone and pick up was easy peasy.
I’ve dined at Bento’s DT area and DP areas before, both serve good affordable food. UCF’s Bentos might be using different ratios to make their sauces, because the Japanese stir fry noodles I ordered were super duper bland. I am usually pretty sensitive to salt, so I found this super surprising! It’s all chill though, I just went home and reboiled it with some seasoned dashistock and ate the udon noodles that way. Will give it a second try someday, but please double check your sauce ratios (?)

I have friends who aren’t particularly crazy about Bento… but it’s close to home, always a great spot for takeout after work, and it tastes pretty good too! This spot is a winner in my heart!
Their tuna tataki salad is my usual, but their rainbow roll is pretty delicious too!

The Bento Café brand, If you are not familiar with them, is a small chain of seven restaurants with more on the way, that offers a creative mixture of Asian inspired dishes from wok stir-​fry to fire-​grilled items to sushi using the finest Asian spices and the freshest ingredients all at great prices.
The concept at Bento is to bring unique and authentic Asian food in a fast and efficient manner. Everything on the menu is cooked to order and prepared in minutes and served up in an atmosphere that is fun, friendly and stylish. The word «Bento» means boxed-​meal in Japanese, and they have a wide selection of traditional boxed meals, but the menu includes a wide variety of sushi rolls, sashimi, nigiri and chirashi bowls as well as soups, udon noodles, rice bowls and noodle bowls. They also offer Boba Tea, a popular Asian beverage that is consisted of milk tea and chewy tapioca pearls.
Every store is designed differently which makes visiting each Bento Café an experience. Each store will be either dominated by the warm red dragon colors or the cool blue dragon colors. Each Bento has a sushi station, but the UCF location has seats at the sushi bar, so you can watch the chefs prepare your rolls live and in person.
Speaking of sushi, the Jade roll with marinated spicy tuna, eel, avocado, krab delite, masago, scallions and eel sauce tasted just as good as it looked.
For my entrée, I chose the the Sesame Wok Stir Fry bowl. This dish comes with your choice of chicken, beef, shrimp or tofu and red bell peppers, snow peas, onions, baby corn in a sesame soy sauce. I really enjoyed the flavors, and the portion was more than I could eat.
Now, I really did enjoy my entrée selection, but it would be dishonest of me not to tell you that I was really jealous of my wife’s Bento Box. She opted for the Sriracha Garlic Chicken in a bento box. You can get chicken, shrimp or tofu grilled or fried with red bell peppers and onions with a sweet and spicy Sriracha sauce for dipping. Bento boxes come with your choice of steamed rice or lo mein, ginger salad, and string beans and a dessert

A cool, hip, minimal atmosphere, I kind of felt like I was rolling into a Japanese night club. This isn’t a bad thing, just not what I was expecting at 11am on a Tuesday.
The service was pretty snail-​paced, considering how few people were in the house. We waited to order for nearly 10 minutes and waited a bit longer to receive our food. Everyone seemed rather kind, just not the most efficient.
The old band-​aid sitting on the first table we sat down at kind of threw me off… No no no, Bento. That is yuck! The second table was nice and band-​aid free.
Most people probably wouldn’t think twice about this, but as a wheelchair user, the space was rather cramped and not super easy to navigate (even with these sweet driving skills). Too many tables, too many ropes, too close together.
I ordered a Mango Milk Tea, which was a bit too sweet for my taste buds. Next time, I’ll try the regular milk tea which is supposed to be less sweet.
My friend ordered a tofu bento box and enjoyed parts of it. Nothing life-​changing, but it was a decent lunch.

I wasn’t expecting an authentic and true Japanese cultural experience by any means, but I do believe Bento could do better at what they are trying to accomplish.
The environment is somewhat imaginative in a minimalist/​modern way, which I enjoyed.
The service was iffy. As soon as I walked in, I was in a line of 3 people waiting to order my food. It took about 8 minutes until it was my turn to order. Way too long of a wait for a near empty restaurant at 11am.
Once I chose a table with my friend, our boba teas and food took about 10 minutes to get to us. Again, not bad, but the place was empty.
Once my bento box arrived, the employee asked if I needed a fork or chopsticks. An obvious question to which she left to bring me an eating utensil 3 – 4 minutes later.
The bento box was so-​so. I got the red curry with vegetables and tofu. The tofu was tough and rubbery, but the vegetables and the curry sauce made up for that. The ginger salad wasn’t too impressive. It contained a few pieces of lettuce drowned in dressing. The rest of the food in the bento box was okay. Nothing impressive enough to mention. My jasmine milk boba tea was really good. Not too sweet and very refreshing.
I’m looking forward to trying the sushi next time I visit. Maybe that can redeem my feelings on this establishment.

It was good. It felt like a modernized thai/​sushi place, like a Burger 21 for thai & sushi.
I got the red curry bento box with beef, and it is everything you need in a meal. It comes with rice, noodle, some green beans (I’m not sure), ginger salad, and this little fried things with some kind of frosted glaze on them. So you get everything; appetizer, meal, sides, and dessert. And with a fountain drink, it all came to just under $ 13, you are going to be hard pressed to find a full meal for that.
I need to head back here and try some sushi.

I’ve been wanting to try this place since it opened (I keep forgetting about it! Lol) and I finally made it! We got a few rolls and shared them so we could try little bit of everything.
–The garlic edamame was good.
–Miso soup was ok; a little salty and the seaweed was very chewy.
–Crunch roll was good, but not tempura batter. It was deep fried or something. Not crazy about the batter or whatever they used but the roll was good.
–Spicy tuna roll wasn’t great. The only that made it spicy was spicy mayo. That is my staple roll and it bums be out when it’s not done right.
–I did he make your own Kuwaii roll and it would have been good if they used a different kind of lettuce. It was big and thick and overpowered everything else. You couldn’t taste anything but lettuce, which is a bummer.
–Red dragon roll was great and will definitely get it again!
The best thing on the menu is that you can design your own roll! How awesome is that?!
I didn’t even look at their non-​sushi menu but everything that came out looked good. I look forward to going back!

I went here recently with my wife and a few friends who were visiting for a late lunch. The restaurant is very hip with lounge music playing and plenty of TVs showing various sporting events. In addition to this, there is a sushi bar near the front and what looks like a full liquor bar near the side. This is also a mix between a quick service restaurant and the standard sit down restaurant. You place your order at the front, are given a number, and your food is brought to you. Given this set up, I can tell that if you came here on a busy night, you might be waiting for some time before you have your order takent. However, their are plenty of staff running around who are more than happy to grab you utensils or extra packets of sauce.
The good: Being fairly new, this place is very clean and the staff is very attentive. Our orders were promptly taken and just a few minutes after we had filled our drink cups at the Coke freestyle machine and sat down, our food was delivered. The staff came by multiple times to ask us if we needed anything, which was nice. We tried a few of the different sauces they offered and were quite happy with the white sauce (who doesn’t love the white sauce, right?)
The bad: For the price I paid for my wife and I to have a basic lunch (she only had fried rice, I had teriyaki chicken over noodles, and we both had soft drinks), I was taken a bit aback. It was just over $ 21 for these few items. So when our food was delivered I was again disappointed that there was not much food and disappointed in the quality. My chicken teriyaki over noodles wasn’t much better than if I had gone to Panda Express just down the road.
I know… I know… I really wanted to like this place. I had been to the location downtown before but in all honesty, it wasn’t a very memorable experience. After many of my friends had told me to try the one over by UCF, I figured «why not?»
Overall, my experience was lacking and I would rate this place as average.

Bento’s has opened their second location at this location near by UCF a few months ago and it is pretty busy all the time. The interior is contemporary looking with a small bar to the left, sushi bar in the back, and the rest of the open restaurant. There is open seating but some of the tables are awkwardly situated that doesn’t allow a good flow because they are so close to each other.
The entrance funnels customer to order at the station before they are given a number to be placed at the table. I am pretty sure the menu is the same as the location in downtown. I don’t know why but i always order dishes that resemble Chinese food (way of life… habit. i don’t know?!) and it’s alrriiiight. I’ve gotten a cantonese pork chop bento box and also szechuan chicken over rice. They were both mediocre and tasted lack seasoning. The cantonese pork chop is especially dry when cooked the way they served (seared). If they do make the sauces they might need to tweak it a bit besides having everything taste like soy sauce.
Surprisingly, their katsu dishes (fried pork chop) is much better and tender. I would also say their curry sauces are pretty good too whether it is home made or coming from a jar.
It’s a great place for lunch because it’s quick for the most part. There was an instance where the meal took literally 25 minutes to make where all the other people around was getting their food. However, the manager graciously offered a 10 dollar GC to covered the meal.

Bento is a counter service type of restaurant, where you order and then bring a number back to your table. I stopped in for some noodles, and ended up choosing the Udon noodles for lunch along with a side of steamed dumplings.
The noodles were a decent portion but I would have like just a little bit more for the price. Both the dumplings and the noodles were flavorful and well-​prepared, the restaurant itself is clean, and the staff seemed friendly based on my limited interaction with them.
First impression was overall a good one, so I’ll be back to try some other stuff.