Seiko Japanese Restaurant

Have dined here multiple times where it has been satisfactory, but not amazing. Today it fell below satisfactory. As we’re eating our appetizers we were constantly shooing nats away and then proceed to stomp on two critters on the floor (can’t confirm what they were) then left shooing flies away while we waited 10 – 15 minutes for the check. The bug problem is likely due to the sticky floors. Done with this place for sure.

If I could give less than 1 star, I would.
I ordered from Seiko via grubhub. The order was well over an hour late past the estimated delivery time from grubhub — over 2 hours from when I ordered. The number listed online for this restaurant is not in service, so I was unable to contact them to check the status of my order. Grubhub was unfortunately not very helpful in this situation. They confirmed my order was going to come, but couldn’t give me a new time estimate, and since my order was allegedly «out for delivery» I was unable to cancel it.
Finally when the food did come, it was not only cold but completely wrong. Nothing was prepared as ordered. I will never order from Seiko again, and strongly recommend against it.

Great place for people to go to near fishtown, old Kensington, and northern liberties. Hostess is kind, service is quick for sushi. Deliveries take at least 40 minutes.

This is hands down one of the best sushi places in the city. I know people will be all «blah blah Fat Salmon blah blah noob loser blah blah», but Seiko is legit. The fish is really fresh, and they serve you big chunks. They also deliver, which I love. I’ve gotten delivery from here more often than I’d care to admit, and even though I’m 2 miles away, they bring it to me, always with a smile. The Kamikaze roll is very good, and they have a good assortment of salads and appetizers. I love this place.

Positives: friendly and helpful hostess took my order over the phone, sushi delivered to Fishtown less than an hour after placing the order, fish seemed reasonably fresh
Negatives: texture of the rice was almost gelatinous, spicy tuna mixture overly gooey. I threw out most of my order bc of texture.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE THEIR FOOD. but the delivery service was shit excuse my language but the guy treated me very bad and asked me to tip him in front of my friend which was very embarrassing!

Ordered food. Took over 2 and a half hours to arrive. Called the restaurant when it was 20 minutes late they told us it was on the way. Another 25 minutes go by called back they told us it was still on the way. We ordered at 7 and didn’t receive our food until 9:30. Food was ok.

I haven’t heard of this restaurant before so I wouldn’t have considered dining at this place if not persuaded by my girlfriend and her friend. They came here last year and had a positive experience… so we’re back here again. We ordered a sushi boat and bibimbap. The sushi was good, but nothing special. The bibimbap, on the other hand, was what I fell in love with. It was very flavorful, which satisfied my taste buds.
I also wanted to quickly comment on their service. The waitress was friendly and came back several times to refill our water. That’s always a plus for me. We stayed a little past their closing hour and the owner was very patient with us. He even showed us their karaōke room in the lower level of the restaurant. Yes, I said karaōke. If you’re in the area and want to sing your heart out, check this place out. The karaōke room is small and can probably fit 5 – 6 people.

Ordered the deluxe sashimi and a specialty roll with eel and tuna. The sashimi was fresh. The uni and bonito were particularly lovely. The roll was nothing special, and as always, the sauce seemed a bit on the sweet side. My partner was wondering if the wasabi was fresh… we haven’t had fresh wasabi (instead of from powder or package) in the US in a loooong time (we should have asked). The service was friendly and super attentive.
FYI: BYOB and there is a Foodery 2 blocks north.

all the way good. Nothing bad to say. food. service. quiet. personal. Fresh. attentive… all around great experience l. and I had a Groupon. and complimentary sake. perfect meal

I don’t usually write Unilocal reviews, but this was bad… really. bad. We ordered at 6:23 and the food didn’t arrive until 8:40. I contacted Eat24 after 90 minutes and they managed to get me a 20% discount, but did inform me that the food had not yet been prepared but would be ASAP. Did they miss the order? Who knows, but still, way too long to wait.
When the food finally arrived after 2 hours and 20 mins, the delivery driver wouldn’t get out of the car and a young boy got out and delivered the food to my door. I found it quite inappropriate that the adult driving the car couldn’t take 5 seconds to give me the food, say sorry, etc., but instead sent a young child to my door. Weird.
Anyway, we open the food to discover that the hot items were lukewarm, the sushi was shoved into the containers, and the shrimp tempura roll was pretty much all tail. In fact, the tails were buried in two of the pieces so as to disguise the fact that there were actually inedible tails in there. Luckily I was skeptical of the food and dissected it before eating.
Overall, the service was poor and the food was inadequate. I will not be ordering from here again.

We had the
coupon so got $ 25 off $ 50 purchase — however, note that they add 20% gratuity. Our total bill came to $ 67 before the $ 25 discount. Two of us ordered: Rock shrimp, veg & chicken tempura, cap n crunch, spicy tuna sushi roll, spicy chicken bulgokee, and yaki udon. Really good price for the quantity of food. For two of us, there was more than enough to dine in and box some for the next day. The server was really sweet. Overall, liked the food and place.

One night we went out in Northern Liberties, craving sushi. Our first choice option happened to be closed that evening, so we ventured to Seiko.
We had been to Seiko once before, and had gotten some of their hot entrees. I recommend not doing this. While they were edible. it was just that. It was on par with Chinese Mall food (which I actually would have preferred). We tried both the Seiko Chicken (sweet and sour chicken with pineapple) and the Spicy Chicken Bulgokee (pan fried marinated chicken and vegetable spicy sauce). Like I said, they were edible, and we made it through the meal, but I would not go back to this restaurant for their hot dishes.
The sushi on the other hand, was good. It was your typical sushi, nothing too fancy, despite trying some of their fancier maki rolls. We went with a spicy tuna roll, the philly roll, the Northern Liberty maki (shrimp tempura and avocado with spicy tuna on top), and the Capital Maki (spicy tuna and broiled eel topped with torched yellowtail and shredded potato tempura fries). The Northern Liberty roll was definitely the best out of the four rolls, and I wish we had ordered more than one. While the sushi was good, I felt that the menu was a little limited, and offered a LOT of tuna and eel options.
The edamame is also delicious, and super salty, which I like.
All in all, Seiko is an okay place– I wouldn’t go out of my way to eat here, but I also wouldn’t write it off completely.

They took 2 hours to deliver 3 things so I suggest that you call in about 30 min after you order to make sure that they have sent your order. Other than that the food is fine.

We celebrated my hubby birthday last week. We had a blast which includes karaōke. Food was phenomenal. Best sushi ever for sure. We recomend the warm sake. Service is exceptional. Price is reasonable. We definitely will be back.

My wife and I have been coming here off and on for the last 2 years back when it was koi. We haven’t been back in a while so we decided to stop in for dinner. Well, they’ve really stepped up their game. Food and service was amazing. Extremely fresh fish.

this place is awesome… between the amazing menu with actually really decent prices to the karaōke and private rooms… this place stands out from all others. tempura is cooked to perfection! awesome all around. Came in for birthday party include karaōke room and had an AMAZING time. more have fun! you can’t lose!

My go-​to favorite neighborhood sushi place. Just as good as the former Koi, if not better. Always fresh, delicious and perfectly executed.

This was our first time here… we ordered a boat load of sushi and it was all fresh and delicious — this place is definitely giving other sushi places around there some competition.
My favorites were the salmon skin salad and salmon dumplings. Yum yum yum the skin on that salad was crispy and seasoned to perfection! The dumplings are basically lobster rolled in salmon sashimi… omg out of the world delicious!
Everything is reasonably priced and it’s also a BYOB.
The staff was very friendly.
I’ll be back!

Ya know, it’s not that Seiko is not good; it’s Sushi Standard modern décor, affable staff and fair prices were all wonderful. It’s just that good sushi is just so hard to come by. We had a few nice treats but as the stars show this was ultimately just an A-​OK experience.

The salmon dumpling appetizer is really amazing! Their fish is super fresh and the service is top notch! Cant wait to be a
back

I don’t know why this place is underrated as this place is very simple and cozy. The food is really good very flavorful i love their special rolls as i have ordered 5 different one, the dancing dragon, volcano and kamikaze is halleluya good. Their salmon teriyaki is mouth watering good and is not a small piece of salmon is at least a good 12oz size salmon. I really recommend you guys coming bringing your own beer. This is a hole in the wall kind of joint. If you don’t pay attention your going to miss it. But i suggest you start putting this place on your «to eat place». Also the dessert! Their fried ice cream is stupidly/​retardedly good…

The specialty rolls were awesome, «northen liberty» is a must try roll and also their kitchen entrée is good only a bit to the sweet side. I love the server, he gave us a warm and friendly welcome while explaining the menu and seems like he knows every single thing in the menu. Will definitely come back for more.

Great food, cool atmosphere. With the free appetizer for checking in and some complimentary hot sake, it would be hard to complain about too much.

Just got some rolls here last night. The northern liberties roll was my favorite. Been here a couple times, some dine in and some take out. The price was pretty high for dinner compare with the quality of the food, but I still enjoy it.
The environment and the service are both quiet nice. Will come back again sometimes

The Salmon Dumplings, oh the Salmon Dumplings! It is lobster wrapped in salmon topped with a light sweet sauce that practically melts in your mouth. This was the highlight of the day.
Based on the recommendations of the waitress, my friends and I also ordered the Spicy Rock Shrimp, the Northern Liberty roll, and the Beef Gyoza. The Spicy Rock Shrimp is actually spicy! The spicy mayo sauce had a nice kick of spiciness. However, the shrimps were very tiny and hard to pick up. It was difficult to tell what was shrimp and what was just crunch. This dish was also very small for the price. The Northern Liberty roll was a disappointment. It simply tasted like a shrimp tempura roll and was nothing special. The Beef Gyoza was a nice surprise. It was crunchy and steaming hot!
Overall, I would come back just for the Salmon Dumplings and the Beef Gyoza.
P. S. Unilocal has a free appetizer with purchase of entrée coupon on their mobile app! There is also a coupon on Groupon for this place.

Seiko Japanese Restaurant was an interesting place to eat. I went there with two of my friends around the dinner time of opening, 5 pm. The place was pretty empty since the restaurant just opened. I liked how modern the place looked.
We ordered 3 appetizers and 1 sushi roll. We ordered the Spicy Rock Shrimp, Beef Gyoza, Salmon Dumplings, and the sushi Northern Liberty Maki. Everything came in a timely manner.
The Spicy Rock Shrimp was really flavorful. The spiciness was definitely there. The only disappointing thing was the size of the shrimp. The shrimp were really small, about the size of your thumb nail. It’s not the size we were expecting when ordering the dish. The Beef Gyoza was average. Everything you can expect from a dumpling. The sushi honestly tasted like a shrimp tempura roll with the sauce from the Spicy Rock Shrimp. Still tastes good, but I was expecting more since it is a speciality roll. The biggest surprise was the Salmon Dumplings. It’s salmon on the outside with a piece of lobster inside. It was absolutely spectacular. The sauce really complements the fish. I couldn’t get enough and we all wished we ordered more.
So overall, I would come back to this restaurant. Definitely order the Salmon Dumplings and the Beef Gyoza. This restaurant also has a coupon on Groupon!

Food was ok. The problem was that they added the tip on to the bill. We were a party of 2! Then there was a tip calculator at the bottom of the bill. I assume that they hope you don’t notice that the tip is already included and then tip again on the total. Very shady.
Also the music was very loud. Don’t get me wrong, I like loud music, just not on a dinner date.

I went to this place last summer when it was listed at «Koi» in Unilocal.This is my review:
This place is no longer called koi. It’s new name is Seiko. I came here for take out with my boyfriend and we ordered the spicy tuna roll, yellowtail roll, and Alaskan roll. The spicy tuna was barely edible (my boyfriend called it awful). It was super spicy and peppery as if they had dumped cayenne on the rice and fish, plus there was no spicy mayo either. The fish itself was tasteless. The yellowtail was alright, slightly better than the spicy tuna, but barely. The Alaskan roll was the only decent thing we ordered. Possibly worst of all was the rice they used on the rolls was flavorless and gummy. The service was nice enough, but I will not be going back.

If I want sushi, Seiko is where I go! It is a great value for the price you pay and you will certainly never leave hungry. I love sitting at the front window and bringing a few bottles of wine with friends on a Friday night.
Service is very friendly and accommodating and food is great. It is nothing out of this world, but it fills my sushi need!

I’m in the watch business so when a sushi place opened under the name Seiko I had to check it out. I asked and apparently Seiko means luck.
This is a small room with perhaps too much of it devoted to the kitchen. I sat at the sushi bar which gave me a close up view of all of the activity going on there. While there was nothing overtly dirty, I kind of felt that the kitchen, especially an open one like this, was not sufficiently clean. I could see all of the stains on the stainless steel around the fryer and hoods and while I am not an expert it appeared to me that the proper deep cleaning probably occurred less often than probably necessary. The rest of the room has a modern clean Asian feel to it and is appealing.
In spite of the unpleasant view I decided to give the food a try and I ordered a few rolls. I got the staples and a few of my favorites. They were neither bad nor exceptional. The fish tasted fresh, the rice and nori adequate. Somehow I felt merely «whelmed» but left feeling unimpressed.
One other note. I checked in on Unilocal and the offer was a little confusing. The headline of the offer promised «1 free entrée» but the actual offer gives you a «1 FREE free (sic) entrée» and/or?in the month of December if you «like» them on facebook or twitter you’ll get a free appetizer. When I tried to redeem there was a bit of dissent in the kitchen because apparently $ 35 in sushi rolls is neither an entrée nor an appetizer. To be fair, the manager came over, assessed the situation and offered me one of my rolls for free. I was satisfied with the compromise and even ordered another roll to go for a friend. For the record, she loved the California roll I brought her (more than I loved the ones I ate in house)
Since it’s the nearest Sushi place in the neighborhood and it was an okay meal I would probably go back but I would not rank this as one of my preferred sushi spots.