Yutaka Hibachi & Steakhouse

This is probably one of my favorite restaurants in Somerville. It’s always a great experience, good service, food and overall ambiance. It’s hard to find a sushi place these days that isn’t a buffet or something fast casual. Yutaka is nice enough for you to bring a date or celebrate your birthday.
Sushi here is unique — a lot of fun roll combinations and different choices. Every time I come and try something new! Favorites are the sushi bullet for appetizer, golden salmon, spicy mango lobster roll and can’t go wrong with sweetheart roll.
BYOB is a great perk too especially when you’re here to celebrate. The liquor store across the street is great if you want to pick up something last minute!

Disappointing night. Service was slow, inattentive, and unapologetic. Once seated took quite a while to get beverages. An appetizer order was completely missed and when brought to attention of server, forgotten again. Ordinary hibachi food was as expected. After hibachi chef left and we ate it took over 10 minutes to get someone to take our group’s order for dessert.

I love Yutaka! I come here often and usually stick to my favorite special rolls. The Manchester roll and the sweetheart roll are so delicious. This place is BYOB which is always a plus. The service is the only thing that varies here which is why I can’t give it 5 stars. However the food is always great and keeps me coming back. I haven’t tried their hibachi but maybe next time.

I grew up in Bridgewater my whole life and I finally made my way out here. Hands down favorite hibachi joint in the area! Always a good time, sushi is great as well. Definitely will come back again, Plenty of parking lots in the area and lots of stores up and down main street. A hidden gem!

We had a reservation at 8 and stood there for about 10 minutes in the restaurant before anyone said anything to us. We got seated at one table but they moved us to a table with 4 people who have been waiting there since 7:30. As soon as we got there the waitress expected us to order immediately and we didn’t even look at the menu. We brought a bottle of wine and got no ice to put in our glasses. We ordered sushi as an appetizer and it didn’t come out until our food was already cooked. The only things that were good were the food and sushi.

great sushi !
I have been in Somerville for a long time, been to many restaurants in the area. this place is great. great ambience and nice friendly wait staff
but sometimes the waitress are not so attentive
hope next time Im here, it will be perfect

Best Sushi place in the area. Great value and very high quality, fresh fish. I particularly love this place because they make any roll you desire without rice (I am paleo), and the rolls are stuffed with even more fish and other good stuff. It’s not cheap, but it is definitely a delicious place with a wide variety of options and fabulous flavors. Not the regular, bland rolls defining the menu. Highly recommend the sashimi roll.

Very good meal for this area, somerville restaurants in general can be overpriced and underwhelming with service, this place offered a very good balance. Tasty hibachi, reasonably priced, and semi-​decent service. It loses a star because the wait staff was a little lacking in the service department; long wait for the simplest items, from drinks to extra utensils, and looking around I got the impression other tables were experiencing the same problem, a lot of craning necks scanning the restaurant with that thoughtful look on their face, «now where did they go»??? However, you usually do see the server a little less in most hibachi themed restaurants, and for all I know they could have been short staffed.
Hibachi chef was more than on point, great personality, actually amped up the rating for the restaurant, our’s was fantastic and brought up the mood for the whole table, plus he scored bonus points for actually getting my boyfriend a steak knife. We asked for one after we ordered the steak, but its no fun when your food is piping hot in front of you and you don’t have the necessary utensils to eat it… not that it stopped my boyfriend from trying lol.
Overall good dining out experience, BYOB and economical for hibachi.

Yutaka is hands down my favorite Japanese spot for lunch. I always visit here for their hibachi lunch specials (served with miso soup and salad) with garlic noodles… Yum! Food is always cooked perfectly, portions are plentiful, and service is speedy.
Never had their sushi since I’m too much of a sucker for their hibachi. My coworkers have ordered their sushi lunch specials (cash only) as well as their bento boxes. Never got a complaint from any of them so I’m assuming their sushi and other Japanese dishes are solid. Bento boxes look yum, they include a little bit of everything… like one of my favorites, shumai!
Restaurant is modern and decorative on the inside. There’s a separate dining room, sushi bar, and another large room with hibachi tables (great for large parties).
Park on the street or park in the lot out back… Parking in the back lot is a quarter for an hour :)

Been here several times and never been disappointed. This is definitely my go-​to place for sushi whenever I’m in Somerville! Everything is reasonably priced and fresh and the BYOB is my favorite perk.
If you’re in the area looking for a sushi place, I highly recommend you give this place a try before any others!

Excellent place. When you first walk in, you can get a little confused with the restaurants layout. Hibachi and sushi was excellent! Wait staff wasn’t the friendliest and some didn’t understand english that well but you can overlook that with how good their food is. The one thing that bothered me about the place is — they had this obnoxious announcement to announce someone’s birthday on the loud speaker in the restaurant. They would alert you there was a birthday and extremely loud music would play for a few minutes to i guess «celebrate’ the patron’s special occasion. Food was excellent though!

FAN-​FRIGGIN-​TASTIC!
Yutaka saved the night! A group of 6 of us were out for my friend’s 29^th birthday and had picked another establishment in town that turned out to be a disaster, so we walked over to Yutaka and ending up having a great night.
The food tastes great and the cook is funny, entertaining, kind and talented. For $ 4 you can get your drink in a huge ceramic cup in the shape of a cat (and some other options) You MUST do this. Trust me, it’s worth it.
If it’s your birthday, you will get extra food and lots of «happy birthday!» from the cook! Not to mention ice cream and a fun light show!
Thank you, Yutaka, for wonderful food and service. You made it a night for the books! :D

I’ve been to Yutaka more times than I can count, and I’ve never had a bad experience. My family loves coming here for birthdays, anniversaries, just because… :) Every employee is always so polite and kind, and they always make sure everyone is enjoying themselves. the wait staff is super attentive, I don’t think I’ve ever had an empty water glass! The food is delicious, and the hibachi chef’s are great! They are so entertaining and always make sure to interact with everyone. I know that’s the shtick with hibachi restaurants in general, but they definitely go out of their way to cater to everyone at the table. The sushi there is also really good. During the week they do half price sushi for dinner (not sure about lunch). You have to order one app and pay in cash for the deal, but it’s absolutely worth it. BYOB is always an added bonus!

I go here a lot for lunch at work. It’s a very large restaurant with a sit down area, a sushi bar, and hibachi tables. For lunch specials for hibachi are 10 – 14 dollars from chicken to shrimp to filet mignon. The quality of meats are very good and has great flavor. You get fried rice or noodles, a meat selection, veggies. Their sushi is reasonably priced as well.
I never had this place for dinner but the taste is extremely good and I would highly suggest it.
For an affordable and high quality lunch, I would highly recommend this place

Great ambience. Beautiful décor. The food was average on a Hibachi level. Portions seemed small to me. And I don’t eat a lot. The biggest down fall was the rush during my entire dinner. The place was empty and we weren’t even done with dinner before we had our check. I really wanted deep fried ice cream and had zero opportunity to even order it. I was literally still eating when they took my plate. I was pissed.

It took forever to order and actually eat. The food was small portions (kids from another group got more food than the adults). Everything had to be asked for multiple times. No sauces given. Waitress asked us if we were done eating while we were still eating. Waited forever in the beginning and than we were stood over to leave and pay even though no one was waiting and it was not late. For price was not worth the it. Also, it was sooo dirty.

Came here the other day for a quick lunch. The place was empty. Stood waiting to be seated for about 10 mins, thinking the host must be busy. Little did we know he was sitting at the table nearby eating and looking right at us. Eventually he decided to help us, but then the phone rang and he took another 10 mins to take an order over the phone. We were finally seated and a young lady was our waitress, who was unable to answer any question since she spoke no English, or so we thought … She was able to communicate well when she demanded a tip from us.
A tip is an optional way to thank a waiter for a great service, which in this case it wasn’t so great as she pretended to be annoyed the entire time. Also, we only spent $ 10 on a lunch special sushi that we split since we didn’t have more than $ 15 in cash and they don’t take cards for lunch. The waitress cornered us and asked us where the tip was. We were extremely shocked and told her that we didn’t want to leave a tip. She demanded $ 2, as she cornered my friend, we left her the $ 2 tip and ran out of there fast, as she was sucking her teeth.

We were there for a birthday party, like everyone else sitting at the Hibachi tables. The restaurant seemed empty otherwise and the sushi chef looked bored. We ordered appetizers from the regular menu including having the Hibachi meal. I didn’t have the sushi but others in our party enjoyed it. The fried calamari looked more like onion rings but it was tender enough. Just a little too much breading. The dipping sauce tasted like duck sauce which I felt didn’t go with calamari. The Peking duck appetizer was very good. As for the Hibachi, you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all. I liked that they offered noodles instead of rice. What I noticed that bothered me was that the chef used the same spatula for all the foods on the grill and at the same time. Raw shrimp, raw scallops, raw chicken, raw beef, etc. all being tossed around with and then used to serve us. I’m hoping there wasn’t cross contamination. Hopefully the grill was hot enough to heat the spatula he was using. Service wasn’t overly friendly but they were really busy so I could understand they couldn’t chat much.

Planned a Saturday night dinner with friends and had a blast! The reason for ⁴⁄₅ stars the food wasn’t as delicious as we remember it to be & also the portions seem much smaller
Pros: BYOB is the best perk, fun atmosphere, fun to watch the hibachi cooked right in front, options of sushi if you’re not feeling the hibachi, highly recommend reservations for weekend dinners, sushi was very fresh — we had the shrimp tempura and it was delicious!
Cons: Saturday night dinner felt rushed to turn over the table, portions were smaller from what we recall, the steak was chewy/​tough, every 5 mins they blast the birthday song, dessert wasn’t anything special — I ordered the tiramisu and it tasted stale.

Sushi is one of my all time favorite foods. If you are a sushi lover then you know that sushi comes in classes. Their is good, bad and great. Out of the many many places I have tried sushi Yutaka is by far one of my favorite. The sushi is hand rolled, fresh and if you sit upfront– you can see it being made right in front of your eyes. The sushi boat is cool, it has a variety in case you aren’t sure exactly what you want. My favorite rolls are the spicy tuna, the rainbow and the hand wrapped large salmon skin. For a work meeting, I tried the Hibachi. The chefs are friendly, talented and fast. Great attributes to have in this line of work. The food was good and flavorful and the atmosphere friendly and vibrant. I highly recommend this location and urge you to try it out. The only downside is that things can get a little on the pricey side. Goodluck and Enjoy.