Anaba Japanese

9 Reviews on “Anaba Japanese”

• Anothertsc

  Off-Par 2nd visit with lackluster wait staff and colder than normal dish. The first visit to this restaurant 2 weeks earlier had me leaving quite happy with both the service and two dishes shared with a friend. Recommended as a great Sushi spot, altho I am not a great fan, I gladly sat the dinner out and the service was good with food hot and tasty.3/4 at just after 8 pm, the parking lot appeared empty and lights were low prompting my question if the spot was open. It was! Entering the building we stood at the entrance waiting to be recognized. Server behind the bar was sitting on a cooler with cell phone in hand texting. A young male waiter with goatee on an upper landing across from the bar was kneeling down in front of a table conversing w 2 women, totally oblivious to any other customers current or new. At least 6 tables were not cleared by previous customers. The behind bar server finally jumped off the cooler, came to us and led us to what became our waitress who had more on the ball than the other servers in the place that by this time began to flit around. Sitting us at a table, directly across from a plastic bin stacked with dishes, menus were brought and I settled on ordering the same item I had 2 weeks previously and why I suggested returning. Drinks were brought, our order was placed and when it arrived, the meal I ordered appeared different and the shrimp that was atop 6 sushi rolls was cold. It led to my getting up and going to the bar to inquire at which point the server was still on the cooler but jumped off. The Sushi chef explained the meal but made no effort to suggest correcting it and I returned to my table to eat the meal without refusing it.By this time tables were being cleared and as the 2 women had left from in front of the bar, causing the young waiter to assist with cleaning tables. The meal was adequate! Wait staff did a lousy job. Not faulting the waitress that assisted us at table 43 but will NOT look to return to this restaurant any time in the near future! Not overly busy, personally having come from an upbringing where service is key in the food industry, to enter this facility to see a server with her nose in her cell phone while sitting on a cooler behind the bar, inattentive to new customers or just in general means management isn’t doing its job either. To view a male waiter focused on 2 women in a kneeling position not once but twice when new customers were waiting at the restaurant entrance and to see unclean tables in an otherwise not busy atmosphere long before closing time means my dining experience that evening could have been better served by going to McDonalds up the street or the Mexican restaurant across from the store entrance.Let the buyer/consumer beware!

  June 5, 2015, 8:51 pm

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• Reinylane

  Mediocre at best.. Went here for lunch and got two rolls, a bento box and a ramen bowl. It was all just meh, the sushi definitely was not up to my standards. The meat in my bento box was very low quality and cooked until it was tough. I would not go here again, nor would my husband.

  May 25, 2015, 5:44 pm

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