Ichiban

What an amazing spur of the moment time! Our chef Carlos from Venezuela hooked us up! I wish he would cook for me every day with all the fun we had. I had just got my oil changed and my mom and I hadn't ate since the morning and I did not want to go far or wait long for food. I originally decided to get the fast food version directly across the street hibachi. I looked to my left and there was ichiban so I pulled up and was about to look at pricing, then I said you know what let's just go in WHATEVER!Now from previous experiences I already know what happens and how the courses go. I ordered a large hot sake which is my go to. We ordered off the lunch menu for better pricing. I got salmon and fried rice along with steak and fried rice for my mom. I think my sake was bottomless based on how many pours I got lol. Highly recommended. In addition to our main meal we got salad for an appetizer which did not look appetizing. I could only stomach to eat half based on the look and color. The texture and taste of the dressing made me think they put it in a blender with onions. It tasted ok but looked suspicious.Now to the fun part! Our chef was so entertaining and I loved how he got the crowd participating which again is typical but he did it in a more refreshing way. I usually don't eat all my rice due to the large amount but it was the best fried rice hands down I could not stop. I always try and save something for the next day but had non leftover. The salmon was so juicy and not overcooked and the vegetables were sautéed to perfection. All I can say is that I was put in a food coma and it wasn't even 3 o'clock when I got home. Thank you Carl!

Check my other reviews. I've never left a vindictive comment. And I imagine it's a more common occurrence than most of us realize, but we saw a juvenile cockroach jump from beneath the grill surface to the counter adjacent to us. My girlfriend warned the other couple as the roach nearly landed in the woman's blouse on its way to the floor where it was immediately stepped on. The waitress/host was notified and shown where the roach laid on the floor. There was no acknowledgment or apology given by anyone. We left about a third of our food, and declined boxes. I paid the bill and left. We had eaten here very early in our relationship, and I wanted us to celebrate Valentine's Day here today. But, there does not exist a world in which we will ever return.

Very nice place and wonderful food can't wait to go back!! Me Ang my boyfriend are going back next for Valentine's Day this year!! Looking forward to it

Worst We arrived and the sushi chef was "out at the store buying some items" so we had to wait a bit. When we finally ordered, we started with miso soup. What we got was not miso soup it was more like a beef broth with random things floating in it.Then our sushi came out and it was gummy seaweed and the veggies had a weird flavor. Oh and they were also out of TEA! How does a sushi restaurant run out of tea?! Do not try this place it's not worth it.

quality service, quality waitstaff, quality sushi, I've never had a bad meal at Ichiban.

Found a traditional bento box finally, but what is with it that it seems most Japanese places in Columbus feature hibachi grills? Tastes that different here or does being entertained with your food just that important over more quiet dinning experience. Curious minds want to know???For $14 got Miso soup along with salad to start. Hard to mess around with the soup, but instead of traditional ginger dressing had an onion creamy one. Talk about how to ruin a salad. Wasn't told until I complained as I was paying that they did have ginger. I asked when I ordered about ginger dressing and waitress acted like they didn't have it.White rice instead of sticky rice ball. Shrimp sashimi was the best I have had. Teriyaki shrimp was good and so was the California roll. Lunch portion still gave me a second meal, but EBS and other big eaters would have finished it all and had room for dessert.Still plan to come back again. Prices and service are fair, but had to ask for chop sticks. Will continue to search for a Japanese place that comes even close to Yotsuba - EBS is laughing at that idea right now, or Aki in Ypsilanti - which should be possible.

I could potentially look past the extremely loud and disruptive birthday celebration, the song that played every single time the door opened, and the hammered woman at the bar watching TikTok on full blast, but then my husband found a long black hair UNDER his rice while eating. After we waited an obnoxiously long time for our food at a regular table when the restaurant was not busy, we brought the hair to the server's attention, were told "sorry," and brought our check as requested. No manager, no option to rectify the situation, didn't offer us boxes because I'm sure they knew neither of us would be taking the food home, no compensation or anything. Granted we could have pushed harder about it, but after spending an hour and a lot of money to be disappointed in the meal, we just wanted to leave.I usually don't complain about things like temperature (it was cold the entire time), the noise (I understand this is the nature of the restaurant), but all of these things combined compel me to say to avoid this place like the plague. We waited so so long for the food and the shrimp was cold anyway. The rice was good but definitely not interested in ingesting someone's hair.

Avoid this place. Food was awful. I have eaten here before and it was decent, but this visit was very unpleasant. There was pieces of rice in the bottom of my cup of water? The meat in my steak hibachi had clearly gone bad, it tasted rancid. I involuntarily gagged and spit it out when I bit into it. The rice was swimming in oil to the point all you could taste was cooking oil. We told the manager at this point (one thing could just be bad luck or whatever, but this was clearly quality control problems) , and despite the fact I offered to pay for our meal she acted like we were lying about the food quality and asked us to leave.The menus look to be about 10 years old, and many of the lights were burning out and flickering. Didn't give the impression of a well-maintained restaurant.Small positive, our waitress was pleasant.

Tonight, my hubby and I wanted sushi & hibachi, so we came here for date night, and the food and service were Great! We will return. Thank you so much!

Never an empty stomach at Ichiban Good show by the chef and leftovers. Lunch is always the best time to go