Godaiko Japanese Restaurant

The salmon tasted pretty good but there was too much rice in the rolls. The Superbowl Ramen portion was HUGE but the broth was too mushroomy.Besides the taste though, this place is a great deal cost-wise. Their sushi rolls are BOGO, so I only paid $10 for 2 salmon roll. The Superbowl Ramen portion is enough for 2 people (unless you're REALLY hungry lol) for $20. The space is also well-designed and clean, and the staff are friendly.I think it's a good place to visit if you're really hungry, not particular about the taste, and wanna get your money's worth for their portions.

Pan-Asian spot tucked away on the SW end of Ann Arbor, right off 94. My husband and I go here occasionally largely out of convenience because it's really close to us! Never have a problem getting a table - it's usually just the right amount of busy. Plenty of parking on site. I think they might share ownership or have an arrangement for ingredients with next door Asian market Tsai Grocery. Now I'm not usually a huge fan of Pan-Asian restaurants (as I generally think if you're doing it all, you're not necessarily doing it well), but Godaiko has some interesting/creative fusion-y twists on their menu. It really is a choose your own adventure type of place. You could visit multiple times and have a completely different type of meal and experience each time. Last night we were feeling like sushi, and throw in some crispy chicken sliders, why not. (The sushi isn't the best around, but it's good.) Some of my favorite menu items I've tried:- Lettuce Wraps! Generous amount and not too salty (which I find with other places' lettuce wraps); pineapple is a nice addition - Beef Maki; very flavorful - Sushi Tuna Nachos; unique and I like the thin taro chips - Kobe Cheese Burger; the Asian part of this is in the dressing/sauce, a pretty decent burger if that's what you're feeling like - Shrimp Tempura Udon; crispy tempura (served on the side) and a clean tasting broth - Bento Box; one of these can feed 2, it's a lot of food! Decor and ambiance is nice, and kind of fun with Asian art pieces on the walls and ceiling (look up!). Service is good. Full bar (beer, wine, liquor, sake, cocktails) with a daily all-day drink special. Some of their cocktails are interesting as well - one time tried a lychee saketini and enjoyed. Usually I stick with beer, wine, or sake though. Food portions and drink pours are generous!

Spicy tuna roll melded well and gyoza had pretty good flavor. 4$ Sapporo special is unbeatable!

I lived in Japan for years and this place blows a lot of those restaurants out of the water. I will personally fight the negative reviewers in the back of the nearest Waffle House @3am. To contact me for fisty cuffs-

Half my salad was wilted. Cucumbers had gotten frozen not so good. Salad dressing yummy! Edamame yummy. Flying noodle good. Chicken terayaki awful. Chicken was like rubber and dry

Godaiko is located in a strip mall off of Ann Arbor-Saline road. It has been solidly serving sushi for at least 25 years. We ordered a Sapporo and looked over the menu. The lunch specials are amazing. Tasted and well priced. We got the sushi lunch roll special and the bento box. The rolls were fantastic! The bento box had a lot of small delights. This is the go-to sushi restaurant in Ann Arbor

Love this place. It tends to be a bit on the pricey side, but the portions are unusually large for a sushi restaurant.So she was quite good, the tempura in the Bento box lunch was very good. Service was pretty good. The waitress was having to hassle since she was the only one there. But I would not hold that against them.

Had a great experience and sushi was delicious! Super friendly and welcoming staff. Sat at the sushi bar and really enjoyed it. Great deal too with a buy one get one sushi roll deal.

I have been there three times twice for lunch, once for dinner last night. I will never go back. I ordered soba with lobster and shrimp, and it came with a lobster tail, clearly an old one, propped up on a fork with two chopsticks sticking out of it. It was the weirdest presentation I've ever seen. The noodles were so greasy and oily, and whatever the lobster was, it was breaded in something and it tasted more like chicken than lobster was - just greasy. The shrimp was OK. The rest of it was really inedible. It was like being served a little Bamboo circle of garbage. I ate what I could of the shrimp, a few of the Ramen noodles and left the rest. I took apart the presentation just to see how they had built it. It was really strange. I didn't take home the pike of noodles.The other three meals were just OK. My husband did not like his - the fried rice again was very greasy and such a huge portion. It is as if they have tried to adapt to American appetite - jt seems like an American Japanese restaurant with terrible terrible food. The atmosphere is nice and the restaurant seems clean and well managed, but that's about it.Food: 1/5 | Service:

I have been there three times twice for lunch, once for dinner last night. I will never go back. I ordered soba with lobster and shrimp, and it came with a lobster tail, clearly an old one, propped up on a fork with two chopsticks sticking out of it. It was the weirdest presentation I've ever seen. The noodles were so greasy and oily, and whatever the lobster was, it was breaded in something and it tasted more like chicken than lobster was - just greasy. The shrimp was OK. The rest of it was really inedible. It was like being served a little Bamboo circle of garbage. I ate what I could of the shrimp, a few of the Ramen noodles and left the rest. I took apart the presentation just to see how they had built it. It was really strange. I didn't take home the pike of noodles.The other three meals were just OK. My husband did not like his - the fried rice again was very greasy and such a huge portion. It is as if they have tried to adapt to American appetite - jt seems like an American Japanese restaurant with terrible terrible food. The atmosphere is nice and the restaurant seems clean and well managed, but that's about it.