Kobe Restaurant

3.5/5Stopped in here Valentine's Day late afternoon and there was plenty of seating. Staff were friendly but nothing particularly memorable, some were just standing around chatting waiting for the rush to hit. I got the avocado roll and sweet potato roll, my husband got tuna and salmon rolls. All were great but again, nothing terribly special (nothing to bring us back again). The restaurant itself is nice and appeared clean. I would prefer if giant TVs weren't everywhere, very distracting but some folks like that.

Overall good - 4 stars.FOOD: My food was good. I ordered 3 tuna based sushi rolls. Two of my rolls were standard type rolls. One of my rolls was a large "specialty" roll. All three rolls had great flavors and they came out fast, more speedy than usual.SERVICE: As usual, the service was excellent. I had a small glitch in the beginning. I stood around in front for quite a while without being noticed. Lots of employees walked by & saw me but I was still left standing. I finally walked in, I got the sushi chef to take his headphones off, and I asked him if I could sit at the bar. Everything was great once I was officially recognized as a customer. I had to laugh, however, because they have a million security cameras all over the place, a bunch outside and even more inside. Yet...despite a million cameras...no one saw me standing around and pacing for 10 minutes. Why have cameras if no one pays attention? Funny!DECOR: The first thing I noticed about Kobe is it's HUGE. The square footage is impressive and they have very high ceilings. They have nice design throughout, lots of dark colors with bright accents. I particularly like the small koi pond in front. No touching the koi (see photo). I also like the hundreds of customer photographs covering the walls in the front entryway. Cool!LOW CARBOHYDRATE: It's easy to eat low-carb, keto, carnivore style at Kobe. I usually stick with tuna based rolls, a simple soup, and/or a meat based appetizer. I avoid large rice portions, mountains of noodles, and anything that might be hiding sugar or vegetable seed oils. I messed up this time though. I ordered the BMW roll, which is GIANT, easily 2 or 3 times bigger than a typical sushi roll. Plus it's deep fried in vegetable seed oil! I knew better. But like a dummy, I ate the whole thing. By the time I got home, I felt horrible. Oh, well. The flavor was great but I should have abstained from large starch portions and from bulky food items boiled in seed oils.Overall, a good experience. I'd go back again any time.-Maxx

Sushi rolls were good, large size for the price which was kind of steep. Summer roll and Fall roll, were delicious. Yaki Udon with chicken- a little too salty and the chicken pieces were small. The texture could have been better. Service was nice.

Sushi and rolls are fresh and delicious. Large variety of specialty rolls - the Pink Lady roll is absolutely delicious. I haven't tried any of the hibachi meals, but people at the tables always seem to be enjoying themselves. Nice ambiance and great service. The place gets busy so get there early if you're having dinner.

I was visiting from Wisconsin and came to Kobe with a couple colleagues from work.On a positive note, the food itself was quite good. I got the teriyaki chicken bento box and everything that came with it was tasty and an overall good portion. Another person in the party overall liked the sushi they got. The place is reasonably well-decorated and clean looking. The staff was decently pleasant.However, I cannot give them a positive review because of one bad experience that happened. One of my colleagues is vegetarian, which she made clear up front and asked for help picking out some sushi rolls that are vegetarian-friendly.The server pointed out a handful of rolls that are vegetarian. When the plate arrived, half of them had imitation crab in them. My colleague questioned the server on it, who insisted that the imitation crab is vegetarian. All three of us have had imitation crab countless times in our life - this looked and tasted like your standard white sticks with the reddish-color outer layer.My colleague asked the server to make sure. She came back later and said the cook and manager "confirmed" it. She both said that it's 'flour that's shaped and then flavored to taste like crab' and also that they purchase it (versus making it themselves).I can say with 90% certainty that what was in those rolls was the standard imitation crab that you can buy, that is made out of fish. That I've had my whole life. We've done web searches to see if there are vegetarian ones option there and just not finding it.If we are correct, that is unacceptable, doubly so given how insistent they were. I think they literally just think 'imitation crab' = not meat. Luckily, my colleague doesn't have a medical reason to be vegetarian, but this sort of misinformation could be dangerous.

I love this place better than Benihana's, the meat is more flavorful and seasoned properly. The staff is outstanding the cooks are funny and it's a good clean restaurant.

I used to go to Kobe's regularly pre Covid. I haven't dined in the restaurant in a long time. My son wanted sushi so we went. The service was fairly good but food came out at irregular intervals. The shrimp fried rice had 3 shrimp, that's it. The rolls actually seemed better quality then pre Covid. Didn't see happy hour so the bill was pretty hefty. $80 for 6 rolls and fried rice plus 2 sodas.

Got takeout of two fried rice. Food was just ok. They charge convenience fee (just raise prices) and automatically put 10% tip on bill. Didn't notice till I got home. Over $41 for two takeout fried rice? Lesson learned. Pay better attention to order total and don't go back to Kobe.

Service was very quick. Food was very good--we got an appetizer, sushi roll, and hibachi. Pricey, but good for a special occasion.

love coming here with my dad on the weekends and all the workers there are very nice. the food is good and cheap and it's usually not very busy.