Maneki Neko

LOVE this place. Always great service and the food is amazing. The style inside is also on par with a Japanese sushi bar/restaurant. If you like sushi, it's great. Not a fan of raw fish? They have chicken teriyaki!The servers are always on top of their game with refills and seeing how everything is going. Very friendly too. Price wise, not too bad on the wallet either and I alway walk out feeling full.

This place is small. Be prepared for the tiny accommodations. I was surprised at how good the ramen was because often that can be hit or miss in this area. The service was decent. Would definitely come back again.

My family loves this place for take out & get it regularly. They love the edamame, miso soup, chicken teriyaki, and several of the sushi's. I finally added an order and got the gyoza (yummy) and Japanese Chicken Curry (enjoyed but could have used a bit more spice). I'll be joining my family again in future take outs!

Maneki Neko is one of my favorite go to spots for dinner when I don't feel like cooking. I recently went and as per usual, the service is great. They always ask how the meal is going. The place is really cute and cozy with a small bar to sit at.I get the tonkotsu with some tuna rolls. It's not fancy sushi but honestly gets rid of my cravings. The fish is clean and fresh. The combination of all the food is really great for two people and honestly, I don't mind coming here every other week for dinner.

The rice was too sticky, very mushy, hot, and could not hold its shape, I couldn't even pick it up with chopsticks without it losing its shape and falling right into the soy sauce. Wasabi is too artificial tasting, has a very noticeable tint to it, almost blue-green- tastes mostly like horseradish with a bit of real wasabi as filler. I ordered the rainbow roll, it was 14.45 for 6 pieces, the rainbow roll felt like they were stretching the toppings out as there was a noticeable gap of rice on my rainbow roll, along with it being poorly cut ( I had to pull it apart by hand because rice was still sticky and mushy) it began to fall apart completely. :/Other than that, the staff is hospitable, attentive, nice and welcoming! I only go during their happy hour mostly, this review is for their sushi, have yet to try the rest of the food, but looks good!

We tried take out here for dinner one night at the recommendation of a friend - ordered a deluxe sushi and deluxe sashimi.Though prices are very reasonable, the fish quality is not. Half of the pieces of fish smelled fishy and tasted fishy. The ahi tuna were massive pieces but the salmon pieces were very thin. This is comparable to sushi yoshi, sweet ginger, or sushi yama in the area. We likely wouldn't come back - rather pay a bit more for quality fish.

Cute place. We entered through the back entrance where there is some parking. We got nigiri, the Sashimi deluxe, and a couple rolls. They had some HH prices for the Nigiri. Mackarel was $1.75/piece. Tamago was $3.50/piece. Flying Fish Roe and Octopus was both $5.50/piece. We also got some Eel and Squid. For our rolls, we got the Tuna Avocado Roll and the Surf and Turf. The Surf and Turf isn't exactly what I was expecting but overall the food was pretty good. Great service and the staff is really friendly!

Some friends were visiting from out of town and we wanted some Japanese food, so we went to Maneki Neko in Falls Church. The place seemed pretty small from the outside, and when we stepped in the first thing I noticed is how tight the seating felt. It was a little cramped in my opinion, but the place was almost full so it makes sense that they wanted to seat as many people as they can. The interior had a very cozy vibe and the decorations looked good, they reminded me of other good Japanese restaurants I'd been to. Soon after we sat a server came to see what we wanted to drink and get any appetizers we might want, and I was glad he came so quickly. He seemed very busy though, and he checked on us pretty infrequently which I didn't like. I'm not sure if they were understaffed, but it seemed like he was one of the only servers taking care of most of the tables which seemed odd. I haven't had much Japanese food, so I wasn't sure what to pick from the menu. Lots of things looked good, so I eventually decided to get tonkatsu, as I've heard that's a good classic Japanese dish. They also had pork cheek as one of their specials, so I decided to get that too. It took a while for our food to come out which I didn't like; I wasn't that hungry so I didn't mind, but I did notice how long it was taking. Once the food came out, I was a little disappointed with how it looked. I'd never had tonkatsu before, but for fried food it looked pretty dry. The salad that came with it just looked like some leaves in a bowl with some kind of paste sauce dropped onto it. Honestly the tastiest looking part of the meal was the white rice which is not a good thing. After starting to eat, my visual assessment was proven right. The tonkatsu was indeed dry, and while I wasn't sure what good tonkatsu should taste/feel like, the tonkatsu I was eating didn't impress me at all. The salad wasn't good, it was honestly just leaves in a bowl and I didn't like the paste sauce it came with. After we'd been served our food and started eating, the pork cheek I ordered came out, so the wait for that was really long. The pork cheek was interesting, it was a little tough and tasted decent, and it immediately became my favorite part of the meal. After eating we were ready for the check, and it took a while for our server to come back so we could ask for the check.All in all my experience at Maneki Neko wasn't the best. I was a fan of the decorations and how the interior felt, but this was basically the only thing I liked. The seating felt tight, the service was slow, and the food wasn't very good. It isn't the worst place I've been to recently, but it was closer to the worst one than the best one. I want to try more Japanese food in the future, but hopefully it'll be better, and I won't be getting it from here.

Very disappointment with our last takeout order. Unfortunately items were missing from the order. When we asked staff to resolve this issue, we were taken aback by their response. Instead of receiving an apology, we were accused of stealing the missing items. Shocking... Not only upsetting but also extremely rude and unprofessional.We used to order takeout from Maneki almost on a weekly bases. Needless to say, this was our last time doing business with them

We enjoyed a great lunch there this past week. A $14 bento box that was generous and tasty. The included miso soup hit the spot of a cold day. Octopus appetizer was 3 whole tiny critters, not just tentacles. Tasty. This place is friendly, snug, small, sweet spot of a family restaurant.