Tako Grill

My family and I have been going to the Tako Grill for over 20 years (my parents for over 35) and have NEVER had a sub-par experience. The owner and staff are incredibly gracious! I highly recommend the Gingered Pork, Fire Cracker rolls, and Yaki Tori. I couldn't recommend the restaurant more, and encourage anyone reading this to support an authentic & family owned sushi spot in Bethesda!

We ordered from Uber eats. I had the shrimp shumai and the tuna lovers combo. The firecracker roll is my all time favorite roll of any sushi restaurant. The shrimp shumai were also good. The food is always consistent.

Carryout order review: twice I've ordered the salmon bento box to eat at home, 30 minutes from the restaurant, and each time, the food arrives fresh and tasty. I eat every item provided, which I don't ever when ordering bento boxes from other chain restaurants. Parking is free for the 1st 30 minutes. If you're looking for great quality food to go, I recommend Tako Grill!

Been coming here for 5 years and it's always a treat. So happy they brought back dining inside. Quality is great and service is fast!This time I ordered the Tonkatsu Bento Box for dinner and it was presented lovely. The restaurant also has a section for Japanese groceries and goods.

Great service and fresh delicious sushi.Very clean restaurant. Has some snacks on the shelves and freezer to check out.

Now open for limited seats dine-in w/ new menu, a bit pricy especially when they don't offer typical restaurant full services. Seafood quality & selections are better than other Japanese sushi restaurants offer, but still not feel worth the upcharge. Will only repeat when they switch back pre-Covid interior setup & services!

Parking right outside. Service was fast, quick take out. Packed well, rolls were tasty.

Tako Grill moved from Wisconsin Avenue to Hampden Lane but the food is still great. I got two bowls of chirashi and the fish was top notch, a good variety layered atop sweetly seasoned rice. Fresh fish and perfectly cooked rice, a winning combination - I'm not a big fan of the imitation crab sticks but other than that this place is in the competition for the best sushi on Rockville Pike, even if they've moved to a new location deep within Bethesda.

I feel thoroughly disappointed by the treatment I have received by the staff and the decline in the food quality during my recent two visits. My family and I were fond of visiting Tako Grill for nearly 2 decades. We have very good memories of the dining experience and the food quality when they were still at the Wisconsin Avenue location. Whenever we had business/family dinner, and/or introducing non -Japanese people to our culture, this has been the place we've always chosen because of their past history of food quality and the display of omotenashi ( i.e., Japanese hospitality/customer service). I visited the new Tako Grill location back in 2015 and did not enjoy the unfriendly treatment I received from the owner's wife during lunch hour along with very bad tasting unaju I ate. The fish made me very sick and I swore to myself I never wanted to go back there again. Well, recently, I found out that a very dear friend of mine has never really had Japanese food before. So, after the bad experience in 2015 and swearing I don't ever want to go eat there again, I chose to take her to Take Grill based on fond old memories there.What a big mistake that was. I am still full of regrets. During this particular visit, I ordered their Tonkatsu Bento Box. The pork within the katsu was barely there and it was harder than rock and drier than burnt bread. It was just so chewy in such a way it made me feel sad because I know they could have done a much better job than that. I am also aware that depending on who they think they're serving, the food quality can be much better. The tonkatsu I was served was not anything I've ever tasted before and not in a good way at all. For the rest of the bento box, the shrimp shumai dumplings were soggy and mushy. The omelette and the cooked vegetables were tasteless. Adding one piece of barely cooked piece of broccoli just made no sense in a bento box meal. All in all, the whole meal tasted awful and it was just insulting. But perhaps the most disappointing part of it all was the glaring and staring I kept receiving by the owner's wife. I really hate to spell things out like this but we are not in Japan. The restaurant will not just have Japanese customers only and there are going to be customers who are now just learning about Japanese food and culture.Sure, you can sneer at my friend who has never had anything with miso in it and be rude to her about it when she asked about it. Yes, you can laugh and speak ill about the matter from the corner register within earshot of where we were seated. Unfortunately, I do speak and understand Japanese even if you don't think I do. I am also not deaf. One of the beauty of going to a Japanese owned restaurant is the spirit and the demonstration of omotenashi. This entails treating customers such as my non-Japanese speaking friends with patience and respect. Omotenashi is showing what differentiates Japanese style of hospitality and ensuring that no guests are unsatisfied or uncomfortable. I am sad to put it this way but all I got to witness and experience again at Tako Grill was another round of salient displays of ethnocentrism and xenophobia. Coupled that with an awful tasting meal that was independent of the rude service, I cannot say that I am inclined to recommend this place to anyone I know again.

This place is the best! Enjoyed the fried oysters as an appetizer. Fantastic! Plum wine and a great roll and miso soup....all extra fresh and delicious! I would definitely recommend this quaint, contemporary place! And did I mention the customer service! All the staff was most helpful to my colleague in selecting a good beer. Please go..enjoy!