Kabuki Japanese Restaurant

I'm not quite sure why this place gets docked for "being a chain". Despite usually being mildly understaffed, they're extremely friendly, quick, and responsive. Their food is great, their service is friendly, and their drinks are delicious. Parking: Parking can be a bit of a mess here, especially given the fact that the parking will be on the other side of the structure in contrast to Kabuki's or Islands. But it provides a good opportunity to check out the Howard Hughes Center on the walk to the restaurant and walk off some of the food on the way back to the car. Pro tip: if you're coming with anyone who has trouble walking, you can drop them off on the very corner the restaurant is at before parking the car.

I went here with a couple of friends, and from the get go, we were getting weird stares from the servers. When we got to pay, they disappeared with the receipt and did not give us our change until we went up personally and asked for it. It was not even busy. The servers need better training in customer service.

Highly recommend! Super tasty and cheap. The fish is very fresh, you can see how the chef cuts it.

Food was OK waited 30 minutes for a roll after they had already served all my other food so by the time that came out, I really didn’t have an appetite, for it would not come back

Very nice staff. Food was not as great at the staff. Vegetarian options: They have veggie rolls. Parking: They do not validate

Great sushi to be found not only at Howard Hughes, but also in the Culver City area. Service is great too. Wonderful selection of plates also.

This place only disappointed me once. I had an upset stomach the next day but, otherwise, this place is gold. I always order the California roll and spicy ramen noodle. It’s so good especially when it’s warm. One thing they should look into is actually calling your number once your food is ready. I’ve made mobile orders with my boyfriend on several occasions. They’d ask for our phone number to call when the food is ready and then won’t call. We’d have to go and grab it on a hunch just to have our food and ramen isn’t good when it’s cold. Luckily they don’t have a problem with re-heating. Their lemonade is really good. Update: 01/19/24 I came here with my fiancé last night just an hour before closing and did of take out order of two California sushi rolls, a strawberry lemonade, and spicy beef ramen for $36.35 just for them to not include one of our sushi rolls. They only messed up with us on one other occasion so we didn’t feel the need to check but now that I’m opening our order from last night (we didn’t end up eating all of it, only the ramen and lemonade), I see that we got charged for something that we didn’t receive so I don’t think we will be eating here for a while. Idk if they didn’t include our rolls because we came an hour before closing and they were tired or something but this is a huge disappointment. I even repeated the order to the girl on the phone and she repeated it back to me so I don’t see why this happened. This is such a huge disappointment since me and my fiancé have been coming here for years (since the start of our relationship) and now this place is going straight to down the crapper. We will be getting a refund and not returning. Parking: There’s a parking structure but it’s a little ways from the restaurant. You may need to walk.