Sakura Terrace Hawaii

popular spot, reservations recommended. best known for their lunch bentos and other japanese standards… been here twice now, my mother loves this place, but to be honest, the food is nothing special, looks great but its pretty standard japanese fare. i don’t even think its a good deal, lunch for 3 was 100 bucks. not bad, not great, just fair. i wanted to love it like others but needed to be objective. there are plenty of other noteworthy japanese restaurants in ohahu that deserve your hard earned $. they have their own parking lot thats a plus.

Nice lunch combos and options. The food was pleasing to the palate as well as the eyes. I definitely want to come back here again. The portions are perfect. We were seated across the indoor space/outdoor patio as our family members wanted open air dining for health reasons. It took me some time to study the menu and figure out what I really wanted to eat. I settled on the nori bento (middle picture). It's perfect for times when you want a little sashimi, but you want some cooked food and gohan.

The food was okay, but doesn't equal the price. For a small restaurant, they take forever on bringing you food and water/drinks. Also, a lot of the things on the menu (in the store, not the online menus) were not available either because they ran out, or because they discontinued the item. We saw one of the waitress use the menu book to push away crumbs of food from the table to the ground, and just placed the menu back in the pile without cleaning it. The experience was so bad that we just left a $5 tip.

I could not recommend this place more. It’s a super quiet, nice, and clean restaurant. The food is outstanding, extremely well prepared, everything tastes good, and it is served elegantly and relatively quickly. I had the maguro and can’t say enough about this dish. It’s one of the best fish I’ve ever eaten in my life and certainly the best in Honolulu. I asked the waitress to compliment the chefs because it was out of this world. Their hot tea is served for free, and it is one of the most soothing teas you can have with your food. I am looking forward to coming back. The staff is friendly, although they gave us a time limit to stay in the restaurant at check-in, which is not elegant, but the food is worth it.

My husband and I came here after our maternity photoshoot, so we didn't have a reservation or anything, but they were able to seat us upon arrival. We got there around 6:30pm. It took about 5 minutes for the workers to notice we were standing at the entrance, and took a while to have our orders taken. The place wasn't packed or super busy, but felt that the service was a bit slow. I am pregnant so I did opt out of eating raw things, and the waiter didn't seem like he knew what to recommend based on that restriction. Nonetheless, my husband enjoyed his omurice which had the rice flavored in tomato/ketchup, which was nice. I had a soft-shelled crab roll and miso butterfish and both were decent but not memorable. I did however enjoy the dessert at the end which is their homemade Sakura Terrace ice cream inside a shelled cone with mochi and red bean. Omurice and dessert are solid here. Didn't get a chance to try the raw fish, so will have to visit again to give feedback on that. Men's restroom is located outside of the building and the Ladies' is located by the entrance. There's a parking lot so parking was not an issue too.