akashi japanese restaurant

most authentic sushi experience in the triad. if you are looking for the real deal, authentic sushi experience, then look no further.akashiis the place to go for great, reasonably priced sushi and japanese cuisine. and no, i don't mean hibachi cooking. you will find great dishes like katsu don, udon, and many others, all made with love and care. the sushi chef is super friendly and always gives us a litle extra sushi on the house since we are longtime customers. he goes out of his way to make you feel at home. also of note, i love the japanese kitsch that serves as the restaurant decor (shin chan comics, etc). you will not be dissapointed with akashi.

terrific japanese. we have been eating atakashisince 2004, when my wife started working in greensboro. the food has always been excellent, the chef very creative and the service above par. never been disappointed. always look forward to a trip back.

don't bother.. we went toakashibased on good reviews and i am not sure how they got them. the waitstaff were overworked even though there were only a few customers and the food was bad. we tried several sushi rolls and all the fish seemed old. we ordered a different dish and waited for twenty minutes. the waitress then told us it would be another twenty minutes so we tried to cancel the order but were told that they were already making it. thirty minutes later, we finally got it. i will not be going here again.

terrible service, mediocre food. i've never written a negative restaurant review online before, but my experience atakashiwas so bad that i felt like i had to warn others.

i went with a party of five other people. when we arrived at 6:30 on a saturday evening, the restaurant was empty except for two groups of three or four people each. four people in my party ordered sushi, and two ordered from the kitchen. it took an hour and forty-five minutes for the kitchen to prepare those two dishes. during that time, nobody came to our table to check on us, nobody answered my questions about why we were waiting, and other groups came, were served, ate, and left.

while we were waiting for our food, our group's plans for the rest of the evening were ruined. we asked the owner, who also works the sushi bar, to comp part of our check, but he refused and started shouting angrily at us. according to him, we should have known better than to show up as a party of six on a saturday evening without making reservations. at no point when we were there was the restaurant more than half full, and the party of nine that sat near us somehow managed to get their food on time.

the manager stood next to our table and glared at us while we paid our checks. then he shooed us out the door saying "be happy! come back soon!"

also, while the sushi wasn't terrible, it was also far from impressive. small portions of fish that wasn't very fresh, and the sushi menu had no original or interesting dishes.

my visit toakashiwas one of the worst experiences i've ever had at any restaurant. if you're not one of the people who already love this restaurant for some reason, i would suggest that you stay away.