Yutaka Grill & Sushi Buffet
| Address: | 6560 E 51st St, Tulsa, OK 74145, USA |
| Phone: | +1 918-921-3400 |
| Site: | yutakabuffet-ok.com |
| Rating: | 4 |
| Working: | 11AM–9:30PM 11AM–9:30PM 11AM–9:30PM 11AM–9:30PM 11AM–10:30PM 11AM–10:30PM 11AM–9:30PM |
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Frank Elder
The good, the bad and the ugly. Sounds like the title of a movie right? In this case, it is the title of this review. First off, lets address the good. The facility has always been clean and tidy when I have gone there and that includes the mens bathroom facilities. I have been told that the womens facilities are also kept up nicely as well. The floors in the main dining area are clean and the service areas at the buffet are also clean. In regards to service. As far as the wait staff goes I have always had very good service, they have stayed on top of keeping drinks filled and plates removed from the table, so I give them high marks there. In regards to food. The selection is pretty good for an Asian buffet, I have been to ones that had far less and have been to ones that have had more. For the area it is located in I would say this tends to be on the "more" offering side. Their selection of sushi is pretty good for a buffet and during their peak hours and when the staff is staying on top of the offerings the selections are fresh and ready to snap up. They have different offerings during lunch versus dinner like most other buffets and they offer a Hibachi grill which I found to be good. They have several soups to choose from as well. So where is the bad? I have been there numerous times and as for the overall quality of the food it is a hit and miss. Sometimes items will be a tad over cooked or bland where the time before they were cooked perfectly and seasoned spot on, this tells me that there are consistency issues. Also, depending upon time of day they may very well run out of items and you may not get to have those items before you leave. My guess is that the staff are on break during those times or are just not paying attention well enough. This has happened several times and I have overheard other patrons complaining of items being out for prolonged periods of time while I was roaming around myself. And the ugly you ask? During a couple of those times where items were out and it was something I knew I really wanted to have while I was there, I made sure to mention to one of the staff that the item was out. They acknowledged it and would say something to the point of it would be taken care of and then nothing ever happened. Mind you, one of these times it was almost a full hour from the time I mentioned it to the time I left and the items were still not replaced on the line, those items being a sushi item and a couple of regular items. In summary. I like the place in general, the wait staff are great and am sure I will go there again at some point, but am I going to jump up and down on the street corner yelling at passerbys telling them to go in and try them out? Not yet. And that is sad, because they really do have an opportunity to kick it up a notch.
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Ben
Looks like everyone else wrote hate it/love it reviews. Mine is hopefully accurate and not extreme. I thought it was a good place, but not super good. The sushi is all you can eat, and there were about 20 types of rolls to choose from, but it was only ok. Unlike other asian buffets that add sushi it was fresh and you can watch them prepare it in front of you. So not nasty, not chintsy, but not Yokozuna either, just nice and good. At $12, youre not going home broke and hungry like the higher quality sushi places, but youre probably not going here for your anniversary either. There was also a nice Mongolian grill, chocolate fountain with strawberries and such, a freezer that was well stocked with ice cream desserts, a small Chinese buffet, and more. The seating was comfortable, but the lighting was bright, the tables were arranged like a buffet place, and waitresses were only there to refill drinks and pull plates. So in summary, a nice economical sushi and buffet experience. Follow up (3 weeks later): They have upgraded their sushi game. Still not Yokozuna, but I enjoyed it. Also the waitresses were much more attentive. I noticed more Asians eating here that werent speaking English, which is rare for a Chinese place. I tried the Mongolian grill, which allowed you to pile on as much meat as you wanted. I left very happy and full.
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Cee Jay
Went here on a Friday around 3PM, I am very hesitant about buffets and had been reading reviews constantly about every place in Tulsa. I will say this place is not terrible, but it is not super good either. I dont see how people give this 4-5 stars, And I absolutely do not have high expectations, it is after all a buffet. But Ive had better sushi at another buffet before, This sushi however was below that, and was mostly rice and avacado or cucumber and I tried to grab a piece of every kind they displayed and none of the rolls have any type of distinguished taste to set it apart from others, Like I said A LOT of rice, A tiny tiny sliver of fish on/in some of the rolls and of course immitation crab meat was widely used. After my plate of sushi I was so full from there being so much rice I sadly didnt get to try much else, My fiancée had other things before he had sushi and agreed their okay but not good, after we decided we didnt want anything else we paid and the lady came to our table and counted the money over and over at least 3 times in front of us and it was $24 even I believe... Found it quite rude, Needless to say the search continues for a good buffet, From now on we are going to an actual sushi place for our cravings. Its a big place, but quite empty and now we know why...
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Chris Green
***POKEMON TRAINERS BEWARE*** This place looks nice on the inside and it is positioned close to a pokestop so I decided to have lunch there. I arrived a little before noon thinking everything would be fresh and it was not even close. It was like it had all been out since early that morning, which kind of makes sense because they attempt to offer too many entrees. I don’t think they possess enough staff to cook that much food in time for it to all be freshly cooked. The selection is IMMENSE but not pretty. The sushi (which is what I was really after) had been out for so long the rice and fish had begun to dry and it was close to room temp. You can get better sushi at the grocery store. I suppose the orange chicken wasn’t bad, but honestly that was all I found that was worth eating. I will never eat there again. I don’t trust a place that would allow their food to be consumed in that condition. Other reviews talk about how delicious it was and maybe they lucked out and selected the fresh entrees, but I refuse to play gastronomic Russian roulette.
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thatoneinstagramphototaeyangpostedalongtimeago
If I could I wouldnt even put one star. The food was great but the waitress was extremely rude to us. She could not speak English well at all, her accent was very thick and not understandable. And when she brought us our check she got mad over her own mistake and blamed it on us, she also made a huge deal out of it. On the check my mom was supposed to pay for my brothers and my grandma, and I had my own separate check. Well apparently she put the senior discount on my check, and then she came over and started yelling at us for her own mistake! But the thing is, she didnt realize that for the checks its the same thing as my mom paying for me and me paying for my grandma. It makes no difference cause at the end of the day we all paid! And this all happened on mothers day too! Thanks for ruining our dinner even though we pretty much paid for everyone! She clearly cant even think things through before doing them!
