Overall the experience was ok. Service can use a little more "personable" training. Seemed like we were rushed to order. Fish was good. There was a range of Sake on their list a plus. The ambience seemed a little dark and stale. Fish was good. There was a range of Sake on their list a plus. It's a place I would go to satisfy a sushi craving in the area, but would not travel specifically for the place. read more

Kabuki Japanese Restaurant - Sushi sashimi combo - Japanese Near Me - Petaluma, California

My family is always down to have Japanese food for dinner and that's exactly what we did after one hot Friday afternoon. The place is pretty dead around 5:30pm and we were seated right away. Aside from a couple of tables, there were the sushi chef's already looking busy. The take out counter is happening! Our party of 3 ordered a variety of dishes from rolls, udon, sashimi and hamachi Kama. The sashimi were fresh and came with miso and salad if you get the combo. The dinner entrees also came with the two sides. Next time I come back, I will stick with the sashimi and try other rolls. The kitchen items we ordered were ok. read more

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My friend and I stopped in this afternoon for lunch and were not super hungry. We spotted some great sounding appetizers on the menu and ordered from it. My friend loved her Tempura- I tried it and liked the light crisp batter very much. I had the Miso Fried Tofu and really enjoyed it. I was pleasantly surprised the appetizer portions were quite adequate in size and prices were reasonable. The service was decent- not outstanding but not poor. I like the bright decor behind the bar. read more

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The food was really good. We've been to this restaurant several times over the years. The service was so bad it was laughable. Not rude. Just lack of. We had to find napkins and chopsticks, we had to ask for drinks, when we ordered she just nodded. Dropped off the food at the table and never came back. No how is it? Do you want more? Anything else to drink? , no waters. And we had to ask for boxes and the bill. As they stood around on their phones and talking amongst themselves. read more

Food is 100% spot on. Tasty and consistent. We frequently dine in and order take out.

As someone who is a foodie and has had sushi everywhere in the world, including Japan several times and other great places, this place had to be the worst sushi I've ever had. so much so that I felt sick once I came home. they were rude. They couldn't care less. I wish I had checked the yelp reviews first this place is awful and questionable with fish Which is not good as a friend of mine went to a similar sushi place years ago and contracted hepatitis C because of the unsafe health hazards, dirty hands, dirty nails, etc. old fish For your health I highly recommend you stay away from this place Petaluma market has great sushi in the morning just FYI read more

Ordered food through Uber eats.... octopus, scallops and salmon ... all not very good , but the worst was the spicy tuna Roll ... I took one bite and spit it out ! Do not eat here ! read more

I went in between lunch and dinner time on a Sunday. Empty restaurant -- I was seated right away and my sushi came out quickly enough. Idk why everyone's so bent out of shape about the service. My waiters were efficient and polite, not overly friendly but honestly...who cares? I got my food? I got to hang out and work on my phone and eat sushi undisturbed? I don't mind if my waiter isn't chatty. I actually prefer it as a solo diner. Anyway, I just want to combat some of these complaints because I had zero problems with this place and my food was pretty good. My only gripe is that it was kind of expensive but no more so than the rest of Petaluma. Also, very good iced tea. read more

**this review is based on a delivery order** I ordered the Super crunch roll, for delivery. The food was prepared extremely quickly I placed my order & it was received within 30 minutes. There are 10 generously filled pieces to a roll, & each order comes with its own ginger, wasabi, soy sauce & chopsticks. The ingredients looked & tasted fresh. Definitely will be ordering lunch from here again because I'd love to try more of their house rolls or udon & ramen! read more

Kabuki Japanese Restaurant - Super Crunch Roll - Japanese Near Me - Petaluma, California

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Probably THE best sushi I have ever had. The sushi is absolutely amazing! The non 5 star rating is literally just because of the service. Not very friendly or attentive. Not rude either. The food and the ambiance of the restaurant were great! read more

Kabuki Japanese Restaurant - Soooooooo delicious!!! - Japanese Near Me - Petaluma, California

Came in for a quick lunch on my birthday and wow - you would've thought I committed a crime with their attitude. So rude from start to finish. I don't need over the top kindness, but a little would be nice, especially when dropping $30 on lunch for one. The sushi was okay, but simply due to how rude and unfriendly the staff was, I do not think I will be coming back. There are plenty of other sushi restaurants in Petaluma that actually appreciate their customers. read more

Came here for an early dinner and immediately felt like the staff was irritated that they had to seat us or serve us. The food used to be pretty decent but it was too covered in too much sauce on the rolls and it seemed like smaller portions. Never had a visit back to the table to see if we wanted to order more or refills on tea or water. Even if the food was better I would not come back due to the service/staff being so rude. read more

Pretty average service and atmosphere. Servers tend to be pushy and rush patrons. The food is very good though. Nice complex sauces and spices to complement the sushi. Great miso soup and salad. Many great sushi dishes to choose from. The food is good enough to ignore the lackluster service and atmosphere. read more

Happy hour: I dined at 4pm Sunday. This is during Happy Hour which involves a 15% discount on everything. Very clean, professional staff, efficient, real sushi chefs, nice tables. I ordered a combo. I ordered Crab Rolls and Spicy Tuna Sushi. The combo came with soup (Miso) and salad. All very good and enjoyable. There were two available parking spots very near to pick from and no meters and two hour free parking. Since this is a fine Japanese restaurant it was nice to get a discount on nicer dining! The drink was not included. I ordered a Thai Ice tea which was also very enjoyable. I tasted the other order at my table (they got a combo with Crab Roll and Vegetable & Tempura prawns) and the Tempura Shrimp was an "A". read more

I'm used to the mediocre but passable food, but the chicken katsu curry I got there tonight was unforgivable. Chicken overcooked and dry, and the curry sauce was in a little bowl and nearly as thin as soy sauce and hardly any flavor. Was it a mistake? No pickles as is customary with chicken curry, but they mysteriously added an orange slice. Awful meal - it looks this this restaurant is phoning it in at this point. I wonder if they are actually Japanese because it's hard to imagine any self-respecting Japanese person would have served some of the food I saw them serve tonight. read more

Kabuki Japanese Restaurant - Japanese Near Me - Petaluma, California

amazing food and very fresh with a very good environment and amazing service. While also having different food options cooked, non cooked, and also is nice to have good conversations while enjoying even better food. read more

Kabuki Japanese Restaurant - Japanese Near Me - Petaluma, California

Felt like the staff hated their jobs when I walked in. They were speaking Mandarin. In my experience, that's generally not a good sign for a Japanese restaurant. I should have just left, but was hankering for nigiri. I ordered maguro, hamachi, ikura and toro. The fish was warm and mushy. The sushi rice was also too soft. I didn't get sick, but it was not a good experience. I still left a tip because I felt so bad for the staff. They really looked miserable. read more

We got there a full hour before close and got sat but the entire time it just felt like everyone was super annoyed we were there. The food wasn't bad but it wasn't that good either and when I paid in cash I didn't receive any change back, I was going to leave it as tip anyway but I was a bit taken aback that they didn't even ask if I needed change. I rarely ever leave poor reviews as I know how trying working in a restaurant can be but I was just really bummed with the entire experience :/ read more

Very good sushi here. It's a solid spot. We have been here a few times. It is situated down town Petaluma. Plenty of seating and great service. read more

Kabuki Japanese Restaurant - Sushi roll - Japanese Near Me - Petaluma, California

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Service was okay, food was good, but I am concerned. When I went to the women's restroom I checked the mirror to make sure it is not double sided because my paranoia always gets the best of me. My fingers touching the mirror and the reflection did not have a gap, meaning that it is double sided. As I was anxious about this, I figured the next best idea would be to turn off the lights and take a flash photo. What ended up showing was a greenish/blueish light appearing to come from behind the mirror. I will attach the picture below but I'm incredibly concerned. I hope someone investigates this soon. read more

Kabuki Japanese Restaurant - Women's restroom mirror. - Japanese Near Me - Petaluma, California

Another slightly inconsistent place. It's not the great sushi chefs, they are spectacular. Thus visit it was again the service. She forgot our soup and salad. Ugh we had to ask her to serve it. Then I regretted the $3.50 salad of iceberg elbows. There was literally 2 bites with eating. See the photo. She did remove it from our check. But $3.50 for iceberg w Mayo is beneath this place. The sushi chefs do a fantastic and quick job! Loved ours as always Fix the service and get a new salad and you'll get 5 stars. read more

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Takeout here makes me want to go back on most of my sushi reviews and lower their ratings. The fish is nice, fresh and cut perfectly. The chefs choice nigiri is actually diverse. They provide salad and miso with the sashimi. I also got a salmon skin hand roll and it had a good amount of salmon skin, rice and sauce ratio. read more

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I ordered via Door Dash and had the Golden California Roll, side salad, miso soup, edamame, and the gyoza. The Golden California Roll was beyond fantastic!! The side salad and miso soup were on the small side but they were delicious! Gyoza was a little burnt on the bottom, and the edamame was good but nothing special. I will definitely be back for the Golden Cal Roll. Overall really good food. I also ordered on 7/4, so I'm sure they were busy. Overall I was happy and satisfied! read more

Supporting local restaurants during the COVID-19 pandemic has become a mission. Today's choice was sushi from Kabuki in Petaluma. Reading the reviews indicate bad service, however, this isn't a problem when takeout is the only option. The size of the rolls were manageable and didn't require unhinging the jaw to eat. The fish was fresh and the presentation was great considering it was in plastic containers. I will definitely give this restaurant another go and update my review to include the service. The rolls get 5 stars. read more

Kabuki Japanese Restaurant - Sushi takeout - Japanese Near Me - Petaluma, California

Apart from cozy atmosphere and relatively good looking menu. The staff are where OK, but the,"server" not so much . The same server who decided to blow his nose into a napkin and placed it on the counter sushi bar counter and decided that hand sanitizing was good enough and left the soiled napkin on the sushi bar counter. Once confronted about it in a very polite manner, I felt, He told me to leave obviously. OSHA obviously needs to revisit this establishment to reinforce handwashing hygiene and personal hygiene. Such a shame since they were really slow and the server decided to make a scene out of the whole situation. I regret to say that I do hope that you as the manager and owner of said, establishment, revisit and reestablish boundaries within your employees structure or else how else are you supposed to survive with dwindling clientele? On the other note, I never mentioned nor confronted this to said "server" but he also sneezed into another customers credit card sleeve and handed it to him. Not sure if that's a courtesy, from where ever he's hails... But again, who am I just a Yelp reviewer? Side note; this is a younger male with medium length dyed blonde hair, who obviously doesn't like to be confronted about his downfalls. Make sure he washes his hands after touching his hair. read more

I should've had a clue about the mediocrity of this restaurant because it's open all day without a break between lunch and dinner. Quality Japanese restaurants always close around 2:00 or 2:30 until dinner but it was 3 o'clock and I gave it a try. I was struck by the two Sushi chefs who did not even acknowledge my presence, even though I sat at the sushi bar in front of them and was the only customer in the entire restaurant. I knew from their rudeness that they are not Japanese. The food here was unremarkable. read more

We have been loyal to this restaurant for almost a year, until my partner and I got violently ill, and three days later have yet to be healthy again. We had 101-102 fevers after eating this sushi. Our neighbor had breakfast, lunch and dinner with us, but she opted out of eating sushi. She was the only one not violently ill. I even had to cancel a business trip because I was too faint and feverish to fly. Please contact the Sonoma County Environmental Health board or your district manager or supervisor if you become ill after eating here. We will never go back. The Environmental Health Specialist let us know that there are not appropriate cleaning stations at this restaurant. I now have to make assumptions as to how we have gotten so ill, since the county cannot make that conclusion. The two hand-washing stations for sushi preparers were clogged and had no soap or cleaning supplies. Meaning that the only area for the people working here to clean their hands after handling raw meat and serving ppl was in a back station. This is most likely how we got to be so violently ill. The idea of this makes me want to throw up all over again, but unfortunately, I haven't been able to eat solid food since Saturday and it is now Tuesday as I am writing this review. I'm sure they will try to clean up their act since they were visited by the health board, and i drove by today and saw that they are hiring a new sushi chef, but this is so unacceptable to run a business in this way. We are both young and healthy, but if we weren't, this could have hospitalized both of us. Please choose another restaurant, one that never cuts corners on sanitation when delivering raw fish to people. And please, do not write a google review or yelp review first if you get food poisoning. Contact the county. read more

DoorDash some deep fried sushi rolls and cucumber salad. The rolls came still very warm from being deep fried and the salad was cold. Very good quality and temperature of the food. Was very pleased especially. With being delivery. read more

Honestly this is my fav sushi spot in petaluma. They are not fancy at all but the food is high quality and consistent everytime. I love the staff also, they know my order bc I always get the same thing lmao! My order is a kabuki handroll add sprouts, spicy tuna roll add tobiko and negihama add jalepeno. So yummy, I eat here like once a week I havent had anything I didnt like, the pricing is also just right compared to the other sushi places here in town. Its a perfect lunch spot, writing this review made me crave it even more hahaha read more

Went there for a birthday tonight. Service was garbage. Didn't clear table. Asked for everything. No water. Food was garbage and only returned one roll out of kindness knowing I would never be back. Didn't even take it off the bill. read more

Kabuki Japanese Restaurant - a neon sign above the dining area - Japanese Near Me - Petaluma, California

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Absolutely the best service! I ordered something I thought was cooked, (but only one component was cooked - totally my fault I forgot to read the menu fully). Being a transplant recipient, I explained that I couldn't eat what they brought and were very understanding about it and brought me a fried dragon roll. To our server, Leah; YOU ROCK!! read more

Typically I love this hidden gem, however as of lately I've had two bad encounters. The first time, my daughter was sick and I stopped by to get her favorite meal here....the young woman working was extremely rude and unprofessional. She snapped that they are closing and abruptly walked off. Second time, we ordered for take out. I went to pick it up the young female working was again rude. Her behavior is as though you are interrupting her and she has no time for you. (There was only two customers) No smile, no thank you, no nothing. She set the food down, then went to process my credit card, set it down and walked off. Absolutely ZERO personality and has a bad attitude. I was a waitress many years ago and respect the hard work. This girl needs to work on her social skills. In the meantime, until you can treat customers with respect, i'll be taking my business elsewhere. I gave 2 stars because the food is good. Should've gotten more stars but I'm deducting for that girl's shitty service and bad attitude. read more

Love this place!! We had an early dinner here today, everything we ordered was prepared to perfection with the freshest fish, and the wine selection was great. A little pricey but well worth the extra money. Will definitely be going back with friends. read more

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Randomly stumbled in here on an early evening Sunday, not much of a crowd. We sat down after we saw some vegan options on the menu. They have a veggie roll, veggie tempura and some fried tofu, which we ordered. Nothing was crazy good, really, just good. The fried tofu was pretty sad. I'd eat here again, given the circumstances I was close by and wanting sushi but I wouldn't go out of my way to come here. read more

Stopped by this restaurant for lunch because I wanted to visit a boutique down the street. We were the first customers and the lady told us to sit anywhere we like. We chose to sit at the end of a booth and began reviewing the menu. The lady came back and apologized to us profusely but let us know she had a regular coming in that preferred to sit in the spot we were in and told us we could sit anywhere else we wanted besides that spot. My boyfriend and I didn't mind this, because I have worked customer service before and definitely have had my share of regulars, so we picked another spot and sat there. The workers kept apologizing to us and even offered us free edamame as a "We apologize but thank you for understanding" gesture which was so kind and thoughtful of them because we were not at all bothered by their ask! I ordered the Sake roll and it was SO GOOD! I wish the rolls were thicker so it could be a little more filling but nonetheless it was really good. read more

Kabuki Japanese Restaurant - Sake Fever Roll - Japanese Near Me - Petaluma, California

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Ambiance delightful, food delicious and exotic, lots of different foods to choose from, service friendly and pleasant. Would definitely recommend! read more

I really wanted to like this restaurant, but there were some major communication breakdowns happening between staff. We ordered a LOT of food to split, and instead of putting a roll out one at a time, they overloaded us with about seven plates at once. My boyfriend can't have cucumber, and expressly told this to the waitress who confirmed it, but there was still cucumber on every roll that had cucumber as an ingredient. I also asked for the sauce on the side, and that didn't happen either (less of a big deal). We had to wait while they remade those rolls without cucumber, and it tasted like they reused some of the ingredients from the original roll (because the salmon skin was totally burnt). The final straw was the piece of hair in my wasabi. It put a bad taste in my mouth and had me concerned about their food handling practices. The waitress gave us 10% off the bill because of the hair when she finally showed up again. I hate to be such a whiner but this is not how restaurants should be managed. It didn't feel as though they cared about my input, which is a shame because this place has potential. read more

Kabuki Japanese Restaurant - Koi and dragon rolls. - Japanese Near Me - Petaluma, California

Good food and prices is not bad. Service is great. I don't know why people complain so much, stay home if you don't like to eat out. The world doesn't revolve around you. Don't be a Karen. Be patient and nice, and your food will come out great! read more

Nice and affordable sushi. One of the best in town. Great and friendly customer service. Highly recommend!

For ALL that is holy please DO NOT eat here. Not only did my fiancé and I get food poisoning and full blown stomach cramps almost immediately after consuming but I ordered a roll with regular crab mix instead of spicy and they put it stringed ontop and then I said I don't want it like that and 2 people came up to yell at me saying I'm going to pay for it. Server was rude as hell yelling in the back with all the sushi chefs. Fish was not kept properly. My stomach is killing me right now.! read more