Great sushi and they have all you can eat! Great quality! The service is good. They always come by…read moreclearing plates or refilling water. They are clean and well spaced so you have distance from other tables.

We wanted to celebrate Fathers Day with 3 dads with a total of 10 of us tonight. We arrived around…read more5:30p and it wasn't very crowded and we were seated immediately. That sadly was the best part of the night. We ordered; 8 AYCE and 2 ordered ala carte. My wife's vegetarian and doesn't eat much and my mom doesn't eat raw sushi and ordered the teriyaki shrimp. 1. The service is horrible. We waited 20mins to get our first appetizers. The waitress just dropped off plates and didn't explain what they were. My mom noticed the table next to us ordered what she got and a few minutes later, the waitress asked if she received her entree, which she replied no, and then she went to the table next to us and grabbed their plate and brought it back to the kitchen. We assume they reheated and replated the dish because it was way overcooked. 2. Long wait. Some items didn't arrived after over an hour and we asked about them multiple times. As we were ordering our 2nd round, we just reordered them. We got our waters refilled often but they never checked in to see if we were receiving our food or if we wanted to order more. Like they didn't ask one time. 3. Lost in translation. My parents are immigrants, so I am pretty understanding but the waitress didn't understand much of what I was saying and when I asked for extra ginger while pointing at it she looked very confused. I also asked her what a few items were when she brought them, and she didn't respond. 4. 10% coupon: don't bother trying to use the 10% off coupon from their own website. When we asked for the check, I showed her the coupon and she looked confused like I made it up and I let her know it was from their website under "coupons". She went to the back to ask about it and returned to say it was for online orders only. I mentioned that the coupon doesn't have any fine print except it can't be used with any other offers, and she didn't try to help at all which was frustrating. At the end of the day, it was probably one of the worst meals I've ever had. The food quality was ok except for my mom getting a reheated meal. But the service was terrible. It sucks to have to wait so long for food and things coming out randomly and my son and wife waiting over an hour for their items while others are pretty much done. Save yourself the aggravation and try something else.

Had lunch here and the decor is so cute. The waiter seats you in a honeycomb-type booth for two…read more The seat is a bit uncomfortable though. There is no padding. We had the yakitori platter as an appetizer. Ordered the pork don as a main dish and it was very delicious. There is a lot of pork with rice in the dish. Also ordered the eel dish. In the dish, they give you a big slice of eel. The dessert is the matcha tiramisu, which tastes different from a regular tiramisu. A bit overpowering with the matcha.

Authentic ambiance, very good and friendly service. The food was very on point, authentic deserts…read moreand tasty drinks. Ramens are tasty, omurice is the winner here, karaage chicken is tasty but a little too salty. Would recommend and would revisit!!!! Keep eating, keep living!!

Prices reasonable. Lunch specials! My hubby surprised me with lunch and I came back to treat my…read morestaff to the delicious food. Happy to have something like this close to home! Very cute restaurant as well.

I know I said no more sushi buffets but the buffet lover in me just couldn't stay away. This is the…read morelast time, I swear!! I tried to give this new spot a fair shot, especially because it's so close to me, but it was pretty disappointing to say the least. The cooked food selection was limited. No fried oysters?! On top of that, the cooked food that we did order was bland and bordered on nursing home food. Service was very slow even though it wasn't busy. It took almost an hour for the sushi to be served and we only ordered 2 rolls and a few pieces of nigiri. I noticed that there were way more waitstaff than sushi chefs. The interior was decorated beautifully and the employees were nice, but that's really the only positive thing I have to say :(

Vicky was the best! Fun experience and good food.The tiki tiki roll was delicious, and it was so…read morefun and great, the food was good aswell.

Arjun was amazing , I loved the food too. Will be coming back again!! We got sushi mochi and moreread more

I brought friends here. My 3rd time eating here. Quick service. Excellent food. Everyone went home…read morestuffed.

The food was delicious and the spicy mayo was not that spicy. Ordered from the lunch menu from…read moreMonday to Saturday. Service was good and food came fast.

In a culinary landscape where great sushi is so often confined to coastal capitals and…read moreexpense-account zip codes, it is genuinely startling to encounter something this accomplished in Matawan. I have eaten sushi at Sugarfish in Manhattan and at Jade in Beverly Hills--two benchmarks for quality and consistency--and I can say without hesitation that this experience surpasses Sugarfish and stands shoulder to shoulder with Jade at roughly a third of the price. With sushi, the truth is unavoidable: three-quarters of the experience is determined long before the knife ever touches the fish. It lives in the discipline of daily market sourcing, in restraint, in knowing when not to interfere. Here, that philosophy is not only understood but executed with confidence. The fish is pristine, the rice balanced and restrained, the flavors allowed to speak without excess. What makes this place remarkable is not merely its technical proficiency, but its ambition. This is not "good for New Jersey" sushi; it is simply excellent sushi, full stop--an experience that would feel entirely at home in Manhattan, Los Angeles, or Tokyo. I gladly made the trip from Montclair, and I will gladly make it again. This is the rare kind of restaurant that recalibrates expectations, proving that greatness does not require a skyline--only rigor, taste, and respect for the craft.

Came here on a Wednesday night and was seated right away. Pretty spacious and clean inside and…read morelooks much classier on the inside than it does on the outside. Our server/service was excellent overall and food came out very fast despite the restaurant slowly filling up! We started off with the mentai potato, zaru soba, and tempura appetizers and those were the stars tonight. The mentai potato were steak fries with a mentaiko and wasabi dipping sauces. Fries were large, crispy and perfectly saulted. The zaru soba was also a nice find! We usually have go to NYC for it so it was a nice surprise. Pro tip, add wasabi to the sauce to mellow out the saltiness. We ordered a few rolls, a sushi dinner and some uni. Unfortunately the uni didn't seem as fresh as we had hoped and had a very overwhelming ocean taste to it. The rice on the rolls and sushi also were a bit mushy as if the rice wasn't cooked enough or too much rice vinegar was used. We also ordered a white christmas roll expecting seared white tuna, but it wasn't seared. Fish quality was ok overall. Overall, the experience was fine and we would love to try some more of the hot food. We really loved the apps but were a little disappointed tonight with the sushi. We'd come back soley for the apps!

I placed a reservation a month in advance to celebrate my six year anniversary, and my reservation…read morewas canceled the day before with no explanation. I had to scramble to get another reservation somewhere else and they did not respond to any phone calls or voicemails, regarding an explanation. Very unprofessional!! Please also see my review below for a previous experience I had there. I also have a $150 gift card that I am unable to use! Pros: Plenty of tuna available, served with fresh wasabi. Cons: Limited or no rice (asked multiple times, but few had it), mediocre appetizer quality and quantity, chaotic and loud atmosphere, no water provided (asked multiple times), and the fish was not sourced from Japan. I was disappointed with the tuna cutting event. I had expected a more formal and relaxed setting, similar to my previous omakase experience, but instead, it was loud, crowded, and chaotic. I also assumed the fish would be sourced from Japan and that the appetizers would be of somewhat comparable quality and quantity to those at the previous omakase dinner, due to the price of the dinner. Additionally, my girlfriend and I were very sick afterward and still are (throwing up etc). People were throwing up outside as well. The lack of rice, limited appetizers, and no access to water made it difficult to balance the meal. Having these options would have helped settle our stomachs and balanced the meal, instead of just eating pure tuna. We also didn't drink much (less than two weak alcoholic beverages each since we rarely drink), which made the event feel less worthwhile. Offering a non-alcoholic price option could be beneficial for guests like us. Overall, I found the event underwhelming and wouldn't attend again. Thank you for taking the time to read my feedback.

Intimate seating, as per usual omakase dining experiences, with only ten seats. Ambiance is quiet,…read morenot super formal but we felt we had to keep our voices down. Cocktails were a reasonable price, they do not offer wine, and many sake options. Most are quite pricey, but the warmed sake was $28 for a carafe. We got two and split it between the three of us. They warm it in the microwave, which I thought was slightly awkward, as the microwave was in the main dining area, near where some of the alcohol was stored. Our dining experience started off with three appetizers. They were interesting but not quite that flavorful in my opinion. The sushi coming out after we're much nicer. I especially liked the pickled vegetables on top of a few of the pieces. I mentioned in my reservation that I was a pescatarian and as they only asked for food allergies before they began and not preferences/dietary restrictions, I did not mention it. I wasn't offered anything instead of the wagyu piece so I ended up giving it to my friend. They were, however, very mindful of my friend's shrimp allergy. Bill ended up being $136 for the 16 courses plus the drinks, tax and tip.

Came to Kanpachi for lunch a couple days this week and the value is excellent. I got the sushi roll…read morelunch specials and they were pretty big and super delicious for $17.50. They also came with soup and salad so the portion for the cost is very good! Small restaurant and not sure if they take reservations, but great little local spot. Note they don't have their own parking lot, just street parking.

We must not judge a book by its cover, nor a sushi restaurant by its modest decor and unexciting…read morelocation. I chose Kanpachi simply on the basis of convenient midpoint from my guests and from reading overwhelmingly positive customer reviews. Admittedly, I presumed that somehow many of these reviews must be from friends and family of the owners, or even paid for as how could a tiny one-off sushi place (literally smaller than a 7-Eleven) in Edison Nj have a 4.9 star average rating with 625 reviews ?! Well guess what? The rating is DESERVED. I only remember some of our order (Christmas roll, spider roll, special salmon salad, eel pieces and some other stuff) but everything was simply fresh and delicious, down to the ginger slices garnish. Server was sweet and intuitive. I CANNOT WAIT to return.