Sushi was awesome! Had a higher quality than I expected. Service was nice but seemed like they don't usually handle a lot of people at once. Was pretty quiet when I went around lunchtime on a weekday though. read more

Osaki Japanese Restaurant - Japanese Near Me - Hays, Kansas

Top notch Japanese menu. Our if you like sushi they have a great variety. Food came out quickly, hot, and prepared perfectly. Price was fair for the amount of food we received. Nice decor and staff was knowledgeable of menu items and preparation read more

We've had delicious lunches here at Osaki until just recently. I had the miso soup, but it had no miso ingredients. This is a soup I make at home. Kombu was not used to make the dashi broth. Bonito flakes were not used to infuse more flavor. No red and white miso paste. No tofu cubes. A miserly portion of scallions. They offered seaweed, but I'm not a fan and declined. I was unable to identify the base of the soup they served but it had no resemblance in any way to miso. Please folks, the recipe is so simple. All above ingredients are available on Amazon. You appear to have nori and fresh fish, so why not the other things? Food Network's Alton Brown has a decent recipe. Please look at it and make this an honest Japanese restaurant. BTW, French Onion and Miso Soups as you all may know, do not work well together, especially when one of them isn't miso. read more

For a small town like Hays, Kansas, I am rather surprised that there is an excellent sushi place. I've done here a few times. Overall, and quite pleased to the menu and the selections. The service prompt. The atmosphere is rather quiet and not very noisy, which is also another plus if you want to have a peaceful evening. read more

Sat down right away but waited forever to get a server at our table. Only one server who ran around doing everything. She did wait on to go orders before actual clientele in the restaurant. Which I think is strange. I am ordered a sashimi bento box. It included a salad and miso soup. All fresh and delicious. Husband ordered a sashimi dinner which came with soup or salad. All fresh fish. Delightful we would recommend this restaurant. Just need to be a bit patient. read more

Soooo good. I was not expecting this quality in the middle of nowhere Kansas. My expectations were pretty low going in, but I was SO mistaken. The Kani salad was delicious, and it had a good amount of grab to spinach. We tried several rolls, they were all tasty and well out together, I am always happy when I actually get some fillings to go with all that sushi rice. The inside was neat and clean with very comfy booths. Lots of parking space and easy to navigate to. read more

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The only reason I'm giving a 4 star is I want to come back and be more impressed. Really good food. Stopped here on a Sunday when had the bike out for some wind therapy. Clean open seating , friendly waitress, lots of choices on the menu. The waitress gave us some of here favorites and let us decide from there. I'm a fat kid who like to eat , was read more

Best place in Hays to get sushi !! I mean real sushi!! Not the collage type in a roll deep fried. The eel is to die for, white tuna omg. Let's put it this way the place is really good for being in the heart of kn read more

Best place in Hays to get sushi !! I mean real sushi!! Not the collage type in a roll deep fried. The eel is to die for, white tuna omg. Let's put it this way the place is really good for being in the heart of know place read more

Went here yesterday for the first time for lunch. It was one of the few options open on Christmas. Since we were in the middle of Kansas I did not want to trust having any raw fish dishes. Opted for the Super Crunch Roll which has crab and shrimp. Not sure what is in their sauce but it was really tasty. It comes wrapped in a pink soy wrapper rather that seaweed which was great! Husband had shrimp udon - the udon noodles were really overcooked and mushy. The restaurant itself is unimpressive from the outside, old building. Inside the decor is not very exciting either. It is rather plain and everything looks old. They have an extensive menu but don't clean them apparently as the pages were stuck together which always makes me wonder about overall cleanliness. Table had old greasy fingerprints. As another reviewer said, the waitress was nice, but she seemed to be just one person doing everything so it was rather slow. read more

Tried this place a few times while in town for work. Only tried the sushi based on previous reviews here. Sushi rolls & sashimi are good to go! Never ate in, only got to-go orders so don't know about their dine in service, but the to-go service was good. read more

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Food is decent not the freshest. Service is not great 2/10. Had to wait 20 minutes for an appetizer and 30 Minutes for the main course just to find out it was sushi instead of the sashimi I ordered. The roll was just ok, rice tasted old. Unfortunately won't be coming back to this place. read more

Great service and high quality asian food! Sushi was fresh too. Nice surprise in Hays Kansas!

AWESOME food, excellent sushi! The only reason I didn't give full stars is the Asian waitress, maybe the owner? isn't very good at her job. She flutters all over but doesn't seem to accomplish much. All other servers are wonderful! read more

The guy making the sushi was a better waiter than our actual waitress. Went without drinks in the somewhat uncomfortably warm restaurant for a very long time. In fact it took a while for our waitress to even come ask for our drinks after we arrived. Terrible service the whole night and they weren't even that busy. We could hear other tables complaining, too. Food was okay but not excellent and on top of the terrible service it just wasn't worth it. I'm also a waitress so usually I'm pretty understanding but this was just awful. read more

I placed a carry out order for soba noodles with shrimp & added mushrooms. It was absolutely delicious!!!

Japanese restaurant located in an older hotel building. Large cartoon sushi rolls and the presentation is phenomenal, they take their time. The tepanyaki was only so so. They cooked in back and it was cold. Steak was tough but chicken had great flavor. Reasonably priced for what you get. Stick to the sushi. read more

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We have been here twice in the last couple of months and the experience was excellent. Last night we went for my daughter's and mom's birthday. The service was awesome. Rylee was our server. She was kind and attentive. The food came out timely and tasted excellent. I would definitely recommend. read more

I was passing through town and got carry-out. The staff was friendly, helpful and professional. The food was delicious. Nice variety. Great quality. read more

Over priced, small portions, waited over an hour and half for our food! Food was cold when it finally made it to the table. We get filled up more at Burger King for a third of the price! Worst place we've ate at! May 9th 2021 read more

Wonderful sushi & great service every time I've been here. The house salad dressing is delicious and I love the onion soup. The hibachi dinners are really great too! I usually get the chicken. Overall, I've always been very satisfied & full when I eat here. read more

I was pleasantly surprised by this new restaurant. I am a loyal Sake2me fan, but I decided to give this place a shot. I'm still a sake2me customer, but I will definitely be coming back on occasion. The selection is fantastic, and my meal was delicious. I'm not sure if this town can support 2 sushi restaurants(4 if you count the new sushi bar in Dillon's and Tryyaki) but I hope this place sticks around. read more

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Love the spicy crab rolls and California rolls! I always get those or the teriyaki chicken Bento box.

A bit pricey but it's worth it every once and a while! A big fan of the sushi! And anything else I've ordered, honestly. Big fan of the Super Volcano Roll! I also love the sauce they serve with the lobster rangoons! read more

Tempura was very good: light and not oily. Nabuyaki noodle soup was pretty good according to my wife. Quite impressed for middle of Kansas.

I ate here one time because I didn't want to wait a half hour for Sake2Me to open for their dinner service. I wish I would have waited or just skipped dinner and kept on driving. I ordered their special that was on the board which said it was topped with snow crab and I think it had salmon or tuna on the inside. It was a $14 roll so I was very surprised that after my almost half hour wait for my one roll, it came out topped with sheets of imitation crab. I was utterly disappointed. I asked the server about it and she went to go ask the chef. She came back and told me that they were out of snow crab so just used the "next best thing". No, if you are out of the main ingredient your roll is named for, the first course of action would be to have your server inform your customer and ask if they want something else. Especially for the price I paid, the roll was not worth it and was bland. I would have happily ordered another item if I had just been informed that they did not actually have any snow crab. Next time I will definitely just wait for Sake2Me to open. read more

We went on New Years, figured it would be packed, it wasn't terribly busy, but took an hour to get our food at least. Mine had obviously been ready before my husbands, it was ice cold when I got it. Husbands tempura chicken was hot and tasted good. I ate some of mine because I was starving and didn't know when I'd get it back. Ended up sick that night. Won't be back. read more

Stopped here on our way to Wichita, KS and got a to go order. Instead of shrimp pad thi we got chicken and instead of kids shrimp hibachi we got steak and asked for fried rice in our teriyaki chicken and got steam rice. Paid extra for shrimp and fried rice with our meals and were so dissatisfied when we were on the road and realized how messed up our order was. The chicken teriyaki was bland and the pad thi was over cooked. Our daughter didn't even touch her food because it was steak and not shrimp. I would skip this place and head to Rib Crib where they have great food and service. I just wish we could get our money back from this horrible food. read more

No joke we were in shock. Food and service were AMAZING. Menu had so many choices and all 6 of us were happy with our choice. If we're ever back this way I'll definitely stop by. read more

My husband and I moved away and lived near the gulf. Sushi there was amazing! And when we moved back home, I thought I would really miss it. But then we tried Osaki and were pleasantly surprised how awesome it was!! Always fresh and delicious! read more

We stopped here for dinner while driving across the USA. We were looking for something as close to healthy as possible and we were very surprised! Our meal was fresh, tasty and very quick. We have marked Osaki Japanese Restaurant as a return to spot the next time through Kansas. read more

Sushi is good, not a wide selection or any of the higher-end cuts, but good. I go there often and haven't been disappointed. Last visit on my birthday was fantastic. Seaweed salad was very good, Kirin was cold, and the sushi was great. I'm not a fan of "sushi rolls" but the Spider Roll & Spicy Hamachi Roll are very tasty. I really wish they would carry some of the 'good stuff' (toro, bluefin, Kobe beef, fatty salmon, etc) but the customers in Hays couldn't afford or appreciate them. Not a slam on my homies but this isn't the place for +$15 sushi! read more

We use to love this place but it has gone downhill terribly. The last few times we get our meals 10 minutes before our kids. We would rather our kids get there meal first then us. Our young waitress tonight gave us our drinks and said she'd be back to get our order, we had our menus put at the edge of the table when she brought drinks back, hinting at that we ready. We thought she'd be back real quick but for 5 minutes she's went behind the counter and played on her phone. Our hibachi tasted off tonight and has been declining since we started coming. We won't be back. read more

Really good! Stopped in for dinner during a long distance drive. Had 6 rolls for the 4 of us and we were all very happy with our dinners. The Dream Roll was especially excellent read more

Favorite place to get some good sushi they got pretty decent prices and I am usually not waiting to long for my food only thing I don't recommend is the ice cream for desert was freezer burnt. read more

With so many "Japanese" restaurants coming to town, I had to try out this new edition. Pros: It has a really wide menu to choose from with some authentically Japanese items. Cons: The flavor seemed a little bland. For my meal I ordered some gyoza, tamago (egg) nigiri zushi, and the chicken and yakiniku hibachi entree. The gyoza was okay, a little under cooked for my taste. The chicken and yakiniku was bland. I would probably never order it again. The highlights of my meal were the vegetables that came with it and the tamago sushi. I'm not a huge fan of sushi, with only about four types that I like, so I get a little excited when I see reasonably priced tamago nigiri on a menu. Although the presentation was not what I was used to (it was actually rather awesome looking), the flavor was really good. For the meal itself, I probably would only give three stars. However, I barely tried anything from the menu and think that the wide variety available was great. If you have time and money, check the place out and experiment. read more

Nothing special. Dinner entree was ok. Soup was ice cold(never had cold soup before at hibachi place). Lied about 30% off appetizers, tuna takaki wasn't included on that. Gyoza were the best thing we ate. Fried rice was more like wet rice with no flavor.. but Kylee liked the chicken in the box meal... over all 2 stars.. the girls were to busy chatting about getting drunk and dirty laundry right next to us while we ate.. and on there Facebook website I was personally threatened and then they deleted it... read more

Best sushi I have ever had and very authentic. I got the super volcano roll and was sad when it was gone because it tasted so good. The presentation was also very impressive. It even lived up to the picture in the menu. read more

Osaki Japanese Restaurant - Super dragon roll - Japanese Near Me - Hays, Kansas

Osaki sushi rolls are pretty good for a person who is trying sushi for the first time. There isn't a wide selection but enough to satisfy one's needs and be pleased with their food. They have good sushi rolls that are made fresh to your order and you can definitely tell it's fresh when you eat it. Their rolls are very cheap, such as the California roll which is $3, and you get a very good amount of food at high quality. Depending on what type of roll you order, the time it takes for them to make it varies- California rolls take about five minutes to make. Osaki is definitely a good try if you are interested in having an inexpensive meal at a fairly high quality. read more

Fantastic Sushi entree with Miso soup. Our waitress was very helpful and friendly. Many other menu options available. Everyone in my party (6) enjoyed their meal. The meal presentation was better than the picture in the menu. We all felt the meal was a special event with good conversation. Look forward to trying out other menu options. read more

Osaki Japanese Restaurant - Japanese Near Me - Hays, Kansas

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