Great food, services, and ambiance. Affordable prices as well. Parking is easy to find.

Excellent hibachi - we agreed that it was probably the best we've ever had! We absolutely loved the soup. In my opinion, the soup is usually negligible. THIS soup however tasted SO delicious. Homemade. Like really rich beef broth with caramelized onions and mushrooms. We didn't have the salad. We felt like it was already going to be too much food, so can't comment on it. I got filet mignon and shrimp and fried rice, and my son got the shrimp dinner. The fried rice was delicious. The shrimp were great, the filet cooked perfectly. The veggies were all caramelized and yummy (esp the zucchini, which is mostly all I eat). The owners were so lovely (it wasn't busy and they knew the other couple at our table who had been coming there for 30 years) and our server was attentive and so sweet. I would recommend this place to anyone who enjoys yummy teppanyaki and doesn't mind a little bit of a schlep outside the city (15 min). It's well worth it! Easy parking! read more

We had one good experience here. Food was good. However arrived today at 8pm - they close at 9pm - they didn't want to serve us - make of it what you will. We left read more

Very nice little local restaurant with the sweetest couple (owners)! We enjoyed the hibachi chicken and steak and everything was so fresh and delicious. The gentlemen who owns this restaurant cooked our food and we had the nicest, most interesting conversations with him. This is a cozy restaurant that has traditional decor and it is very clean and neat. Great experience! We will be back! read more

Love this place! The good is excellent and the staff is so pleasant and efficient. This is my "go to" place when I'm celebrating something. read more

Great food .. steak - shrimp - chicken wonderful team incl chef at table Nice quiet dining room read more

Forget Ichiban or Saga, please consider driving about 15 minutes longer and go to Sapporo! The owners are absolutely lovely. The food is amazing and we cannot wait to go back. Recommend! read more

We came in for our son's birthday and had a good experience all in all. I'd choose this hibachi over the chain restaurants for sure. The food was good, although all of our chicken dishes were slightly overcooked. We all agreed that we would go back though. Good food, good service. Restaurant furnishings are a little outdated and space could use some updates. read more

Went here tonight with my family to celebrate my birthday. We were treated with so much love and care that we felt like family! The food was so yummy and they were really good with my kids. Couldn't recommend this place enough, please try! read more

Best hibachi in the area. Owners and staff are always friendly and accommodating. Large portions and fresh food cooked in front of you. It's an older building and hasn't been updated but the food and service are the best. read more

What a nice little spot to take your kids and family out for a show good food and good drinks hibachi is hibachi but I felt that the gentleman behind the grill were funny entertaining charming and enthusiastic I felt the drink prices were in line, the food prices were in line, and There wasn't a line to get in. When you go out and make reservations it is important that when you show up on time they see you the kids are moving entertained and that just makes for a great dinner highly recommend the spot to take the kids and family read more

The best hibachi in all of western PA. You can tell they use quality ingredients. It is so good.

Personable chef who interacted well with us. Great food. Great service. Will go back.

I feel mixed in writing this review because I love that this is a family owned restaurant but unfortunately there were some service mishaps that really should be corrected. First, part of my group of 12 arrived early and grabbed drinks at the bar. All was pleasant. Drinks were good. Then they say us at 2 hibachi tables (each table sits 8). This is where the service issues began. After being seated no server came to our table for about an hour. Therefore no offer for water, drink refills, etc. We had to speak with the bar staff 2-3x before our server arrived. Our server, Melissa, was great and attentive. She took our drink orders and promptly brought them out. She apologized for wait- they were short staffed and only had 1 hibachi chef and he was behind. So we ordered some appetizers - but were told we couldn't do tempura because the fryers weren't on it the kitchen. At 730pm on a Saturday night.... doesn't sound right to me. The chef finally arrived, 2 hours after our reservation time. The food was delicious- but it was difficult and unsatisfactory to have to wait so incredibly long for it. I'd hope this restaurant can hire more chefs to cook because waiting to eat 2 hours after a reservation is unacceptable. The food was delicious and generously portioned. read more

Sapporo has great food as you hope for a hibachi place. Reasonable prices for the portions that has quality. The server was very attentive and polite to all of the needs throughout. Would back in a heartbeat read more

The food is great, whether it's sit down or take out. Definitely try the yum yum sauce!

Been going here since I was a kid, super delicious quality food and generous portions even now with them currently being take out only! True family business & very friendly read more

Been to many hibachis, this one is very clean, the building is a little older but the family that runs it does a wonderful job. I came here and got the chicken. Spot on, I loved the beef stew it came with- I always think the salad at hibachis are real alright- but the sushi was delicious and the hibachi was wonderful with delicious noodles , veggies, and rice- best I have had in a while because it ain't too salty- many times for me it's too extreme on the salt. Free edamame with check in so that was a plus. Reasonably priced delicious Japanese goodness- seemed like it also had good drinks. Will return. read more

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Sapporo is the best hibachi spot in the Pittsburgh area, hands down. If you're looking for genuinely good food, good prices, a family friendly atmosphere not full of loud South Side kids, this is the spot. You get so much food with each meal and everything I've had here is just perfection. There are a good number of vegetarian dishes, too. Writing this is making me crave it. Make the trip out here, it's worth it! read more

This truly is a hidden gem in Pittsburgh. I won't disagree with the service issues that are mentioned in the other reviews. Service here is laid back (perhaps too much so), but in the end, everyone is super friendly and really very helpful. Just come here ready to spend a little time having a nice dinner with your family/friends. The food is really top notch. For what you get with a dinner, the pricing is right on par with any other hibachi style place I've been to. Everything is super fresh and the chefs know what they are doing with it. Check this place out! I know I'll be coming back around soon. read more

Beware. The prices are disgustingly high after their year and a half hiatus from the pandemic. Granted, my partner got the highest priced item on the menu, we still should not have paid $160 for 2 meals and a couple of drinks at a hibachi restaurant. $9 for a gin and tonic?? Absurd. I liked this place but I'll never step foot again unfortunately read more

This is favorite for me and my family! The chefs always keep you entertained and make the best food! They have a large variety of food to choose from and is one of the better Japanese grills, though I would like them to be open more they make up for it by staying open later! Love this place I highly recommend it. read more

This place is amazing and reminds me of one of my favorite restaurants back home, Benihana, but at a more affordable price! The place is set up similarly, with a bunch of chairs situated around a few different stove tops. Started with the seaweed salad (generous portion with refreshing taste) and miso soup (classic can't go wrong with this one). I then proceeded with the hibachi shrimp and scallops, I cannot speak more highly of how delicious the scallops tasted! The staff are super friendly and chefs were excellent. The only comment is have is if possible to make the cooking show a little more interactive! Send that extra shrimp my way I'll try and catch it in my mouth! read more

My first habachi, and I fear it might have ruined any future ones. The food was stellar, everyone in our group was beyond pleased, and we got a fantastic chef. Also found my new favorite cut of steak (Chateaubriand) thanks to this place. When managed to make shrimp edible, and I'm very much not a seafood person. My only complaint is it being so far away from home for me, as we were simply visiting the area read more

Kay loves Japanese cuisine. I love reviewing the previously unreviewed, exploring the uncharted if you will. So you know I was thrilled when I found Sapporo after doing a simple internet search and was even more thrilled to find that their food and service is stellar. When we got there, we saw that it's next to a seedy motel, seedy motels being a fixture in the landscape of Robinson. Thankfully this was no harbinger of bad dining. When we walked in, there was no one in sight...for a few minutes, anyway. Finally, a fresh-faced twentysomething fellow seated us around a hibachi. After dining on their excellent Sapporo salad with its sweet ginger dressing and savory, mushroom-laden Japanese Onion Soup (this wasn't the Miso I'm used to), out walked our culinary samurai. "How you guys doin'? Been here before?" That's the Far East by way of Pittsburgh. Friendliness and earthy demeanor aside, he was a true, steely warrior, wielding his knife, fork, and spatula as if they were ancient, mystical weapons, slicing, dicing, frying, and fileting like Miyamoto Usagi taking on a cloud of Komori ninja. There's something about eating food prepared right in front of you on a large, broiling, rectangle. Fried rice is depressed onto the grill like a burger, caramelizing it, the butter that is copiously added making it rich, soy sauce darkening it, making it even richer. Eating a hibachi-cooked meal gives one the opportunity to see how beautiful raw meat and seafood can be. My Land 'N Sea combo came with a scarlet tenderloin that became mouthful after mouthful of velvet after it was cooked. The white scallops turned golden, shimmering before and after service, my teeth lovingly, vampirically sinking into them, relishing their seaborne sapor the same as I did the shrimp. If I were wealthy enough, I'd put a hibachi in my home, if there was room for it. Imagine breakfast as...an event, daily! Kay ordered the Sapporo Marina, which gets you shrimp, scallops, and strips, not rings, of a calamari so beatific, having it tempura-battered and fried may not be enough for me anymore, calamari taking on a whole new dimension of taste and tactility when floured and placed on a broiling flat iron plate. Oh yes, what hibachi meal would be complete sans the grandeur of the Onion Volcano? First came the oil and vodka, then a jet of alcohol-charged flame, and finally a spire of steam. Even simple kitchen tasks were artful. Frying an egg was akin to a dance. The chef's spatula clanged against the shakers while he seasoned our food as if he was making ritualized music before battle. A spectacle it was for the eyes and mouth alike. read more

My boyfriend and I are practically Hibachi connoisseurs so when we visited Pittsburgh for the weekend the first thing we Yelp searched was.. you guessed it, Hibachi! Sapporo was highly rated so we went for dinner on a Saturday night. The restaurant is located in front of a dimly lit motel but don't be discouraged by the facade because once you step inside the door the atmosphere is warm and inviting. We were greeted by the owner's daughter who sat us at an empty table while we waited for the other guests to join us. The owner's son brought us menus to look over and informed us that Sapporo is a family-run establishment. The table quickly filled with regulars who said that Sapporo was their favorite Hibachi restaurant in Pittsburgh, one couple even said that they come for dinner every single Saturday evening. The owner himself came over to our table and began cooking our meal! I ordered the Hibachi chicken and broccoli in Sapporo special sauce and my boyfriend ordered the Hibachi shrimp and chicken, both with fried rice. Both meals were good but the special sauce on my chicken was absolutely delicious! Definitely one of the best Hibachi chicken variation that I have tasted and my boyfriend really enjoyed how flavorful his shrimp tasted. The chef, a Korean war veteran, was engaging in our conversation and made you feel as if you were over a friend's house for dinner. We both agreed that we will definitely return to Sapporo the next time that we are in Pittsburgh. read more

Sapporo is my favorite Japanese restaurant, period. I've found other places that come close, but for me, this is the place I like to spend my money when it comes to hibachi cuisine. Sapporo is an unassuming place right next to Steubenville Pike's hottest tourist attraction, the Pittsburgh Motel. But don't let the location fool you. Step inside and enjoy a cozy atmosphere. There's a bar at the front, some tables to the right, and the main dining area to the left. There's also that karaoke machine I've never seen used in all the years I've gone here. Unlike other Japanese restaurants like Saga (great stuff) and Ichiban, the cooks at Sapporo aren't all about giving an extensive show while cooking. Each of the chefs have a few of the basic crowd pleasers, such as the knife and spatula toss and the onion volcano, etc., but really it's all about the food, which is fine by me. I do sometimes miss when the chefs toss the pieces of shrimp up in the air towards your mouth to catch, but only because no one ever likes to participate in that but me and it's fun to look like a goofball while trying, but that's neither here nor there. The food here is excellent. They've introduced a new look to their menu recently. I don't know if they scaled it down, as I often always order from the same section. I did notice they have a couple of sushi options available. They used to have a full sushi bar, and you can still see that when you walk in, but I'm not sure if they're using it for anything other than just what's on the main menu, which would be a shame if so, as their sushi was always great and you could order it from a separate menu. Again, this may be something they still have that I'm not aware of. At any rate, the starter soup and salad is great. I love the bits of onion in the soup. It's a very strong broth, but not overpowering. The ginger dressing on the salad is something you either like or loathe at any Japanese restaurant, and here I really love it, but I tend to like it everywhere I've had it, so I'm not a real stickler when it comes to that. Usually I order the filet mignon and shrimp with fried rice for my main meal, though last time I got the deluxe version of the dish which also includes lobster tail and ice cream for dessert. Either way, it's a great dish. I've also had the chicken and shrimp and have enjoyed it as well. Now, my favorite thing here is the shrimp sauce. I call it the "magic sauce." It's of the light pink variety and thin consistency. I'm always disappointed when I go to other Japanese steakhouses and they either don't have shrimp sauce altogether or they have the thicker, mayonnaise-based version, which is OK, but doesn't come close to the awesomeness that is the magic sauce. Apparently it's a secret as to just what goes into it. On one visit our chef joked that its main base was strawberry Quik, which one of the fellow diners at my table believed. So if you get the fried rice here, dump some of the magic sauce on there. It's amazing. Use it for your steak or chicken as well. I find myself doing that and then saving the darker sauce for my grilled veggies, which are also top notch here. Terrific grilled onions and ripe zucchini as well as mushrooms and broccoli. I don't care for broccoli personally, but the rest is excellent. Sapporo has also started throwing in noodles to the mix. According to the owner this is because other restaurants started doing it, so patrons who came in started asking why Sapporo didn't have them as well. I think they were doing fine without them, as it just adds even more to an already large amount of food, but they are good, if unnecessary. The steak here is great. I've had the sirloin as well as the filet. I always get mine cooked rare, and it is of the melt in your mouth caliber. The shrimp never taste fishy, and the lobster tail is similarly excellent. All around, you get a great meal here for the price. I'm not sure which nights are more crowded than not anymore. Sapporo's a funny place in that some weeknights you'll drive by and it's packed and then other nights it will be quiet. I'd suppose weekends draw the biggest crowds. Yet even when it was "packed" I've never had to wait long to be seated at a table. So if you haven't been, give Sapporo a try. It's been there forever. The owner and staff are super nice and they really do care about serving you great food when you visit. They don't do lunches anymore, so it's strictly dinner meals, so be looking at spending at least 20-30 dollars on up for adults, and around 10 or so for kids' meals. It's not some place you would go frequently if you're on a budget, but that makes it all the more a treat when you do go. read more

We decided on Sapporo after reading so-so reviews on Ichiban and Benihana's. This was a nice surprise. Yes, it is not in the best looking area, and yes, the restaurant may not be as nice as a Benihana. But the food was quite good. We had our doubts at first. We went in the middle of a Sunday afterfoon and the place was empty. And service seemed to be a little disorganized and distracted. But once the chef came out and got to work, it was great. The salad and soup were veyr good, the soup being a little more beefy in flavor than what we were used to. We then had the fried rice and got a HUGE portion. We needed a little more soy sauce that what the chef used, but he gladly provided more and the rice was delicious. Then we moved to the main entrees. Wife had the Chateaubriand and I had the Tenderloin and Scallops. The meat, although cooked just a tad past medium, still melted in your mouth,and the scallops were absolutely the best I've ever had!! Again, huge portions of meat and vegetables, plus a large portion of noodles. Definitely a plateful. We did not get the requisite show you get at this kind of restaurant, but we've seen it so many times, it's kinda boring to me. Instead, we had a nice conservsation with the chef about the Pittsburgh area. All in all, this was a very pleasant meal, and I'll definitely go back. read more

Great service and great food. Both the chefs and the staff are very welcoming! However, the wait was unbelievable. We had a reservation at 7 and didn't eat until 9p! read more

My wifes entire family has been eating here for almost 20 years! There's not 1 meal that's bad. Trust me when I say this is the one restaurant that the kids look forward to when they come home from college. There's plenty of food left over for another meal the next day. It's a family owned business and you meet the owners every time you visit. read more

Weird to find a Hibachi style Japanese steakhouse out in the distant hills of western Pittsburgh, but here it is. It was rather empty on a Saturday night, and it's admittedly weird to have a white guy doing your hibachi cooking but he was real friendly and chatty and did a fine job preparing everything. The kitchen and servers did forget my steamed rice and had to be bugged for it, however. The food was fresh and rich with flavor, and despite the highish hibachi prices the multi-course meal felt reasonably satisfying. They did leave me hanging an inordinately long time on paying the check, though, like they forgot I had yet to pay. The service overall was unduly lax, even though the cooking was great and they were reasonably cordial. I gather the options in Pittsburgh are thin for hibachi, so if you're really craving it it's worth a trip, though in general it's not a destination. read more

The BEST hibachi you'll ever have! I've been coming here since I was a child, and their quality and taste has always been amazing.

Excellent hibachi! Don't let the outside sway you away. Family owned and run, inexpensive and great food. Everything was fresh, steak, filet mignon was excellent! Tons of food, you will definitely take home! Super nice family, it's a true hidden gem! read more

Love this place...so much food. I always get the "land and sea" with the scallops, and it is to die for!! Everyone who works there is so nice too. This is by far my favorite hibachi around. read more

Sapporo Japanese Steakhouse - Just got my $100 gift card on sale for $85!!! What an awesome deal. Can't wait to give them out for Christmas. Love this place!! - Japanese Near Me - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Always a good time! The food is amazing! We made a reservation so there was no wait. Short staff but they took care of us in a timely matter. read more

Came to Sapporo at 8p on a Friday night. Parking lot has abt 3 cars, bar is empty, 2 families eating and after standing directly in front of the hostess/bartender for almost 3 min without acknowledgement, we were told it would be a 40-50 min wait!! Turned around. Walked out. Went somewhere else! read more

The best food of any hibachi, the nicest owner and staff, never had a bad experience dine in or even now that they've gone to take out with covid. read more

Awesome place. I took my 6 year old and family out for his birthday and had a great time. Food was fantastic and fresh. Chef was extremely personal and kind. Made for a special day on my sons birthday read more

AMAZING FOOD!!!! I like their fired rice is the bomb dot com . Who ever disown them then fuck them because I like it

My favorite Japanese Steakhouse in the Greater Pittsburgh area. Staff is great, and food is fresh - always! Larger portions than most steakhouses will give! read more