Kabuto Japanese Steakhouse & Sushi Bar — Restaurant in Colerain Township

I've eaten at Kabuto three times over the past year and each time we enjoyed it. My daughter wanted to go there for her birthday last year, and then again this year, so we went with the family (7 of us). I also went with her for dinner just the two of us one time. Each time we went the staff was friendly and courteous, the food was good, and the atmosphere was ok. The inside of the restaurant is clean and appears to look like a renovated warehouse with exposed rafters. One half of the restaurant is set up so you can watch the cooks make your meal, this show is fun if you don't mind the interaction being loud and flashy. I can see why people find it entertaining but it's a little too much for me. My daughter likes the restaurant and the food, but not all of the attention you get when you go for a birthday dinner so the last two times we ate on the other side of the restaurant which is a little more laid back, with normal restaurant booths and tables. This is more my speed as well. I give it 3 1/2 stars but since you can't give 1/2 a star I made it three because while the food is good, and the restaurant is clean I probably wouldn't go to eat there with just my wife and myself, but my daughter (18) loves it and that is why we go. On minor detail is they don't play any music in the background either and I think music ads to the ambiance and atmosphere a lot, so without music, it feels like it's missing something. I also like culture and this restaurant, while the performance aspect has culture, the rest just feels a little generic to me. This is just my opinion and I'm sharing it so that others can get a feel for it when they go. A little pricey for what you get, but again, my daughter loves it and I'm willing to pay for it for her to have fun. I don't have anything bad to say about the restaurant and when one of the waiters messed up my son's order, they took care of it immediately so I'm not complaining because that happens sometimes and they dealt with it well by bringing him the shrimp he ordered and didn't charge any extra for it. Overall, nothing bad to say, food is good, I'm just not really impressed with what you get...

Where here for lunch with the friends, and long story short I was decently impressed, but can't give it five stars for a few reasons. Quick rundown is that the soup that comes with the hibachi lunch is very good, and has a little bit of chicken in it but has a very flavorful broth regardless, the house ginger dressing is great, we should definitely get on the side because they put a lot of it on a's very small salad the service could definitely be better, and the hibachi chefs are a mixed bag. Our Table had a guy that could do some basic stuff and got through it, the table next to us had a real showman that was throwing food in his hat and all that other stuff. Personally I don't really care much either way, but depending on what you're going for you may or may not enjoy that. The waitstaff was pretty frustrating, people had asked multiple times for drinks to be refilled, I like women with my water and had to ask three times to get lemons brought, the lady next to me ordered a Diet Coke and got a regular Coke twice in the same dining experience, her husband was drinking regular Coke but I don't think it was that hard to keep the two straight . Other than that what is there to talk about? The food! The food was pretty good, in fact it's definitely some of the better tasting hibachi that I've ever had, the problem that I have is the serving size wasn't particularly impressive. For a lunch portion I believe the price should be much less or the food should be much more. When you get $12 worth of chicken and it's one meal that's pretty underwhelming. I personally ordered steak and for $13 got a decent amount of steak, but really just enough for one good serving. I think $13 for a lunch hibachi is a little high, especially with the responsibility to both a waiter and a hibachi chef , and would really only return if they have a coupon that offered a significant discount, or I found out they really increase the...

Pros: The food was OK. Lively, fun ambience. Kind staff. Cons: I now have a tummy ache and feel like I'm gonna throw up. Literally halfway through eating, I began to smell fecal matter, as if someone did a #2 in the bathroom and the ventilation passed the smell throughout the restaurant. My boyfriend smelled it too. It was so disgusting I lost my appetite. We paid for our food and left but I guarantee that I will not be returning. My leftovers, I'm throwing away. The hibachi area is extremely loud! If you're coming for a quiet time, forget about it - you won't get it here. The food was extremely bland. We ordered the chicken and steak hibachi dinner for $20. One thing I noted was that everyhing on my plate tasted the same! If you blindfoled me, I wouldn't have been able to guess I was eating chicken or steak. Even the side of rice had the same flavor!! It was so annoying I asked for sweet and sour sauce. Instantly, upon tasting the new sauce, I recognized the flavor mimicked the cheap generic storebought sweet and sour sauce. Would've been better and more authentic to have it be made in-house. Even I've done that before. I hated it. The clear soup (brothy soup with fine ground chicken) was OK. The included salad was fresh but they used WAY too much dressing - we had 1/4 cup left in our bowl after completing the salad. The bowls under our complementary chopsticks were dirty and gritty to the touch, and my clear soup bowl was visibly chipped. We received everything you could expect at a cheap asian buffet at fine dining prices. It was horrible! The decor even looked cheap. Thank goodness for the dim lighting or we would've seen how bad the place really looked. Won't...